Urbane_Guerrilla: "You're breasts," Sigh. Leftie, meet Rightie. The Breast sisters.
The semiliterate should, out of decency, not write dialogue. Not until they escape homonym hell, can spell perfectly or at least suspect when they haven't and do some checking. This will at least not offend the literate reader.
Urbane_Guerrilla: In an ESL situation such as this obviously is, much may be forgiven for convenience, but even the ESL student should keep track of his homonyms. It's not like Japanese doesn't have any!
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The semiliterate should, out of decency, not write dialogue. Not until they escape homonym hell, can spell perfectly or at least suspect when they haven't and do some checking. This will at least not offend the literate reader.