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Re: Those damns Brits..
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Actually, most Americans love the British accent, and there's a rule-of-thumb that any Britisher visiting America generally is treated at least one class level higher than their actual class level in Britain because of the accent. When I was first at UNT some 20 years ago, my best friends that first year were a couple of British guys over on exchange from Swansea. I was the only one on my dorm room floor who could understand them (because I had watched so much BBC TV through PBS) and did a lot of translating for them until the others got used to the accent. We did everything as a group. I showed them American Football and took them out in Dallas, and they taught me how to play English Pub Darts and got me interested in rugby. I tried keeping up with them drinking one time--but only once. I learned better after that. It about killed me when they went back to Swansea. They were great guys; I always wondered what happened to them and how they're doing now. -Saz
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10-25-2007, 01:39 AM | #32 |
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Re: Those damns Brits..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6470095.stm
I don't know how I just read this -- it's 7 months old -- but it touches on that appearance of intelligence / class / sophistication that any British accent brings with it in America. From their perspective. |
10-25-2007, 05:12 AM | #33 |
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Re: Those damns Brits..
Interesting link aleph.
English accents are seen in the USA to be a bonus, where to me it can be funny or annoying, (everyone with a Birmingham uk accent should have their tongues cut out) Yet a lady with a Birmingham Alabama accent could have me drooling while she talked all day too me. As for me I have an accent like Wallace (wallace and grommit)
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10-25-2007, 02:10 PM | #34 |
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Re: Those damns Brits..
Haha! A Wallace accent sounds so cool!
I neevr had any problem with Birmingham accents... I picked one up for a while after I spent a long time talking to a friend, who I was dating at the time... That annoyed people, heh.
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10-25-2007, 02:30 PM | #35 |
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Re: Those damns Brits..
Hate Birmingham accents, also hate scouse accents...they make me cringe.
But I am a fan of Irish accents, and cockney accents. My own accent isn't too bad either I guess, just the fact that to most it sounds "common" and "Geordie" and ITS NOT :@
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10-25-2007, 02:46 PM | #36 |
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Re: Those damns Brits..
Hah, I try very hard not to get a chathamese accent... I hate those.
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10-25-2007, 02:51 PM | #37 |
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Re: Those damns Brits..
All this talk of UK accents but no one has mentioned Estuary English and the late, great Ian Dury.
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10-25-2007, 03:30 PM | #38 |
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Re: Those damns Brits..
The way Vinnie Jones speaks, now that's the proper way to speak English.
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10-25-2007, 07:52 PM | #39 |
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Re: Those damns Brits..
well the way vinnie jones speaks is how most people in the southern cities in england speak. So that's pretty much how I speak, or at least used to speak. Since being at uni I've had to clean up my accent a bit cos I deal with a lot of foreigners and they didnt understand me, so now I speak a bit more proper, but if I'm around native english I speak "normal" again, heh
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10-25-2007, 08:50 PM | #40 |
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Re: Those damns Brits..
Don't you have a Hungarian accent Vask?
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