The other one is labelling at least every second speech.
Hm, in principle I agree with you—I prefer the speaker-identification to be an oppportunity for including some additional information and think that when it doesn't, it can be left out.
On the other hand, I have read books which went on for pages without speaker-identification and eventually I got so confused as to who was saying what that I had to go back and count the number of exchanges. In those cases, I'd prefer a "Fred said" to nothing, but a "Fred said, looking away in embarrassment" or something would be best of all.
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Hm, in principle I agree with you—I prefer the speaker-identification to be an oppportunity for including some additional information and think that when it doesn't, it can be left out.
On the other hand, I have read books which went on for pages without speaker-identification and eventually I got so confused as to who was saying what that I had to go back and count the number of exchanges. In those cases, I'd prefer a "Fred said" to nothing, but a "Fred said, looking away in embarrassment" or something would be best of all.