That's why I hate accents in writing. Especially for Rogue. I end up stumbling over how the type her accent. aaaaaahhhhh mmm?
I'm from Tennessee. I've been told I have an awful southern accent. I've been told I sound like a northerner. In my head I sound like a Hollywood actor so it surprises me when anyone says either to me.
I had much the same reaction when I was living in Memphis and working in their public library; some people had such thick accents that I couldn't understand them, even when I asked them to spell out words, while others had less of a Southern accent than I do. (I'm originally from central Illinois, where a lot of people still retain the Kentucky hill accent that people like Abraham Lincoln's family brought when they moved west in the early nineteenth century.)
And, yeah, writing in that sort of phonetic/accented dialect is almost never a good idea. (See also: Joel Chandler Harris, H.P. Lovecraft.)
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I'm from Tennessee. I've been told I have an awful southern accent. I've been told I sound like a northerner. In my head I sound like a Hollywood actor so it surprises me when anyone says either to me.
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And, yeah, writing in that sort of phonetic/accented dialect is almost never a good idea. (See also: Joel Chandler Harris, H.P. Lovecraft.)