: Re: What aspects of written dialogue are important when giving characters a unique voice? I have a project that I am working on in which I need to write quite a few fictional informal email correspondences

Personally, I think you're overanalyzing. Look at some blog posts, even from this website. The structure tends to be close in all or at least most elements.

There are a few differences that I have found in general:

(My stupid, male brain) notices that women use a lot more exclamation points with interjections. Wow!, Congratulations!, or, Hi there!.
Foreign speakers will often misuse for or to or other prepoositions every once in a while.
Friends will begin to use each other's idioms over time

I imagine other posters will come up with additional ideas. But I think most people, fictional or otherwise, will talk about common interests, plans, gossip, or conflict. If your concern is with the emotional and psychological nuances of the characters compared to their grammar, the reader will get it. What's more, if your grammatical changes were more than subtle, I would be distracted.

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