I just heard a bizarre sound and it was my cat snoring. What do cats dream about?
Accents you hate! (or like..) Page 7
Having their tum-tum's rubbed by a big mummy cat..
I'll leave it to the mummy. One touch of my cat's tummy and I lose a limb. He follows me around like a shadow and thinks I'm his mother, but I do not touch the tummy.
The massive number of English accents must be down to all the different nationalities that have invaded/settled here, throughout our history. We've had the Basques, from what is now part of Spain, the Anglo Saxons from what is now part of Germany, the Romans from Italy, the Vikings from Norway and Denmark, the Normans from France, and of course, the Welsh, Scottish and Irish. Oh, and more recently, people from the Caribbean, have had a massive effect on the way young people talk, mainly in London, and other parts of the South East.
Quote: catskillz @ September 20 2008, 6:01 AM BSTThe massive number of English accents must be down to all the different nationalities that have invaded/settled here, throughout our history. We've had the Basques, from what is now part of Spain, the Anglo Saxons from what is now part of Germany, the Romans from Italy, the Vikings from Norway and Denmark, the Normans from France, and of course, the Welsh, Scottish and Irish. Oh, and more recently, people from the Caribbean, have had a massive effect on the way young people talk, mainly in London, and other parts of the South East.
It's a mad, mad, mad world.
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I'm up writing. I often do this at the weekend. Once I start, I find it hard to stop - well, unless I'm on here, writing about accents and such. Actually, I came on here as a little reward to myself, after having just written a particularly funny scene, involving some middle-aged bell-ringers, from the Women's Institute, and a...actually, I better stop, as I don't want to give too much away. Anyway, I'm off to bed.
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I'm up writing. Anyway, I'm off to bed.
Cheers!
Quote: Frankie Rage @ September 20 2008, 2:58 AM BSTI would stay clear of the Rhonnda.. Swansea and The Mumbles I can recommend and Aberystwyth. In Ab I found that although they speak Welsh they will break into English when they realise you don't. Anyway, they did for me.
Don't know Ab, but my experience of North Wales is that they speak English until they realise that you are a Saesneg, then they speak Welsh.
Love Cornish, hate scouse and geordie.
Love: French and London-ish (I don't really know how to explain this, it's how the middle-class of London speak if they're not pretending to be poor.)
To be honest I am not that keen on my own estuary accent.
Quote: PhQnix @ September 20 2008, 10:19 AM BSTLove: French and London-ish (I don't really know how to explain this, it's how the middle-class of London speak if they're not pretending to be poor.)
(I'm not trying to cheaply up my post count, here. Look, I've written something apart from a smiley.)
Quote: PhQnix @ September 20 2008, 10:19 AM BSTLove: French and London-ish
Cockney? And French? I worry about the youth of today.
Quote: Timbo @ September 20 2008, 9:26 AM BSTbut my experience of North Wales is that they speak English until they realise that you are a Saesneg,
A sausage?
Quote: Gavin @ September 20 2008, 10:51 AM BSTCockney?
Do you think that 'Cockney' is the only London dialect/accent?
Wow I feel so ignorant. I had no idea Welsh had their own language.
Anyways I guess I never answered the question.
I always liked London accents. There used to be a guy named Curtis from London I used to work with at an inbound call centre for a cable company. The job used to get pretty freaking boring and so I used to mimic his accents during calls just to see if the Americans would figure out I was faking or not. Anyways long story short, I customer called back to complained about me hanging up on the customer and saying something rather rude (don't remember exactly what I said), but poor English Curtis got in trouble instead of me because the only information the customer left with my boss was that 'they were British, and named Curtis'.
-I also rather like Irish accents...as long as I can understand what they're saying.
-German is a fun accent to listen too. I've never heard one in person though.
-I always liked the way the old Finnish folk talked in my neighborhood. They were funny.