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| jintro Diglot Newbie Belgium Joined 5862 days ago 16 posts - 32 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: German, French | Message 9 of 10 21 December 2011 at 3:10pm | IP Logged |
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For books it doesn't happen in Dutch as the written standard is the same in Belgium and the Netherlands and readers are expected to know the more localized vocabulary, but it's common for animated movies (aimed at children) to have a Flemish-Dutch and Netherlands-Dutch soundtrack. I think a part of the reason is that it is possible to play with dialects (and their stereotypes) that would be difficult to understand on both sides of the Belgian-Dutch border. In some Disney movies the main character speaks a clean Dutch, while the more colorfull sidekicks would talk dialect-influenced Dutch. (If a remember correctly, in The Lion King Timon and Pumba spoke with an Antwerp accent.)
In the Flemish version of Chicken Run the loudmouth annoying characters spoke with an Antwerp accent, while the slow and stupid chicken spoke with a Limburgian accent. Edited by jintro on 21 December 2011 at 3:11pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6693 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes  Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 10 of 10 21 December 2011 at 3:56pm | IP Logged |
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It is also fairly common to see reprints of old books where the language has been modernized (fx Hans Christian Andersen in Danish ... and the Bible). But this is probably not what the OP hinted at.
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