RE: Friends- British accent
November 29, 2019 at 1:25 pm
(This post was last modified: November 29, 2019 at 1:31 pm by WinterHold.)
(November 29, 2019 at 8:40 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Or a Glaswegian, full stop.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"..
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
There is of course a British accent; it's the cut & disoriented mutation from Latin; that the old natives spoke with
(November 29, 2019 at 12:45 pm)Peebo-Thuhlu Wrote: I have a fun time most times trying to understand my Welsh brother in law.
Which is not that bad most times. I only occasionally have to ask him to 'Slow down' what he's saying.
Not at work.
I always get confused between Welsh and Irish, until I memorized it like this: Welsh=redhead Irish=blonde