How much should you use dialect or constructed language? Very little. Note that I did not write not at all.

By dialect, I mean implying a southern drawl, or using specific words that imply a regional accent like “Darling!”¹ or “Don’t ya know?“ or “A?” or “Brilliant”. By a constructed language, I mean everything from completely made up words to totally made up grammars. This includes writing in English but using a foreign grammar like Spanish or Japanese.

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Recently, Present Perfect shared a link to Meadowmood’s art/blog about how deaf or mute ponies might communicate, and it reminded me to finish this blog on communication.

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We’re gonna talk about communication! How people--and by extension, ponies--talk to each other.

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Note: I'm cross-posting this from my blog. You may want to read it there since WordPress allows me to use fancier markup like proper section headers, definition lists, and tables.

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At least, some places and groups haven't allowed the woke garbage to inflected every single little thing.

Anti-Woke school board candidates in Texas have won recently, I believe.

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So, after I checked into "Letters to Cozy Glow" yesterday while writing the next letter/chapter, my eyes fell on the short description and I discovered a small error in it. Small, as in, only one word was wrong. But it made the sentence sound very stupid and gave a wrong idea of what it says.
I went and fixed it, then read through the long description to make sure there isn't a similar error. I found one and it sounded similarly stupid and I fixed that one as well.

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Hahah wow I sure hope Fimfiction user Bad Horse doesn't mind me sharing this 100% real absolutely unedited unforged super veridic conversation we really had! I would have asked him for permission first, but he's offline, and I might be going to a place with no Internet for a couple weeks.

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There shall be no reviews next week, for that will be a break week. On the other hand, this means we’re practically done with the review expansion! So the next time you guys see reviews from me, it’ll be with a full set of 10 stories. And from the look of my schedule right up into mid-July, I’ll certainly be able to keep up. Hooray for practically doubled pacing!

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