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John Byrne
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Bill Collins
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Fascinating stuff! I have spotted people who were banned
from other forums return under a new identity because of
the words/phrases they used and how they constructed
sentences.
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James Woodcock
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Excellent piece.
The best character writers, for me, are those who can give
characters different voices, including those who do not
follow rules (see the 'me and ...' thread).
Not everyone speaks using the correct rules and just
because the character is in a book, comic, film, whatever,
does not mean that they should follow rules. But they
should follow their own rules and be consistent to
themselves.
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John Byrne
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I am very much aware of how many words and phrases have snuck into my personal lexicon from movies and TV shows I have seen over the span of my life. Sometimes a little >ping< sounds in my head when I catch myself using them. Somewhat related, fans who meet me are often surprised that I have no detectable Canadian or British accent—although the latter does sometimes rise spontaneously when I find myself in conversation with people with such accents.
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Vinny Valenti
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"I am very much aware of how many words and phrases have snuck into my personal lexicon from movies and TV shows I have seen over the span of my life."
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If this counts, I noticed your inclination of using TV-style voiceovers when you write cutscenes.
Edited by Vinny Valenti on 17 April 2026 at 4:23pm
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John Byrne
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Yeah, that counts.
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Evan S. Kurtz
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Fascinating video. I find in 2026 that my posts on Reddit are sometimes identified as AI because I'm wordy and use dashes a lot. I've always believed my proclivity for using dashes stems from the impact JD Salinger had on my writing when I was young, but I've also learned that this is a common trait amongst people with ADHD.
I also find that if I am particularly engrossed by a book I'm reading, I tend to write day-to-day more in the style of that author. It's not particularly deliberate; I suppose it stems from spending so much time "thinking" (y'know, reading along) in the words of another.
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John Byrne
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Emily Dickinson famously, some say intrusively, peppered her work with dashes. These are seen more and more as a window into the workings of her mind.
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James Woodcock
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I have been told that I use dashes far too frequently, along with my love for
parenthesis.
I have to admit I love a bracket in a bracket
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Vinny Valenti
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My posts here rely (perhaps too)* often on parenthesis.
*see?
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Doug Centers
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I'm openly aware that I use parenthesis in places where there should be brackets or braces. Almost like the comfort food of sentence structure.
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John Byrne
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For many years I avoided using parentheses. They seemed unnatural to me. But once I started, they became very natural. I still generally avoid them in comics, tho!
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