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Re: Accents
I like the Welsh accent - Torchwood & Gavin m Stacey always cheer me up :)
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lol yup with a surname like Jenkins it kinda runs in the family :) Dad hailed from Pontypridd ;)
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Re: Accents
Originally Posted by The4BellsLondon
(Post 8300015)
I like the Welsh accent - Torchwood & Gavin m Stacey always cheer me up :)
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Re: Accents
Originally Posted by mandymoochops
(Post 8300017)
lol yup with a surname like Jenkins it kinda runs in the family :) Dad hailed from Pontypridd ;)
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Re: Accents
Originally Posted by Oink
(Post 8299038)
As accents go, I realize the southern British one is the nicest and most correct, people over here comment on it all the time. But what do you think is the worst? To me, the Canadian accent sounds a lot like the American one, but a bit more simple. Personally I think the Australian accent is the worst. It's sort of like the accent equivalent of having bad breath. No matter what they say you just want to get away from them. But accents are curious things. Do think yours has changed since emigrating? Do your family and friends back home now take the piss when you speak to them?
My accent when I speak French has probably changed a bit. I'm told that I speak French with a European accent but I'm aware that sometimes I let some Quebec slip in. My vocabulary in both languages has changed. |
Re: Accents
Originally Posted by Souvy
(Post 8300844)
I'm told that I speak French with a European accent but I'm aware that sometimes I let some Quebec slip in.
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Re: Accents
Originally Posted by Souvy
(Post 8300844)
My vocabulary in both languages has changed.
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I don't actively dislike any accent, but would agree about having a distain for lazy speech in any accent, and particularly estuarial english. Although having lived and worked in Essex for sometime I got pretty immune to that.
Although my perfectly articulated RP serves me well, I do find myself adapting and adopting to the circumstances that I'm in. So, when in Essex, one get's a bit Essex dar'nt one etc etc. This is a sub-concious reaction from me and I generally don't realise I'm doing it. Trouble is, that people can think you're taking the piss! "Yis, 'bys, I talks some different when I'm in Newfoundland." |
Re: Accents
Originally Posted by Atlantic Xpat
(Post 8300898)
"Yis, 'bys, I talks some different when I'm in Newfoundland."
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Re: Accents
Originally Posted by Atlantic Xpat
(Post 8300898)
I don't actively dislike any accent, but would agree about having a distain for lazy speech in any accent, and particularly estuarial english. Although having lived and worked in Essex for sometime I got pretty immune to that.
Although my perfectly articulated RP serves me well, I do find myself adapting and adopting to the circumstances that I'm in. So, when in Essex, one get's a bit Essex dar'nt one etc etc. This is a sub-concious reaction from me and I generally don't realise I'm doing it. Trouble is, that people can think you're taking the piss! "Yis, 'bys, I talks some different when I'm in Newfoundland." |
Re: Accents
Originally Posted by Atlantic Xpat
(Post 8300898)
I don't actively dislike any accent, but would agree about having a distain for lazy speech in any accent, and particularly estuarial english. Although having lived and worked in Essex for sometime I got pretty immune to that.
Although my perfectly articulated RP serves me well, I do find myself adapting and adopting to the circumstances that I'm in. So, when in Essex, one get's a bit Essex dar'nt one etc etc. This is a sub-concious reaction from me and I generally don't realise I'm doing it. Trouble is, that people can think you're taking the piss! "Yis, 'bys, I talks some different when I'm in Newfoundland." Actually, as the possessor of what a lot of people would think of as an insufferable pulbic-schoolboy-RP accent, I do find myself adapting accent and speech patterns to my surroundings. When I worked in a computer showroom in Walthamstow I ended up with a sort of bastardised Essex-estuarial sound which my mother couldn't bear but which my customers seemed to find easier when parting with their cash than listening to a mouth full of plums. Now that I work for an Indian company in Canada, my English is pulled about all over the place - both written and spoken. In emails to colleagues I find I slip into a sort of pseudo-Hinglish construction, with lots of quirkily formal archaisms ("note my email of Weds last; would appreciate a reply to the same at your convenience" is one I received this morning). My family back in the UK have remarked not so much that my accent has changed, but my vocabulary certainly has. Things like gassing up the car before going to see the movie at the theatre, or keeping to the sidewalk while walking to the store with the kids for some candy. To the original question: I don't think I have a least favourite British accent. I find Doric - or even English from a thickly-accented Aberdonian - really hard to understand for the first few days of hearing it, but I actually quite like the accent. I prefer that to a heavy Glaswegian accent. I'm not too keen on West Midlands accents, but I find the East Midlands quite endearing (signs of an ill-spent couple of years in an around Loughborough/Nottingham/Leicester?). I have too many Scouse friends to dare to say I don't like the noise they make when they speak... |
Re: Accents
Originally Posted by Oakvillian
(Post 8301146)
I concur. One finds oneself endeavouring to blend in with one's interlocutors through adoption of their phraseology, if not their pronunciation. :)
Actually, as the possessor of what a lot of people would think of as an insufferable pulbic-schoolboy-RP accent, I do find myself adapting accent and speech patterns to my surroundings. When I worked in a computer showroom in Walthamstow I ended up with a sort of bastardised Essex-estuarial sound which my mother couldn't bear but which my customers seemed to find easier when parting with their cash than listening to a mouth full of plums. Now that I work for an Indian company in Canada, my English is pulled about all over the place - both written and spoken. In emails to colleagues I find I slip into a sort of pseudo-Hinglish construction, with lots of quirkily formal archaisms ("note my email of Weds last; would appreciate a reply to the same at your convenience" is one I received this morning). My family back in the UK have remarked not so much that my accent has changed, but my vocabulary certainly has. Things like gassing up the car before going to see the movie at the theatre, or keeping to the sidewalk while walking to the store with the kids for some candy. |
Re: Accents
Originally Posted by Souvy
(Post 8301163)
You worked in a shop? Ye Gods!
Fear not, it wasn't just a shop, it was one of those clone-PC makers that published phone-directory-sized ads in Computer Shopper and PC World every month. I worked mainly in the marketing dept, but had to take my turn in the showroom on Saturdays and the occasional Sunday morning. |
Re: Accents
Originally Posted by Oakvillian
(Post 8301146)
Actually, as the possessor of what a lot of people would think of as an insufferable pulbic-schoolboy-RP accent, I do find myself adapting accent and speech patterns to my surroundings. When I worked in a computer showroom in Walthamstow I ended up with a sort of bastardised Essex-estuarial sound which my mother couldn't bear but which my customers seemed to find easier when parting with their cash than listening to a mouth full of plums.
Now that I work for an Indian company in Canada, my English is pulled about all over the place - both written and spoken. In emails to colleagues I find I slip into a sort of pseudo-Hinglish construction, with lots of quirkily formal archaisms ("note my email of Weds last; would appreciate a reply to the same at your convenience" is one I received this morning). |
Re: Accents
Originally Posted by el_richo
(Post 8299110)
The southern British accent
Estuary English ? :rofl: |
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