The Loch 2: The Quickening

[seriousfic]

So part of this story involves the diary of an ancient Celt being translated into English. When the reader sees it, it's written in a phonetic Irish accent.

Just like I write down my heavy Southern accent... y'all.

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[geonncannon.livejournal.com]

For some reason that reminds me of the scene in Hot Fuzz where Nicholas Angel goes to interrogate the unintelligble farmer, so he has to take along the gibberish cop, and Danny has to translate for the cop who is translating for the farmer.

FARMER: "Ah be te se se te be betrl."
ANGEL: "Right..." ~looks at cop~
COP: "Bah se te re be terbeen."
DANNY: "He said he has a permit for this one."
ANGEL: "Right."

[mcity.livejournal.com]

Which reminds me of the Nuala Anne McGrail novel Irish Gold, sent almost entirely in Ireland, where--oh, wait, they barely mention accents at all. The narrator notes that he's translating from Nuala's Irish accent and aphorisms. And editing out a lot of the swearing.

Is this book some sort of bestseller?

[nike-ravus.livejournal.com]

Sorry, WUT? Having a moment of horrified linguist over here. Ancient Celt is to irish accent as Ancient Roman is to... uh, New Jersey mobster? Are we planning on translating Caesar as Danny Soprano next? (Actually... that might be not such a bad idea.)

Of course, Old Irish (which I am currently taking) is a little bit like Protp-Indo European spoken by an entire society that is completely drunk and has been punched in the mouth repeatedly. And translating it is a lot like being punched in the mouth repeatedly. So, good luck random fictional translator person.