I'm writing a story with a Greek character in it. I want his dialogue to have an accent, but I'm not sure how to write it. Is there a certain letter they mispronounce, etc?
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August 30th, 2009 at 10:06 am
Most obvious things: many Greek speakers don’t distinguish between ‘s’ and ‘sh’, so seat and sheet, sit and sh** come out sounding the same.
There’s also a group of affricate consonants that are not found in Greek, so you hear the following substitutions:
‘ts’ for ‘ch’ – tseeze for cheese
‘dz’ for ‘j’ – dzelly for jelly
‘z’ for the ‘s’ sound in ‘pleasure’ ‘treasure’ so you hear plezoor, trezoor.
When two vowel sounds come together they are pronounced in Greek as separate syllables, so the word ‘bacon’ which has been borrowed into Greek is pronounced ‘bay-ee-con’
Long and short vowels are a big problem and most Greek speakers don’t distinguish between bit and beat, sit and seat, etc.
The ‘h’ sound in ‘hat’ doesn’t occur in Greek, so Greek speakers often substitute a sound rather like German ‘ch’ in Ich or Nacht
Greek uses a narrower pitch range than English and people tend to speak louder than English speakers, which can make English speakers think Greeks are being angry or aggressive when they don’t intend to be.
August 30th, 2009 at 10:06 am
in greek there are not consonant like j or g (as in general) and sh. so you may hear greek say indzecs’n (injection), su (shoe)….