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Q&A Intentionally misspelling words in dialogue

If you want to place particular emphasis on a word in a piece of dialogue, you can use italics: "Looking and looking... in all the wrong places." There is also a convention - though admittedl...

posted 5y ago by F1Krazy‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#4: Attribution notice removed by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-12T21:42:33Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2019-12-08T13:11:13Z (almost 5 years ago)
If you want to place particular emphasis on a word in a piece of dialogue, you can use italics:

> "Looking and looking... in _all_ the wrong places."

There is also a convention - though admittedly, mostly in visual novels and roleplays - to put a tilde at the end of a sentence in place of a full stop or exclamation mark, to indicate a more playful or sing-song tone of voice:

> "Looking and looking... in _all_ the wrong places~"

Like any linguistic device, of course, you'll want to avoid over-using these. If everything is in italics, it starts to lose its effectiveness (see: every comic book ever).

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-10-28T17:33:45Z (about 5 years ago)
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