You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I guess those are supposed to be his elbows but at first it looked to me like he just had massive man-tits falling out of his shirt
i dislike the comic you posted but the more general practice of writing words phonetically when they'd be pronounced the exact same way just to make a character sound cute or ignorant or whatever, that's something that always irritates me
I don't think all eye dialect is intrinsically disrespectful or insulting—occasionally dialectal spellings are divergent because their pronunciations are so far from standard—but it usually is at least a little condescending.
my understanding was that "eye dialect" specifically referred to using nonstandard spelling to denote the standard pronunciation
like in the comic the kid says "thair" to mean "they're", but i'd pronounce those the same. it's a literary trick to imply that the speaker is uneducated or whatever without actually implying a dialectical pronunciation.
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how is rendering Huckleberry Hound's dialect with things like "yew" in place of "you" condescending? I am just trying to capture the vocal flavor in written form
my understanding was that "eye dialect" specifically referred to using nonstandard spelling to denote the standard pronunciation
like in the comic the kid says "thair" to mean "they're", but i'd pronounce those the same. it's a literary trick to imply that the speaker is uneducated or whatever without actually implying a dialectical pronunciation.
"The term is less commonly also used to refer to pronunciation spellings, that is, spellings of words that indicate that they are pronounced in a nonstandard way.[5] For example, an author might write dat as an attempt at accurate transcription of a nonstandard pronunciation of that."
having said which it looks like this is a dilution of the term and basically you're right
how is rendering Huckleberry Hound's dialect with things like "yew" in place of "you" condescending? I am just trying to capture the vocal flavor in written form
well, to my mind, because the correct spelling is still 'you' and it's not like prestige dialects are any more phonetic
i mean i'd rather keep the term specific because i'd just call the other thing "dialectical spelling" or "deliberate mispronunciation" or not even name it or something
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i dislike the comic you posted but the more general practice of writing words phonetically when they'd be pronounced the exact same way just to make a character sound cute or ignorant or whatever, that's something that always irritates me
You can't do that in real life.
i thought it was just deliberate misspelling to differentiate it from the older movie with the same title
like in the comic the kid says "thair" to mean "they're", but i'd pronounce those the same. it's a literary trick to imply that the speaker is uneducated or whatever without actually implying a dialectical pronunciation.
having said which it looks like this is a dilution of the term and basically you're right
thought i knew what it meant so i didn't click the link
I do not want to hate cats.
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It's ambiguous but Digimon design has always been a little weirder and consciously uglier. Either way, it's a mon.