Online Haldir translation services?

[Op_Cit]

Haldir reminds me of something I was looking for a few weeks ago...

I was looking for a good online resource for accents/dialects. Didn't have any luck, does anybody know any good sites?

You know, like the books that breakdown the speach patterns and spell everything out phonetically for idiots like me to understand. Even better, the ones that get detailed by narrow geographical regions.

 

[TheEarl]

My best answer - find someone who speaks that dialect and ask them. Want Geordie - ask Alex de Kok. Want Scots - ask Haldir.

The Earl

 

[gauchecritic]

Seems to me that the phonetic translations aren't up to much, I've only seen a yorkshire one and unless you know almost exactly what it says anyway knowing the phonetics doesn't help one bit.

Hello, we're cockneys.

 

[Op_Cit]

Some of the books I've seen get into the common slang as well. But the books are hard to come by.

You see, it's a personal disability: I grew up in the only place in the english speaking world with no regional accent.

There must be some kind of support group for this...

 

[TheEarl]

See, now it's a can of fanta if you have a scoob what we're jabbering about, but if you don't then you can goosey all you like and you might as well have drunk an aristotle of the highest ping-pong tiddly for all that you'd rock and roll.

Bloody septics!

The Earl

 

[haldir]

yev jist gottae speak it as ye see it. if ye wannae get the sense o scots jist ask ye bammer!

alternatively - read some Robert Burns

 

[haldir]

Earl u still drubnk?