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Can anyone understand Joseph's old Yorkshire dialect? Perhaps the book would have been better with him dictating the story to Lockwood?
Chrissy I tried but gave up trying, I wish that it had translations, surely they must have seen we couldn't understand it, some words were just 1 letter, or 2…moreI tried but gave up trying, I wish that it had translations, surely they must have seen we couldn't understand it, some words were just 1 letter, or 2 that had no vowels. He was an important character it would have been needed to understand what was going on, you couldn't tell if it was positive or negative.(less)
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Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
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