[LMB] Re: Dialect Lois-Bujold Digest, Vol 19, Issue 7

[ClaireAM at aol.com]

Hello. I have been a lurker for a while now, and am taking a chance  and 
putting in my 2 cents worth.
 
It is amazing to me to read Lois's blog about dialect, and realize how  much 
effort went into something that, to me anyway, seems so natural. 
 
I am from southern Ohio originally, now transplanted to Chicago, and the  way 
the folks spoke in TSK:Beguilement was perfectly natural. Sure, it had a  
very rural feel, but it seemed very right. To see how much thought and effort  
went into that, well... and here I hoped that someday I might be able to write  
something readable.  
 
For me, the fact that so much effort went into just that one aspect of the  
book - and that doesn't include the plot, or the characterization, or setting  
the scene...Wow. (And even as I write this I know that the aspects of dialect  
discussed do effect the characterization and scene, but so subtly that I  
normally don't notice that.)
 
I know I love reading Lois's books, but now I begin to understand  why.
 
Thanks. (And again, muttering as I leave: Wow!)
 
 
Claire
 
 
 
In a message dated 12/3/2006 6:01:32 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
lois-bujold-request at lists.herald.co.uk writes:

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