Funetik Aksent can be okay in small doses, but when it's used for a large portion of the dialogue, it can get really tiresome really fast.
Recently somebody posted some Pogo the Possum on scans_daily, and one of the Mexican members (whose English is excellent) just couldn't read it at all, because it's all in a thick Southern accent spelled phonetically (and abounds with punny malapropisms).
My solution for the story that Ilion is meant to appear in is typography: English (standing in for the main human language) would use a pretty standard comic book hand-printed font for native speakers, while Ilion would use a curvier, pseudo-cursive typeface (with maybe some italic calligraphy influence). An English-speaker speaking Ilion with a marked accent, or an Ilion-speaker speaking English with a mild accent, would have dialogue slightly curvier than the pure hand-printed look; an English-speaker speaking Ilion with a mild accent, or an Ilion-speaker speaking English with a marked accent, would be slightly blockier than the "pure" Ilion font. Ilion-speakers speaking English may also have some accent marks pop up in their dialogue, to show how they get the placement of stress wrong (Ilion has regular stress).
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Date: 2009-04-07 05:37 am (UTC)Recently somebody posted some Pogo the Possum on scans_daily, and one of the Mexican members (whose English is excellent) just couldn't read it at all, because it's all in a thick Southern accent spelled phonetically (and abounds with punny malapropisms).
My solution for the story that Ilion is meant to appear in is typography: English (standing in for the main human language) would use a pretty standard comic book hand-printed font for native speakers, while Ilion would use a curvier, pseudo-cursive typeface (with maybe some italic calligraphy influence). An English-speaker speaking Ilion with a marked accent, or an Ilion-speaker speaking English with a mild accent, would have dialogue slightly curvier than the pure hand-printed look; an English-speaker speaking Ilion with a mild accent, or an Ilion-speaker speaking English with a marked accent, would be slightly blockier than the "pure" Ilion font. Ilion-speakers speaking English may also have some accent marks pop up in their dialogue, to show how they get the placement of stress wrong (Ilion has regular stress).