Illinois Ten - Transcription
[throughout speaker imitates various dialects] Again, you got-- you got the far south side accent, which is -- which's like Dennis Franz. But they'll talk like this a little bit more. It's almost like the (uh) -- on the Saturday Night Live when they would do “Da Bears.” It's a lot of talkin' like that. You know, it's a lot of Bohemians, an’ bohunks, and old Polacks and stuff like that. They live on the Bridgeport side of town, you know. They talk like that a little bit. And the neighborhood I grew up in, which is -- you know, their west side, you got that whole Italian thing goin' on. So. you know, if I was readin' this story like guys in my neighborhood. Without exagerratin' (reads in dialect, rapidly): So, here's a story for you: Sarah Perry was a veterinary nurse who had been working daily at an old zoo in a deserted district of the territory, so she was very happy to start a new job at a superb private practice in North Square near the Duke Street Tower. That area was much nearer for her and more to her liking. Like that. Guys that still live in my neighborhood, you know, like my friend Jimmy. He'll talk like (speaks in dialect): Hi, Jerry, what the fu-- how you doin'? You know, this is a-- a brilliant lawyer, an attorney. And like (dialect again): Hey! I think I'm going to go over to these, yeah a little-- We'll go out a little bit, have a little somethin' to eat. Ba-da-bing, ba-da-boop. I go home. That's about it, that's all. They -- they do -- they still talk like that. I'll occasionally run into somebody, and it won't take me but two minutes, talking to them. (Dialect again) Hey, Jerry, how you doin'? Angelo, how are you? (dialect) So what are you doin'? Where you livin' right now? It'll be like two minutes worth. (dialect) Ah, fuck. I'm over there livin' in Minnesota. Eh, fuck, it's so fuckin' cold I can't believe it. Do you belie-- ? Minnesota! What the fuck you doin' over there? Minnesota? I fall into it like that. (sound of snapping) (Uh) You look-- Characters, you know: DeNiro in a Scorsese movie, or Joe Mantegna doin' the same character, you're not going to see much of a difference in the way they're talkin'. They've got that whole (uh) you know: (dialect) . Fuck you doin', guys? Which is literally how a lot of my friends still talk. (dialect) So, what the fuck you doin' up there? What are you, nuts? You gotta freeze your fuckin' nuts off up there.
Transcribed by Jacqueline Baker, Associate Editor for Transcriptions, August 30, 2007. Emendations offered by Ben Wood, March 19, 2009.