: Re: How do you handle slang with questionable spelling? Imagine the following common conversation: Q: What are you up to? A. The usual Now imagine it spoken by certain kids these days: Q: What are

Non-english speaker here. I would go for it. If the pronunciation is easy to get, the reader would immediately understand the sound, and therefore the meaning, even if he never heard the term. Either the sound would sound like something he knows, either it will remind a slang he's aware of.

Once I read about kids in a novel repeating "I dunno" all the time. I had never heard the slang for "I don't know" before, but after few times I got the meaning. It's better to add some "colour" than to go over heavy exposition ("I don't know", he said, in his typical accent - a very bad choice in my opinion).

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