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Re: CHAT: Cockney Orkish as she is spoken.

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 23, 1999, 23:17
Andrew Smith wrote:
> I'm still trying to see the > connection. So can anyone suggest what is so 'orkish' about Cockney, and > how I can 'debase' that dialect to sound authentic.
Well, didn't Tolkien use a Cockney dialect to render the Common Speach of the Orks? -- "It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father was hanged." - Irish proverb http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-name: NikTailor