Timeline for How do you convey that something is said slowly in written dialogue?
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| Dec 17, 2015 at 12:35 | comment | added | TimR | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis | |
| Dec 17, 2015 at 12:30 | comment | added | TimR | Matt's idea is OK. It suggests the speaker is emphatically marking the syllable boundaries, though not necessarily doing so very slowly. Depends on what you what. | |
| Dec 17, 2015 at 12:16 | comment | added | Curiousstudent | Can you find me a reference for this convention because I want to read about it more. What's wrong with Matts suggestion to separate the syllables with dashes? Thanks! | |
| Dec 17, 2015 at 12:06 | history | answered | TimR | CC BY-SA 3.0 |