Captain Britain and MI-13

[The Englishman]

My accents quite lazy, i dont prononce T's in words but its a friendly accent, thats why most call centres in the UK are based around my area...

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Glottal stops. That's what they call those pauses you guys use instead of pronouncing the T's.

I took a linguistics class and that's one of the few things that stuck with me, possibly because I found it amusing that the word "glottal" would, in fact, contain a glottal stop under a lot of British accents.

 

[Anubis]

So if E man was to read the last line of his sig it would sound something like this?

"When an adul male is chasing a female with inen o commi rape, i SHOO HE BASARD. ha's my policy."

 

[The Englishman]

Glottal stops. That's what they call those pauses you guys use instead of pronouncing the T's.

I took a linguistics class and that's one of the few things that stuck with me, possibly because I found it amusing that the word "glottal" would, in fact, contain a glottal stop under a lot of British accents.

Ive never heard of that term before but its true i would not pronounce the T's.....

 

[TheCorpulent1]

So if E man was to read the last line of his sig it would sound something like this?

"When an adul male is chasing a female with inen o commi rape, i SHOO HE BASARD. ha's my policy."

No, the T in "the" would be pronounced normally and the hard T in "shoot" would be replaced by a glottal stop, like the sound everyone uses at the end of "uh" in "uh-oh" or between the I's in "Hawaii."

Yes, I stole those examples from Wikipedia because I couldn't think of any on my own.

 

[Anubis]

So like,

"When an adul male is chasing a female with inten to commi rape, i SHOO THE BASTARD. Tha's my policy."

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Basically. Although there is a symbol for the glottal stop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glottal_stop). I don't know how the f*** to produce it on a standard keyboard, though.

 

[The Englishman]

So if E man was to read the last line of his sig it would sound something like this?

"When an adul male is chasing a female with inen o commi rape, i SHOO HE BASARD. ha's my policy."

It's quite hard to describe how i would say that line because how you have written that line makes it look quite bad. In that sentence i would pronounce the T's in the words To, Bastard and The. I would also say the T's in the word Written. It all depends on how the word sounds. You can still make a word sound correct and sound like it has a T in it without saying the T.

 

[Anubis]

Interesting.

 

[The Englishman]

You would really have to meet someone from Leeds/Yorkshire to fully understand the dialect...

 

[Anubis]

It's quite hard to describe how i would say that line because how you have written that line makes it look quite bad. In that sentence i would pronounce the T's in the words To, Bastard and The. I would also say the T's in the word Written. It all depends on how the word sounds. You can still make a word sound correct and sound like it has a T in it without saying the T.

I understand. Writing it is one thing, but actually saying it sounds completely different. It's not like I wouldn't understand you or anything.

 

[The Englishman]

Interesting.

Id say the T's in that word too....t:

 

[Anubis]

Would you pronounce the "g" though?

 

[The Englishman]

I understand. Writing it is one thing, but actually saying it sounds completely different. It's not like I wouldn't understand you or anything.

I dont know, ive seen your Fox news interviewing someone from Leeds once and they had subtitles on...t:

 

[The Englishman]

Would you pronounce the "g" though?

Yes i would, it seems to only apply to T's..

 

[Manic]

Jus' you wait, 'enry 'iggins, jus' you wait.

 

[The Englishman]

Hahaha.....t:

 

[chamber-music]

Like the English, the American accent differs depending on where you come from and what race you are. For instance, white people from Chicago talk like those dudes from the Chicago Bears skits on Saturday Night Live. Black folks from New York talk completely different from black folks in say, L.A. You got the southern accent which changes depending on where you're from. And you got that weird Swedish derived "Doncha Know" accent from the people in Minnesota or the Dakotas. Me? I've always liked the old school Georgia accent myself. You know, the one that sounds like Fog Horn Leg Horn? Yeah, that one.

You can here where some American accents come brom in Britain. There are parts of northen ireland where the accent sounds almost the same as some american ones.

I dont know, ive seen your Fox news interviewing someone from Leeds once and they had subtitles on...t:

Most Americans really don't understand British regional accents especially ones from northern england which is why British actors from the north like Sean Bean and Steve Coogan tone down their accents in America and why most Americans don't realise there are more than two english accents (cockney or RP/Queens english) which is only spoken by 2% of the actual British population.

Most people in London and the south speak with an Estuary English accent.

People from Cornwall, Devon and Bristol (south west england) sound like pirates as I'm pretty sure thats where alot of Pirates came from.

I quite like the Edinburgh accent and the southern welsh accent can sometimes be cool.

I feel sorry for people from Birmmingham (Ozzy Osbourne accent) because on a poll their accent is thought of as making them sound stupid.

 

[chris moore]

Makes 'em sound depressed really.

I'm from Devon, but my accent is more queens english (but not posh **** queens english). Essentially I dont have an accent.

 

[chamber-music]

Makes 'em sound depressed really.

I'm from Devon, but my accent is more queens english (but not posh **** queens english). Essentially I dont have an accent.

Your accents probabley the same as mine Estuary English its the broad accent most people from London, southern england ect speak with. Its not quite queens english (posh) its like how pretty much everyone else speaks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estuary_English

Its funny how some yanks still think we talk Early Modern English (1500-1800) Shakespearean.

Because in some ways, American English is more like the English of Shakespeare than modern British English is. Some expressions that the British call "Americanisms" are in fact original British expressions that were preserved in the colonies while lost for a time in Britain (for example trash for rubbish, loan as a verb instead of lend, and fall for autumn; another example, frame-up, was re-imported into Britain through Hollywood gangster movies in the 1930s.

The English language in Britain changed from 1800 because firstly, the Industrial Revolution and technology created a need for new words; secondly, the British Empire at its height covered one quarter of the earth's surface, and the English language adopted foreign words from many countries.

 

[yenaled]

Please stop confusing black country accent with Birmingham accent

 

[Manic]

Most Americans really don't understand British regional accents especially ones from northern england which is why British actors from the north like Sean Bean and Steve Coogan tone down their accents in America and why most Americans don't realise there are more than two english accents (cockney or RP/Queens english) which is only spoken by 2% of the actual British population.

Well, practically all (okay, "most") of your actors that we get imported speak the Queen's English. At least they do for movies. What else are we supposed to think?

Also, we're well aware of the Scouse accent. The Beatles were bigger than Jesus*, you know.



* *hides Beatles records from angry mobs*

 

[squeekness]

The sad part was that John Lennon probably wasn't all that wrong when he said that.

 

[The Englishman]

I remember seeing a movie a couple of years ago called Blow Dry staring Alan Rickman, Josh Hartnet and Bill Nighy about an hair dressing compitition set in a Yorkshire village and Josh Hartnet attempts a Yorkshire accent. Its hilarious!!

 

[Manic]

What the hell accent is Tim Curry rocking? Because that's a very distinct sounding man.