phonetics in literature

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learn me about some good books that use phonetics and dialects like 'trainspotting' and 'lonely londoners' please. what can be achieved by using phonetics and, more generally, deviations from 'standard' english? spivak to thread

chicken tonight (chicken tonight), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

boxy an star is written in a "futuristic" dialect. achievement: it annoyed me.

lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

Bits of Cloud Atlas similarly annoying.

A Clockwork Orange most successful?

Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

Finnegans Wake most successful.

Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)


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