I've always thought that whatever happens between speech marks is pretty much up to the writer
This; I'll agree with this. With the caveat that 'writing out' accents rarely works unless all your audience has the same accent for standard English as you do, I think you might as well be transcribing the stuff between quotation marks, so it's about what is actually said/implied as said.
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Date: 2011-07-30 10:58 pm (UTC)This; I'll agree with this. With the caveat that 'writing out' accents rarely works unless all your audience has the same accent for standard English as you do, I think you might as well be transcribing the stuff between quotation marks, so it's about what is actually said/implied as said.