Loss of the classic brit accent?

[fluffflinger]

It's all a matter of opinion I guess but I'm with you Studders!

However is it them or just our age? :wink:

 

[studders]

Definitely not us Richard, they talk complete gibberish.
There was a film I watched some time back, can't recall the name, in it there was a White Character talking to a group of Black 'street' kids, he was so OTT they couldn't understand a word he said.

 

[RogerS]

Definitely not us Richard, they talk complete gibberish.
There was a film I watched some time back, can't recall the name, in it there was a White Character talking to a group of Black 'street' kids, he was so OTT they couldn't understand a word he said.

Was that The Sermon on the Mount ?

 

[studders]

Was that The Sermon on the Mount ?

Nah Man, dis woz a nudda ting, innit.

 

[Jacob]

For the benefit of Jacob's pedantry, the local Welsh accent is dissapearing, to be heard at its strongest only amongst the older generation.
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That's more like it.
But you may be wrong. It's a very subjective thing. When I moved back to Derbyshire from Wales I found the local accent really foreign, as though there had been a revival in my absence.
Soon picked it up. My kids had a welsh accent when they got here but lost it in a few weeks.
More strange than the accent was the hilarious Derbyshire foul language as the Welsh don't swear quite so energetically.
We soon picked that up too.

 

[bugbear]

When I moved back to Derbyshire from Wales I found the local accent really foreign, as though there had been a revival in my absence.

More likely you'd just lost the knack (or "ear"). Languages and accents can be dropped as well as picked up.

BugBear

 

[Jacob]

When I moved back to Derbyshire from Wales I found the local accent really foreign, as though there had been a revival in my absence.

More likely you'd just lost the knack (or "ear")........

BugBear

That's the point I was trying to make :roll: i.e. it's subjective (see above) - you can also not hear it if it has become familiar.

My parents got a shock some years back when they took their first cassette recorder with them on holiday, to do a spoken diary. The playback showed up their origins really clearly (Notts/Derbys borders). They were really surprised and had never noticed this before, having spent a lot of time being a bit snobby trying to get me to speak proper! Served um reet!