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| Thread ID: 85501 | 2007-12-12 07:56:00 | Accents | rob_on_guitar (4196) | PC World Chat |
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| 620574 | 2007-12-13 05:07:00 | From what I gather you were pondering who was the first to make the distinction of accents within languages. Like for instance, long long time ago .... John from clan 1 said to Jane from clan 2 ..... did you realise that you roll all your Rs and speak slightly differently from they way we speak ...... therefore you have an accent????? I could be waaaaaaaaaaaay wrong but either way it is indeed a hard question to ask and one I find impossible to answer but great for those who like to ponder these things. You were spot on! |
rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 620575 | 2007-12-13 08:04:00 | I didn't live that far south, more mid south. Think she said I had an accent just to bug me lol. I like to pronounce my words as clearly as possible hence my "over" pronunciation of my Rs. Honest ..... :D | never-u-mind (6500) | ||
| 620576 | 2007-12-13 08:38:00 | All I can think of is Austin Powers: "You put the GggGGrRrrRRr in to Groovey baby oh yea!" *End of sillyness* :nerd: |
rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 620577 | 2007-12-14 07:20:00 | Yes they do. My mother is Welsh and she says the South Wales people can't understand a word what the North Wales people say even if they both speak Welsh. :lol: PJ may be able to confirm that. :p PJ agrees. Some years ago I was in M/M Hospital & the registrar who looked after me was from Rhyll in North Wales. I found him harder to understand than anybody I had met from Glamorgan in South Wales. The same goes for Yorkshire, the other half of me. Whilst the accent is much the same, there are variations North from South & East from West. The other thing I found was that in Neath, Wales the accent was more cosmopolitan, whereas up the valleys the accent was much stronger. More likely, too, that Welsh would be the first language. Same applies to Doncaster, Yorkshire. Cities & towns would have a weaker accent & the country folk much stronger. Welsh beer I always found insipid. Yorkshire beer was strong. Even so, the further North you went the stronger seemed the beer. My :2cents: worth. PJ |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 620578 | 2007-12-14 07:25:00 | An accent is a pronunciation characteristic of a particular group of people relative to another group. I believe that everyone has a accents. | aarathi (13049) | ||
| 620579 | 2007-12-14 08:17:00 | I left Derbyshire age 18,I still have accent,50 years on. If anything I would like to be without it,but it sticks to me like glue. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 620580 | 2007-12-14 08:40:00 | A dour Yorkshireman colleague of mine once told me: "A Yorkshireman is like a Scotsman with all his generosity wrung out of him." It's true, in my experience. | TideMan (4279) | ||
| 620581 | 2007-12-14 20:14:00 | A dour Yorkshireman colleague of mine once told me: "A Yorkshireman is like a Scotsman with all his generosity wrung out of him." It's true, in my experience. Nowt laike that at all Lad. T'other way round, mebbe PJ |
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