[spoilers] Richard Armitage

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(16-11-2010 03:04 AM)Quill Wrote:  Yes, it's British English spoken a couple centuries ago, but the workers speech is another business. She recreates their speech pattern almost phonetically and it's hard to make sense of it on the beginning. You get use to it after awhile. The thing is, the English spoken by the working masses is different than the one used by the ruling class and she does a very good job portraying this clash. But it makes the reading harder if English is your second language.

Alright, then. Thanks for the heads up! English is my native language, but I'll try not to throw the book at the wall if it confuses me in the beginning. I can understand why she would do that if there was such a difference between the social classes, so at least I won't be thinking it was just to confound the silly readers

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(16-11-2010 03:14 AM)VaBookworm87 Wrote:  Yeah, the slang is sort of spelled phonetically... Image how Nicholas or Boucher speaks in the film version, and imagine that in print. It's tough, but it sort of helps differentiate the speech of the "common" folk of the North from the high-brow Southerners.

Oooh, okay. So trying to research the spelling as it is in the book won't help much XD (Google is your friend!) Thanks for the help!

(16-11-2010 03:14 AM)VaBookworm87 Wrote:  I found RA when Netflix Watch Instantly recommended N&S to me based on my liking period films. I then stalked RA throughout Netflix and watched everything they had lol

Haha, thank you Netflix! You've now opened many a door for us adoring fans