Word: dialectism
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...good 10 m from the road, too far to be noticed by drivers whizzing past at 100 km/h. Passing that way a week later, I see her again, still sitting a long way from the tarmac. This time I stop. She only speaks Kutchi, the local dialect, and understands very little of my Hindi, so our conversation is hit-and-miss. We get off to a bad start. I ask her name. "Balia," she replies. Her son's name? "Balia." And her husband's? "Balia." He is apparently somewhere in the rann foraging for food while she seeks charity...
...Mexico is very difficult," he says. "They have to pay for their own equipment, their bullets and handcuffs. The system doesn't provide money for uniforms, for shoes. They get peanuts for a paycheck." Del Toro, who lived in Puerto Rico until he was 12, also studied with a dialect coach to master the rural Mexican accent. "I wanted it to be country, like mountain Mexico," he says, "instead of like Taco Bell or Speedy Gonzales...
...Mexico is very difficult," he says. "They have to pay for their own equipment, their bullets and handcuffs. The system doesn't provide money for uniforms, for shoes. They get peanuts for a paycheck." Del Toro, who lived in Puerto Rico until he was 12, also studied with a dialect coach to master the rural Mexican accent. "I wanted it to be country, like mountain Mexico," he says, "instead of like Taco Bell or Speedy Gonzales...
...characters appear as all sweetness and light. Derry Woodhouse milks his honeyed brogue for all its worth, making his character Pato an earnest, lovable womanizer. Matthew Ellis as Pato's brother Ray is less successful. Aside from a few outpourings of the perennially amusing Irish swear word "feck!", his dialect and his mannerisms fail to convey the sense of a bored and insolent Irish...
...five days left and we didn't have a Lenny. So almost at the choke we said open the tape from Oklahoma. We quickly flew him out. He was brilliant, but he wasn't the character. So we crossed our fingers and threw him in with a dialect coach and 24 hours later the coach called and said "he's got it." Ryan is an idiot-savant, except he's not an idiot. He just knows...