Llamas and Pirates - Message Board

With the advent smart phones that let you know who's on the other end, a lot elocution posturing has gone by the wayside. We have a wide variety of regional accents each with it's layers of social fruitcake but like you we still have those that want to be toff ;-)

Reply #3561. Mar 31 09, 2:35 PM

Jabberwok

My OH has only got one accent, pure Oxbridge. He can't help it, it's just how he speaks.
The level of anger and sheer unpleasantness that used to be aimed at him on a regular basis when we lived in Manchester was unbelievable. People used to accuse him of being arrogant, patronising and all that, when all he wanted was to buy a paper or ask about train times.
The Deputy head at my school hung up on him several times.
Insanity and prejudice still rule!

Reply #3562. Mar 31 09, 2:42 PM

We have a lot of regional dialects - I think the hardest one to understand, even for an English person, is the Geordie accent from the North-East. Personally - I don't have an accent at all, it's just everybody else that does - lol ;)

Reply #3563. Mar 31 09, 2:44 PM

Yeah, I hear that Jane!
I wish all y'all would learn to spreken ze English. Speaking of which, have you ever heard of received pronunciation (RP) its suppose to be shorthand for the standard English of bbc newsreaders.

Reply #3564. Mar 31 09, 3:12 PM

Where is the sam hill is baban. She must still be all tangled up in those scatterings. I hope she makes it out alive...LOL

Reply #3565. Mar 31 09, 3:14 PM

BBC news readers are starting to have regional accents now - even Geordie. I claim the Lancashire accent as being the 'Queen's English' - because the Queen is the Duke of Lancaster.

Reply #3566. Mar 31 09, 3:20 PM

I thought you were the Duck of Lancaster?

Reply #3567. Mar 31 09, 3:34 PM

No, I rule the territory across the river - I am the Duck of Morecambe.

Reply #3568. Mar 31 09, 3:41 PM

*waves feebly*
Here I am... doing my assignment, just about finished I think, just have my reference list to type out (groan)... I'm just worried about my length of answers, they're a bit short in places, but when it comes to science stuff I'm not verbose - short and to the point that's me. :) It's when they give you that dratted ... word count guidance... and you think, I'd better think of something else to say ;)

So, loving the conversation on accents :) Apparently I sounded a bit Welsh until recently, but I now seem to be reverting to Yorkshire (as I was brought up). I did have to temper my accent quite a bit as they thought I sounded funny when I went to Oxford (although some thought it was cool :) ).

My daughter speaks Welsh with a Harrogate accent :D

Reply #3569. Mar 31 09, 3:57 PM

Word count! Is this person a scientist or an English major? I'd fail miserably I'm afraid. Huh? (word count one)

Reply #3570. Mar 31 09, 4:01 PM

Who or what would be an example of Welsh with a Harrogate. I'm getting more bewildered by sentence ;-b

Reply #3571. Mar 31 09, 4:04 PM

Harrogate is a place in Yorkshire that is a bit more up-market ;) and they speak a little more like Queen's English.

My daughter went to nursery there as that was where I worked, and now we've moved to Wales and she speaks Welsh (the language) and sometimes you can hear the Harrogate accent come through. Her English certainly sounds posher than mine ;) pl-ar-ster as opposed to pl-a-ster :)

Reply #3572. Mar 31 09, 4:09 PM

Qmel	I live in the Midwestern United States, where we have noaccent when we speak. Reply #3573. Mar 31 09, 4:10 PM

You have an accent to us ;)

Reply #3574. Mar 31 09, 4:20 PM

Haha you crack me up Mel!
To hear you tell it, mid westerners poop doesn't smell ;-) I hope that isn't too much information ;-)

Reply #3575. Mar 31 09, 4:34 PM

Thanks baban, I was hoping this little discussion would make the language differences manageable. I don't know now and my head is starting to ache.
I think I'll get pl-ar-stered! Is that to pretentious? Oh well ;-)
Nos da
Hwyl

Reply #3576. Mar 31 09, 4:44 PM

Wow, RJ... I'm most impressed ;)

'Nos da' and
'Hwyl' !

I too must away to bed, my youngest has a morning at school tomorrow! He is so excited you would not believe!

Reply #3577. Mar 31 09, 5:00 PM

flopsymopsy

Received Pronunciation... that's me, RJ. Pure as the BBC World Service. :)

Reply #3578. Mar 31 09, 6:41 PM

It's like your typing Flopsy ;)

Reply #3579. Apr 01 09, 6:09 AM