2019年1月12日 · Scottish spelling is not the same as English spelling, so English speakers may get confused if the author consistently uses Scottish spellings and words. Scots English is English with a Scottish accent, and this may include code-switching between English and Scottish. If your reader is an English speaker, then looking up every word of Scottish ...

2023年12月27日 · Could you "evolve" it by slowly removing the accent throughout the story? Or would it pull you out of the book if every so often a word you spelled one way before, changed now. Say, character A is new to Scotland and barely understands Scottish. But then he resides there for years and every passing month keeps understanding it better and better.

2021年11月1日 · You describe the letters they elongate, drop, clip etc... for example a Scottish accent can be described in terms of rolled "r"s and "l"s, the pronunciation of the "h" after the "w" in words like "what" and "which" where it is generally silent in other dialects, and a dozen other distinct phonological features. Have a look at the accents you ...

2018年11月30日 · It might be local words, like 'lad' and 'lass' in Scotland. It might be a particular accent: 'cup' is pronounced almost like 'coop' in Yorkshire. (Here's a sample.) You don't want to go too heavy on the "special" words, or you risk making the text incomprehensible, but you can use them as needed. Accent is the hardest element to represent in ...

2022年8月17日 · People do not talk with grammatically perfect dialog. Never let perfect dialog be the enemy of good dialog. Get used to those squiggly red lines to show up when writing dialog drafts, because it's going to happen. Especially if you do phonetic spelling to show a character using an accent. People mispronounce things all the time.

2020年11月24日 · You don't have to apply it absolutely everything, because sometimes that can lead to the unpredictability you are looking for, but it can help you figure out what stays and what goes. Leaving some irrelevant things in can be a source of comedy, too. In one series I read, there was a group of MCs, one of which had a thick Scottish accent.

2017年10月27日 · Phonetic accent is also much harder to read when English is only your second language: it is considerably harder to parse it into the original word. I remember having particular trouble reading Walter Scott's Waverley. It is heavy with a mix of Scottish dialect words, phonetic accent, and words that are no longer in use.

Take the Irish accent for example. Whenever I write people with an Irish dialect, I do feature some quirks of that accent, but I don't go full pseudo-phonetic transcription. Here's an example. "Get yer halfwit bum over 'ere, ye bloodie pollock!" Sorry if that wasn't accurate, but it shows the point.

Usually it's to denote a gentle and mild British accent as opposed to pidgen spelling for Cockney, Irish, or Scottish and keyboard mashing character strings of 33+ letters for Welsh (joking. I have no ear for Welsh accents and don't try them at all.).

2018年3月27日 · I have an Ancient Roman theme with the names of my characters, however someone pointed out to me Valerian is already a scifi character's name. Are the french comics (which spell it with an accent over the e) and the movie THAT popular that I would run into issues naming a character Valerian? My character is also in the military :/