Re: Trollspeak
| From: | Brian Betty <bbetty@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 25, 1999, 21:19 |
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On 2-25-99, Ray Brown wrote: "Yes, the Trolls appear in Chapter II of 'The
Hobbit' and they speek neither 'BBC English' nor "the Queen's English" :)
But there is nothing there to make it Cockney rather than any of the many
other 'sub-standard' (NOT my term) dialects of England."
Right. I wasn't addressing that argument, I was just trying to show that if
people are dragging in motivation for use of Cockney, the trolls' use of
funky colloquial forms might have informed the casting company ... and
although I haven't my books with me, I remember that the goblins of Moria
in the tower spoke similarly in a 'cute' dialect. I don't know what it was
'intended' to represent, but Cockney has been long vilified and might have
been chosen by the casting company for its impact on the audience. Not that
I agree, mind you. I think that's a cheap way out of the situation,
cheating for an emotional reaction, and a biased one at that.
BB
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