TheMediocreYoungishOne -Tom-
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« Reply #75 on: October 04, 2011, 08:57:30 AM » |
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I popped the first sentence of Dunwich into whoohoo.co.uk's "Scottie Translator" here and got this: "When a traveller in north central massachusetts takes th' wrang fork at th' junction ay th' aylesbury pike jist beyond dean’s corners he comes upon a lonely an' curioos coontry." |
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"I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams." H.P. Lovecraft - In a letter to Maurice W. Moe, January 1929
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We are the Borgcraft. Your knowledge will be correlated. Insanity is inevitable.
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JulieH
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« Reply #76 on: October 04, 2011, 11:11:09 AM » |
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Nae sae verra diff'rent, then, ye ken?
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« Reply #77 on: October 04, 2011, 01:24:38 PM » |
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Julieh's looks closer to the Real Glaswegian Patter, although I'm no expert. I think you have to grunt a lot and use shortened monosyllabic forms of words that are understood from context or something, if you happen to know the lexicon they originate in. See, I just left a hanging preposition and felt fairly risque about going that far, so Glaswegian is byoond me kin jus a wee bit. Look under Glaswegian Patter on weckypodiya for more...
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We live on a placid Rhode Island and Providence Plantations of ignorance in the midst of the black seas of an infinity of dark foreigners, and it was not meant that we should voyage too far.
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JulieH
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« Reply #78 on: October 04, 2011, 01:40:12 PM » |
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Minds me - y'aveta gi' back inta ma Yorkshire f'r to finish off a tale left twistin with t' Deadeye kid.
LOL
I love dialects, and seem to pick them up reasonably well.
And they're mad fun to mess with my actors with.
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Bob Lovecraft
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« Reply #79 on: October 04, 2011, 03:15:42 PM » |
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And they're mad fun to mess with my actors with.
Sound like me trying to get my players to fake accents for my RPG's. So far, an entire province of the Empire (Warahammer RPG) is now Hispanic thanks to them. I hate having to talk like a barrio thug when acting out the dialogue of a providential nobleman. Ug. Bob |
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If someone ever dares you to read the Necronomicon out loud... just say no.
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JulieH
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« Reply #80 on: October 04, 2011, 03:30:01 PM » |
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ai poppy!
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JulieH
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« Reply #81 on: October 05, 2011, 11:42:31 AM » |
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Oh, man....
Of course, while I'm in the middle of one cool (and huge) project, another pops into my head.
I just cracked Innsmouth.
(I mean, just came up with the viewpoint, etc. I want to present it from)
and now I want to write.....
Darnit!!!!
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Bob Lovecraft
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« Reply #82 on: October 05, 2011, 01:18:01 PM » |
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If you cast the Innsmouth folks as a bunch of barrio stereotypes, I will have to hunt you done and purge such evil from the world.  I'm just saying. Oh, and to quote one of the NPC's in my game, "Eh, homes! Jou want some dingo balls in that coach?" (the local hostler). Bob |
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If someone ever dares you to read the Necronomicon out loud... just say no.
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JulieH
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« Reply #83 on: October 05, 2011, 03:57:19 PM » |
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No no - at least as classic a setup as my Dunwich.  But wait til you see how I messed with "The Hound" |
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Bob Lovecraft
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« Reply #84 on: October 05, 2011, 04:50:00 PM » |
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LOL, I can't wait to hear it. That is my wife's favorite HPL story so far. Maybe with your version, I will like it as much as she does.
Bob
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« Reply #85 on: October 05, 2011, 05:48:58 PM » |
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Or it might creep you out so completely it puts you off the story entirely....  |
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Bob Lovecraft
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« Reply #86 on: October 06, 2011, 08:05:36 AM » |
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Challenge accepted.  Bob |
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« Reply #87 on: October 06, 2011, 12:06:10 PM » |
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I really want some Cambodian American-sort-of hiphop gangster types shaking down the general store in Dunwich, hanging out at the Dunkin Donuts and generally making pests of themselves. Perhaps they could interrupt the "men's empowerment drum circles" around the bonfires on the stark granite peaks by showing up in low-riders and throwing beer cans at the "ladymen." I want to work a "Pol Pot-latch" into it somehow. Never mind. I'll get back to you if I come up with a script. It's about 49th on my list of 50 things to do.
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We live on a placid Rhode Island and Providence Plantations of ignorance in the midst of the black seas of an infinity of dark foreigners, and it was not meant that we should voyage too far.
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« Reply #88 on: October 06, 2011, 04:22:11 PM » |
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I've found some Lovecraft-inspired "music" that belongs here in the Dunwich karaoke thread or else in the Derleth-as-70s-porno-plot thread, but I've mislaid the latter. It isn't exactly 70s, it's more like 1986, but the spirit is identical. As far as I know it carries no copyright and was made by "modders" in their small section of the "demo" underground. The files are .s3m format, very small, which is an improvement upon the .mod format (more channels and voices?) used by the original Amiga modders. I have it reliably that VLC will play .s3m files, and Winamp will with a proper "plugin" fitted in the correct place. The archive file contains the "music" and the Winamp "plugin." It actually contains several "plugins" because I can't remember which one is required. I believe it is called in_mod.dll but the others will do no harm in any event. You have had prior warning. http://www.sendspace.com/file/g5kkth |
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