How do you feel about accents and dialects?

Whiskas said:
The only accent that annoys me is actually Home Counties/ South of England "received pronounciation".

It just makes me think of vacuous over-privileged public schoolboys who think they're superior to everyone else. The "Nice but dim" Tim's of this world :)
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Bah, at least you can understand what we're saying. :p

I'm really bad with accents, anyone with a strong accent would have more luck talking to a brick wall than me as I just can't understand them.

Always find the dudley accent a laugh, they could be crying out in pain and it would still sound funny. :D
 
Voltar said:
'wee dram' thats equally hilarious as any other nonsensical saying in the UK that I've heard.
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Do you know what a dram is? If you do then it makes perfect sense, just like going for a swift half does - ok so you don't actually drink a half, it is always a pint as a matter of principle but y'know. ;)
 
Voltar said:
Either very misguided inasmuchas you've only met said morons or there's a chunk missing from your shoulder....
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You'll find I'm perfectly balanced- I have a chip on both shoulders ;)

Indlvidually the one's I've met have generally been nice but the amount of noise produced by these braying mobs is really annoying as is the way they treat any space they can congregate in be it a computer lab, a cafe, the library as an extension of their own dorm rooms to be a royal PITA.

Thankfully I don't get annoyed by them now as I rarely have to deal with undergraduates and Im based at the Science and Engineering campus anyway :)
 
semi-pro waster said:
Do you know what a dram is? If you do then it makes perfect sense, just like going for a swift half does - ok so you don't actually drink a half, it is always a pint as a matter of principle but y'know. ;)
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yeah I do. It's just a funny word to analyse. How could a dram ever become a measure of a spirit (normally used in conjunction with whisky no?) just look at the word and the way it sounds and wonder how it got the meaning that we know and love.
Just like cake. Omg don't get me started about that.

too late :(
 
The Welsh kid's accent on that Persil advert REALLY REALLY irritates me. I despise the way they "fail" to pronounce some words, and I don't know why :confused: :(
 
Don't know what you're all bleating on about! Everyone already knows that the Potteries dialect and accent is by far the superior one. :)
 
scouse - thief and generally horrible accent
yorkshire - dull and inbred
geordie/brummie - thick
cockney - dodgy dealer character
manc - home
welsh - thick/can't be taken seriously
bristol - farmer
norfolk - inbred
south london (bruv, innit etc) -
home counties - boringly middle class
essex - ****
scottish - headcases
 
semi-pro waster said:
//edit - as for my own accent, it is quite clearly Scottish (not Irish as I've been told before :eek:) but beyond that most people struggle to narrow it down, perhaps oddly I sound a lot more Scottish when I'm travelling abroad.
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I'm pretty much the same. I've always had friends from quite a wide area with different accents, so mine has been muddled for a long time. I have had people who grew up 10 miles away from me struggle to pinpoint my accent as even being from Fife!

I don't mind soft accents, but I think that generally people with very strong accents come across as a bit stupid. For example, whenever I visit Glasgow, the strongest accents always come from the drunks sitting in doorways, but I have a lecturer from the west coast, and her accent is very soft.

I don't like colloquialisms at all, same goes for text speak etc.
 
I just can't get on with a Liverpuddlian accent.

Nothing against the people of Liverpool, I just find it grating :(
 
I'm a big fan of accents in general, I like that they bestow some individuality on a person. For this reason, I'm not keen on characterless, received pronounciation accents found mainly in the home counties, but increasingly elsewhere. I've got a mate from Walsall and his accent does my head in a bit, but at least its unique.

I've got quite a strong accent myself, which would have been found in many parts of Nottingham city many years ago, but not anymore. It's south Yorkshire-esque but distinctly different, very ubiquitous in Mansfield, Chesterfield and the area.
 
Azagoth said:
Don't know what you're all bleating on about! Everyone already knows that the Potteries dialect and accent is by far the superior one. :)
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I'll go with this, as my accent is a bit of a cross of Potteries/Derby as I live and grew up just outside Uttoxeter. It's like a weak Northern accent so we're not posh, but we're not daft :D
 
Some accents do annoy me a tad. Liverpool accents can grate on my nerves for example, but I don't think it reflects a persons IQ as said above.

Oddly enough, most "foreign" accents do not annoy me in the slightest.

America, German, French, Russian, Australian, it doesn't really bother me at all. (indeed, on females those accents can sound rather cute...)

I really dislike when people "butcher" the language though. When I hear words like "init" and the general way that chavs and younger people now speak, I feel just a little sad inside. :(

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Oh, and while I am on the subject, even when doing text's from my cell phone, I typically type everything out fully. One pet hate if mine is when people use things like kk in a text. Ok is the same amount of letters. Its even worse on a keyboard. The keys are right next to each other for the love of goodness. This isn't to say that I have great grammar you understand (especially on an internet forum) But please at least put a little effort in.
 
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