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Originally Posted by Penforhire
I feel similarly about excessive use of regional dialect. It is sufficient to sprinkle a few words here and there to convey the flavor of the dialect. Most egregious example? Feersum Endjinn, by Iain M. Banks (RIP, and otherwise one of my favorite authors).
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As I've mentioned in another thread: David Eddings' Caalador does that too, often speaking multiple paragraphs in his hard-to-read regional dialect. Strangely enough, the characters in the book sometimes become highly annoyed because of it, so Eddings must have known that it is annoying.
Weird. A writer that purposefully does something to annoy his readers
