Tips & tricks
6. Accents
I have used stereotypes of a number of foreign accents many times with my links and the last thing I want to do is upset anyone. Using these accents is simply a convenient way of eliminating small words such as 'the', 'it,' 'of', 'he', 'and' 'is' get in the way of a good link.
For example
Enola Gay - dropped the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima...
One of the onflight staff, who was Italian, lauding the pilot said... 'Hey, this guy was good, he rush, he make the drop and he gone. He no lag ay?'
You desperately want to keep the word as close to the original word as possible but if you say in English...
'he rushes and he makes' the drop, he is no lag ay?
It doesn't work but if you write the sentence phonetically, assuming an Italian accent, the link works.
Here are some more examples...
Best film Oscar for '96 - The English Patient
2 nurses turning the lights out in an Italian hospital...
'Goodnight nurses' says Rupert Forbes-Smith.
'Goodnight. He sick, the English patient, he very, very sick.
Burkina Faso used to be called Upper Volta
First ever electrocution in Africa...'Hey this take so long' 'Up a volt or 2 for the burk. 'e no fuss over it, he going to die anyway!'
The Femur is the Thigh bone
An excerpt from 'Giacomo and the beanstalk' - the Italian fairytale... Femur, fima, foma, fuma, I smell de blood of de Engerleeshman!
Enid Blyton original name was Mrs Daryl Walters
Ali G's Caribbean buddy has just come over to England and he doesn't know where to live... 'E need Brighton' says Ali, 'cos he misses da real waters'
The International Airport in Tokyo is Narita
I've just ordered some food from a Japanese restaurant...Tok e home sir? Nah, eat here, thanks.
J.R.R Tolkein initials stand for John Ronald Reuel
When he was at school in Birmingham he would write graffiti on school walls & bike sheds...etc..Jonny Ronny rules, Jonny Ronny rules. And everyone thought...'who is this guy, what's he tolkein about?? 'All in good time boys, all in good time'.
