Re: Accents. Have you got one?
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:40 pm
Me too, left in '76
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Accents. Have you got one?
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Re: Accents. Have you got one?
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:49 pm
Re: Accents. Have you got one?
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:18 pm
Re: Accents. Have you got one?
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:33 pm
My accent is identical to his, so it is.
Re: Accents. Have you got one?
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:17 pm
In his mind he's thinking he's all Ray Winston, but in reality he more Grandad from Only Fools and Horses.
Re: Accents. Have you got one?
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:18 pm
I knew you'd be funny eventually if we waited long enough
Re: Accents. Have you got one?
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:20 pm
Fuck me, that Magnum PI reboot looks like it's done on the cheap....
Re: Accents. Have you got one?
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2024 2:21 pm
When I speak I don't hear any accent at all. However, when I listen to a recording of me speaking I have a distinct Lancashire accent, possibly modified slightly by living for most of my life in Southern Shandy drinking country.
Re: Accents. Have you got one?
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2024 2:45 pm
Re: Accents. Have you got one?
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:39 pm
‘Bout ye! Ah left Norn Iron when ah was 18, so ah did. Lived over here ever since, so ah have. Mrs W is from there too, so she is, and we both still talk funny, so we do. Our kids think we’re hilarious (std).
Re: Accents. Have you got one?
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 6:56 pm
Can you turn it off?
Just been talking to an Irish family for 10 mins. Very nice but couldn't tell a word.
I can turn mine off and they could understand me.
But despite me saying a few times that I couldn't understand, they didn't soften it one bit.
I like it when Kevin Bridges does the posh English voice.
It's just common sense and polite to soften your accent if your audience doesn't understand you.
Hmmm ?
Just been talking to an Irish family for 10 mins. Very nice but couldn't tell a word.
I can turn mine off and they could understand me.
But despite me saying a few times that I couldn't understand, they didn't soften it one bit.
I like it when Kevin Bridges does the posh English voice.
It's just common sense and polite to soften your accent if your audience doesn't understand you.
Hmmm ?
Re: Accents. Have you got one?
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:03 pm
And I was the same when I first met you!Yorick wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2024 6:56 pm Can you turn it off?
Just been talking to an Irish family for 10 mins. Very nice but couldn't tell a word.
I can turn mine off and they could understand me.
But despite me saying a few times that I couldn't understand, they didn't soften it one bit.
I like it when Kevin Bridges does the posh English voice.
It's just common sense and polite to soften your accent if your audience doesn't understand you.
Hmmm ?
Not a flipping word at first.
Accents are mad things, in parts of Belfast, two areas a couple of hundred yards apart can have totally different accents.
Re: Accents. Have you got one?
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:33 pm
Be careful with the letter 'aitch' pronunciation or you'll give the game away.Bigjawa wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:03 pm Accents are mad things, in parts of Belfast, two areas a couple of hundred yards apart can have totally different accents.
Re: Accents. Have you got one?
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:44 pm
Yeah it's the same here, my next door neighbour Raúl sounds nothing like me.Bigjawa wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:03 pm Accents are mad things, in parts of Belfast, two areas a couple of hundred yards apart can have totally different accents.
Re: Accents. Have you got one?
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 8:00 pm
My wife’s grandmother was from deepest darkest Glasgow. When she spoke to us she had a gentle sweet Scottish lilt to her voice.
When she was on the phone to her sisters still in Glasgow we couldn’t understand a word she said.
And that’s after not living there for 40 years.
When she was on the phone to her sisters still in Glasgow we couldn’t understand a word she said.
And that’s after not living there for 40 years.
Re: Accents. Have you got one?
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 8:56 pm
I thought you were PolishBigjawa wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:03 pmAnd I was the same when I first met you!Yorick wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2024 6:56 pm Can you turn it off?
Just been talking to an Irish family for 10 mins. Very nice but couldn't tell a word.
I can turn mine off and they could understand me.
But despite me saying a few times that I couldn't understand, they didn't soften it one bit.
I like it when Kevin Bridges does the posh English voice.
It's just common sense and polite to soften your accent if your audience doesn't understand you.
Hmmm ?
Not a flipping word at first.
Re: Accents. Have you got one?
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 10:53 pm
It depends who's listening. 
Re: Accents. Have you got one?
Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2024 11:47 am
I worked with an Ulsterman who said the same and said his Mum could locate people to within few streets of where they lived by their local accents?!Bigjawa wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:03 pmAnd I was the same when I first met you!Yorick wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2024 6:56 pm Can you turn it off?
Just been talking to an Irish family for 10 mins. Very nice but couldn't tell a word.
I can turn mine off and they could understand me.
But despite me saying a few times that I couldn't understand, they didn't soften it one bit.
I like it when Kevin Bridges does the posh English voice.
It's just common sense and polite to soften your accent if your audience doesn't understand you.
Hmmm ?
Not a flipping word at first.
Accents are mad things, in parts of Belfast, two areas a couple of hundred yards apart can have totally different accents.
Re: Accents. Have you got one?
Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2024 12:28 pm
Currently in Ponty. Well, Tirpentwys trails but will be in Ponty for sandwiches later before heading to Dyfi
Re: Accents. Have you got one?
Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2024 1:40 pm