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How do you write a stutter? Page 2

Quote: Trabs @ February 11 2010, 1:35 PM GMT

One of the main characters in this has a stutter, if memory serves me right:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cracker-Say-I-Love-You/dp/0863698271

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How do you right a stutter? Some sort of speech therapy session :P

Oh, this place is full of comics.

I think you need to separate the letters he's stuttering, so the reader can see that they're pronounced separately; e.g.

'Granville, f-f-fetch yer cloth'

I'd go with "S - s - stutter." or "S... s... stutter."

Actually BF don't do it at all, especially if it is for comic effect. Unless you arc and resolve it with a point to make.

This is the best written Stutter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwNfiB4zBQo

Quote: Rupe @ February 11 2010, 2:39 PM GMT

I think you need to separate the letters he's stuttering, so the reader can see that they're pronounced separately; e.g.

'Granville, f-f-fetch yer cloth'

This is correct. Hyphens are used to denote stuttering in written text.

You write it like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoQAJa_C0PE&feature=related

It's g-g-g-got to b-be d-d-done like this - or you'll h-h-have to keep r-r-repeating "he s-s-stuttered" every time - or p-p-people will f-f-forget!

oh f-f-f-fukkoff an-n-n- stop muhhh-muhhh-making f-f-fun of m-m-me
the l-lot of you! its er n-not ner-ner-ner- nice

(see what you mean)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dICdq32q3xc&feature=related

stutterers don't stutter on every word, and can go a full sentence without doing.

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