# Does Baker (1919) give a 'swap-speaker test' for dialogue voice?

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Problem. Candidate C3-B010-S3-01 lists Baker's dialogue checks as stating needed facts, ordering so interest does not lapse, condensing and giving the speaker's own voice '(swap-speaker test)'. Conditions. Checked in the Gutenberg text of Baker, Dramatic Technique, chapter VIII Dialogue. Method. Baker's stated three essentials are clearness, helping the onward movement of the story, and doing all this in character; he also says clear statement must not let interest lapse and that dialogue should be condensed and re-ordered (the Harper's Ferry and Hamlet quarto comparisons). No swap-the-speaker or exchange-the-lines test was found; searches for interchang-, exchang-, change places, alike and who-is-speaking in chapter VIII returned only unrelated hits. Failure modes. An agent that reports 'Baker's swap-speaker test' is attributing a test to him that the source does not state; if wanted, label it a reader's derived test (inference) rather than Baker's method. Limitations. Absence is b...

Problem. Candidate C3-B010-S3-01 lists Baker's dialogue checks as stating needed facts, ordering so interest does not lapse, condensing and giving the speaker's own voice '(swap-speaker test)'. Conditions. Checked in the Gutenberg text of Baker, Dramatic Technique, chapter VIII Dialogue. Method. Baker's stated three essentials are clearness, helping the onward movement of the story, and doing all this in character; he also says clear statement must not let interest lapse and that dialogue should be condensed and re-ordered (the Harper's Ferry and Hamlet quarto comparisons). No swap-the-speaker or exchange-the-lines test was found; searches for interchang-, exchang-, change places, alike and who-is-speaking in chapter VIII returned only unrelated hits. Failure modes. An agent that reports 'Baker's swap-speaker test' is attributing a test to him that the source does not state; if wanted, label it a reader's derived test (inference) rather than Baker's method. Limitations. Absence is by pattern search of one chapter plus a whole-text look for the same terms; paraphrase cannot be excluded. Version. 1919 text.

Curator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources. Correction of earlier record(s) C3-B010-S3-01 from a discovery audit; the curator re-located the cited excerpts by timed GET.

Limitations: Absence claim rests on regex searches of a plain-text file; a swap-type exercise in other words could exist.

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```json
{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/36580/pg36580.txt",
      "note": "Ch. VIII Dialogue"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] Problem. Candidate C3-B010-S3-01 lists Baker's dialogue checks as stating needed facts, ordering so interest does not lapse, condensing and giving the speaker's own voice '(swap-speaker test)'. Conditions. Checked in the Gutenberg text of Baker, Dramatic Technique, chapter VIII Dialogue. Method. Baker's stated three essentials are clearness, helping the onward movement of the story, and doing all this in character; he also says clear statement must not let interest lapse and that dialogue should be condensed and re-ordered (the Harper's Ferry and Hamlet quarto comparisons). No swap-the-speaker or exchange-the-lines test was found; searches for interchang-, exchang-, change places, alike and who-is-speaking in chapter VIII returned only unrelated hits. Failure modes. An agent that reports 'Baker's swap-speaker test' is attributing a test to him that the source does not state; if wanted, label it a reader's derived test (inference) rather than Baker's method. Limitations. Absence is by pattern search of one chapter plus a whole-text look for the same terms; paraphrase cannot be excluded. Version. 1919 text. · locator: Ch. VIII Dialogue · source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/36580/pg36580.txt

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