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Originally Posted by basilsands
If we try too hard to create a full sense of local dialect readers may need subtitles to understand our writing.
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I work at Renaissance Festivals and have to tone down the Early Modern English spoken during the period so people can understand me. I portray a disenfranchised, Irish noblewoman and have to really limit my use of Irish Gaelic (or define it) or I will not be understood by most people.