<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=167462.msg7835323#msg7835323">Quote from: Sabre on 06-03-2013, 19:19:52</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">For accents, you could always write the dialogue straight with some minor touches like apostraphes here and there (singin' instead of singing), and describe the drawl every now and then outside of dialogue so we can imagine it as heavy as we want but still understandable!<br/><br/>Unless you want us to not understand a word!<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>I agree completely.  If the characters would have no trouble understanding the spoken dialog, then you should never go out of your way to make the written speech less understandable.<br/><br/>Edit:<br/>If on the other hand, the accent is so thick that a listener would have trouble, then lay in on thick in the written form!