At 10:20 AM 6/05/98 -0500, Ranma Al'Thor wrote:

On Wed, 6 May 1998, Andrew Huang wrote:

and not say who it is. Why? Two different approaches: a) it should be
painfully obvious who's saying what, or b) the dialogue by itself is good
enough that it doesn't matter who's saying what, even to the point that it
detracts from it when you show who's saying what. Do you know what I mean?

I don't think I've ever seen a dialogue I thought would suffer from being
sure who was saying what.

Anonymous crowd scenes. They're scattered around some stories, <ego-mode>
a good example is from 100% Woman, Chapter 1, the "So they're gay" scene. 
Having Anon Boy #1:, Anon Boy #2:, etc, would break the flow of dialogue
scenes such as that one, where it doesn't matter _who's_ saying what, as
much as it's being said. </ego-mode>

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