(09-18-2017, 02:42 PM)Gegenji Wrote: I feel that trying to be too eclectic in your word choice sometimes just makes things all the more confusing and require far more work.
I knew I forgot to go into something in my post. Thanks for bringing this up.
There's a line with that. Â Most of us are on one side. Â Urianger is often on the other.
Going overboard on the esoteric or eclectic for a character dialect is fun at times. Â If you do though, just be consistent with it. Â It can give a bit of a hook to draw some folks into interaction with your character while they try and sort the eccentricities. Â As long as it is consistent the regulars you interact with will come to learn the turns of phrase and won't even have to think about it anymore.
Initial joke aside, I love how they handle Urianger. Â He's an example of excessive eclecticism (does that word work for language theory?) but they make him work through consistency.
edit: one day I'll quit botching this system's quote structure...
