RE: Tina the Techwriter Reopens the Great Debate

[Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>]

Quoting Lyn Worthen <Lyn -dot- Worthen -at- caselle -dot- com>:

> I think using other languages or accents -can- be done both well and
> convincingly, without branding the writer as a hack. 

This isn't what I said. I said that having people think in dialect or throwing 
in a few foreign phrases were the tactics of a hack.

Attempting to reproduce a dialect in speech is something very different.

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