I was having the old "bath/barth" debate with a friend from London recently. Ended up calling him a twart.
Reflects the long term decline of Great Britian
The beauty of Arlott, Jinner and Blowers vandalised with the dumbed down banter of bumble and tuffers
Adverbs replaced by adjectives as the style guide constant for sports commentary
And John Smith and I replaced by Me and John Smith
Sad and vulgar 😉
In South Africa you get people who speak English and people who speak English as if they were still in the colonies . . .
I subtitle TV programmes for a living and I would say posh people, truly posh people, are among the least intelligible and most problematic to transcribe accurately that I ever come across.
Ever watch Made In Chelsea? Probably not, cos you don't get paid to watch it, like I do.
They've obviously been schooled from birth never to open their mouths fully in case the silver spoon falls out of it.
I'm a huge fan of regional accents me.. 😉
For too long the whole of the UK has been morphing into a bland canvas of "middle engerland" like it's some sort of embarrassment of shame if you fail to clip the tone and internation of your county/regional accent.
There's a rich and diverse cultural beauty listening to regional colloquial dialogue, and you have to travel to listen to it. The sarf is now just a mellow mix of "a bit of lundun, a bit of bumpkin" and a lot of "yah". On occasion you hear a clip of rural in a pub in the hills, but few and far between.
Who do I blame for the blandness ? Probably the rise in kids going to uni, certainly the last 20 years or so where kids from all backgrounds have been able to gain places at top tier uni's... being disparate (cough) to fit in they've clipped and tone dumbed thier once regional pride, for the sake of fitting in Yah.
Is sad.
Go back not that many years and the majority of people rarely moved far from where they grew up so accents could develop and be sustained. As late as the 1980s I could tell which village in the South Lakes someone was from just by their accent.
Modifying your accent to fit in with others? Definitely - I speak completely differently now, mainly because the chances of anyone understanding much of my Cumbrian vernacular is close to zero: "side that scrow up!" as an example.
bikebouy - MemberWho do I blame for the blandness ? Probably the rise in kids going to uni, certainly the last 20 years or so where kids from all backgrounds have been able to gain places at top tier uni's... being disparate (cough) to fit in they've clipped and tone dumbed thier once regional pride, for the sake of fitting in Yah
Unless you're scottish, where the further you get from your local lidl, the more scottish you become
(but there's different posh for scottish too, I officially have a posh Embra accent so *s fae glasgow still reckon am posh when am callin them *s)
I went to uni with a girl who spoke in the plummiest accent imaginable. She also swore like a navvy which was entertaining and weirdly arousing.
(but there's different posh for scottish too, I officially have a posh Embra accent so *s fae glasgow still reckon am posh when am callin them *s)
Who are callin' a *, ya posh *?
For too long the whole of [s]the UK[/s]England has been morphing into a bland canvas of "middle engerland"
FTFY
Unless you're scottish
I officially have a posh Embra accent
To be fair you're not really scottish then 🙂
