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Post by The Matt on Feb 6, 2017 22:58:00 GMT
Nope, just a normal British accent You don't sound British. Do I sound southern? I wouldn't know having never heard you speak but I certainly wouldn't come on this forum and tell you I know more about your own accent than you......
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2017 23:05:11 GMT
The British Isles isn't quite as homogeneous at it first appears in fiction. I think when people see a "British" accent what they're really thinking of is a RP English accent. Remember it's a collective union of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Britain isn't a country, so it's kind of like saying someone has a European accent, it doesn't make a great deal of sense. A lot of those countries have worked very hard from a historical perspective to be different from one another and depending person, saying that the Welsh/Irish/Scottish/English and the English/Scottish/Irish/Welsh are the basically the same thing could get you into some really serious trouble (i.e. a punch in the face). I remember watching a Documentary series about the British Overseas territories and Crown Dependencies last year (can't remember the title) and in one of the episodes the presenter took a tour round the Channel Islands, one of the people she met was a born and raised local and his accent sounded like a mix of South African and French. If there was a single unified British Accent that would be quite weird as I sometimes struggle with the broader Ulster or Scottish accents, kinda embarrassing to be told you can't understand your own accent! It's all part of the beauty of history, everything is so jumbled up and contradictory that these unique little pockets of abnormality still pop up. I think that's really neat. Nope, just a normal British accent I really, really want to hear what that sounds like now.
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Post by The Matt on Feb 7, 2017 5:48:04 GMT
I'll get a copy of the underground recording "The Matt does the talking in the accent" sold on BF's website. Physical copy and download will be available!
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Post by ulyssessarcher on Feb 7, 2017 7:23:23 GMT
You don't sound British. Do I sound southern? I wouldn't know having never heard you speak but I certainly wouldn't come on this forum and tell you I know more about your own accent than you...... You would never make it in American politics...you are showing far too much common sense...
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Post by bobod on Feb 8, 2017 10:02:55 GMT
Nope, just a normal British accent I've got one of them too. I'm from Scotland. Presumably we must sound the same then.
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Post by bobod on Feb 8, 2017 10:05:36 GMT
Nope, just a normal British accent I've got one of them too. I'm from Scotland. Presumably we must sound the same then. Oh, hang on, maybe you sound like my Welsh mate, Dai. He's got a normal British accent too.
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Post by The Matt on Feb 8, 2017 12:16:33 GMT
Your mates with Dai Atlas? The legendary welsh Autobot?! He must be a huge help when you get into dialect fights!!
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Post by bobod on Feb 8, 2017 12:32:53 GMT
I'd never fight a dialect. They'd exterminate me.
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Post by The Matt on Feb 8, 2017 14:02:35 GMT
I think you have mispronounced dialect, must be your accent.........................
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Post by bobod on Feb 8, 2017 14:12:44 GMT
My normal British one?
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Post by The Matt on Feb 8, 2017 15:40:58 GMT
Surely that'd be impossible because..................... and brace yourself here....................apparently there is No.Such.Thing! Can open....worms EVERYWHERE Here is the list of acceptable accents
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Post by bobod on Feb 8, 2017 19:21:31 GMT
To be fair, the only person who seems surprised by this 'news' is you.
There's lots of British accents, but not 'a British accent'. I'm astonished to find a Brit who queries this. Someone overseas, sure, but a Brit?
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Post by constonks on Feb 17, 2017 12:58:36 GMT
There's a reason that RP is called "BBC English" - because it's the only English that performers spoke, having been trained to lose their regional accents.
That's roughly why Tom Baker sounds nothing like a Liverpudlian.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2017 14:13:25 GMT
There's a reason that RP is called "BBC English" - because it's the only English that performers spoke, having been trained to lose their regional accents. That's roughly why Tom Baker sounds nothing like a Liverpudlian. Honour Blackman was given a choice between elocution classes or a bike as a kid and she chose the former. Smart girl, it got her into a lot of places in acting that she wouldn't have otherwise. Diana Rigg was the same, her Yorkshire accent sounds very different from the prim, proper Emma Peel. Colin Baker got into a lot of trouble as a child for his various accents from memory. I can't remember for certain, but I think he got picked on because his accent was either too common or not common enough.
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