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If you use American English IRL but write a character who uses British English (or vice versa!) how much do you focus on spelling in your tags? Do you use the character's preferred English across the board (in their narrative, in their speech or texts) or not?

Just curious about general preferences.

TIA!

Legibility is more important than authenticity. Also with the advent of the internet the gap between American and British English are practically non-existent in writing--it's things like colour vs. color, whether to stick a period before or after the quotation marks, idioms, etc.

(Unless you're RPing a character from a place with its own peculiar vernacular, like Glasgow)

TBQH as someone who's been there the differences are most notable in spoken accents. No real way to signify that in RP beyond, "He said in a British accent." So do whatever.

i tend to write narrative in the "voice" of a character, so for example if my character is british (i am american) i will still call things by their BrE names in brackets (lift vs elevator, etc). i use american spelling generally, but i will use british spelling in text posts if appropriate.

i am also really interested in linguistics so this is probably unusual lol

I've done similar for characters whose regional vernacular / linguistic quirks I'm comfortable with / confident I can pull off! With some I'll also even use sentence constructions (i.e. s-v order and phrasings and stuff) that like, are still fine and make perfect sense in English, but are definitely a nod to a kind of construction more common in the other language (this is mostly informed by my own experience with being ESL, ftr; I'm fluent or at least I like to think I am but I definitely catch myself going 'wait is it phrased this way in English or what' sometimes).

I'm a Canadian playing a character from the USA, so I try very hard to make sure I use the USA spelling for his text posts and narration that is in the character's voice.

But I don't write out their accent. Ever.

I would focus on regionalisms more than spelling. There's the main stuff like trunk/boot, elevator/lift, cookie/biscuit etcetera (also the UK has so many interesting cookies/biscuits). But particular regions like Yorkshire, Cornwall, etc have their own terms and even syntax. So you can check out how real people from your character's region comstruct sentences.

Or you could pick up some Redwall books and go full Brian Jacques on the accents but most people don't like reading that outside of Redwall.

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