Nac Mac Feegles

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Tonyblack

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Hi tanwir and welcome to the site. :)

They seem to have a Scottish accent - but pinning it down to a particular part of Scotland isn't so easy.
 

tanwir

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So what happens when Terry's books are translated into other languages. It wouldn't make sense to retain a Glasgow accent. What would a German Nac Mac Feegle sound like for example?
 

Mixa

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tanwir said:
So what happens when Terry's books are translated into other languages. It wouldn't make sense to retain a Glasgow accent. What would a German Nac Mac Feegle sound like for example?
Well, I don't know what the Germans did, but the Spanish translators found a great solution for the Feegles' accent: they made them speak Galician, the language of Galicia (because the Spanish principal language is Castilian but there are other languages such as the Galician, Basque and Catalan).

Here you can hear the difference between Castilian and Galician:


Castilian monologue


Galician monologue


For me it's still difficult to understand the original Feegles, but the Spanish ones are hilarious! :mrgreen:

Mx
 
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Mixa said:
tanwir said:
So what happens when Terry's books are translated into other languages. It wouldn't make sense to retain a Glasgow accent. What would a German Nac Mac Feegle sound like for example?
Well, I don't know what the Germans did, but the Spanish translators found a great solution for the Feegles' accent: they made them speak Galician, the language of Galicia (because the Spanish principal language is Castilian but there are other languages such as the Galician, Basque and Catalan).

Here you can hear the difference between Castilian and Galician:


Castilian monologue


Galician monologue


For me it's still difficult to understand the original Feegles, but the Spanish ones are hilarious! :mrgreen:

Mx
Mixa, You can tell he is a Galician Feegle, because of his nearly Tartan tie. ;) :laugh:
 

Tonyblack

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Partly yes, with Cockney. But there are rules about being a "true Cockney". You have to have been born within the sound of "Bow Bells". That means the bells of St Mary-le-Bow, in Cheapside, London. But there are dialects all over the UK that have certain words and phrases unique to them.
 

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