02-21-2026, 12:08 AM
When I wrote dialogue, spelling words the way they sound between the quotation marks, seeing (hearing-feeling) that people pronounce words differently depending on where they are in the sentence and what tone they are taking and how the words mean in relation to sound and other words and tones and mood,
"Yeah I do want that one over there. What!? . . . Naw, naw, dat's all right. . . . Yeah. Yeah. . . . Yes, I know that it won't fit there, but I'm gonna but it out in da yard. . . ."
That's someone talking.
I read poems out loud as a one-man-band, and pronounce words as though I were the person in that instance who would pronounce or phrase in a certain way.
By 'phrase' I mean phrase as in singing. Lou Reed doesn't sing as much as talk his songs, but the way he's phrasing his lines makes it sound like singing more than talking.
Also, people, when they are into a poem and not nitpicking the poem and their own intelligence, shape the sound of words automatically, no matter how it's spelled, in the context and rhythm of the line.
"Yeah I do want that one over there. What!? . . . Naw, naw, dat's all right. . . . Yeah. Yeah. . . . Yes, I know that it won't fit there, but I'm gonna but it out in da yard. . . ."
That's someone talking.
I read poems out loud as a one-man-band, and pronounce words as though I were the person in that instance who would pronounce or phrase in a certain way.
By 'phrase' I mean phrase as in singing. Lou Reed doesn't sing as much as talk his songs, but the way he's phrasing his lines makes it sound like singing more than talking.
Also, people, when they are into a poem and not nitpicking the poem and their own intelligence, shape the sound of words automatically, no matter how it's spelled, in the context and rhythm of the line.