[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: accents/dialects in other languages...

[kadede]

In the Flemish version (on DVD that is) Hagrid speaks a 'clean' version of
West Flemish (from the region close to France where World War 1 (1914-1918)
took place). In real life the average Flemish speaker will have problems
understanding the real thing, but Hagrid speaks the stylised version.
Clearly supposed to be West Flemish, but not the real thing. I have no idea
what the Dutch version is like, as we in Belgium only get the Flemish
version. FYI Flemish and Dutch only differ a bit, something like the UK and
USA English (some 95 % the same).
As I have the English books myself, I don't know what the Dutch/Flemish
version looks like (in print there is even less difference between the two
languages) but as they've taken the accent into account in the movie it must
be there in the books.
Karleen
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Gabriela [mailto:gabolamx at yahoo.com.mx]
  Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 4:48 AM
  To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
  Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: accents/dialects in other languages...


  --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, IAmLordCassandra at a... wrote:
  >
  >
  > How do they right out the accents/dialects in other languages? Or
  do they
  > only do that in the English version?   I'm not too familar with
  other languages
  > (aside from my two years of French and the Japanese I'm
  starting....and a bit
  > of Russian and Polish from my family, but I'm straying now....).
  >
  > ~Cassie~
  >


  Hello everybody,
  In the Spanish version you don't read Hagrid's accent (which is a
  loss), but I think it would be VERY difficult to give Hagrid an
  accent in Spanish; we have lots of different accents but I can't see
  how it could be done (Hagrid's accent). I'm grateful I can read the
  books in English because you lose half the "feeling" reading
  translations; I'm not saying they are bad, it's just not the same.

  Gabriela
  who spent almost a week reading the first 100 pages of LOTR because
  she insisted on reading them in English


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