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Simi Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary
Wuthering heights
Wretched inmates!’ I ejaculated, mentally, ‘you deserve perpetual isolation from your species for your churlish inhospitality. At least, I would not keep my doors barred in the day-time. I don’t care—I will get in!’ So resolved, I grasped the latch and shook it vehemently. Vinegar-faced Joseph projected his head from a round window of the barn.
‘What are ye for?’ he shouted. ‘T’ maister’s down i’ t’ fowld. Go round by th’ end o’ t’ laith, if ye went to spake to him.’
‘Is there nobody inside to open the door?’ I hallooed, responsively.
‘There’s nobbut t’ missis; and shoo’ll not oppen ’t an ye mak’ yer flaysome dins till neeght.’
‘Why? Cannot you tell her whom I am, eh, Joseph?’
‘Nor-ne me! I’ll hae no hend wi’t,’ muttered the head, vanishing.
What is Joseph talking here about? I can't understand. Could someone rephrase it?
Thanks.
‘What are ye for?’ he shouted. ‘T’ maister’s down i’ t’ fowld. Go round by th’ end o’ t’ laith, if ye went to spake to him.’
‘Is there nobody inside to open the door?’ I hallooed, responsively.
‘There’s nobbut t’ missis; and shoo’ll not oppen ’t an ye mak’ yer flaysome dins till neeght.’
‘Why? Cannot you tell her whom I am, eh, Joseph?’
‘Nor-ne me! I’ll hae no hend wi’t,’ muttered the head, vanishing.
What is Joseph talking here about? I can't understand. Could someone rephrase it?
Thanks.
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1-- 'What are you doing? ' 2-- 'No one's here but the mistress of the house, and she won't open the door if you knock on it all night'. 3-- 'Not me!
- 1-- 'What are you doing?
- ' 2-- 'No one's here but the mistress of the house, and she won't open the door if you knock on it all night'.
- 3-- 'Not me!
- I'll have nothing to do with it,'he said, and he left the window.
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1-- 'What are you doing? The master's down with the sheep-- go down there if you want to talk to him.'
2-- 'No one's here but the mistress of the house, and she won't open the door if you knock on it all night'.
3-- 'Not me! I'll have nothing to do with it,'he said, and he left the window.
2-- 'No one's here but the mistress of the house, and she won't open the door if you knock on it all night'.
3-- 'Not me! I'll have nothing to do with it,'he said, and he left the window.
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Oh, thanks. But why has this kind of language being used? It's not standard, i assume.
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It is a Yorkshire country dialect-- you'll have to wait for a British English speaker to give you more detail...or to correct me if I am wrong.
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