I've complained before about
authors using eye-dialect. So now I'm working on a book by the same author
I complained about
three times several
years ago. She is apparently trying to demonstrate every bad writing tic, perhaps under some impression that it's like climbing the highest mountain on every continent.
This time she's added eye-dialect to her repertoire. Not much, but one particular annoying thing that I haven't seen before: A character has an accent with a lot of the phlegmy H. This is shown by having all words she speaks that begin with H have several Hs.
"Hhhello, Hhhortense, hhhow are you? I hhhave hhhidden a hhhaunch of hhham." *
::sporks author::
*Not a real sentence from the book, but it should be.