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Q&A Writing accented dialog guides?

I was wondering if anyone was aware of a quality guide or text translator that would allow for realistic accented dialog speech? Say I wanted to write a character with a Texan Drawl or a heavy Bro...

0 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by hszmv‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T06:59:20Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/30125
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar hszmv‭ · 2019-12-08T06:59:20Z (almost 5 years ago)
I was wondering if anyone was aware of a quality guide or text translator that would allow for realistic accented dialog speech? Say I wanted to write a character with a Texan Drawl or a heavy Brooklyn accent and wanted his dialog to have a consistent style, is there a resource that could help me portray this accurately without being offensive. At the very least, one of my rules for writing is that British citizens always speak with British Spelling while Americans do not, like the following:

> "What colour is that?" asked the British girl.
> 
> "I don't know," said the American, "I'm color blind."

Basically, just wanted to be un-intrusive as possible while still denoting a particular style.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2017-09-07T12:13:44Z (about 7 years ago)
Original score: 6