Littler Britain

waterhogboy said:
The Midlands - there's nothing important there so it's usually discounted! :D
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I hope there are no midlands people here, or we can wait for a British civillian war :p

So is it really true that people with different English accents can´t understand each other at some times?

I mean, the Frysian accent here can be hard to understand (i have family living there), but if they really must they can talk ´common´ Dutch too (if i talk to my nieces it goes just fine, if they ask each other something quick in between the conversation i get lost at times), except maybe for the old people who didn´t go to school were they had to learn common, and who never went out of Frysland either. :rolleyes: But can´t English people do the same thing? (And do the same problems occur when it comes to American, Australian or New Sealandian English?)
 
Yes. Northeners are harder to understand. Whereas I have a kinda universal accsent. I am not quite in the middle. Whereas southeners like Kent and Dorset have a hard acsent to understand. The ferther from the middle you go the harder the acsent is to understand. Also diffrent slang words are used. So their will always be words and phrases we whon't understand.
 
Ow, I've missed out on all the fun! Bugger...

One thing I need to get strait, roundabouts aren't the same as traffic circles?Traffic circles sound a whole less cooler than roundabouts of course! We have mostly roundabouts, but in crowed cities four squared traffic lights...

The driver's lisence is way expensieve, thousands and thousands... from £1818 to £2727... it differs! And here you have to take a silly course to be allowed to start practising, at 16. And the petrol prices are WAY HIGH, about £1.20.



I am wondering anyone from Herfordshire or about??
 
doesn't milton keynes have a church were the altar can move around because of air jets underneath?

I may of course be imagining this. I think it was on tv ages ago.

and did anyone have flash floods yesterday?
 
Erm it may. There are meny cherches in MK. The one close to me dosen't. But another might.

Flooding no but it was chucking it down...
 
lieke said:
I hope there are no midlands people here, or we can wait for a British civillian war :p

So is it really true that people with different English accents can´t understand each other at some times?

I mean, the Frysian accent here can be hard to understand (i have family living there), but if they really must they can talk ´common´ Dutch too (if i talk to my nieces it goes just fine, if they ask each other something quick in between the conversation i get lost at times), except maybe for the old people who didn´t go to school were they had to learn common, and who never went out of Frysland either. :rolleyes: But can´t English people do the same thing? (And do the same problems occur when it comes to American, Australian or New Sealandian English?)
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There are some really hard to understand English accents. I was in NEwcastle the past few days and I heard someone say, "But he's canny he's not a wrongun." I understood it but adding in the girl's strong accent I thought - most people would be thinking 'what on earth!?'

loverble's right. Northern accents are harder to understand. 'Typical English' comes in the Oxford, London, Cambridge triangle. Outside of that, it starts to get strange!!!
 
Newcastle? You keep travelling around the big island, don´t you? Don´t you miss Leeds? :p

But indeed, my first reaction was ´what on earth´ and after reading it a few times...

Yeah, it´s still what on earth.:rolleyes: But at least i have an excuse, HA! :D

What does it mean?
 
Nearly, it basically means, 'He's alright, he's not a bad kid.'

I study in NEwcastle so I'm always between Leeds and there. I tell you what, I'll write another Geordie (Newcastle accent) phrase, but write it how it sounds and see if you can make it out:

'Am gan doon toon; a dinnah wen all bi hyem laike!'

Who's gonna win first prize!?!?
 
waterhogboy said:
Nearly, it basically means, 'He's alright, he's not a bad kid.'

I study in NEwcastle so I'm always between Leeds and there. I tell you what, I'll write another Geordie (Newcastle accent) phrase, but write it how it sounds and see if you can make it out:

'Am gan doon toon; a dinnah wen all bi hyem laike!'

Who's gonna win first prize!?!?
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Wow, confusing, i never made it to what gair said it was :eek:

Can i retry with another one?:D
 
this is a standard sentence in the usa ...

"and i'm all, like, what's up with that?"

i challenge anyone to parse that sentence ... not "i said" or "i thought" what's up with that, but "i'm all, like ..." weird!
 
gair said:
"I'm going down town, I don't know when I'll be home"/like

=D

geordie accent is meant to be really really similar to old english
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Perfect translation!!! 10 out of 10!!

I'll try another one - but this time I'll do a Mackam accent which is from Sunderland (similar to Geordie though)! :D

"A sed ad mackim a cup'a tee wi sum wa'uh anuh ke'l"

That's alot easier, but just so you know the ' means a glottal stop which is the sound you make in the middle of 'uh oh'! It's used alot in english dialects. I use it to end words like 'bat' and in the middle of words like 'writer'. Just found a good example - watch ali_f's adaptation of Magician's Nephew and ali (Digory) uses them. Perfect use of glottal in English - listen for t's in the middle of words! It's also worth a watch anyway! Go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYspBmtYY84

On a different subject, I went to London this weekend (I know Lieke - I am getting around a bit!) and hated it. It's such a concrete city! It reminded me of being in an American city to be honest. Admittedly I was only i nthe suburbs to the south of the city but still... I much prefer the north...
 
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I said I'd make him a cup of tea with some water and a kettle

north is best =)

elision is a northern thing too, eg trouble at t'mill. Which for saying I should be shot *is led away by the northern cliche police*

Waterhogboy do you say stuff like "I'm mithered to bits" and "eugh I'm all slutched up"?
when I went to uni I just got blank looks when I said that sort of thing.
 
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