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Friends- British accent
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RE: Friends- British accent
Quote:In Arabia; I always ran into teachers/people who speak a very stupid accent and claim it's British..since British is "classy" and "evidence of big brains"..

There is of course a British accent; it's the cut & disoriented mutation  from Latin; that the old natives spoke with

If there's a British accent, why do people from Mayfair sound different from people from Whitechapel?

English isn't a Latin language.  It's got some Latin influence, but it has nothing to do with the Romance Languages and you're an idiot.

Boru
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RE: Friends- British accent
(November 29, 2019 at 8:40 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Or a Glaswegian, full stop.

What a lot of Americans (not you, GS) fail to grasp is that there is no such thing as 'a British accent'.  A Geordie doesn't sound like a Manc doesn't sound like a Cockney doesn't sound like RP and so on and so on.  There are dozens of British accents and dialects.

Boru

Oooh-ah?
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(November 29, 2019 at 1:59 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:
(November 29, 2019 at 8:40 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Or a Glaswegian, full stop.

What a lot of Americans (not you, GS) fail to grasp is that there is no such thing as 'a British accent'.  A Geordie doesn't sound like a Manc doesn't sound like a Cockney doesn't sound like RP and so on and so on.  There are dozens of British accents and dialects.

Boru

Oooh-ah?

Fall off the wall again?

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: Friends- British accent
(November 29, 2019 at 1:41 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
Quote:In Arabia; I always ran into teachers/people who speak a very stupid accent and claim it's British..since British is "classy" and "evidence of big brains"..

There is of course a British accent; it's the cut & disoriented mutation  from Latin; that the old natives spoke with

If there's a British accent, why do people from Mayfair sound different from people from Whitechapel?

English isn't a Latin language.  It's got some Latin influence, but it has nothing to do with the Romance Languages and you're an idiot.

Boru
Quote:About 80 percent of the entries in any English dictionary are borrowed, mainly from Latin. Over 60 percent of all English words have Greek or Latin roots. In the vocabulary of the sciences and technology, the figure rises to over 90 percent.

https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-origins/


..hmmmmm
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(November 29, 2019 at 2:01 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(November 29, 2019 at 1:59 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Oooh-ah?

Fall off the wall again?

Boru


I remember, years ago, two immigrants from Devon getting together and talking in some local dialect that just sounded like a lot of “oooh-ahs”.

And people say the Aussie tendency to use odd words is weird.
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(November 29, 2019 at 2:17 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote:
(November 29, 2019 at 1:41 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: If there's a British accent, why do people from Mayfair sound different from people from Whitechapel?

English isn't a Latin language.  It's got some Latin influence, but it has nothing to do with the Romance Languages and you're an idiot.

Boru
Quote:About 80 percent of the entries in any English dictionary are borrowed, mainly from Latin. Over 60 percent of all English words have Greek or Latin roots. In the vocabulary of the sciences and technology, the figure rises to over 90 percent.

https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-origins/


..hmmmmm

You conveniently left out

Quote:About 10 percent of the Latin vocabulary has found its way directly into English without an intermediary (usually French).

English is in one of the Germanic language families (West Germanic, I think, but can't be arsed to look it up).  Languages in the Latin family are referred to as 'Romance Languages', which manifestly do not include English.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: Friends- British accent
(November 29, 2019 at 1:59 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:
(November 29, 2019 at 8:40 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Or a Glaswegian, full stop.

What a lot of Americans (not you, GS) fail to grasp is that there is no such thing as 'a British accent'.  A Geordie doesn't sound like a Manc doesn't sound like a Cockney doesn't sound like RP and so on and so on.  There are dozens of British accents and dialects.

Boru

Oooh-ah?

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(November 29, 2019 at 9:09 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Yep. A New Englander talking to a Alabama swamper, that's fun to watch. The telly is gradually leveling the play field, but it won't eliminate  regionally distinction dictions.

My uncle (dad's brother) grew up in Iowa and has spent most of the rest of his life in a suburb of Minneapolis...doncha know.  When he was with us in BFE, North Carolina during my dad's last days I had to translate for him.  He couldn't understand the waitress when we went out for supper.

But there are lots and lots of southern accents too.  My husband speaks SC country while my grandparents and aunts and uncles speak/spoke with a weird southern brogue that's found on the Outer Banks of NC.
  
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(November 29, 2019 at 2:59 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:
(November 29, 2019 at 1:59 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Oooh-ah?

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