Phoney accents!!!

Rocker · May 2017

On a radio program today, the presenter introduced a female reporter who was sent out to check out and report back on one of our lesser known National Libraries. A simple and straightforward brief. But when she spoke on the subject on the radio program, I found it difficult to hear what she said. She spoke in a phoney Mid Atlantic accent, and she seemed to emphasise all the wrong words. For example: he WILL rewrite it. And so on. It appears to be deemed uncool to speak in a normal voice even if accented by the area where one lived. The subject matter was interesting - such a pity that it was so hard to listen to.

Bridgehouse · May 2017

Good moaning, I was pissing by thos thread and I nitoced that you were bemeaning fake acconts.

Porsannally I fond it very ittitooting

skunkwerx · May 2017

Sa wha mate? Hehe.

I used to work with an Irish guy, first month I genuinely couldnt understand a word he said, but as time went on I somehow got used to it, and it was all understandable just as if spoken in Rp.

The only times I would remember his accent was so thick would be when someone new would come along and look absolutely baffled when he spoke and we all understood it.

Was funny.

Fretwired · May 2017

Dick Van Dyke ... mockney

EricTheWeary · May 2017

In my very poor attempts to learn French it does seem to work better if I do a (terrible) French accent. However, I am slightly worried that the first time I ever speak to a French person (in French) they will find it deeply insulting. Although post Brexit perhaps that'll be fine.

earwighoney · May 2017

Fretwired said:

Dick Van Dyke ... mockney

Dick Van Dyke put on a mockney accent for one film.

Damon Albarn put on a mockney accent for his entire singing career!

thecolourbox · May 2017

EricTheWeary said:

In my very poor attempts to learn French it does seem to work better if I do a (terrible) French accent. However, I am slightly worried that the first time I ever speak to a French person (in French) they will find it deeply insulting. Although post Brexit perhaps that'll be fine.

They'd probably be offended whatever you do to be fair

merlin · May 2017

What about most of our favourite British singers who fake American accents in songs?

The media also makes us (well some of us) expect to hear language pronounced in certain ways. I find it comical.

EricTheWeary · May 2017

thecolourbox said:

EricTheWeary said:

In my very poor attempts to learn French it does seem to work better if I do a (terrible) French accent. However, I am slightly worried that the first time I ever speak to a French person (in French) they will find it deeply insulting. Although post Brexit perhaps that'll be fine.

They'd probably be offended whatever you do to be fair

Sounds about right

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proggy · May 2017

earwighoney said:

Fretwired said:

Dick Van Dyke ... mockney

Dick Van Dyke put on a mockney accent for one film.

Damon Albarn put on a mockney accent for his entire singing career!

So did Paul Weller.

Sporky · May 2017

Rocker said:

She spoke in a phoney Mid Atlantic accent

How do you know it was phoney?

Bridgehouse · May 2017

Sporky said:

Rocker said:

She spoke in a phoney Mid Atlantic accent

How do you know it was phoney?

Was she born on a cruise liner then?

Sporky · May 2017

Might have been. During a deck quoits match perchance.

Bridgehouse · May 2017

Sporky said:

Might have been. During a deck quoits match perchance.

Women and newborn first!

Sporky · May 2017

That's survivor bias talking.

slacker · May 2017

Confirmation bias

prowla · May 2017

A beurm - were you expecting one?

https://youtu.be/960UNEiOdTo?t=8

oaf · May 2017

DrCornelius · May 2017

Tbf I lived in New York for 4 years in my mid 20s and no one could understand my south London accent. I found myself talking like an Aussie and raising the pitch of my voice at the end of sentences and for some strange reason the yanks understood that.

It took me 3 or 4 months and plenty of piss taking after coming home to lose it.

Maybe shes been working/living in the US ?

Guitar_Slinger · May 2017

"There was this one time..."!

There are a few British people who sing in their own accent... Lily Allen, Ian Dury and The Blockheads, The Proclaimers, David Bowie, The Smiths.

In Lazy Sunday by The Small Faces, Steve Marriott sings parts of the song in an exaggerated cockney because of an argument he had with The Hollies, who said he had never sung in his own accent. But he goes back to a fake American accent near the end.

If you think that's odd, Lily Allen won an Ivor Novello award for The Fear.

Octafish · May 2017

There seems to be an ever increasing number of supposedly educated/literate journalists and presenters who refer to 'Great Bridden'. This boom in mid-Atlantic accent shit is going to end up with everyone sounding like Smashy and Nicey/an Operation Yewtree suspect... not arf mate!

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