: Re: How to write dialogue for someone who is intelligent but barely speaks the language? I have a character who is a refugee from another country. She comes to the protagonist, and they have a
Do what transformers did with Grimmlock. Have your character make insightful points and observations while speaking with minimum verbosity using broken English. Frequent pauses would be appropriate. The observations she makes should be high level for the setting though. Have her use the meanings of words rather than the words themselves.
Verbosity does not equate to intelligence.
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