Технік-радіольщик Мокроголовенко (hector_von_kyiv) wrote in linguaphiles,
Технік-радіольщик Мокроголовенко
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Hermes Conrad

Recently, one Ukrainian TV channel started showing Futurama (fully dubbed in Ukrainian language). Their dubbing is altogether great, but there's one character, whose speech makes me feel somewhat uncomfortable. It's Hermes. In Ukrainian version he has a funny speech defect (/l/ instead of /r/ and suchlike) and he also joins -a's at ends of words ending in consonants now and then. And sometimes his grammar is wrong.
Originally, Hermes's speech is supposed to be sorta Jamaican (since he is a Jamaican). Could you please explain what the peculiarities of Jamaican English are and whether the way our dubbers rendered them in Ukrainian is appropriate.
Thanks.
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