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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