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.
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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.
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Damon Albarn put on a mockney accent for his entire singing career!
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The media also makes us (well some of us) expect to hear language pronounced in certain ways. I find it comical.
https://youtu.be/960UNEiOdTo?t=8
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 ?
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.