zXmqmR Thanks for the article post. Really Cool.

Bad.

very hard to understand the story &with the cockjney slang next to impossible

Wew, Oi loikt it anyway.  Oi darnt foind it ard ter unnerstan wot ee was sayin, oiver.  Cockney is moi first tung.  

Oi fink ee towd a interestin taiw, an towd it wew too.

Briar

( have almost forgotten how to speak like that now, but if I picture myslef as a small child chatting with my grandmother I can get her voice and accent and then it works.)

Interesting concept on the idea of being in a computer

An interesting idea, well executed, and it makes a change to read one with an English accent.  

As someone who comes from an area where a famous author (DH Lawrence) set his some of his best known work I'm familiar with reading attempts to to try to set accent (as opposed to dialect) in print.  I'm afraid I find it makes the dialogue difficult to read.  With Lawrence I'm reading it all in the accent he tries to portray - so I don't need the funny spelling.  With your story I know what Londoners sound like and the funny spelling simply gets in the way of the communication.  I just think it's possible to imply the accent in a subtle way without going to the extent you do.  After all for a London accent to read properly for me 'grass' would need to be spelt 'grarss' and 'up' as 'ap'.  

Sorry about that - it's one of my hobby horses.  Truly I did like the story, especially the bit about avoiding the gap between tracks.  I wonder if there's more potential here. Like how characters cope with being changed by the author in the writing process.

Thanks a lot

Geoff

Angela,
      ROFLMAO!!!
Thanks,
Hugs,
Chrisl    

During the early part of WW2 I was an anglo-appalachian from eastern Kentucky who was familiar with Homer's tales of the trojan wars.  When my family moved to the city and I entered high school I was ridiculed for my hillbilly accent.  However, I could read sentences as complete thoughts and express the appropriate emotion while my tormentors were forced to read the words slowly and then assemble the idea in their mind.  So ridiculing an accent is a no-no to me.  Jamie E.