It'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, relyin

It'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 ]