[OT] British + American accents

[lethal_pizzle]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGTPW...eature=related

Here you go chaps - how to speak with a 'British dialect'.

PS never heard anyone speak like this ever

[zestoi]

Examples?

i often find myself explaining to my gf that various letters are 'silent' like 'b' in 'dumb' (not that i call her dumb ofc ) or that some combinations of letters sound different based on their context. like why 'tio' sounds like 'sh' in nation or that 'ee' and 'ea' can sound the same as can 'ir' and 'er and 'ur' so why do we have them all? 'th' can be hard or soft. 'zion' in television is an odd one... there's loads really that you only really think about when someone who isnt a native english speaker asks you "why" something is written or sounds a certain way...

What I hate is what someone mentioned earlier, herb being pronounced 'urb'. When people are talking about seasoning a burger it sounds like they're making hash brownies.

'Now, o' course, de most important part. De uuuuuuuuurb.'

ah yep - that was me there is a really good reason though why it should be pronounced 'herb' and not 'erb'.... because it's got a f*cking 'H' at the start (as some comedian once said... tho it's not quite so funny once u realise how many stupid silent letter are in other words in english i guess)

[Jester]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ePwKYJcEOo

[zestoi]

Here you go chaps - how to speak with a 'British dialect'.

PS never heard anyone speak like this ever

is she for real!?!?!? just sounds like she's just taking the piss talking in a caricature like english accent...

ofc all english people sound like that or cockney

[Karlos Santos]

Seems like every fucking English speaking nation is obsessed with the Queen and the Queens English apart from the actual English.

FFS have you heard how that stupid bitch speaks... no-one speaks like her apart from people in the aristocracy...and they are all mad inbreds and riddled with syphilis.

Get a fucking grip. As for that woman in Lethals video, christ shes an idiot.

[TommyQuiet]

Americans take note

jelly:


Jam:

[fullenglishpint]

Good point, well made Tommy.

[Jester]

I thought it was "Jello"

[padi_04]

I was talking to an argentinian friend of mine the other day and she said that to her, american english seemed like a plain accent while the standard 'british' accent (which I took to mean like mine, ie from the south east) is more 'flowery'

The thing is in decent schools you get taught proper English with something in between a British and neutral pronunciation, "American" (btw, hate calling people from the US that way) is the language "from the movies and TV" and it slowly takes over in your head.

Trying to put it in a very basic way, British is the textbook English, American is every day English and you somehow think of the first as a "funny accent".

She might think it's flowery because she considers redundant some "exaggerations" that set it apart from "regular" English, kinda when you listen to french and some people consider it classy or delicate.

Personally, I admire Scottish cursing poetry and the general "ring" of the different variations spoken in the UK.

Internet does the rest with grammar .

[fullenglishpint]

To be fair I find her argentinian accent when speaking spanish quite amusing as well

It's all 'estoy Jegando' and 'me Jamo'.