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14032553 No.14032553 [Reply] [Original]

ITT final boss books for ESLs
I have trouble imagining an American understanding it, never mind a foreigner. Obviously it isn't the hardest book ever written, and if you're British (not even necessarily Scottish) it's easy but surely this would be absolute gibberish to an ESL

>> No.14032564

>>14032553
I've seen this thread before.

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>>14032553
>Gone With the Wind

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Britbong here. Trainspotting is one of my favourite novels ever. And I agree that for an ESL they could piece some bits together via context. Though I guess any novel where the dialect is fucked with to sound either of-that-time or to add immersion or w/e could be classed as near impossible without prior research

Pic related. It’s in my TBR which I’ve started then put down many times

>> No.14032596

I haven't read this book but the scottish show chewin' the fat is about 60% incomprehensible to me and I have watched a decent amount of it

>> No.14032597

British isn't English

>> No.14032604

North eastern american english is peak english. Fuck anglobabble

>> No.14033339

>>14032604
"North eastern american english" doesn't mean anything. That ranges from meme accents like brooklyn and boston to country bumpkins to near-"standard" american english but without the marry-merry merger (which is patrician)