richard51 Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 For the language guys here, how difficult is it to understand dialects egcos kick a bow agen a wow yed eet back un bost eet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard51 Posted March 10, 2018 Author Share Posted March 10, 2018 OK, how would yo respond to thisWhere's ya netty, marra? I'm busting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 Botm u gaden bind veggies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard51 Posted March 10, 2018 Author Share Posted March 10, 2018 Or, what do you think of thisTotei lei personas naisson liuras e egalas en dignitat e en drech. Son dotadas de rason e de consciéncia e li cau (/fau) agir entre elei amb un esperit de frairesa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard51 Posted March 10, 2018 Author Share Posted March 10, 2018 WB: Cheated with google translate but still not sure what that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard51 Posted March 10, 2018 Author Share Posted March 10, 2018 Those I quoted can be easily cheated with.Can somebody, except WB, give all the answers - including dialect? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyh4 Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 Can be easy, can be hard.When I learned French in school, the problems of masculine, feminine and plural hit rather hard.When I then learned German, the three genders plus having nominative, accusative, genitive and dative became a real struggle that I never fully got to grips with. (and yes I know that for those who took the alternative course in latin, they had it worse). Fast forward near as damn it 30 years and I am shipped out to Germany. Got to get to grips with all these linguistic complications.Well in spoken German, no I didn't.Theder, die, das. dieden, die das, diedes, der, des, derdem. der. dem, den(hope I got that right - possibly not)converted tode, de, de, dede, de, de, dede, de, de, dede, de, de, dein the local dialect.Mostly however dialects are a way of keeping outsiders excluded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patf Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 I know the one about marra and netty.And Aa'm gan yem.And Me Ganny's cowpin' 'er creels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardengirl Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 The same as you Pat, and of course I know the two you added. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoddy Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 Richards51 - that's Stoke. I canna do it if i anna gor an oatcake in mi gob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 So, Stoke folkhave dietary problems!?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 Dickdick, if you mean I used Google to read your words, you are so wrong! It was not needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harnser Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 Try these-Ha yer fahr got a dicky bor?andDo yew kep a'troshin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard51 Posted March 11, 2018 Author Share Posted March 11, 2018 No. WB , I googled your quote and still haven't got a clue.1 Was indeed Potteries:"can you kick a ball against a wall, head it back and burst it."2. Geordie asking for the toilet as needing to go.3.Occitan provencal: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)Harnster are they "has your father got a dickie bow""do you keep "........" ". Don't know what a'troshin means. (NB have now cheated and found it)I remember going to a school friends house when I was a kid. His father started talking and even though I had lived in the area all my short life I hadn't a clue what he was saying. He was a coal miner as they existed then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoddy Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 Richard51 - I wonder if you get as irritated as I do by the portrayal of the Potteries accent on TV ? Even if they're doing something by Arnold Bennet the best they can do is a sort of generic 'oop north' accent which is really wrong. I think the Potteries accent has a lot of charm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard51 Posted March 11, 2018 Author Share Posted March 11, 2018 Why, thank you Hoddy. Not sure if its that charming when a local is behind you at a football match and loudly "encouraging" the players though.Not sure it bothers me about oop north imitations. What does annoy me is that his most famous book is "Anna of the five towns". There are SIX towns. Grrr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoddy Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 I've never been to a football match although I do recall my dad and my uncle talking about 'Stanley from Hanley'.Where I grew up we lived near the River Dove (rhymes with Hove). When I was eight we moved ten miles to a place where the river was called Dove as in the bird.I was quite a big girl before I realised it was the same river. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 As we are on a French Forum how abouthttp://www.midilibre.fr/2015/01/02/quiz-savez-vous-parler-biterrois,1105306.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harnser Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 Harnster are they "has your father got a dickie bow" "do you keep "........" ". Don't know what a'troshin means. (NB have now cheated and found it) Not a bad effort at decoding broad Norfolk!1. I say old chap, has your father got a donkey? (dickie = donkey)2. (Literally) Keep thrashing -(trosh means thrash) As in the annual local shindig "The Tunstead Trosh" http://tunsteadpc.norfolkparishes.gov.uk/2013/01/09/keep-a-troshin/I was there for 20 years before moving to France, I had to do a language course when I was first there - taught by Dick Young from the boatyard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard51 Posted March 11, 2018 Author Share Posted March 11, 2018 Harnster, Hoddy love it.Norman I got 50%. Suspect its just above random! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 probably better than me richard and I have been living there over 20years...[:-))] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harnser Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 Another one that occurs to me is the Norfolk equivalent of the French "Bonjour a tous""Hew yew orl gettin on t'gether then?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomoss Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 How about this conversation, between two ladies?Carmen F.T. Withers. We revving ching liffis. Jellike ching liffis? We F.N.B. Neffen roe smeal slightly wither tellion the kitser nawl. Yeckered calm strife rom work.Theng Saula Syme butter monner diet. I fed a bitifer gairstrick stummick lightly. Spin plier nuppagenner bit. Arlga mauve rafter. Oliver bye tweet first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YCCMB Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 Let stalk strine. Got the book! And Fraffly well Spoken. Genius.Come and have tea with us,. We're having (dunno) do you like (ooh, is it chicken livers?) We haven't been having roast meals lately with the telly and the kids and all. You could come straight from work.Thanks all the same but I'm on a diet.mive had a bit of a gastric stomach lately. It's been playing up again a bit. I'll come over after. I'll have a bite to eat first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomoss Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 Yir.Let Stalk Strine, compiled by Afferbeck Lauder, Professor of Strine Studies, University of Sinny. An Airpsly Fair Billis book. Aorta mike Orla Poms reedit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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