: Re: Credibility of using English in non-English-speaking worlds In the Magic Tree House series, two ordinary English-speaking kids travel to different faraway lands through a portal. Every character

For a work composed in English but with characters who are speaking another language, I think it's fine to use not just English but idiomatic English. I've seen this in a number of historical novels that take place anywhere from Sparta to Nazi Germany.

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: Re: Credibility of using English in non-English-speaking worlds In the Magic Tree House series, two ordinary English-speaking kids travel to different faraway lands through a portal. Every character

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: What do you call a narrator who is not unreliable, but is naive? While an unreliable narrator is someone who is deceiving the reader (or possibly himself), there are plenty of stories where

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: Using names of video game, movie, and comic book characters and group names in novel, but as tribute to them I'm planning on writing about a merc group in the not-so-far future that is named

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