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| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Edit | Post #37678 | Initial revision | — | about 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #27764 | Initial revision | — | about 5 years ago |
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Technical term for written dialogue that mimics the speaker's "sound"? I'm wondering if there's a technical writing term for when an author uses purposefully misspelled words to mimic the sound of the speaker? This has the effect of "forcing" the reader to hear the dialogue as it may sound to the writer. An example would be a character who has, say, a cold or sinus inf... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
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Who translates made-up words from popular fiction into other languages? When an author produces a popular fictional work (take Harry Potter) that's translated into many languages not native to the author, who decides how fictional words from that work are translated? In the above example, I'm thinking specifically of words like "muggle", "quidditch", and "squib." Since ... (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |