/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14965060]

>Writing accents phonetically.

Morning
>moanin'

Are not
>ain't

Thank god
>they god

Fuck all writers that do this pleb hack shit.

[Anonymous No.14965080]

>>14965060
I only popped into this thread to tell you not to do that. Now I see your final sentence.
All is well here. Goodbye.

[Anonymous No.14965081]

>>14965060
what a hack
Twain did it first

[Anonymous No.14965094]

>>14965060
>ain't
this is obviously justified given how different it is from "are not" and "is not." It's not a phonetic spelling, it's a different word altogether

[Anonymous No.14965111]

>>14965060
It's a based stylistic choice to learn what Amerimutts spoke like back them.

[Anonymous No.14965133]

>"Think, Sir!" replied Mr. Weller; "why, I think he's the wictim o' connubiality, as Blue Beard's domestic chaplain said, vith a tear of pity, ven he buried him."

God fucking damnit Charles.

[Anonymous No.14965177]

>>14965111
>The narrator's voice is transcribed in correct English.
>A character's voice is spelled out for the reader.

Why? I already know where a character is from. The southern U.S., or India, or France, or wherever. I am already subvocalizing them with an accent.

It makes works tedious and basically unreadable. Faulknerheads are confirmed douchebags.

[Anonymous No.14965189]

>>14965177
ESL fag BTFO

[Anonymous No.14965232]

>>14965177
if you were actually familiar with the accent, the phonetic spelling would be fairly easy for you

[Anonymous No.14965276]

>The virgin descriptivist
>The chad prescriptivist

[Anonymous No.14965277]

Alexander the Pig

[Anonymous No.14965370]

>>14965111
If a character can't even speak properly, I have no interest in him.

[Anonymous No.14965405]

>>14965370
>he's not interested in Henry V

[Anonymous No.14965411]

>>14965277
That's a play. Plays are acted out by actors.

I'm strictly talking about novels.

[Anonymous No.14965419]

>>14965411
>he doesn't read Shakespeare
yikes...

[Anonymous No.14965432]

>>14965419
>yikes

Go awn 'n' 'git! Back tuh Rayddit witch yuh.

[Anonymous No.14965447]

If you ever want to rage hard as fuck read the shitty spic short story "The Secret Lion." Had to read that shit for a class and reading the runtogetherbabblingofshittygoblinochildren made me wanna put my fist through a wall.

[Anonymous No.14965457]

>>14965432
the difference between this and faulkner is that he actually knew what hicks sounds like

[Anonymous No.14965471]

>>14965060
Ain't is a catch-all contraction. It doesn't mean are not.

I ain't done it yet
>I haven't done it yet
Ain't you Dale's boy?
>Aren't you Dale's
You ain't got 25 cents?
>You don't have 25 cents
Well she ain't here!
>Well she isn't here!

[Anonymous No.14965494]

>>14965447
>We came running in one summer Thursday morning, my friend Sergio and I, into my mother’s kitchen, and said, well, what’zin, what’zin those hills over there---we used her word so she’d understand us---and she said nothingdon’tworryaboutit. So we went out, and we weren’t dumb, we thought with our eyes to each other, ohhoshe’stryingtokeep somethingfromus.

[Anonymous No.14965513]

>>14965177
And you think everyone in the 1920s knew how Southern Amerimutts spoke? Or even in the current year? It's ridiculous. Also not every character has the same accent, if you've read Faulkner you should know this. And the fact that you'd give a peasant the same "accent" as an aristocrat only proves why his system works.
>>14965370
If a person has retarded opinions like yours, I have no interest in them.

[Anonymous No.14965725]

>>14965513
Discuss the characters' accents and dialects in the preface. Put in the introduction. I don't give a shit. Don't sacrifice flow for a gimmick. Use it sparingly for comedic effect or as a plot device or whatever.

[Anonymous No.14965746]

>>14965060

WARDINE BE CRY

[Anonymous No.14965758]

>>14965513
>>14965725
>larping as a literary critic
>doesn't understand realism
OHNONONONONONONO

[Anonymous No.14965769]

>>14965232
I'm American. I know what a southern accent is. I know what a Cockney accent is. I'm familiar with accents.

It's Faulkner who is condescending to his sheltered WASP and general midwit audience ruining what could be god-tier literature for the rest of us.

Why bros? Why did he have to do us like that?

[Anonymous No.14966173]

>>14965060

And who could forget the classic:

Oh lord Benjamin, where did you go? Miss Caroline is getting upset.
>OH LAWDY BENJY WHERDJA GO? OH LAWDJESUS MISS CAHLINE BE CRA'IN NAW, SHEEIT

[Anonymous No.14966177]

>>14965494
Right? I fucking hate it

[Anonymous No.14966204]

>>14965094
yeah a lot of people don’t get this
>>14965769
your viewpoint/opinion is fundamentally incorrect

[Anonymous No.14966213]

>>14965060
This is awful. Doing this kind of shit rescinds any kind of literary merit from an author. Steinbeck does it too.

[Anonymous No.14966540]

>>14965060
My girlfriend has spoken highly of at least two books that do this, I was diven off immediately when I saw a single page written like that.
It's generally fine when it's a minory tertiary character doing it but it seems unbearably obnoxious reading a narrator written like that. Also even when it is minor characters (like the zookeeper in Dracula) I have difficulty parsing what the fuck they're actually saying, like OP's "they god".

[Anonymous No.14966543]

>>14966213
>the phonetic accent of the Chinese shopkeeper in Cannery Row speaking engrish
It’s based and complaining incessantly is gay

[Anonymous No.14966567]

>>14965725
It doesn't damage the flow at all, are you a retard? Fuck, many of you are such fucking plebs. This is the same kind of halfwits who read modernized Shakespeare plays.

[Anonymous No.14966578]

>>14966540
>>14966213
>NOOOOOOOOO Y-YOU CAN'T USE PHONETIC SPELLINGS FOR PEOPLE WHO DEVIATE FROM STANDARD AMERICAN ENGLISH
R*ddit tier complaints. Fuck off.

[Anonymous No.14966584]

>>14965725
>flow
Hit ain't no rap song.

[Anonymous No.14966596]

>>14965746
>WARDINE BE CRY
Everyone jokes about this and yeah, it is stupid, but the Irish guy talking about taking a solid shit for the first time in years is fucking kino.

[Anonymous No.14966610]

>NOOOOOOOOOOOO NOT MY STANDARINO ENGLISHINO, NOT MY BURGERINO ANGLO-SAXINO, MY VANILLA DIALECTINO NOOOO

[Anonymous No.14966804]

>>14966567
Found the subvocalizing mouthbreather.

[Anonymous No.14966821]

>>14966804
Found the soulless NPC

[Anonymous No.14966840]

>>14966821
Does your wife's bull let you keep non-AAVE literature in the house? Or must it remain in your cuckshed?

[Anonymous No.14966847]

>>14966840
Bro...stop watching cuck porn...

[Anonymous No.14966862]

>>14966840
Here ya go, bud. There will be a test on recent events.

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin

[Anonymous No.14966901]

>>14966840
Mutt's law

[Anonymous No.14967184]

There's a lack of mention of Trainspotting and Scots writing in this thread.

Tsk..tsk...tsk