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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
A reflection. But not overdone and quite possibly not even entirely realistic. Too much realism with a dialect or accent can make text tedious to read.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Totally agree. Phonetic renderings of accents can be VERY tedious if carried to extremes.
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Whoa... don't remind me. I've reread David Eddings' The Elenium and The Tamuli not long ago. I really hated to read the "dialect" Caalador uses. Whenever Eddings wrote that Caalador lapsed into his dialect, he would actually write it out like that for the entire dialog.
OK, once or twice would be fine, so you know about it, and how it would sound, but at some point it just gets annoying. Actually, even some of the characters in the book itself got annoyed by it
