: Re: Switching languages within dialogue I'm writing a story which requires frequent switching between languages, sometimes in the same sentence. I thought about writing the foreign language in italics,

@Debbie451

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Maybe enclose the words in some other punctuation?

Brackets:

"Wow! You [finally listened to] my stinking advice!"

Curly Brackets:

"Wow! You {finally listened to} my stinking advice!"

Guillemets:

"Wow! You «finally listened to» my stinking advice!"

Experiment with colons, asterisks, et al.

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