: Re: Technical term for written dialogue that mimics the speaker's "sound"? I'm wondering if there's a technical writing term for when an author uses purposefully misspelled words to mimic the sound

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Phonetic spellings.

Or something similar to that. Phonetic rendering. Spelling phonetically. Etc.

A few resources for you:

How to convey accents in fiction writing: Beyond phonetic spelling
Funetik Aksent
Dialogue: Writing Dialects and Accents

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