Grammatically Correct: The writer's essential guide to punctuation ...

GRAMMATICALLY CORRECT
utilize when you mean use, to call a building a facility or to
commence dialoguing when you mean start a conversation.
Another absurd use of jargon is when it is applied to soften
unwelcome messages. Obfuscating words may temporarily confuse
your readers, but ultimately they don't fool them. Certain fields
seem more prone to bafflegab than others: Education, big business,
government and the social sciences come to mind. Laid-off employees
have been downsized; pupils showing unsatisfactory performance
are emerging. In fairness, however, offenders exist in every
field.
CAPTURING ACCENTS AND SPEECH
PATTERNS APPROPRIATELY
In fiction writing, capturing colloquial accents can add coloralthough
note that overdoing it might make things a bit challenging
for the reader, if the dialect is a strong one.
I departed to renew my search; its result was disappointment, and
Joseph's quest ended in the same.
"Yon lad gets war un' war!" observed he on re-entering. "He's left
th' yate at t' full swing, and miss's pony has trodden dahn two rigs
o' corn, and plottered through, raight o'er into t' meadow! Hahnsom­
diver, t' maister 'ull play t' devil to-morn, and he'll do weel. He's
patience itsseln wi' sich careless, offald craters-patience itsseln he is!
Bud he'll not be soa allus-yah's see, all on ye! Yah mun'n't drive him
out of his heead for nowt!"
-EMILY BRoNTr, Wuthering Heights
However, if you are creating characters whose first language is
not English, don't go overboard in spelling their words as you think
they would sound. The effect may come through as ridiculing of the
group the character represents, as well as making the dialogue
difficult to read. This isn't to say you shouldn't convey foreign accents
at all; just use moderation. A dropped letter here and a misused
word there will usually be effective enough.
If you are quoting a real-life individual who happens to have an
accent, either foreign or colloquial, it is better not to try to reproduce
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