Re: Pronunciation (was Chinese learning English)

--- fshdt <tibbetts-al8Ev/14v5k@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> 
> Take this example from the Truespel site:
> 
> "That kwik baezh faaks jumpd in thu air oever eech
> thhin daug. Look
> out,  ie shout,  for heez foild yue uggen."

Does anyone remember 'Trainspotting" the book or the
articles not the film. There we had Irving Welsh
expressing Scottish vernacular in similarly
incomprehensible writing that only made sense if you
spoke the words aloud and then found you had a bit of
a Glasweigan accent. James Kelman won the Booker doing
the same thing a decade or so ago.
Is there a Truespel (sic) for every dialect and/or
accent for spoken English throughout the world? There
may as well be it would seem.

Russ Taylor


                
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