dialect in novels

[Bob Haas]

What is "eye dialect"?  Dialect written for the eye?  I've never heard this
term before . . . but my excuse, which I've trotted out many times in the
past, is that I'm not a linguist.

bob

> From: "James A. Landau" <JJJRLandau at AOL.COM>
> Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 13:20:13 EST
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: dialect in novels
>
> I dislike eye dialect, feeling that it gives the reader, to use a Harris
> metaphor, an unnecessary tar baby to struggle with.  Discussion, anyone?