Xander ,'Get It Done'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Which is what I think of as "written dialect."
I know there is at least one effort underway to standardise Jamaican Patois spelling. I just don't know what they went with. But the difference between "Him not go work like that" and "Im naa go wuk like dat" is big enough that maybe standardisation ...
Oh, fuck if I know. I just know you can't write it without the accent and not have it look supremely alien.
Hippity Happity Birthday, Aimee!!!
She will say something like "We were most happy to see the Mother on her visit."
Shows the word choice usage of a non-native English speaker without going overboard, perfect. In a page of un-attributed dialogue, you'd know instantly who was speaking.
Happy Empress Aimee Day.
Gerald Durrell, by any chance?
And Betsy gets it in one.
Ha! I guessed right too. Gerald Durrell does tend to do the superior Englishman thing, but he's so funny that I tend to forgive him. It's hard to know if I would be so forgiving if I were one of his native bearers.
Ellie is so cute, but looks a bit dubious about the swimming experience.
Emeline is a feminist. My Beety Crocker catalog came yesterday and within 30 seconds it was completley torn to shreds.
I wonder what she'd do to the Moosewood cookbooks?
If they weren't spendy, I'd almost test that theory.
Maybe she just wants some cake?
It did have the Wilton cupcake server on the cover.