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Britishisms and America

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  • SileSile Veteran
    edited October 2012

    Wo u sayin baaat man innit? Nah mayt dialec's s pure pers'nal an aaal dat ting innit, peeples toork da wai dey tork an not nuttin can be dun woteva man. Don get mardeh 'bout it man, Midlans ewe k aksen i goh Londan, Jamaykan, Indyan, Norvan Inglan, Mer'can, pure varitey innit? Wot ewe gan doo, call da feds or sumatt? Wee gorra ruff aksen innit, nevah chane 4 no wan. Peese.

    (this is the working class midlands dialect; older white people will sound less Jamaican, older asians and afro-Caribbeans will sound less Northern. Country folks will have less of a London influence than city folks.

    Translation: Mardi = bad tempered/moaning (pronounced mardeh). Rough = good/delicious. The feds = the police. Sumatt = something. Pure = complete/very)

    Lol call da feds

  • BeejBeej Human Being Veteran
    federica said:

    She was in her mid sixties.... if that helps any.

    It helps me to realize that craving leads to suffering.... bwahahahahahaha! :lol:
    RebeccaS
  • SileSile Veteran
    A cute clip on the Wisconsin accent. Many of my husband's relatives say stop-and-go lights ;)

  • zombiegirlzombiegirl beating the drum of the lifeless in a dry wasteland Veteran
    @Sile I think the Wisconsin accent is so cute. It's very similar to the Minnesotan accent at times. I know it's a parody, but I love the movie Drop Dead Gorgeous where they really play it up...
  • The worst accents are northern British, Scottish and Boston-ish. The northern accent is just horrible, I never know what Scottish people are saying to me and when people from Boston speak my ears actually fold in on themselves :lol:
  • RebeccaS said:

    The worst accents are northern British, Scottish, I never know what Scottish people are saying to me :lol:

    Keep the heid! Yer Bahooky's oot the windae Its Naw ma fault ye Dinnae undertand Whits comin oot me Geggie

    Yeah I'm a Scot :) Hehehehe


    Beej
  • None of those were words!

    :lol:
    Beej
  • edited October 2012
    RebeccaS said:

    None of those were words!

    :lol:

    Sorry RebeccaS my fault i really should have translated

    Basically i said Calm down your getting in a flap its not my fault you don't understand whats coming out of my mouth

    heid = Head
    Bahooky = Bum
    oot = Out
    windae = window
    Naw = Not
    Dinnae = Don't
    Whits = what's
    Geggie = Mouth

    Yer Bahooky's oot the windae can mean your getting wound up, or talking Nonsense

    There you go Rebecca! a wee insight into Humorous Highland Slang, Unfortunately it does loose some of it's comedic nature when Read instead of being heard

    :lol:
    Beej
  • federica said:

    No, like I said, it has nothing to do with the accent. Every Australian - has an Australian accent, with regional nuances. (Actually, I see now, I didn't actually mention 'accent' - but no, it's not that.....)
    It's this prevalence of raising the voice - at times to squeal level - at the end of a sentence.
    Many Australians don't do it. A few men do, but many, many women, do. It's just an odd affectation.....

    Hi federica, as I said I do not, weird as it sounds hear an Australian accent at all so I do not have much chance of getting what you are referring to - though sometimes in video and film when the characters have a very pronounced difference between an Aussie speaker and others I can hear what you refer to as affectation -not lingual, grammatical or pronunciation exactly, so I guess this is what you are referring to.
  • DairyLamaDairyLama Veteran Veteran
    RebeccaS said:

    The worst accents are northern British, Scottish and Boston-ish. The northern accent is just horrible, I never know what Scottish people are saying to me and when people from Boston speak my ears actually fold in on themselves :lol:

    What's wrong with Scottish? And Geordie is like music to the ears! I'm not that keen on Brummie though.

    :p
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