Timeline for How to write out words for wordplay
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| Mar 27, 2019 at 18:58 | history | edited | Cyn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 27, 2019 at 18:57 | answer | added | Cyn | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 27, 2019 at 18:42 | comment | added | Secespitus | @Cyn Then I think that is an answer to this question. I only see this sometimes in English texts. Like in my last comment where I used it for the words "easy-to-understand". But I always thought that was informal and people would try their best not to write like this in published books, academic writing, ... | |
| Mar 27, 2019 at 18:37 | comment | added | Cyn | @Secespitus It is normal to use a hyphen. I see it all the time. For puns/jokes, for academic writing where the purpose is to emphasize etymology, for political writing to focus on certain meanings, and just plain old dialect to show how a character is pronouncing a word. | |
| Mar 27, 2019 at 18:31 | comment | added | Secespitus | @Cyn I feel like this question is more along the lines of "What do styleguides say about formatting a pun in writing so that the audience will be more likely to notice the similar sounds?" This feeling is mainly because I have never seen a hyphen used like in "b-roke" for such an emphasis and the question then mentions "bahroke" which looks like an attempt at easy-to-understand phonetic spelling. Is it normal to use a hyphen for this, easy-to-understand phonetic spelling, nothing and letting a character explain it or just hope that the audience will get it? | |
| Mar 27, 2019 at 15:09 | history | edited | Cyn |
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| Mar 27, 2019 at 15:07 | comment | added | Cyn | Yeah, I got it on the first read too. | |
| Mar 27, 2019 at 14:31 | comment | added | Double U | I think you just did. | |
| Mar 27, 2019 at 14:04 | history | edited | Galastel supports GoFundMonica | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 27, 2019 at 13:11 | history | asked | peterd | CC BY-SA 4.0 |