[Vo]:WAY OFF TOPIC and for Japanese readers only
Here are a series of Apple iPod advertisements with a voice-over in Japanese, but not just any Japanese. This is deep-fried, bleached-in-the-sun southern Japanese, kind of like south Georgia English, with vocabulary 150 years out of date: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh-sENPLd44; If this guy was on NHK they would put subtitles on the screen. I have no trouble understanding him, but the people hit by the tsunami up north speak entirely different dialects. They interviewed a farmer from up there who is 101 years old. Without the subtitles I would not have understood him. It is as different as Vermont and south Georgia. England also has a wide range of dialects for such a small geographic area. Some areas were remarkably isolated well into the 20th century. A book about dialects that I read years ago said that in 1943, a linguist found an old guy in a village in southern England who had never heard of Winston Churchill. - Jed
Re: [Vo]:WAY OFF TOPIC and for Japanese readers only
On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 14:07 -0400, Jed Rothwell wrote: England also has a wide range of dialects for such a small geographic area. Some areas were remarkably isolated well into the 20th century. A book about dialects that I read years ago said that in 1943, a linguist found an old guy in a village in southern England who had never heard of Winston Churchill. Do you ever watch Jay Leno? There are people in America who do not know the name of the president of the United States. Craig Haynie Manchester, NH
Re: [Vo]:WAY OFF TOPIC and for Japanese readers only
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Craig Haynie cchayniepub...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 14:07 -0400, Jed Rothwell wrote: England also has a wide range of dialects for such a small geographic area. Some areas were remarkably isolated well into the 20th century. A book about dialects that I read years ago said that in 1943, a linguist found an old guy in a village in southern England who had never heard of Winston Churchill. Do you ever watch Jay Leno? There are people in America who do not know the name of the president of the United States. My wife was at the manicurist yesterday near the Sugarloaf Country Club and the women were discussing how the US had killed the president of Pakistan (ObL). T
Re: [Vo]:WAY OFF TOPIC and for Japanese readers only
Jed, Craig, Terry sez: England also has a wide range of dialects for such a small geographic area. Some areas were remarkably isolated well into the 20th century. A book about dialects that I read years ago said that in 1943, a linguist found an old guy in a village in southern England who had never heard of Winston Churchill. Do you ever watch Jay Leno? There are people in America who do not know the name of the president of the United States. My wife was at the manicurist yesterday near the Sugarloaf Country Club and the women were discussing how the US had killed the president of Pakistan (ObL). Ah, cut them some slack Terry! ;-) Musharraf, when he was still prez, probably had ObL over for dinner plenty of times during Ramadan. Shoot! They probably wuz neighbors! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13262131 http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/pervez_musharraf/index.html Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
Re: [Vo]:WAY OFF TOPIC and for Japanese readers only
Craig Haynie wrote: Do you ever watch Jay Leno? There are people in America who do not know the name of the president of the United States. Good point. However, I expect that just about every American knew Lincoln was the president in 1863, and FDR was in 1943. Churchill was well known in the U.K. in the middle of WWII. I read this book 30 years ago . . . but I might even recall that the old geezer was unaware there was a war on. I find that very hard to believe, since there were Spitfires and Messershmits overhead. Maybe this was Penzance. I knew a man named Henry Ware. He was known as the Late Captain Ware during WWII because he was a linguist, interpreter and a U.S. army captain, and he was always late for meetings, including meetings between FDR, Churchill and Stalin. He lived in a tent on the roof of the U.S. Embassy, so they could not reach him at night. (The Russians love holding meetings in the dead of night.) Anyway, he traveled through Russia on assignment during the war, meeting with a variety of people. He met an old peasant in Georgia I think it was (their Georgia, not ours), and had a conversation along these lines: Capt Ware: So, what do you think of Stalin? OP: Who? Ware: Stalin! The leader of the USSR! OP: Ah, yes. The new Tsar. I've heard of him. No opinion. - Jed
