Examples in Other Languages
In the Chilean comic Mampato, the character Ogú replaces hard ⟨c⟩ with ⟨k⟩ (e.g. ⟨komida⟩ instead of ⟨comida⟩), to show that his accent is strange.
In Russian, Vasiliy Shukshin's story "Мой зять украл машину дров" ("My son-in-law stole a carful of firewood") has the main character say "Што?" for "What?" instead of the expected "Что?" (что is normally pronounced, not, as if it were spelled with ⟨ш⟩). The character is a delivery driver in Siberia and the eye dialect emphasizes his uneducated nature.
The novel Zazie dans le Métro is famously written in French that disregards almost all French spelling conventions.
The Norwegian author Hans Jæger's trilogy The Erotic Confessions of the Bohemians (1893–1903) is written in a Norwegian form of eye dialect.
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