: Re: Intentionally misspelling words in dialogue I have a piece of dialogue which sounds great in my head, and the way the character says it is important, but it never looks right when I type it

Purely as a reader, I think your second, misspelled version is much better. It's as brief and as precise as possible. It's not unusual for dialogue to be improperly spelled to represent accents or other speech patterns; you are probably familiar with the pattern of writing -ing as -in'.

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