(October 1, 2014 at 1:40 am)ForumMember77 Wrote:(October 1, 2014 at 1:28 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: I thought I would put this out there for the real English folk on this forum. How many English (country) accents are there. From the the people I have come across working customer service and playing MMOs there seems to be three. The traditional London type accent, the new castle type accent which is lighter but spoken fast, and the Oxford style, which is the brand Dawkins and hit hens and many academics seem to portray. What do the actual British people here think?
There's not very many British people in Britain as far as I am aware, whenever I go to London to meet my sister we play spot the white guy.
And the accents aren't much better, we often joke that if you were drowning in a canal and screaming for help you would be lucky if anyone spoke enough English to understand.
Britons are where the cultural borders of the Celts overlapped with the Romans, so Welsh people are British also. Scottish too.
I can't stop thinking about that Monty Python sketch now, where King Arthur travels around telling everyone he's 'King of the Britons'.
I'm well aware of this, just I wanted to be clear I was referring to accents from England, not all the ones in the English language.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
