Hard Times

[rhjc.1991]

Lately, I had to read Hard Times for my school holiday homework.

Everytime Stephen Blackpool speaks, it aggravates me! I cannot understand half the thing he is saying!

That being said, does anybody have access to an online "user-friendly" Hard Times?

[shinny]

Don't think anyone ever bothered to translate ye olde English, but anyway, I wouldn't worry about it too much. Not that much of it is important and the parts that are are mostly pretty understandable. There'll be entire blocks of text which you'll just read through and realise you've understood nothing, but in terms of writing an essay, it's unlikely it'll be of much significance. I tended to stick with the obvious quotes such as "T'is a muddle", "How your awlus right and we're awlus wrong" and so on.

[NE2000]

What's the best way to quote Blackpool by integrating the quote into a sentence without making it seem awkward (unless that's inevitable)? Because I always feel uneasy when I'm going on in my sentence and then I have to quote Sleary or Blackpool and all of a sudden my sentence takes a whole other tone.

[mtwtfss]

I just tried to translate the bullshit, and read it out in my head as a 'normal' person would speak.

He repeatedly uses the same 'errors'...Forget exactly but its like 'certain two letters' = 'certain letter'...cbf checking.

[shinny]

I just tried to translate the bullshit, and read it out in my head as a 'normal' person would speak.

He repeatedly uses the same 'errors'...Forget exactly but its like 'certain two letters' = 'certain letter'...cbf checking.

Well yeh, eventually you'll just get the hang of it. His speech operates kind of like a l33t speak translator so as mtwtfss said, it's just replacing letters.

[NE2000]

I just tried to translate the bullshit, and read it out in my head as a 'normal' person would speak.

He repeatedly uses the same 'errors'...Forget exactly but its like 'certain two letters' = 'certain letter'...cbf checking.

Yeah I try to do that, eventually you get what he's saying, it's just putting that much effort into just understanding what he says in a passage get's annoying...Because while Dickens' Victorian Era English is at least decipherable (I like Hard Times in general), the combination of that English with Blackpool's speech makes it more difficult.