Which UK Accent Is The Most Ridiculous??
12 May 2003, 08:13 PM
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Well, being a posh spoken southerner, all accents apart from what I speak are vulgar 
The problem is that you tend to sterotype people when you hear their accent, for example, I know people who have hear me speak and call me posh, umm, no, don't think so. For example, you hear a scouser or a manc, you think "thick, illterate, thieving, scum" You hear a sloan square accent you think "stuck up posh ****".
If I had to pick the most annoying accent, it'd have to be sloan square, ie; ultra posh, too rich and basically no idea about the real world, type of people who I'd dearly like to see wiped from the face of the earth.
As for accents I like, well, must say that a lovely southern irish accent and a nice scots accent are great.
Anyway, I'm orf to quaff some bolly, ta ta!
The problem is that you tend to sterotype people when you hear their accent, for example, I know people who have hear me speak and call me posh, umm, no, don't think so. For example, you hear a scouser or a manc, you think "thick, illterate, thieving, scum" You hear a sloan square accent you think "stuck up posh ****".
If I had to pick the most annoying accent, it'd have to be sloan square, ie; ultra posh, too rich and basically no idea about the real world, type of people who I'd dearly like to see wiped from the face of the earth.
As for accents I like, well, must say that a lovely southern irish accent and a nice scots accent are great.
Anyway, I'm orf to quaff some bolly, ta ta!
12 May 2003, 09:10 PM
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12 May 2003, 10:41 PM
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ya cant get better than pure sarf london
mockney ***** are the rich kids who are play acting, that **** jamie oliver [i rest my case] posh kent & sussex boys are funny if they drive hearses
anyone norf london ***** who say south london is only there to keep france further away
any west london ***** in red scoobys with auz accents
any non essex person who lives in essex & slags it off
moving up the scale
the welsh
the scotish
the irish
anyone from north of the thames
anyone west of wimbledon
anyone south of M25
Vauxhall drivers
Seat drivers
bored now cant be bothered to type anymore
bolx to everyone
mockney ***** are the rich kids who are play acting, that **** jamie oliver [i rest my case] posh kent & sussex boys are funny if they drive hearses
anyone norf london ***** who say south london is only there to keep france further away
any west london ***** in red scoobys with auz accents
any non essex person who lives in essex & slags it off
moving up the scale
the welsh
the scotish
the irish
anyone from north of the thames
anyone west of wimbledon
anyone south of M25
Vauxhall drivers
Seat drivers
bored now cant be bothered to type anymore
bolx to everyone
13 May 2003, 12:13 AM
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Hey Clare, poxy southener
I can't be doing with all the cockney crap...just say what you mean, it makes things much easier and as for the white dullards who think they're black American rappers, just shut the **** up, you're embarassing us as a nation
I like my own accent, Yorkshire but have to admit after hearing people from round here on telly, we do come accross as sounding a bit fick
Now, women from Aberdeen, blimey charlie
poxy southenerI can't be doing with all the cockney crap...just say what you mean, it makes things much easier and as for the white dullards who think they're black American rappers, just shut the **** up, you're embarassing us as a nation
I like my own accent, Yorkshire but have to admit after hearing people from round here on telly, we do come accross as sounding a bit fick
Now, women from Aberdeen, blimey charlie
13 May 2003, 09:53 AM
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"Apparition" is the only one talking sense here (apart from me of course).
Accents are brilliant. Can you imagine how dull a place this would be if we all had the "Received Pronunciation" accent so widespread in southern England?
I think it's great that more people with regional accents are now reading the news etc.
What does get my goat however is bad grammar...don't get me started on that one!
Accents are brilliant. Can you imagine how dull a place this would be if we all had the "Received Pronunciation" accent so widespread in southern England?
I think it's great that more people with regional accents are now reading the news etc.
What does get my goat however is bad grammar...don't get me started on that one!
13 May 2003, 12:23 PM
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I'm with Apparition and Andrewj. The incredible number of different accents are part of the richness of the language. We all have our preferences and thats a personal thing. I hate the affected accents though, like the Sloanspeak as was mentioned and all those ways intended to make the speaker appear a cut above the rest. Above all I hate the affected Estuary accent-even B liar tried that for a while to curry favour! I feel I have a right to say that because it is my native accent. The local accent down here is lovely to listen to.
They say that a Devon farmer talks slow but thinks fast!
Les
They say that a Devon farmer talks slow but thinks fast!
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13 May 2003, 01:31 PM
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Lancastrians get my vote, nice people and all that, but every sentance sounds like a question and they sound dippy too?
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Mike
PS. All they do is slag of 'bloody southerners'. Never hear people down here slag of northerners.
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PS. All they do is slag of 'bloody southerners'. Never hear people down here slag of northerners.
13 May 2003, 01:53 PM
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don't think anyone's saying that accents are bad. i think they're great and universal RP would be dull as ditchwater. but that doesn't mean you can't take the pi55 and roll your eyes at what you find funny. ripping the mick is one of our greatest national pursuits ... and skills.
14 May 2003, 02:45 PM
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14 May 2003, 08:18 PM
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I was on the tube today with a couple who I think were from the border of Scotland and geordieland. They had the most amazing accent and it took me 45 minutes to work out what langaugae they were talking. I honestly thought they were from Eastern Europe.
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14 May 2003, 10:30 PM
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I'm not voting as I'm 'regional' (tidy like!) myself.
As a teenager the accent that nearly reduced me to tears of laughter was the 'west country burrrrr'. Not the thing to do when you're on a business trip with your father I can tell you! Especially when you're the one who's then sent up the scaffolding to measure up a job.
As a teenager the accent that nearly reduced me to tears of laughter was the 'west country burrrrr'. Not the thing to do when you're on a business trip with your father I can tell you! Especially when you're the one who's then sent up the scaffolding to measure up a job.
15 May 2003, 12:43 AM
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Being a Brummie I think we are getting a raw deal. The 'Brummie' accent which you southern softies are so fond of doing impressions of, is infact a Black Country accent. Even I have difficulty understanding 'yam yams'.