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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1400 on: September 19, 2024, 05:11:39 PM »
Walkie-talkie is a ridiculous name for a hand-held two-way radio.  Did they give the job of naming it to toddlers?
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1401 on: October 08, 2024, 05:55:57 PM »
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« Reply #1402 on: October 08, 2024, 06:07:02 PM »
The UCLA one sounds about right.
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« Reply #1403 on: October 10, 2024, 11:17:23 AM »
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« Reply #1404 on: October 10, 2024, 11:19:16 AM »
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1405 on: October 10, 2024, 11:19:46 AM »
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1406 on: January 11, 2025, 07:04:17 AM »
I have been using captions on Netflix and Prime a lot lately. And have noted when they do (or do not) indicate in the caption when speakers elide letters. (As in the example, do the captions say "gonna" or "going to" when what was said was definitely the former, etc. Do the captions reflect accents, real (either of the actor or the character) or temporary (like funny voices when a parent is reading a book to a child), and so on.) It's quite interesting.
Do you have opinions about spelling those out in, say, a novel or short story?

Personally, I find it very hard to read dialog that is attempting to reflect the accent.
In Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld books who spoke with a lisp. Farmer insisted in writing all of his dialogue with the lisp preserved. He was a fairly major character. It was maddening to me when I read the books in late grade school/early junior high.

I loved those books, but recognized that they were pretty badly written even at the time. I had a lot more patience for bad writing back then, apparently.
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« Reply #1407 on: January 12, 2025, 12:30:10 PM »
I think most of us had a higher tolerance for bad writing at that age.
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Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...
« Reply #1408 on: January 13, 2025, 08:36:01 AM »
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