getting frustrated by the influx of posts and comments in this forum about not understanding joseph, and how his dialogue is 'gibberish' and how you can just skip all his dialogue because it's not 'relevant'. firstly, you're not reading it properly if you're skipping great chunks of dialogue. secondly, he's not from the moon, he's from yorkshire; this whole book is set in yorkshire. I know it's hard to read, especially if english isn't your first language or you're unfamiliar with the yorkshire accent, but I wish people would at least try, rather than trying to skip his bits or laughing at them. one google gives you a webpage that 'translates' every bit of joseph's dialogue, it's very easy to find. (https://wuthering-heights.co.uk/josephs-speech). and at least try and think a bit about why bronte might have chosen to put down his dialogue (and ONLY his dialogue, by and large) this way.

wuthering heights is a narrative which is about class and privilege to a huge degree. accent and dialect is a massive class indicator in the UK and making fun of someone's accent or dialect (especially / largely the northern or rural accents, or irish/scottish/welsh accents) is a very common classist sentiment to this day. I know people don't mean badly but it rubs me the wrong way to see people laughing and acting as if it's totally unintelligible. lots of people still use those words and those pronunciations; the yorkshire dialect has modernised and become less common but it does still exist! yorkshire people still exist! please google some context when you're reading classics and try to engage thoughtfully. it's fun to have a laugh while reading and make little jokes but just think about what the jokes are based on maybe?

"It's delicious to see you. We've missed you so fucking bad. We've wept and torn our hair out in your absence. We've drank. We've begun writing poetry and dancing naked dirges but it's not enough to sate us in your absence. In our grief and boredom we've started to beat each other up. We're killing each other. I murdered two of the hall boys. I beat them to death with a crowbar. You look so sexy and distinguished."

This got a genuine laugh out loud from me 😭

Ah here comes Clarke's classics degree lmao... I knew the Bellonans were classical leaning when they mentioned the friezes a while ago 😭

Ah hell why has the editor let there be a big block of describing people, a pause, and THEN a big block of all of their names. I'm gonna have to flip back and forth for a minute to get my bearings