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Originally Posted by J. Falcon
So, yes, that is what you meant.
I read and write fiction in Spanish and English. Spanish uses that second form of dialog. I don't find either way easier or more difficult. It's just a matter of accustoming yourself to the style.
Why do quotation marks give you a headache?
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They both are used in Russian too and it's up to an author which style to use, but usually we use the open speech style to for some something like..
I was thinking - "...." or
she told me - "..." etc.
When it's not a phrase said by someone or a quote of something, but a real dialog between a few persons, the second style is much better. I can't formulate why exactly. It's just easier to read and keep the track of who is talking at this particular moment even if that's not mentioned in the same text block.
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Originally Posted by pornmasta
I am not sure it's English, it's just the style
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Yes, but open any English fiction book and it will be the only style used there.
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Originally Posted by CaptainHowdy
You just don't dig the parsing, must be a programmer's pet peeve.
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As a programmer I would say that the open speech is an inline code, while dialog is a set of standalone function calls.
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Originally Posted by JesseQuinn
OP. what do you read?
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I'm a sci-fi fan, but also read just everything which is interesting. For example right now I'm reading a couple of rather new Stephen King's books, written since 2020. I'm reading 'em in Russian so there is no problem with dialogues - they are formatted into that style I'm used to
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Originally Posted by Farang
Reading fiction is a long activity and not very useful, no?
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First of all, it's not about usefulness (there are tech docs and manuals for that) but for fun and to relax. And actually these fiction books could be useful too. Many real-life things and situations are explained there. For example I'm literally live in the "1984" book. Yes, I said: "literally". The reality here is even darker, more surreal and hopeless than in the book, but it was predicted and explained by Orwell many-many years ago...