stylizing problem

[McShrimple]

I am using a slightly glitch and strikethrough for a character that is using english but the pov doesn't speak english and the main pov hallucinate people that speaks english so naturally that the main pov believe that the people they hallucinated are real, so using a ['] instead of ["] would not work for me but I still want to seperate it from main pov language.
it's not a language that anyone know either; the noble part was another language entirely.

What I am saying is that is using the slightly glitch and strikethrough work for this, or should I find something else to stylize it?

well if there are other things I should fix too then I appreciate it if you like to tell me but I mainly want to know if the stylized speech work.

example here:




Walking along the road a little bit before reaching the river, I see two people wearing a weird and colorful clothes talking to each other beside a tree.


They talk really weird, but maybe they're nobles? I heard that they use a different language from us.


But they didn't call me, and there are a lot of clothes for me to wash, so I kept walking along the road.


"C4n we do someth1ng else? Th1s 1s so bor1ng." Someone on my right spoke up, and before I could take a look at him, another voice that came from my left answered him, "C^mon, Augµst, th1s 1s our work, we h4ve to d0 1t no matter what."


I stop and turn back to look at who is talking, and they were the nobles I saw talking to each other just now.


They looked like they were just a little bit older than Clayton too.


I slowly lowered the basket aside and stared at them until one of them coughed into his hand, I jerked back and answered them. "M'lord? er- I mean young master- um, how will I serve?" Most people I know, and Miss Manie says that I shouldn't say that to them, but Kevács would've hit me if he heard I didn't say it to anyone around here.


They look at each other and open and close their mouths for some time before looking back at me, "Uhh... C4n you repe4t th4t 4ga1n?" one of them says something again, but I really don't understand what he just said.


"...how will I serve...?"


...


"...Sh1t..."


They look at each other again, and now they were hanging mouths for a moment before the young master in a very bright red shirt with a weird symbol on it speak to the other young master.


"Dude... do you spe4k her langu4ge?"


"Does my re4ction tell you th4t 1 c4n?"


"Ummm... no?"


Then the young master with a shiny black coat that doesn't have any buttons stares blankly at him before he turns away and back at me.

 

[Joyager2]

I find this to be distracting and not really worth the effort. If our primary point of view in this story is a first person point of view through the eyes of someone who doesn’t understand a language, we as readers shouldn’t understand it either. The whole point of using first person is to in some way limit the information available to readers and running what’s left through protagonist’s perception. It would be better to say, ‘He spoke in a language I couldn’t understand,’ or to present the language as foreign sounds, ‘Ogăg xarsĭ aramg.’

The idea here is that, if we’re seeing everything through the protagonist’s eyes, then anything in the text that we can read is something the character can also understand. Trying to do it another way, even if we know the protagonist speaks a language other than English, is confusing to readers. It’s the same as presenting the hallucinations your character is having as completely real. Your character thinks they’re real, so they’re presented to the readers as real. Language shouldn’t be any different.

 

[McShrimple]

Thank you! I see it does seem to contradict each other. I'll try to rewrite it.