{"id":8101,"date":"2013-01-13T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T06:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=8101"},"modified":"2013-01-13T06:00:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T06:00:35","slug":"language-quiz-239","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=8101","title":{"rendered":"Language quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some text from a book I&#8217;m currently reading in which some of the dialogue is written in this way. Do you have any idea where people speak like this?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Vares nuffing n\u00fa unnersun, m\u00ec sun. Doan ask wy ve \u00f6l daze wuz b\u00e9-er van vese, coz U aynt g\u00f3 ve nous fer \u00ed. Lemme tellya, no geezer az a cl\u00fa abaht iz own tyme, yeah? Ees juss lyke a sparrer, eggzackerly lyke a sparrer aw a bitta b\u00e1-erred cod.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another bit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;E oo ayts lyf wil keep \u00ed, thass wot \u00ed sez in ve B\u00fak, innit? Wel, Eye doan luv lyf ennymaw wivaht Am, so Eye spose Eye must ayt \u00ed. Awl Eye did woz 4 Am, awl Eye evah wannid woz 4 uss l\u00f3 2 B cumfy.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note: as far as I know, this form of speech is rarely written, and this spelling system seems to be one developed by the author. The second quote is in a future version of the form of speech used in the first one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some text from a book I&#8217;m currently reading in which some of the dialogue is written in this way. Do you have any idea where people speak like this? &#8220;Vares nuffing n\u00fa unnersun, m\u00ec sun. Doan ask wy ve \u00f6l daze wuz b\u00e9-er van vese, coz U aynt g\u00f3 ve nous fer \u00ed. Lemme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-quiz-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}