I need to write a couple lines for a Bermudian charachter in a flash piece I'm working on. Been searching the world wide web for a couple hours and can't find the words I'm looking for. Help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
--Jonathan--
All I know is that it is impossible to say 'Beer can' with out sounding like your saying 'Bacon'
Thanks Jonny, Now I wish he needed to say Beer can.
Well, if you only need 2 lines, why would it be any different from what you would say? If 2 lines is enough to expose all that, then you may end up looking silly.
"Hey, that chicken is fucking that pineapple!"
"Ever-ee-ting i-ree mon!"
"Hey, that chicken is fucking that pineapple!"
"Oh oh oh, zis is not 'ow you zay, good, n'est ce pas?"
"Hey, that chicken is fucking that pineapple!"
"Ve haf vays off making you tok, herr Clouseau!"
"Hey, that chicken is fucking that pineapple!"
"Oy ge valt! Would it kill him to maybe call his mother once in a while?"
You: "Hey, wait a minute! Jeff isn't even Jewish! What gives??!? How DARE he?"
Me: "What a mishegoss!"
You: "You sir, are a racist! As well as a scoundrel and a liar!"
"A liar!? A liar he calls me! Such chutzpeh!"
"Why, I have a half a mind to report you, bub! You'd best mind your P's and Q's, mister!"
*click* of a .45 against your forehead.
"I'll see you in Gehenna."
*BLAM!*
"Mazel Tov, motherfucker."
Maybe those two lines won't put off the reader if the Bermudian sounds like the Americans but it will bug the hell out of me. I wasn't sure if they say mon like Jamaians do. I also want to know how they would say telephone and I appologize.
the information super-highway is great for this type of thing. Researching a story, I've looked up the correlation between heart disease and kidney failure (high blood pressure) and an absinthe cocktail people would drink in France (Death in the Afternoon).
Thanks Doug, I might look more later. I already posted the flash piece I was writing in the Flash Fiction Smackdown. Now I'm working on a piece for the Beyond Thunderdome battle. I may go back next week and try some more to find what I was looking for and edit it into my submission. I just changed the words and hope the dialect I chose rings true.
Doug was my father. Please, call me Nick.
I can't stop laughing. Who is Doug?
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I think nick changed his screen name from doug.
I don't know, he's been Nick for a long time. I think Jonathan Riley needs to adjust his medication level slightly.
I'll get right on that. Maybe I glanced at the author of the book he's reading and made a mistake. I apologize Nick.
just so this thread isn't a total bust, I knew a guy from Bermuda when I was in uni. He was a white dude of Scottish ancestry, I think his parents had serious money, and he spoke with no accent whatsoever. You'd never guess he was from anywhere other than the US or Canada. So, you should probably take the character's socio-economic status and level of education into account when deciding how he or she speaks.
Thanks Nick.
This site should help. http://accent.gmu.edu/
Watch THE DEEP with Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bissette who I think gets her tits out and also the other dude from Jaws. Takes place in Bermuda and includes this awesome epic battle
I agree with renfield. His recommendation had boobies.
Saying that, mine shows you the phonetic pronunciation and method of writing english with any accent in the world....
Nah,... Boobies! :)
