Re: For lovers of English English


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Posted by Bruce A Clarke on November 08, 2000 at 04:55:16 from 203.149.1.59:

In Reply to: Re: For lovers of English English posted by Bob Hollia on November 07, 2000 at 07:13:39:

THE DIALECTIZER

"While many rabbit and pork about the benefits and opportunities of sellin' goods or
services over the bloody Internet, the Government 'as done wee ter enable this so far.
Cor blimey guv! New lors are needed, wile a Certification Auffority is also necessary."

That was the first paragraph of a recent lead story in Database _ converted into the
Cockney dialect at this web site, where you can convert text into any of seven "flavours"
of English: Redneck, Jive, Cockney, Elmer Fudd, Swedish Chef, Moron and Pig Latin.

While such conversion programs such as Jive were doing the rounds of electronic bulletin
boards a decade or so ago, here is one Web site that will convert text into many different
dialects _ and the results make entertaining reading.

You either enter the URL of a page on the Internet that has text to be converted, or you
can type in text (or use cut and paste) to a window at the Rinkworks site.

Then a CGI script goes to work in the background, performing search and replace
operations on the original text and making the conversions. This all takes place in a matter
of seconds, after which the converted page is displayed _ and while embedded links are
converted or modified (if appropriate) to reflect the new dialect, they can still be clicked
upon to navigate.

This is fun to tinker with, and how the various dialects are expressed provides an insight
into both language and culture.

More dialects are said to be on the way by Samuel Stoddard, author of this web site.



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