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Old 03-20-2017, 01:06 PM   #36
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Mark Twain is one of the most challenging authors in that respect. I'm sure his reproductions of spoken accents are accurate, but they're tough on the reader!
Erskine Caldwell and Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus) are also challenging authors even to a southerner.
I had to read an Uncle Remus story in college. My neighbor's six year old was just learning to read. I gave the book to her on a car trip. Her poor mother kept trying to correct the child. I finally convinced the mom she was reading it correctly.
Turns out new readers do better with dialects than older readers because our minds want to correct the words to what we have been taught.
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