“Luca Brasi held a gun to his head, and my father assured him that either his brains or his signature would be on the contract.”
Here’s the amazing thing. As you can see in the above quote, the early modern english of Shakespeare is as clear in these modern times as it was in 1589.
Where I live, Highland Southern dialect is predominant.
It has bizarre similarities to Elizabethan English.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_English
Apparently Wiki has changed the original name to “Appalachian English.
Meh.
Same difference.