SeekJustice

@jenwriter17 @seekjustice And here’s part 13.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZhQ5Ix4Jj2cuGKGEtLdv59ETqH3_1VxhZfW2kl9DTuM/edit?usp=sharing

@ariel-ashira @seekjustice @rochellaine @skredder @alia Anyone on?

@seekjustice Oh, boy.  Rochellaine had some good thoughts.  And our language and cultures definatley differ from state to state.  But its a good idea to let us read it, if you are comfortable doing that.

😀 What do you guys say to make fun of us?

And BTW, are you or @rochellaine on the Story Embers forum?

@seekjustice @rochellaine I am on for a little while, I think.

@seekjustice Okay, too bad.  I guess it’ll be goodbye until Monday/Tuesday, then. 🙁

I actually don’t like that song a whole lot either.  Oh well.

We found a couple.  We want to have a whole lot of songs we can sing together.  Right now we know a couple of duets from Sight & Sound, which are good, but they don’t sell the sheet music so we can…[Read more]

@seekjustice Haha. 😉

I had to disappear for a bit to get dinner started, but I’ve got twenty minutes right now, so…hi!

Did you like Little Women, the musical? I haven’t listened to much yet, but I haven’t liked what I heard very well so far. 🙁

@seekjustice Sorry, I’m having trouble getting what you’re saying. 🙂  Do you mean that you’re on right now, but won’t be on for the rest of the day?

@seekjustice Okay, well I’ve been thinking about it, and maybe the best thing to do would just be write him the same as you would write an Australian, and then let your beta-readers tell you if there’s anything that sounds weird.

It’s hard for us to think of specific instances of slang or whatever, and if we could, you’d have a hard time keeping…[Read more]

@seekjustice I live in Ohio if you ever have any questions about there.

@skredder Hey, are you writing?

@seekjustice Are you going to be on tonight?

@seekjustice Oh, haha!  I forgot he was deaf!  Second what @skredder just said.  In ASL he wouldn’t use as many slang words, but if he knew them before he got deaf he might write them.

Though writing slang isn’t as common, since most people tend to be more formal in writing than in speaking.

However, since he’s in Australia he might just de…[Read more]

@seekjustice I agree with Jen that you could watch American movies, but for slang, and not cultural norms.  Hollywood does not depict normal American life. 😀  So, you can listen to the speech patterns and they might be similar to normal Americans, but what the people do in the movies and their mannerisms and reactions to things are not n…[Read more]

@seekjustice I really think it depends on when your character became deaf as to what slang he uses. If he was born deaf or became deaf really early I don’t think he would use a great deal of slang except any slang used by ASL users in particular. The later he became deaf the more he would use slang.

@seekjustice

Ditto what Rochellaine said. She knows more about slang than I do, cuz I’m suddenly drawing a blank. 🙂

Maybe, if you can, watch American movies (or maybe read books?) and that should give you a pretty good idea of us. 😉

and THIRD INFINITY BOOK?! *fangirls* 😀

Are there anymore specific questions you have? then I may be of some more help.

@seekjustice Okay, I wasn’t sure, since I have never met any Australians. 😉  I know a few Canadians and British-educated people (not actually British, but African or Pakistani) and they don’t seem to make fun of language differences as much as we Americans do.

Another “don’t” is don’t have him say “y’all.”  I don’t know if you’ve heard the t…[Read more]

@seekjustice Okay, cool.  Too bad, because I love WWI slang, but it’ll be easier for you, probably. 🙂

Hm, let me see… number one, Don’t let him say “bloke” for the first while, but he will definitely say it as a joke at one point!  Americans love copying and making fun of other English dialects and slang words we’re not used to.  (It do…[Read more]

@seekjustice I LOVE studying slang!

First, a couple of clarifications: American slang and idioms are very diversified depending on what part of the country we live in.  In certain parts of the country we have even almost different dialects altogether. 😛 So, thanks for saying he’s in Ohio.

But…secondly, what time period is this?  Is it for y…[Read more]

@skredder @seekjustice Here’s chapter 8

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I3WMWDus6-dny3KZO-vPHI-KNqTbPUzd5yUYR2iGLYc/edit?usp=sharing

@sarah-anson @warrenluther04 Would you two like to read it too? 🙂

@seekjustice Thank you 🙂

@jenwriter17 Well, it’s the series I have on my website.  I thought you had seen that?  Six are published so far, but it’s been two years since I published the last one, and I’ve had requests for another, so I’m trying to write a seventh book.  They’re pretty short, only about 14,000 words each, so I should be able to write it pretty qu…[Read more]