I hope your cat eats your thesaurus
Dear [Mary Sue] and [German Army Fetish Guy],
I get that your characters are laughing. But is it so hard to just use the word "laugh"? When you use the word "chuckle", my character, [Bad Attitude Shark-Guy], is likely to take that to mean you are laughing AT him, not that you're amused by what he's saying.
Chuckle (Defined by Merriam-Webster): verb -
1 : to laugh inwardly or quietly
2 : to make a continuous gentle sound resembling suppressed mirth chuckled over gravel - B. A. Williams>
This is more of a facepalm than a rant, because your antics amuse me.
Signed,
[Writer Whose Cat Ate Her Thesaurus Years Ago]
I get that your characters are laughing. But is it so hard to just use the word "laugh"? When you use the word "chuckle", my character, [Bad Attitude Shark-Guy], is likely to take that to mean you are laughing AT him, not that you're amused by what he's saying.
Chuckle (Defined by Merriam-Webster): verb -
1 : to laugh inwardly or quietly
2 : to make a continuous gentle sound resembling suppressed mirth chuckled over gravel - B. A. Williams>
This is more of a facepalm than a rant, because your antics amuse me.
Signed,
[Writer Whose Cat Ate Her Thesaurus Years Ago]