I seem to recall Little Orphan Annie had her dialogue written "phonetically," which meant droppin' th' g's off th' gerunds and writing things like "try t' go." The weird thing was, everyone speaks like that, but they apparently felt this made her look like an uneducated little kid or something.

That's why I allow drawl as a noun. "She spoke with a drawl" is a fine description, but a single sentence? Not so much.

If authors do it well, I kinda like phoneticized speech.