tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post4954161294651277792..comments2024-01-26T10:20:37.836+00:00Comments on Diary of a Goldfish: Pet HatesThe Goldfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15213378454070776331noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-55896678187821069902015-03-06T00:04:42.711+00:002015-03-06T00:04:42.711+00:00The Whitby accent, seems a cross between Yorkshire...The Whitby accent, seems a cross between Yorkshire and Geordie (teeside being a close relative of Geordie or Geordie with h dropping?).Kevan Hubbardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06059066718528011604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-76918180526614502232007-02-10T21:22:00.000+00:002007-02-10T21:22:00.000+00:00Mom makes fun of Dad because he says "thee-AY-terr...Mom makes fun of Dad because he says "thee-AY-terr."<BR/><BR/>and you thought all we 'Murricans sounded the same...<BR/><BR/>that is an excellent MP sketch. a friend and i were once riffing off, if not the actual sketch, that whole deal, you know, and somehow this is what we ended up with (we'd had a few beers):<BR/><BR/><BR/>"You should be thankful to be able to work in a cube! In my day we didn't have cubes! We didn't have floors! We didn't have ceilings! We had walls, and we were grateful for them! And we didn't go in for this newfangled 'third dimension.'" Two dimensions were good enough for my parents' generation, and they were good enough for mine! We were flat, but we were 'appy! In my grandfather's day they didn't even have that! All they had was lines! If they were lucky. My father's parents were infinitesimal points! You spend your childhood raised by an infinitesimal point, you'll be deeply appreciative of any parameters within a conceptual space that you can get!"belledame222https://www.blogger.com/profile/13947289856453172848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-90478427239919219252007-02-08T14:20:00.000+00:002007-02-08T14:20:00.000+00:00I would love to hear your accent, Mone; sounds fan...I would love to hear your accent, Mone; sounds fantastic. I apparently speak French with an American accent, although I wasn't talk by an American.<BR/><BR/>Fluttertongue - much empathy. AJ has a Mancunian accent, and as well as his gender, there are some circumstances where it is much much better for him to do the talking. There are other circumstances where I, with a more mutual accent, am the best person to speak.<BR/><BR/>And although I enjoy the humour around accents and us all taking the mick out of one another, it really ought not to count for anything.The Goldfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15213378454070776331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-17277446124370133812007-02-08T13:35:00.000+00:002007-02-08T13:35:00.000+00:00It's funny - there's some great dialects in York t...It's funny - there's some great dialects in York that you only hear in the run down areas. I wish there wasn't such a heirarchy of accents. It's the scourge of my life having people presume I'm a private-schooled rich lady just because I'm awful plummy like. And for that I've got my northern Nan to blame who decided at a young age to teach me to annunciate like the Queen. Good for interviews and 'speaking to the manager' but not for being respected.fluttertonguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06503797774392650926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-82514686896353088802007-02-08T11:33:00.000+00:002007-02-08T11:33:00.000+00:00When I realised that there are 8 different ways to...When I realised that there are 8 different ways to pronounce the letter combination "ough" in English I stopped believing it was a phonetic language....BloggingMonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17767164739217269193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1639536161376200832007-02-08T11:15:00.000+00:002007-02-08T11:15:00.000+00:00Of course, English is phonetic - you just have to ...Of course, English is phonetic - you just have to know which phonetics to use - germanic/teutonic, Latin, French, Greek etc!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-83193924610261322612007-02-07T20:02:00.000+00:002007-02-07T20:02:00.000+00:00Conversely, I learned German from my grandparents/...Conversely, I learned German from my grandparents/uncles/etc in the Saar near the French border. Everyone there thought it was hysterical to hear two small children speaking a French-influenced German dialect with English (Suffolk) accents. Shopkeepers used to have us ask for things twice not because they misunderstood, but because we sounded so strange!<br /><br />Plus the dialect was of buggerall use to me in my (standard) German language GCSE in the UK years later. Near as dammit a completely different language.Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11639094548415759560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-76731672533115825982007-02-07T13:43:00.000+00:002007-02-07T13:43:00.000+00:00When I started learning English at school, our tea...When I started learning English at school, our teacher was German, so I picked up his accent because there was no other chioce. Since I was 16 I had friends in northern England (Lancashire/Yorkshire) who were a bit bewildered about my strange accent and did their best to teach me "proper" English. They seemed to be quite pleased about the results of their efforts. When I started taking English classes at university, we had a teacher from somewhere in Kent, who went completely nuts about my northern accent. I remember I did not have a very good time...BloggingMonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17767164739217269193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-82753742241295342972007-02-07T13:39:00.000+00:002007-02-07T13:39:00.000+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.BloggingMonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17767164739217269193noreply@blogger.com