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Poet deVine
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
If I write a 'period' piece...let's say a Midieval story, should I write with a dialect of that time? If I use proper grammar am I detracting from the 'feel' of the period? |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
hmmmmmm... do you mean dialogue? Narration? The whole shebang? |
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Poet deVine
Administrator
Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
Yes..for instance in the story I'm working on....it's set in a 'medieval' type time..I used the word impetus in it...and NO dialects...though I think they would use them...but then sometimes that detracts from the story...sigh.........I am just going to write it and then worry about it. |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
okies. Why don't you write it without dialects..then write another version with dialects - then compare the two?  K |
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Romy Senior Member
since 2000-05-28
Posts 1170Plantation, Florida |
Or maybe without dialect from that period except now and then... |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
I would say that writing in the dialect shouldn't be attempted unless you have a good idea how the dialect was used in that period. . . now, I know that I use some "Thee's" and "thou's" in my own writing sometimes, but if your're going to use the dialect as dialogue, then you need to have an example to work from. . .  --------------------------------------------------------------- To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world. |
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