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Do YOU like writing tgaa fics, but find yourself struggling to understand the speech habits of Gina Lestrade? Well, fortunately for you, I love linguistics and accents almost as much as I love Gina - so I've compiled a breakdown of every quirk in her speech!
(Full analysis under the break!)
Most of Gina's speech patterns can be broken down by three fundamental facts:
She speaks with a thick Cockney accent
She's uneducated, which leads to various grammar troubles
She uses a lot of informal cockney terms/slang
Let's get into it section-by-section!
(Note: Formatting looks a lot better on mobile!)
Section 1: Cockney Accent
So I’m an theater kid, and I've done dialect training for Cockney accents before - it's one of my best ones imo - so that certainly helped me write this section! Even without that, though, it's pretty easy to identify how her accent appears in her speech. Let's break it down!
Drop h's
Example: Here becomes 'ere
Drop g’s at the end of words
Example: Going becomes goin'
A few other word ends that get dropped:
Of becomes o'
And becomes an'
Th changes depending on the word - Thank you to annoyingloudmicrowavecultist for properly explaining how this works in the tags!
Voiced th becomes v
Example: With becomes wiv
Unvoiced th becomes f
Example: Nothing becomes nuffin'
For writing purposes, if a word would become unrecognizable with this change, it's left the same (but in actual speech, it would be pronounced differently)
Example: Father remains as father (but would be pronounced like fovva)
Th always remains intact at the start of words
Example: Thing remains as thing (but would be pronounced like fing)
Miscellaneous word changes
Something becomes summat (but other times is just somefin' - she's not consistent with either)
What becomes wot, whatever becomes wotever
Tomorrow becomes tomorra
Because is often shortened to 'cause, which becomes cos
Isn't almost always becomes ain't
Thank you / no thank you becomes ta / no ta
Some words spill together or are slurred
With that becomes wivvat, with it becomes wivvit (This one isn't actually used in-game, so you don't have to use it either, but it reflects how she'd actually be pronouncing it)
Isn't it becomes innit
Doesn't it becomes dunnit
Suppose becomes s'pose
Don't know becomes dunno
Probably becomes prob'ly
You might change - Another loose/inconsistent rule. Can depend on how the sentence would be pronounced out loud, but mostly is just a vibe
You becomes ya
Your/you're becomes yer
Yourself becomes yerself
Section 2: Grammatical Errors
Gina is an uneducated East End orphan, so it should come as no surprise that she makes mistakes here and there. Here are her consistent ones! Some of these are confusing/hard to explain, so I included specific examples.
Will say me instead of my, and meself instead of myself
Example: "I dunno much about guns meself."
Incorrect tense usage of was/were in negatives - Instead of I/it wasn’t, she’ll say I/it weren’t
Example: "I was up in a balloon, weren't I?"
Incorrect tense usage of does/do in negatives - Instead of he doesn’t, she’ll say he don’t
Example: "Somefin' wot 'e don't want people readin'."
Double negatives
Ever becomes never in negative statements
Example: "I swear on my life, I ain't never laid eyes on that dandy before."
Never + anything becomes never + nothing
Example: "I never done nuffin' o' the sort!"
Never + anyone becomes never + no one
Example: "All me life, growin' up in the slums, I've never trusted no one."
Haven't you ever becomes ain't you never
Example: "Ain't you lot never gone over an 'ouse lookin' for dough when the owners are out o' town?"
The word that or who in the context of ascribing a feature to a subject is replaced by the word what
Example: "She's always goin' on about all them cases wot Sholmes is lookin' into."
Other example: "I think I wouldn't fancy me chances wiv a lawyer wot lives in a place like this."
Will say them instead of those
"All them skylights open, dead easy."
Will say no more instead of anymore
"Ya dropped it, so it ain't yours no more."
She’ll sometimes mess up bigger, unfamiliar words. This one's entirely in your discretion what words she might mess up. Some canon examples:
“Supperment” instead of supplement
“Mantlescript” instead of manuscript
On a similar note, she'll sometimes confidently get sayings wrong and think she sounds smart
“Toby's...'ow did they put it...? ...Oh, yeah! A 'bone-fide' detective!”
Section 3: Cockney Terms/Slang
In addition to her thick dialect, growing up in the East End means Gina has also adopted a plethora of unique words and phrases. This'll be more like a vocab section!
Cockney rhyming slang - Some words are replaced with phrases that rhyme with them. She uses a few in canon:
Instead of believe, she’ll say Adam an’ Eve
“Would you Adam an' Eve it, eh?! Wot a mug!”
Instead of face, she’ll say chevy chase
“Yeah, I can see it written all over yer chevy chase!”
Interjections/Exclamations
Blimey - Express surprise or shock
"Blimey, yer right! That streak o' light in the photo looks just like an arrow, dunnit?"
Cor - A general interjection, kind of a euphemism for god
"Cor, listen to you! Ya stumble across a bit o' balloon an' suddenly yer the best investigator in the world!"
Oi - I doubt I need to define this one, but it's basically the equivalent of "hey"
"Oi! That's off limits up there!"
Words for people
Cove, bloke - A boy or man. Gina tends to use cove more often than bloke.
"That's where the cove ended up after 'is 'instant kinesis' or wotever they call it."
"When I lifted the last bloke's purse, 'e got wise to me."
Dandy - A conceited, fashionable upperclass man. Can be used as a noun or adjective.
In reference to Ashley Graydon: "I swear on my life, I ain't never laid eyes on that dandy before."
Dee - Thank you to uzukirie for figuring this out in the replies of this post - dee is short for detective!
To Sholmes: "I don't need no 'elp from some stuck-up dee!"
About Gregson: "Yeah, the dee let me keep it. After I looked daggers at 'im for long enough."
Swell - A wealthy or elegant person. In canon, Gina uses this exclusively in reference to McGilded.
"It's because o' that, this swell found me. …'E did 'elp me get away, mind."
Miscellaneous vocab
Dodgy - Suspicious
"It was amazin' when you showed that dodgy professor's dodgy experiment was a total fix!"
Rum - Odd or strange
"I mean, wot's the point of spendin' a joey to make a few bob, eh? That's a rum idea, innit?"
Coppers - Cops
"If you do wot the grown-ups tell ya, it'll get yer mates dragged off by the coppers. Or worse."
Scarper - Flee/run away/leave in a hurry. Also comes from rhyming slang - Scarper = Scapa Flow = Go
"If I did that, 'e said 'e'd let me scarper before the coppers showed up."
Have a butcher's - Take a look. Also comes from rhyming slang - "butcher's hook" = look
"Most days I push the cushion up wiv me 'ead an' look out the crack. Then I can 'ave a butcher's at who I'm gonna fiddle."
Rude words/phrases :)
Gordon Bennett - Expresses surprise or contempt - kind of a euphemism for goddammit.
"Gordon Bennett! You lot!"
Flamin', bleedin', - General emphasis. Pretty much just gentler ways of saying fucking.
Note!! You might be tempted to make Gina say "bloody", since that's well-known British slang, but she never says that. She says bleedin' in its place.
"Don't be so flamin' rude, 'Oddo!"
"It's lies every bleedin' place ya look in this world, innit?"
Bleedin’ Nora - A variation of "Bloody Norah", a surprised/irritated interjection.
"Wot the bleedin' Nora, 'Oddo?! Wot 'ave you gone an' done?!"
Bogtrotter - A derogatory term for an Irish person. She uses this to refer to McGilded.
"Look at the mess it's got you into, believin' in that bogtrotter!"
Mug - An idiot.
"You can't do it from inside, you mug."
Blue blazes - An alliterative exaggeration of "blazes". A euphemism for hell.
"Where the blue blazes 'ave you been, eh?"
Cobblers - Rubbish/nonsense. Literally, it means testicles - derived from Cockney rhyming slang, where "cobbler's awls" = balls.
"All this nonsense about the boss plannin' to kill people… It's cobblers!"
And 1.2k words later, that's pretty much it! Now you can write Gina dialogue spot on <3
Feel free to suggest anything I'm missing/got wrong - I come back and edit this for accuracy's sake every time I notice something I left out, or when people in the replies/tags point things out!
signalis critiques the way fascism disguises itself as communism by being a critique of fascism that disguises itself as a critique of communism (2828383 citations)
idk if i can find the right way to convey this but the core of signalis to me is the interconnectedness of all people, for all of reality really, and how this differs from the forceful assimilation of imperial forces. there's obviously a correlation between the nation's structure of stripping people of individuality to serve the whole (literally called gestalts) and how ariane's sickness is taking over reality itself and warping things into versions of herself, but in ariane's case it feels to me like a depiction of empathy rather than the violence of imperialism, or maybe the effects of imperialism on individuals. like, in terms of the game, reality as the player sees it is controlled fully by the nation, and this reality falling apart is caused by the suffering of one girl who they threw away, because the enormity of her suffering is felt by everyone. her pain is everyone's pain, that's why humanity is so special, and why fascist empires are destined to fail. humanity exists as a collective of people seeing themselves in each other, rather than each person being a cog in a greater machine. everything about patterns repeating, signals affecting us, persona degradation, it feels like how we are all different and that's what makes us all alike
replikas are programmed from other people, the kolibri have a hive mind, isa disappears when she fails to find her twin--her other half, alina slowly turns into the girl who imagined what her life was like, so much of it is about identifying one's self from the other, how we can only be an individual when there are others like us
and ariane acts almost like a personification of trauma on an entire people, trauma that comes from fascism and imperialism. everyone suddenly realized they are all suffering in the same way, realized the horror of the situation they're in, a disease spreading. it's something about the terror of how interconnected we all are, but it's also beautiful. it's so difficult to describe
i do understand some of the criticism of signalis being anti-communist (though I think the game is much more interested in the totalitarianism of fascism/imperialism) but trying to read critiques of this and then seeing that the op is violently pro-russia makes it hard to take them seriously 😭
personally I feel like a more honest reading of the text of signalis is how communist + socialist ideals are appropriated by fascist regimes to proliferate empires
遥か遠い未来で宇宙探査機たちが少し特殊なアメリカンフットボールの試合を実況するSF作品 17776: What Football Will Look Like in the Future の和訳プロジェクトを始動しました。Discordサーバーを作りましたので、17776にちょっとでも興味のある方、既にファンの方、翻訳でなくとも技術面でご協力いただける方など気軽にご参加ください。現在は作品内にも出てくる2026年4月7日に第一章をネット公開することを目標としています。
Since everyone is going to stop dying next year, I thought this would be a good opportunity to start working on a Japanese translation of 17776. I've yet to find any Japanese fanbase, much less an existing translation, so any and all help is appreciated (including technical aspects). The first goal is to get the first chapter online on April 7th, 2026.
I've made a Discord for project management, so if you're interested in any way, even if you're a Japanese beginner, don't know the language but can provide technical assistance, or just want to have a look and chat with other 17776 fans, feel free to join!
i have. So Many thoughts on citizen sleeper 2, it's perspective on bodily autonomy and dehumanisation, of the conversation of flesh and machine, the slow (and oft, rapid) decay of both, of mirroring and understanding that flint and 2leeper share that's so layered in this shared experience and loss and... recognition through the other, and sometimes, the lack thereof. the entire conversation with flint in olivera after rescuing him and karman, everytime 2leeper reflected on what they think of flint, when they interacted with flint.. anybody who is close to you will be hurt because of you, we are a ticking time bomb. remember that. and how flint unnerved them, the shared pain of this sub-human designation frustration with your own body, of being dependent on the substance, the knowledge of their planned obsolescence built as a scale model for control, the fear of being hunted and talking about that shared struggle, someday in some faraway cycle this could be a friend. it isn't that cycle yet but the thought of it in some distant future is warm and reassuring.. 2leeper's relationship with serafin and just the ache of loving someone deeply but not being able to recognise them or being able to remember how important they might've once been to you, and them not knowing who you are anymore either, but building something new on the remains of what once was... the fact that 2leeper became someone different because the reboot was interrupted. because a massive chunk of their memory didn't exist and memory shapes experiences... of the memories of the cat the human they were emulated from had pet long ago which has seeped through to still and reached out through time, creating that double exposure of love and adoration, timelessness. how 2leeper, dying and decaying rapidly made their leap into the frightful unknown of the reboot holding flint's hand. all at once, something ends and something new begins.... i have so many thoughts but I am. so so sleepy. i will perhaps make a proper post later but everything abt this game... christ. tore my heart out and had me weeping on several occasions and I wouldn't have it any different way
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