Re: Apologetic for accent in English?! (was: Hello to you all!)
| From: | Jonathan Knibb <jonathan_knibb@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 11, 2002, 21:24 |
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Michael Poxon wrote:
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Ey up, our kid! But did yez sound like a scouser in Manchester, like?
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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?
Jonathan.
'O dear white children casual as birds,
Playing among the ruined languages...'
W. H. Auden, 'Hymn to St. Cecilia'
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