Stereotyped or humorous dialect filters
While preparing my entry about styling languages, I re-discovered many dialect translators. For example, if you want plugins for your weblog, you can easily get:
- For MovableType: MovableJive.
- For WordPress: the Text Filter Suite Plugin for WordPress (story in the entry Fun Filters, examples accessible from the entry Back to being a land lubber on Dougal Campbell Presents Geek Ramblings).
“MovableJive adds the following text filters:”
- “Jive English” or Ebonics [Wikipedia];
- “Texas Drawl” or Southern American English [Wikipedia];
- “Cokney English” [Wikipedia] (more theorical introduction Web documents relating to Estuary English on the Departement of Phonetics & Linguistics's website of UCL;
- “Swedish Chef” from the Muppet Show [Wikipedia];
- “Valley Girl” [Wikipedia];
- “German Accent”;
- “Hunting Wabbits” or Elmer Fudd from Looney Tunes [Wikipedia].
The Text Filter Suite Plugin for WordPress supports the Pirate way of talking.
If you want more dialects, GNU Talk Filters is a complete package of filter programs “that convert ordinary English text into text that mimics a stereotyped or otherwise humorous dialect”. The Talk Filters are numerous:
Filter name Description Author austroAustrian (Ahhhhnold) Tom van Nes b1ffB1FF of Usenet yore Matt Welsh, David Whitten brooklynBrooklyn accent Daniel V Klein (' nyc.l')chefSwedish Chef (from The Muppet Show) John Hagerman cockneyLondoner accent Stephen K Mulrine, Edward Betts (' ken.l'); unknown ('cockney.l'); extensive enhancements by Samuel StoddarddrawlSouthern drawl Adam Hudd dubyaGeorge "Dubya" Bush anonymous contribution fuddElmer Fudd (from the Looney Tunes cartoons) unknown funetakThick Asian accent Eclipse Enterprises jethroJethro from The Beverly Hillbillies Duane Paulson jive1970's Jive Daniel V Klein, Clement Cole, with enhancements by Samuel Stoddard krautGerman accent unknown pansyEffeminate male unknown piratePirate talk Original Perl/PHP version by Douglas Gunters, with enhancements by Mark Lindner postmodernPostmodernist talk ("Feminazi") unknown redneckCountry redneck Brand Hilton valspeakValley talk unknown warezH4x0r code Ian Johnston, with enhancements by Mark Lindner wrapWord-wrap filter Mark Lindner Note from Jean-Philippe: the wrap filter is not a dialect filter. The filters were repackaged, integrated, optimized, and documented by Mark Lindner.
To know more about the authors of these filters, have a look at the copyright file (from the filters Debian package).
A few websites doing translation from english to dialects:
Another kind of dictionaries on The Complete Newspeak Dictionary, more politicaly inclined:
- 1984 - Newspeak Dictionary;
- Modern Newspeak Dictionary – “A guide to politically correct speech”.
Posted by Jean-Philippe on January 02, 2005 at 06:59 PM 5 Comments, 1713 TrackBacks
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