Bush & Blair "Are Mangling English"
 

According to BBC TV and Radio 4 newsreader and current affairs host John Humphrys:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...sh_language_dc

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Did it not escape John that neither Tony nor George are English?

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I think his issue is with the English language rather than nationality mate.

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the English language is more than just the Home Counties though.

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True. This Humphrys guy would probably do away with regional accents and slang and have everyone in the English speaking world talk like the Queen.

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Tony blair's not English? :confused: where's he from then?

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Edinburgh

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If we all talked like the Queen, what a quiet nation we would be.....We'd only talk at Christmas and spend half an hour bitching about how horrible our lives are. Besides.......isn't the queen a German?? :D :D :D

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Frau Vindsor unt kinders will be sure to drag you off to the tower.

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that's surprising! he sounds posh to me ...isn't it amazing if we all really tried it'd be easy to pull off a posh English accent...i think i'll stick with common
Welsh though....gets more compliments ;)

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LMAO......but I believe a health bribe of Bratwurst does wonder for your 'inside' privileges........not that I'm saying I'd like to slip queeny a pound of german sausage or anything!!!!!!!! :eek: :eek:

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wish i hadn't read that, I'm scarred for life :eek: :scared:

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It's fairly easy to live in Edinburgh and not have the accent if you are surrounded by toffs. Especially if you go to a school like this...
http://www.fettes.com/tour/images/school.jpg
I used to work with a guy (in Edinburgh) born and raised in Liverpool and he spoke with a straight Blair type English accent. He said it was a conscious effort to get rid of his scouse brogue so he could be taken more seriously.
Was very weird...he'd been so succesful at it that when I asked him to go back to his scouse accent it sounded very fake :eek:

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besides.......if recent reports are true......maybe Charlie would prefer a length of Bratwurst!!!!!.....not that I'm casting aspersions.......to each his own

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[QUOTE=tony_2003]It's fairly easy to live in Edinburgh and not have the accent if you are surrounded by toffs. Especially if you go to a school like this...
eeeekk that's a school? it looks like it probably has a few dungeons :scared: