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Old 12-18-2018, 08:58 AM   #31
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Originally Posted by 4691mls View Post
As a reader, I have thought this many times! After the introduction of a character, an occasional word of local dialect is enough of a reminder. The same goes for slang and expletives. A little goes a long way.
Indeed it does. It seems, as I said in my first reply about this, that Scots and generic "Suthern" or "Texan" are the worst offenders.

I dinna ken, laddie, why them thar axe-ents gotta be so durn yew-bick-itus.

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