At acting school people didn't speak like me. It was all received pronunciation - 'ow now brown cow.'
This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America.
People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.
My characters don't talk necessarily in a normal American way of talking. They talk a little different.
See, my strumpf is in my hair. Now, I don't know what strumpf means. It's just a term some brothas gave me.
I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation.
No one can understand my accent!
You don't do classics with a Texas accent.
I've always been fascinated by dialects and accents. In fact, I've rarely played straight English parts. I play character parts - and always will.
Children, and sometimes those of larger growth, will not read dialect.
I tried to write 'Trainspotting' in standard English, but people weren't talking like that.
I love dialects and accents; they're something that really resonate with me and that I find fascinating.
I was able to make up lots of portementos, literally hundreds and hundreds of words... See, I find that mine don't have any meanings. They're not proper. Although I've got a great dictionary of them. It's like the Cockney rhyming slang or something.
