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December 11th, 2011, 02:13 PM
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#21 | | Acting Corporal
Joined: May 2011 From: Navan, Ireland Posts: 5,165 |
A great deal of people assume a 'neutral accent' is English, when it is not it is merely pronouncing things correctly (something I do not do! byte).
Many actors adopt a neutral/English accent because they do not wish to be type cast.
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December 11th, 2011, 02:51 PM
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#22 | | Archivist
Joined: Oct 2010 From: Belfast Posts: 218 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Earl_of_Rochester  | Quality cannae beat oor Rab !! Cultural ambassador that he is ...........Beat It lol  | | | |
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December 11th, 2011, 03:39 PM
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#23 | | The Good Knight
Joined: Feb 2011 From: Cumbernauld Scotland Posts: 7,099 |
Yaw I have this bleeding Essex accent that I want to play down. I was born there by birth and accident and I never want to go back down there again. As for posh accent No I do my best how to disguise it.
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December 11th, 2011, 04:06 PM
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#24 | | Archivist
Joined: Oct 2010 From: Belfast Posts: 218 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Crystal Rainbow Yaw I have this bleeding Essex accent that I want to play down. I was born there by birth and accident and I never want to go back down there again. As for posh accent No I do my best how to disguise it. | hee hee I am sure that accent will stand oot like a sore thumb in Cumbernauld lol!! I am orginally from Moodiesburn down the road from ye lol small world  remember hearing David Beckham speak for the first time !! On the face of it you got this seemingly really cool dude you expect him to sound like Richard Burton!! But when he speaks he sounds like a fart in a spacesuit lol
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December 11th, 2011, 04:27 PM
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#25 | | The Good Knight
Joined: Feb 2011 From: Cumbernauld Scotland Posts: 7,099 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Corbulo hee hee I am sure that accent will stand oot like a sore thumb in Cumbernauld lol!! I am orginally from Moodiesburn down the road from ye lol small world remember hearing David Beckham speak for the first time !! On the face of it you got this seemingly really cool dude you expect him to sound like Richard Burton!! But when he speaks he sounds like a fart in a spacesuit lol | I know what you mean Wow meeting somebody that knows Moodiesburn in here is a bigger factor to me than David Beckham  | | | |
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December 11th, 2011, 04:48 PM
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#26 | | The Good Knight
Joined: Feb 2011 From: Cumbernauld Scotland Posts: 7,099 |
Bleeding hell I am a check out girl in a food retail retail shop and with out my accent I feel that am different from the English
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December 11th, 2011, 05:32 PM
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#27 | | Lecturer
Joined: Dec 2011 From: Home is Michigan, a cinder-block dorm in Texas otherwise Posts: 284 |
Being at a big university here in Texas, we actually have alot of British students here, and each one I've met has had an accent very different from the other- Essex, "Cockney," Manchester, London, Liverpool, and Kentish (and I swear to G*d every sentence the Kentish man said came staright out of an Evelyn Waigh novel), this list goes on. I'm thouroughly convinced that there are more typres of British accents then there are American. And we've got more land...
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December 12th, 2011, 12:42 AM
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#28 | | Historian
Joined: Jun 2010 From: England Posts: 1,753 | Quote:
Originally Posted by UofNT_Lady_J I'm thouroughly convinced that there are more typres of British accents then there are American. And we've got more land... | I'm not convinced of that. American accents are more spread out but I think when you really study them, you'll find there are probably just as many, if not more. People from Philadelphia have a very different dialect to those in central Pennsylvania and that's just within the same state. Then there's Pittsburgh and the northeast of PA too.
Check out: List of dialects of the English language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There's more than most people realize, I guess because it is such a big country and the regional dialects and accents are more spread out. It's harder for people know about regional accents from areas they're so unfamiliar with.
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December 12th, 2011, 08:52 AM
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#29 | | Lecturer
Joined: Dec 2011 From: Home is Michigan, a cinder-block dorm in Texas otherwise Posts: 284 | Quote:
Originally Posted by History Chick | You're probably right about that, now that I think about my own Northern American accent. It's a mix of Minnasota, Wisconsin, and Chicago. I try to hide it, since I'm going to college down here in Texas, but sometimes a "well don't ya know" slips out and I get made fun of to high heaven.
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December 12th, 2011, 09:54 AM
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#30 | | Historian
Joined: Jun 2010 From: England Posts: 1,753 | Quote:
Originally Posted by UofNT_Lady_J You're probably right about that, now that I think about my own Northern American accent. It's a mix of Minnasota, Wisconsin, and Chicago. I try to hide it, since I'm going to college down here in Texas, but sometimes a "well don't ya know" slips out and I get made fun of to high heaven. | LOL I bet! Think of how I feel though - being an American in England, I get ribbed all the time for using words like "cell phone" and "sneakers".
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