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Kind people of LJ, it seems I must make a request of you. Or some of you, anyway.
You see, I am currently working on a piece of original fiction set in the American 'Old West'. Specifically, in the year 1870. The premise of the story is that recent events have caused magic to surge back into the otherwise mundane U.S. with a vengeance- and that west of the Mississippi, it all behaves in accordance with Chinese expectations and beliefs. One of the main characters is attempting to hire a partner to help him deal with this mess; said partner is from Guangdong Province and is trained in traditional Chinese medicine. I'm doing my best to write his dialogue in a realistic manner, but his English is far from perfect (here I am emulating the example of a woman in my office, a naturalized citizen who was born and raised in Shanghai). It is, however, better than the American's attempts at Cantonese.
I was hoping that those of you who are of Chinese ancestry, citizenship, ethnicity, or other significant cultural linkage to China might be willing to look over what I've got so far and smack me over the head with my own keyboard if I've made him come out sounding like anything other than 'an educated man who has trouble with a foreign language despite his best efforts to the contrary'. If you're interested, could you ping me and let me know? Thank you...
You see, I am currently working on a piece of original fiction set in the American 'Old West'. Specifically, in the year 1870. The premise of the story is that recent events have caused magic to surge back into the otherwise mundane U.S. with a vengeance- and that west of the Mississippi, it all behaves in accordance with Chinese expectations and beliefs. One of the main characters is attempting to hire a partner to help him deal with this mess; said partner is from Guangdong Province and is trained in traditional Chinese medicine. I'm doing my best to write his dialogue in a realistic manner, but his English is far from perfect (here I am emulating the example of a woman in my office, a naturalized citizen who was born and raised in Shanghai). It is, however, better than the American's attempts at Cantonese.
I was hoping that those of you who are of Chinese ancestry, citizenship, ethnicity, or other significant cultural linkage to China might be willing to look over what I've got so far and smack me over the head with my own keyboard if I've made him come out sounding like anything other than 'an educated man who has trouble with a foreign language despite his best efforts to the contrary'. If you're interested, could you ping me and let me know? Thank you...
