Feb 26, 2025
do you guys think it would be Cool and Neat if I had the characters who speak American English in my story say "center" "color" etc in their dialogue and those who speak UK English say "centre" and "colour" ... or would it just be distracting and confusing
#trying to find ways of showing dialect without spelling words very abnormally to point out someone's accent because. 🤮.#okay to be fair rehn says “ehr” instead of “er”#but what i mean is if you're writing like “shawps” instead of “shops” you know#imo there's a lot wrong with it both in terms of readability and representation#what is and isnt an accent? is a mild Australian accent an accent? is a mild American accent an accent?#in a way everything in english is an accent because of the good ol great vowel shift#so#yeah#idk#is that even intelligible...#lei chats#writing