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Posts by Will‭

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Q&A 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 d...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Will‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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Q&A 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? ...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Will‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭