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mr ploppy · 10-01-2010, 02:03 PM

I don't like people trying to write accents, even if it is an accent I can visualise (?) it slows down the reading. But having said that, I've been writing in Yorkshire. Not broad Yorkshire though. More Heartbeat than Kes, "Tha knows" rather than the more correct for the setting "Tha noz" or "Tha nores". It's more suggested, using "were" for "was" (and vice versa). "Anyways", "Anyroads", "It'll be right (should be rate)", etc. It should hopefully be more or less understandable even to people outside Baaaaarnsley.

10-01-2010, 02:03 PM	#12
mr ploppy Feral Underclass Posts: 3,622 Karma: 26821535 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Yorkshire, tha noz Device: 2nd hand paperback	I don't like people trying to write accents, even if it is an accent I can visualise (?) it slows down the reading. But having said that, I've been writing in Yorkshire. Not broad Yorkshire though. More Heartbeat than Kes, "Tha knows" rather than the more correct for the setting "Tha noz" or "Tha nores". It's more suggested, using "were" for "was" (and vice versa). "Anyways", "Anyroads", "It'll be right (should be rate)", etc. It should hopefully be more or less understandable even to people outside Baaaaarnsley.