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   From: fn62@dial.pipex.com   
      
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   > Wayland wrote:   
   >> On 28 Jul 2006 04:48:00 -0700, Troy.Heagy@gmail.com wrote:   
   >>   
   >> >   
   >> >Paul Harper wrote:   
   >> >> dialogue is some of the shittiest exposition I have every had to   
   >> >> listen   
   >> >> to. When his characters were *supposed* to be making speeches, then   
   >> >> fine, but even when they weren't, they were *still* making speeches.   
   >> >   
   >> >.   
   >> >   
   >> >Sounds like Shakespeare.  He did alright (or so I'm told).   
   >>   
   >> Shakespeare was a master of both monolog and dialog.  His characters   
   >> play on words back and forth with each other throughout his plays.  He   
   >> switches the meter of the lines to give the dialog greater depth,   
   >   
   > .   
   >   
   > Do you read Shakespeare in the original accent (a kind of   
   > Scottish-style brogue)?   
   >   
   > If not, then you're not truly understanding Shakespeare (i.e. the meter   
   > and rhyme would be incorrect).   
   >   
      
   You illiterate oaf. It's akin to a Black Country accent, which is totally   
   unlike a Scots brogue. There are still people in Worcestershire who talk a   
   dialect akin to his. (Come to that, they also do on the Carolina South   
   Banks, if I recall the place aright.)   
      
   Ali   
      
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