I hate dialects. You can do it with syntax and word choice, you don't have to mess with the spelling.

Buckell fiddles with grammar in Crystal Rain. It still slows the reader down, but it's far less ambiguous than phonetics.

This is especially irritating when your phonetics are so far from the dialect being portrayed "phonetically" that you can't figure it out by reading it aloud.

Yeah, English has to be the second worst language for spelling things phonetically after Chinese. How do Chinese authors handle dialects?