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In Brazil the standard and widely considered correct way to indicate dialogue is em dashes. When I started reading more books in English and decided I preferred using quotations marks I was constantly told that it was confusing and incorrect to do that when writing in Portuguese. So yeah.

Samhain 🦊

One aspect I never see discussed is that different languages have different rules. Non-native English speakers might write in ways that look suspicious (em dash, when and where to use a comma or space, structure itself) but are just them applying the rules they grew up with!

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This is the main example I had in mind! Dialogue rules change vastly from one language to another, and when you speak more than one things get mixed (voluntarily or not), I feel you. Little stuff too, like when to use uppercases or not. Unless it's a professional piece, I just mix rules 😂

People who are just starting to write consistently in a second language are also a lot more prone to use fewer contraction or use them incorrectly, or be overzealous in wanting to write "correctly" even in casual text. And these are also things I never see in all the "this is definitely AI" talk.

Ответ для Fereldan Birb

A lot of my dialogue when I had just started writing in English was very stiff and robotic for this reason. Fuck me if I was getting started today I would be drowning in dumbass scrutiny.

Ответ для Artemy Mandus (Ec) | in my horror era

Yeah. When something is being directly quoted; whether in narration or dialogue. As a tonal indicator for irony as well.

Ответ для Fereldan Birb

Yes this!! How to express emphasis is also a great example of “no, this is not AI or the sign of a bad writer, we're all just forced to use English if we want the majority to understand us”.