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Saturday, June 22, 2013

Representing speech in writing




120 - Representing speech in writing

In writing, the expressive character of spoken language is represented by reproducing the sound of core words and phrases as accurately as possible. There is a wide variety of possible variants but the most common transcriptions are: 

§  I don’t wanna do it. (want to) 
§  Havva nice day. (have a) 
§  That’s great innit? (isn’t it?) 
§  I dunno and she dunno. (don’t/doesn’t know) 
§  I’m gonna have an iced coffee. (going to) 
§  Dad, you just gotta look at this. (got to) 
§  I hafta go now. (have to)

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