accents

[Planet Dave]

Who's Flick on here?

Good question.

@ Jess...

[Big Si]

[Izzy HaveMercy]

Caricatures, attempts? What on earth did I miss?

The 'sh'-sounds were Deb's and Jos' fault, I usually don't do those but as I was switching between Northern Dutch and English

Actually the attempts at Scottish might be due to the fact that I've got a habit of picking up all sorts of accents, I don't even know what is my own native accent in my mother tongue anymore

It's a Belgian thing, really We adapt to any language and accent that is spoken around us. When a Neandertha...erm... NETHERLANDER talks to me, I even adapt the Holland accent (with the 'sh' sounds like you say).

Two sentences in Scottish on this board ruined my pristine written English fer guid!

You all wonder why I don't come over to the England HL do a second time. I met Big Si and Paddy back then. Since then I'm afraid....

IZ.

[Big Si]

Two sentences in Scottish on this board ruined my pristine written English fer guid!

You all wonder why I don't come over to the England HL do a second time. I met Big Si and Paddy back then. Since then I'm afraid....

IZ.

With good reason

[Silver_Owl]

Nearly as frightning as Si.......


Good moening - I was just pissing by...... Oh the hilarity.

[eotunun]

let him hear my guttural laughter, sounding like a Panzer Division and he'd run for a mile.

That´s a solid base for a relationship. He gives you joy and you keep him fit.
A fair deal, I think..
sorry, had to..

[pikkrong]

he probably still thinks I sing in that goddamn video. Hahahahaha.

Saw this video last night again. I had forgotten that I had seen it before.
At least now I can be proud that I have used the same driver (and I'm still alive ).

PS My post (whatever I say) in 'accents' thread is one of the best jokes, isn't it?

[Andy Christ 666]

I've been told on a few occasions that my voice is uncannily similar to Ozzy Osbournes.

'But oi curnt see it meself loike.'

[DeWinter]

I have a middle-class Surrey drawl. The word "ghastly" can only be said by us, with the correct languor and emphasis, ie. "Must have been ghastly for you , darling.."
Accents I like from the English speaking world include New Zealander, Georgia, and the Scottish Highlands. Accents that should render the speaker subject to compulsory elocution lessons include Geordie, Cockney, and Glaswegian.
Last one reminded me of a time when a work collegue had to phone another department in Scotland, based in Sauchiehall Street, and was told by the indignant lady on the other end of the phone after he mangled it's pronounciation "How can you not know how to pronounce it? It's as famous as your Oxford Street!". Methinks not, dear..

[weebleswobble]

Accents that should render the speaker subject to compulsory elocution lessons include Geordie, Cockney, and Glaswegian.

Just f**king try it fannybaws

[smiscandlon]

My brother recently met Richard Gibson (Herr Flick) at a memorabilia / cult TV event. He did the whole thing in costume, and in character...

Fan: "Are you having a good time?"

Herr Flick: "I vill ask ze qvestions, peasant!"

[markfiend]

I don't have an accent, it's everyone else that does...

*ahem*

I can do a good version of Andy Kershaw (having been to the same school as him) but my vowel sounds naturally aren't as exaggeratedely "Lancishoor" as his.

My mum thinks my accent has changed under the influence of mrs fiend, but she's posh Liverpool as opposed to Jennifer Ellison's shriek.

IIRC most British accents are converging towards "BBC English" but Liverpool (and a couple of others) are actually diverging.

[aims]

No! Liverpool should be converging and the others should be let live!

[elamanamou]

A question for the school teachers on HL.

Do think it should be made compulsary that kids should have elocution lessons at a very young age?

[aims]

Hmmm. Not a teacher, but meh. If the purpose is to make them easier to understand, then yes, it's just as important as learning good handwriting. However, if it's for some elitist BBC English ideal, then no.

[boudicca]

A question for the school teachers on HL.

Do think it should be made compulsary that kids should have elocution lessons at a very young age?

Two questions for you...

Do you?

And did you?

[Obviousman]

IIRC most British accents are converging towards "BBC English" but Liverpool (and a couple of others) are actually diverging.

Bit of an international trend that (though in different languages obviously), Dutch is being flooded by so called regiolects or 'In between'-language (tussentaal we call it) which is a bit of a mixture between good standard Dutch and proper dialects. Problem is, due to that people fail to see the fact they're still not speaking their language properly and the entire language gets f**ked up

Good thing is Antwerp dialect is the standard for Flanders, as it's the most commonly used one on tv

[mh]

A question for the school teachers on HL.

Do think it should be made compulsary that kids should have elocution lessons at a very young age?

Not a school teacher, but I work in the education sector, so I spose I'm kinda eligible to respond.

Nope.

Everybody I know who took them ended up a ghastly prima donna.

Let your accent shine forth - it's a part of who you are!

[Brideoffrankenstein]

The Norfolk accent is something else.They make up there own words!

Yoo bee quiyte roight moi boooootieeeeeeee

I do not speak like that however

[canon docre]

he probably still thinks I sing in that goddamn video. Hahahahaha.

Saw this video last night again. I had forgotten that I had seen it before.
At least now I can be proud that I have used the same driver (and I'm still alive ).

Well, as long as there isn't any silly torrero unrulily gesticulating in front of me I'm quite a steady drive.

[DGP00666]

What about the typical accent of a Spaniard living in the USA tryin' to speak English? Oh, Lord

[DeWinter]

Accents that should render the speaker subject to compulsory elocution lessons include Geordie, Cockney, and Glaswegian.

Just f**king try it fannybaws

Fannybaws?
Don't get me wrong, I've no problem with accents, as long as they are understandable! Glaswegians and Geordie's are from the same small damp island as myself, surely I shouldn't have more trouble understanding them than I do my Estonian born, Finnish raised girlfriend? As for Cockney..it's understandable but sounds so whiny and sing-song, it's just plain irritating..

[boudicca]

Don't get me wrong, I've no problem with accents, as long as they are understandable! Glaswegians and Geordie's are from the same small damp island as myself, surely I shouldn't have more trouble understanding them than I do my Estonian born, Finnish raised girlfriend? As for Cockney..it's understandable but sounds so whiny and sing-song, it's just plain irritating..

Well I can give you Glasgow-Lite... the acceptable face of Scottish speech

[weebleswobble]

Don't get me wrong, I've no problem with accents, as long as they are understandable! Glaswegians and Geordie's are from the same small damp island as myself, surely I shouldn't have more trouble understanding them than I do my Estonian born, Finnish raised girlfriend? As for Cockney..it's understandable but sounds so whiny and sing-song, it's just plain irritating..

Well I can give you Glasgow-Lite... the acceptable face of Scottish speech

Very true Claire-Bearsden and all that........

DeWinter sorry you have so much trouble, we do try and talk slowly for all the others. But less on the elocution and more on the listening might go down well. Naebotheran'awethatpuremessin'wi'yurheed....

[boudicca]

Whit man? That wiz pure sh!te therr!