What did I thunk?

>>24514472 (OP)
>mfw that phonetic writing in the entire novel
It's also somehow even WORSE when they "read" a document from the olden days.

>>24514472 (OP)
Is this about Punch and Judy? Because I'm interested in anything to do with Punch and Judy.

>>24514476
now I see

>Belnot Phist wer stopping on at Widders Dump. That same day he put a crew to cutting timber for a new projeck of his. It wer going to be some kynd of a working. Where they gone for the timber it ben a special place of myn. Where the old track sydls the hy groun sholder. It wer woodit with oak there. Hy groun on 1 side of the track and on the other it sloaps off sharp tords Widders Dump. The track runs pas that holler they call Mr Clevvers Roaling Place it wer the track we all ways took going to and from the form. It wer the shape of the groun I liket and the feal of it. That fealing you get on hy groun over looking the low. Some times sydling that sholder youwd see crows be low you cruising. Looking down from there at Widders Dump it seamt so low and littl it lookit easy ternt a way from. Back then I never Ice ben on that hy groun sholder oansome. Never ben any where at all oansome. Never in my woal life put foot outside a fents without at leas 5 mor for dog safe. I ben saving up that hy groun in my mynd tho. Thinking may be some time there myt come a time Iwd chance it oansome. I dint want no woodlings cleart there I jus wantit that place lef the way it ben. I tol my self never mynd but I myndit.

>>24514472 (OP)
You think you were filtered but not too much so that a reread won't clarify everything?
>>24514476
You get used to it.
>>24514489
Kinda. Punch plays a big part. It's about how ideas, words and culture break down and get new meanings attached to them. It's set 2000 years after nuclear devestation and is set in Kent.

A huge redpill is this book isn't even anywhere near as dystopian as modern day England. Riddley's speak is more literate than YooKayspeak.

>>24514472 (OP)
this is one of the best novels I've ever read but it filters extremely hard. the phonetic spelling and future-speak is a key part of how the book merges and conflates concepts to create meaning.

>>24514499
>You think you were filtered but not too much so that a reread won't clarify everything?
Pretty much. Around the halfway point the writing came naturally to me but the action of the story began to confuse and lose me. A reread in the future is a certainity.

>>24514476
>>24514496
Is this the one instance where being ESL actually helps?

>>24514476
>mfw im from norfolk so it read (aloud) normally to me

>>24514499
>thought the novel was set a few hundred years after the bombs
>the macguffin gets revealed
>it's actually set 2000 years into the future
>humanity has progressed that little

>>24514891
may god have mercy on your soul, anon.

>>24514894
humanity got knocked back to pre-industrial age. hell, there's even a remark how whatever government exists favors farmers over hunter gatherers.

>>24514937
trubba not, boy

>>24514939
>they spent the entire novel fighting and killing one another over a better means to kill one another
I thought it was some form of uranium that suggested they could maybe harness into electricity until the reveal

>>24514939
To be more accurate it's the second Iron Age, but they're not mining it so much as scavenging the leftovers.

>>24514552
How? This looks like Icelandic to me. The words aren't what I expect them to be, takes more time to decipher this gibberish, and it's annoying.
I praise gods I was taught phonetic transcriptions in school. Younger students were learning literal nigerian which they would phonetically write down with Cyrillic letters.

this sentence made me laugh because it sounds like such gibberish on its own. and it's not even using eye dialect.

>>24514472 (OP)
it does a good job of making the primitive alien and not just less sophisticated. like the cultural logic at play is truly different. narrator has a schizophrenic, pre-modern approach to life where his loyalties and agenda shift in the breeze.

the ending is disappointing, resolving in a trite "only winning move is not to play" episode. i dont know where it should have gone but it feels like a betrayal of the rediscovery of punch's wild anarchy.

>>24514489
it's an important plot element.
more than anything else i see the whole book as an american anglophile's love letter to england. very worth reading, there's really nothing quite like it.