I do a subset of this naturally: Although my language skills lie in reading/writing rather than in listening/speaking, I mentally sound out everything I'm reading or writing. (That's why I really care whether there's a pronunciation guide for fantasy novels that use unusual names, and why I was thinking Harry Potter's friend was Her-mee-own rather than Her-my-oh-knee -- until the fourth book, anyway.) It does help with the dialogue, and it affects my writing style, too -- when I'm writing fiction, I use a sort of turn-based third-person limited omniscient narrative mode, and the style for each passage is based strongly on the way the character would speak and "therefore" think.
My prose is still pretty stilted, though. That's why I don't ever read it aloud; it makes me cringe! Maybe if I can just fight past that, though, I can find how to let it help me.
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Date: 2006-12-12 07:33 pm (UTC)My prose is still pretty stilted, though. That's why I don't ever read it aloud; it makes me cringe! Maybe if I can just fight past that, though, I can find how to let it help me.