[bksvol-discuss] Re: Dialect in books
- From: "Pratik Patel" <pratikp1@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 02:53:03 -0500
Screen readers often mangle diolects. Some readers do a fantastic job of it
though.
Pratik
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Dialect in books
I hate dialect in books. I'm so glad that Shelley
posted that Forrest Gump had a lot of dialect so I
stayed away from it. I didn't mind the Welsh so much
in The Dark Is Rising sequence, because there wasn't
too much of it, but I chose not to do a Catherine
Cookson book because there was too much of it. When I
read a book with dialect I tend to mentally translate
it into normal English and ignore the dialect, but if
I had to listen to the book, I don't know if I could.
In case there are other readers like me, and even more
so readers won't think there are mistakes, I put in
the long synopsis that there's dialect, and/or English
spelling and/or punctuation, and usually if there's
profanity or swearing. Unfortunately, I forgot to put
the latter in the long synopsis of The Man from
Nowhere/Bitter Grass.
Cindy
> > Jill, it will not take much work to fix up my
> already
> > scanned rtf file. I will pick the book up tonight
> if
> > we go to town for the fish fry at the church or
> > tomorrow if we don't. We have kind of crappy
> weather
> > here.
> >
> > Then I can see where the first page number occurs
> and
> > just put in page numbers and do whatever it needs
> to
> > fix the chapter headings.
> >
> > I already fixed the space question mark problem
> and
> > one scanno that I found.
> >
> > This book it's so hard to tell what is a scanno
> > because of the dialect and language they use.
> >
> > I am finding the same thing with the book I have
> been
> > scanning this week, Thud!. A lot of their words
> are
> > hWhat and I kept thinking why is it doing that and
> > when I would check the page that is how it is
> written.
> > Or the last page I scanned last night had I
> belive.
> > And I thought what is up with my scanner and
> Omnipage?
> > And that's exactly what it says in the book. But
> if I
> > were a validator I would say oh that's wrong and
> want
> > to fix it. These are things I should put in the
> > comments section when I upload it, right?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Jamie in Michigan
> >
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