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a closer look at dialect in dialogue
I'm thinking that I might take the time to be more specific about this topic. I've had a lot of email over time concerning the Peter Post, which leads me to believe people -- especially aspiring writers -- would like more detail.
So I'm going to look for a few passages to work with, long pieces of dialogue which would lend themselves to being tweaked. Maybe I'll just stick with the example from Peter. We can look at lexical choice, syntax and idiom and try to turn Peter into a Scot, a native speaker of German, a native speaker of Russian or Korean, and whatever else comes up.
July 27, 2005 09:55 AM
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Sara, this is precisely one of the things I'm struggling with at the moment, and oh, would I be grateful for some examples (especially anything Slavic). Thanks for thinking of us! :)
Posted by: Suna at July 28, 2005 10:19 AM