Re: Apologetic for accent in English?! (was: Hello to you all!)

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 20:52:35 -0000
Jonathan Knibb <jonathan_knibb@...> wrote:

> Michael Poxon wrote:
> >>>
> Ey up, our kid! But did yez sound like a scouser in Manchester, like?
> <<<
>
> A question for the other Brits on the list: has anyone other than myself
> ever had an urge to invent more appropriate systems of transcription for the
> various regional English accents?  Trying to represent them accurately in
> terms of standard English spelling (with reference to RP) seems patronising
> and inaccurate to me.  (What reminded me of this was the thought of writing
> 'like' in Michael's sentence as 'leikh'...)
>
> Has anyone tried seriously to achieve this?
>
Not British, but...

One of those little as-yet-unrealised conlang ideas floating around in my brain
is to write/create a dialect/slang for for a really effin tick Dublin accent
(probably exaggeratedly thick for fun). It did occur to me that standard english
orthography would be completely unsuitable, but I haven't done enough of a
phonetic survey to see (1) what range of sounds exist and (2) what the phonemes
might be. One the evidence of this one dialect, I think regional British ones
would easily require each their own orthography.

stephen

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