(09-18-2017, 12:06 PM)Erah Wrote: For the vocabulary while reuse happens, it's not necessarily a bad thing. Â You'll find, if you look closely, that there are speech patterns in most people's dialog. ÂI thought one of the variations of it meant to introduce?
Our characters should have speech patterns just like regular people. Â They will have their phrases they go to by default quite frequently. Â While not using the same phrase thrice may seem more interesting I'd suggest avoiding it unless the there is some reason for the alternate word/phrase usage.
As far as expanding yours the best way I can think of involves two things.
a.) which has been stated a lot. Â Read. Â Read read read read. Â Read things you're not familiar with and try to find authors from a variety of cultures. Â
a.) Immerse yourself in different communities. Â I'd suggest doing this more in real life then in game if you can. Â Go hit up some events you normally wouldn't. Â Drop into a museum or a free art show. Â Maybe go help out for an afternoon in a soup kitchen. Â Go there in person, talk to people and pay attention to not just what they say, but how they say it. Â It's literary research!
As an aside, beware of the thesaurus for it sometimes lies.Â
I'm going to pick on you a little here. Â Don't take it personally it's just because you gave the perfect example and I'm too lazy to find another one.
"Â I've used a website that provides a word each day that I figure I could inoculate(thanks for that one merriam webster lol)Â more interesting vocabulary into my character's speak. "
While the online dictionaries and thesaurus give literally definitions they often leave out the contextual usages of said word. Â For example the use of 'inoculate' where pertains to the mind is regarding the hardening against or biasing towards concepts and ideals instead of something like adding new facts or vocabulary words.Â
Ex: You want to inoculate yourself against the habit of reusing the same word or phrase.
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In any case, I still welcome the advice XD, did kinda feel a lil off. I guess I shouldn't worry too much about it.
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