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"When I read a book, I don't want parts of speech highlighted in different colours" I do! In long conversations in novels I occasionally lose track of who is c
by Shish2k 13y ago
"When I read a book, I don't want parts of speech highlighted in different colours"
I do! In long conversations in novels I occasionally lose track of who is currently talking; normally it's really obvious as the next page of text doesn't make any sense until I backtrack to find where the speech got switched, though one time I finished a whole book where my protagonist had the wrong gender because I didn't realise that the prologue and the main text were written from different people's first-person perspectives...
It also reminds me of some anime fansubs, where series with lots of characters would have each character's subs written in their hair colour, which is really helpful for someone who has trouble disinguishing similar foreign voices from each other :P
- vorg 13y ago> In long conversations in novels I occasionally lose track of who is currently talking Perhaps the actual story narrative needs to be clearer, by repeating the speaker's name more often.
- snogglethorpe 13y agoIt's amazing how often fiction doesn't even indicate the speaker once (in any given dialogue), and just leaps into conversations by simply starting them, relying on context and "voice" to identify the speaker, alternating back and forth with other speakers with no intervening description. I don't seem to have much problem with this in English, but it causes me no end of grief reading in a non-native language, I suppose because my grasp of context and eye for other cues is much shakier... [I've read books where I'll get halfway through the book before realizing my entire conception of what's going on has been completely wrong due to confusion over who said something in the beginning of the book... I'll go back, re-read the crucial dialogue with the speakers swapped, and suddenly everything starts making sense... TT ]