Will you ever lose your British accent?
#46
Re: Will you ever lose your British accent?
Had a bit of trouble with a collective noun for them...
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Re: Will you ever lose your British accent?
The only one that gets used is 'Rowter' - for the thing with the blinkenlights; whilst the thing that chews up wood is a 'Rooter'. Makes it clear which one you mean, so its sensible to do.
As I have said, the accent will probably stay but I'll just pick up Aussie phrases/words.
There is no point in hanging onto what you thought was 'right' when to the majority it is wrong and you have no intention of living anywhere else. To deliberately do otherwise is, to my mind, a bit Little Englander.
There is no point in hanging onto what you thought was 'right' when to the majority it is wrong and you have no intention of living anywhere else. To deliberately do otherwise is, to my mind, a bit Little Englander.
Hell, I still say "no problem" rather than "no worries"...
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Re: Will you ever lose your British accent?
I love how some people can "do" accents. My mum has a whole list of very accurate accents, she was born in Cornwall to parents that were from Solihull and then lived mostly in Hertfordshire so it's no wonder she can cotton on!
I can't "do" an impression for love nor money and yet I am often told I sound more Aussie than English. My work colleagues, who at this stage were all Australian, used to point out that as Aussie as I sounded I'd never lose my English sayings ie "to hoover" or their favourite "something's driving me potty" (usually my computer crashing from memory).
My husband sounds as English as ever and I suspect he always will.
I find it easier to refer to some things in the Australian, to prevent confusion. This seems to be mostly lollies for the children or jubilee clips, sorry hose clamps and paddocks instead of fields at work now!
I can't "do" an impression for love nor money and yet I am often told I sound more Aussie than English. My work colleagues, who at this stage were all Australian, used to point out that as Aussie as I sounded I'd never lose my English sayings ie "to hoover" or their favourite "something's driving me potty" (usually my computer crashing from memory).
My husband sounds as English as ever and I suspect he always will.
I find it easier to refer to some things in the Australian, to prevent confusion. This seems to be mostly lollies for the children or jubilee clips, sorry hose clamps and paddocks instead of fields at work now!
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Having found numerous errors in school publications I have now volunteered to be a proof reader for their magazine!
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Re: Will you ever lose your British accent?
The English language isn't set in stone and the fact that it takes in words and sayings, from other languages, so easily, is one of the prime reasons it flourished.
The English can't bastardize their language.. only change it. It is their ****** language after all.
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I have actually done that- surreptitiously rubbing out the apostrophe (found so often on simple plurals) from greengrocers' blackboards. I have also complained to management about printed brochures that have bad spelling or rogue apostrophes.
Having found numerous errors in school publications I have now volunteered to be a proof reader for their magazine!
Having found numerous errors in school publications I have now volunteered to be a proof reader for their magazine!
Last edited by Turban Explorer; Jan 19th 2012 at 4:19 am.
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And there's the answers to one of the main points of this thread
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Re: Will you ever lose your British accent?
I have actually done that- surreptitiously rubbing out the apostrophe (found so often on simple plurals) from greengrocers' blackboards. I have also complained to management about printed brochures that have bad spelling or rogue apostrophes.
Having found numerous errors in school publications I have now volunteered to be a proof reader for their magazine!
Having found numerous errors in school publications I have now volunteered to be a proof reader for their magazine!
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Presumably you mean 'the meeting what I had' is correct and 'the meeting that I had' is affected British flimflammery ?
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Re: Will you ever lose your British accent?
For me your accent is part of your identity and i could never imagine changing it to fit in. It has never been an issue for me and no Australian has ever commented that they cannot understand me.
I also feel a bit suspicious of any Brit i hear speaking English with a foreign accent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZnoP4sUV90
I also feel a bit suspicious of any Brit i hear speaking English with a foreign accent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZnoP4sUV90
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I have actually done that- surreptitiously rubbing out the apostrophe (found so often on simple plurals) from greengrocers' blackboards. I have also complained to management about printed brochures that have bad spelling or rogue apostrophes.
Having found numerous errors in school publications I have now volunteered to be a proof reader for their magazine!
Having found numerous errors in school publications I have now volunteered to be a proof reader for their magazine!
Last edited by itigo; Jan 19th 2012 at 5:45 am. Reason: correcting my grammar guv