Re: NAC language suppression
From: Alan E and Carmel J Brain <aebrain@d...>
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 10:26:26 +1000
Subject: Re: NAC language suppression
Ground Zero Games wrote:
> Hey, WE sometimes have trouble understanding those from north of
Norwich or
> west of Colchester.... Anyway, it's all flat caps and whippets north
of
> Watford Gap, innit?
"There's trouble up't Mill."
"Pardon?"
"One of t'crossbeam's gone out askew on t'treadle"
or alternately
"Ere all, see all, say nowt
Ate all, sup all, pay nowt
And if ever the does owt for nowt
Allus do't for tha sen"
...which has exact equivalents in both Ostfriesische Plattdeutsch (Low
German variant) and Twents (Dutch dialect) that sounds very close.
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