I have been to many places. This is irrelevant though.

Great book and we'll put-together movie. I invite you to read any of the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly books by Paul Howard. They are written phonetically for comedy as they mock a specific accent. Then I invite you to read every other book ever written and see how writing phonetically is much rarer than everyone seems to think it is.

>No There it is again. I see you ignored my point on how books are written descriptively, regardless of accent.

Interesting that you're telling me that I'm in a blind rage but I'm also the only one presenting logical facts and not trying to insult the other person.

>I’m done here.

You say that as if you actually did something. Saying "no" and trying to insult people doesn't constitute an argument.

Aw, so you're trying to be hurtful. That cute.

Shouldn't you have written "you've uhlotta growinup tdo" if we were following your ideology that you aren't able to defend?

I hate to break it to you but "no" doesn't make a decent argument. The fact that you couldn't even come up with a reply other than flat out selective ignorance shows how strong your argument is.

I've seen both the TV show and the movie Fargo, both more than once. I'm saying that it is best practice for it to be written as "don't you" and the accent that we would be aware of by that point would put it together in our imagination. In Fargo, the accent is consistent with every spoken word and not just on occasional words.

I never said it was only country bumpkins who said it's I was just working with the given example that it could be used to show a character is a country bumpkin.

Tell me, are more books written phonetically to peoples accents or are they written descriptively using best practices that let your imagination form the characters and their voices using the details provided by the author.

This isn't a "me" issue. The simple fact that you wrote

>“don’t ya”

instead of how it's pronounced "dontcha" proves that phonetically spelling the words isn't best practice.

I said "all y'all" yesterday to add variety to my sentence and you're right about using "ya" to pad out characters. A corn cob pipe and a straw hat, a basket of eggs, and a bushel of hay on their back would have done it too without adding the immersion break.

Different strokes for different folks, thanks for discussing it with me though and helping me to actually articulate myself properly. It was morning and not enough sleep on my end.

"Aintya" is another one that never occurs. I didn't articulate what I wanted to say properly and I'll add an edit to reflect that. What I meant was, although a miniscule amount of people say it, it's best practice to not write it phonetically unless a character's accent/colloquial pronunciation is an integral part of the story line.

You don't see "gonna" in books, it's written as "going to" and the conversion to "gonna" happens in your head as you read it. It's the same for "ya" coming from "you".

This comes up in Cyberpunk Edgerunners and it is so stilted and fake, it just doesn't sit naturally due to the fact that it is incredibly rarely used, and only when people think it makes them sound cute/cool but it is usually received with a hint of cringe.

B̶a̶s̶i̶c̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶n̶o̶ ̶o̶n̶e̶ ̶a̶c̶t̶u̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶s̶a̶y̶s̶ ̶"̶y̶o̶u̶"̶ ̶a̶s̶ ̶"̶y̶a̶"̶ ̶o̶r̶ ̶"̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶"̶ ̶a̶s̶ ̶"̶d̶o̶n̶t̶c̶h̶a̶"̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶b̶r̶e̶a̶k̶s̶ ̶i̶m̶m̶e̶r̶s̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶r̶y̶ ̶t̶i̶m̶e̶ ̶I̶ ̶s̶e̶e̶ ̶i̶t̶.̶

Edit: What I meant was, although a miniscule amount of people say it, it's best practice to not write it phonetically unless a character's accent/colloquial pronunciation is an integral part of the story line.

You don't see "gonna" in books, it's written as "going to" and the conversion to "gonna" happens in your head as you read it. It's the same for "ya" coming from "you".

That book never gets old!

Thank you!