Can You Decipher This ?
This is a popular example of the old dialect of my home town. Many regions have their own way of speaking, & i"d like to hear yours.

This is an English dialect.

"Cost kik a bow agen a wo n ed it wi ya ed till it bost ? If cost, wut ?"

This is how my Grandad spoke. My Mum had to tell me what he was saying !

Can ya sus it ?

PS, I"ve spelled it phonetically,cuz, being a dialect, i don"t know any other way !

K I give up. Whats it say?

Thanks for your reply .
I"m not gonna tell ya what it says , yet.
Have you got an example of your dialect for me to have a go at ?

Crossed kick a ball again and won't head it with your head till it burst? if crossed, what?

doesn't make much sense, but that's my best attempt.

hmm...

"PASS THE VINEGAR"

No

Nope sorry. Everybody I know just speaks regular english. Cept for some who say bath instead of bathe, for instance " I'm going to bath the baby"

Well first off I'm not from England, and england English and American English are as much alike as how you speak and how your grandfather spoke sometimes. But if I have to guess...

Can ya kick a ball again and (something) it with your (something) til it bursts, if you can, what? (like Wot, when someone says "Well get it done, wot" in a Harry Potter book >.>) Seems as if its someone asking someone to do something.

My guess anyway.. whats it mean???

Very close, my friend.

Ya on the right track. How about posting your dialect ? I"d try to understand it ?

Are you from Stoke ? & just giving clues to people ? I think you know this, but are being nice to me & not solving it with one post ?

If this reaches 25 posts, I"ll tell ya all the answer.
In the meantime, i"d like to hear yours.......................................

Cross kick the ball again, and don't hit it with your head til it burst, it costs, wot!

Gosh, I feel like im playing Mad Gab


Cause kick a bowl again I wouldn't wait until it bust? If cause...what??

I don't think we have any weird dialects where I live. Maybe a few of the Native Americans still speak their mother tongue, but that's not really a dialect.

BUT, we here in the PNW of the USA DO have an accent. Most of us think we don't, but we most certainly do. We talk extremely fast, often we allow the last sylable to 'fall off' and we don't punctuate or pause. We talk in long fast run on sentences.

You can actually hear a pretty good example in the movie "Say Anything" with John Cusack. Apparently, Cameron Crow hired a linguist to come on set to teach all the actors to speak like "Northwesterners". It was the time I realized I DO have an accent. haha.

Cost kik a bow agen a wo n ed it wi ya ed till it bost ? If cost, wut ?"

caus think a bowgen and wont we tell the boss? if cost what?

just a guess

Goin off the track , there, mate.

Because kick a ball again I won't head it with you Ed, until it busts? If because what?

Sounds stupid my interpretation, but maybe he was answering a question from this Ed person

Well, any translation?

"Cost kik a bow agen a wo n ed it wi ya ed till it bost ? If cost, wut ?"




Okay let's see...

Cross kick a ball again now; why don't you head it with your head until it's best? If you cross, what?

Okay my brain is farting now. UGH, Jody

Can you kick a ball against a wall and hit it with your head 'til it bursts?

Looks to me like Black Country dialect, which I can speak. But it it still a bit confusing.

^It sort of makes sense if you try to put on the accent, just make sure you're alone in the room.

CONGRATULATIONS GO TO............................................................... RAPTOR X7 ! .........................PLEASE STAND UP & TAKE A BOW (THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE).

Well done ,Raptor.

The answer was,

"Can you kick a ball against a wall, & head it with your head until it bursts". The end bit ,"if cost wut", means, "if you could, would you".

Thanks to everyone who had a go.
Got to go now, my beers gettin warm & the wifes goin cold ! Thanks again. ***

Hey, nice one Raptor!

Rocket you got anymore? lol

Yeah , i"ve got loads, but i"d like to have a try at other peoples.

Where exactly are you from, Raptor?

Is the Black Country?

--Jaylemurph

I'm from London, but I do have a couple of friends from around there (Birmingham) so I'm kind of used to the accent.



Cheers! I think I deserved that, after getting weird looks from every one after trying to repeat it out loud a few times.

The Black Country and Birmingham are two very different places with subtle differences in the way we talk. Here's one for you all then...

"Put wood in hole, it stops the Bob Howlers cumin in"

Tash

"Cost kik a bow agen a wo n ed it wi ya ed till it bost ? If cost, wut ?"

I think it translates to " I like chicken"

Cheers for puttin a saying up

I reckon "Put wood in hole", means "close the door", but what are the Bob Howlers ? Draughts ?

"Cuz(slang for cousin), kick the ball again, and I'll hit it with your head till it burst. If cuz said what?"

The last part doesn't make much sense, in context compared with the other sentence, but I tried...........

can you decipher this?:

8)(2 0 11 11 4 3)(19 7 4)(15 8 25 25 4 17 8 0)(0 13 3)(19 7 4 24)(18 0 8 3)(19 7 0 7)(19 7 4 8 17)(13 4 22)(13 20 12 1 4 17)(22 8 11 11)(1 4)(#fff-hhh-ggg.

How to decipher: Each number represents a letter in the alphabet, you count how many letters the number assigns you to count, and after you finish, the letter after the letter that you finished at, is the letter the number is representing. Each ")(" represents a space and that the previous word is finished. The part of the sentence after the last space is a phone number. Each letter represents a number. Try to count until you get to that letter, whatever number you finished counting on to get to that letter is the number appropriate to be part of the phone number.

Whhoooo!
Sorry but i"m thick ! Thats difficult.
Is the answer 42 ?

"I called the pizzeria and they said their new number will be #666-888-777."
You made one mistake in the word that by using two 7's which spells thah

close the doorit stops the cats from coming in.

idunno

"Put wood in hole" does mean "close the door". Anyone got any more ideas for "Bob Howlers"? They're not cats!

x

Isn"t it draught then ?

Ah ah !
"Bob Howlers" = Prowlers.
Rhyming slang ?

yeah, i'm in america, that makes no sense to me. they only think i figured out was some weird code on the bottom of one of my books. took a whole day to figure out the signs and their correct alber. but i finally got it, and learned it, against my will. but it was fun....until i passed out ...

"... wo n ed it wi ya..." wouldn't have had it with you

(checking other posts for correct answer) "Cost" means could you? Wow, I would never have gotten that.

Nope, not rhyming slang. It is quite difficult.

Bob howlers
Wind?

"What woul'd be the cost of a bottle of gin, and if it kept you going until you bust ( or in otherwords dead and broke ) then how much woul'd it cost you?"

???

Wolverhampton, your almost a yam yam, are you a dingle?

It was a brummie that first bred your bullterriers.

Close the door, it stops the cold coming in?

Put wood in hole, it stops the Bob Howlers cumin in.

Close the door, or the moths will come in

You got it! Well done!

hetrodoxly - I'm almost a yam yam, but I'm certainly NOT a dingle! I may live in Wolverhampton but I'm actually a baggies fan!!!!! And yup, it was James Hinks of Birmingham who first bred the Bull Terrier as a gentleman's companion and better looking pit dog. Where are you from, you seem to have good Black Country knowledge?

because kicking a ball again wouldn't it with you'd until it burst? It caused what?

You wouldn't kick a ball until it burst would you? What would that cause?

I'm so lost, I have no idea, he is either talking about a ball or how much something cost, and I have no clue.