ChatterBank4 mins ago
Do accents, twangs or little things said by people from different areas grind your gears like they do mine?
66 Answers
I love people from all walks of life as diversity and difference is the spice of life, but i can't for the life of me ever get to grips with the way country folk talk, the way they say "Summat" instead of something, the way they say "T" instead of The and yesterday i was standing in trafalgar square and actually heard someone say with a slow drawl "we had the BESTEST time didn't we" ARRGH! "Bestest"? I actually asked him where he was from and he told me and i thought i will seriously avoid ever going to that place if they all talk like that, lol.
What accent or the way people talk from the uk really enrages you?
What accent or the way people talk from the uk really enrages you?
Answers
Best Answer
No best answer has yet been selected by Cockneycarl. Once a best answer has been selected, it will be shown here.
For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.
Cockneycarl, they're may be clue in your name. I worked in the courts that covered East London, from Bow to Snaresbrook Crown Court, all my working life, and noticed, certainly in later years, people only called themselves cockneys for sentimental reasons. They didn't speak much like their great -grandfathers would have done, and had generally had not been brought up in the old East end. They had got what was nearer to Estuary accents.They were about as cockney as Irish Americans were Irish; it was a historic link, rather than reality.
But you may be a survivor .
But you may be a survivor .
I don,t mind accents as long as I can understand them but what I dislike the most is words not being said correctly
BEETROOT said as BEE-ROO- ,or WATER as WA-ER used to annoy me but just recently I have heard more than one person who cannot say FLOWERS ,I can,t even try to spell how it sounds but something like FLAAARRRS is the closest I can get
BEETROOT said as BEE-ROO- ,or WATER as WA-ER used to annoy me but just recently I have heard more than one person who cannot say FLOWERS ,I can,t even try to spell how it sounds but something like FLAAARRRS is the closest I can get
i am from liverpool, but i dont have a strong accent - mine is considered posh by some with very scouse accents
have to say i dont like it when people seem to be trying to be as scouse possible, exaggerating everything...sounding like they've got a gob full of glass ... why do that?
accentwise i dont really hate any - but what jars most with me is people with any accent and trying to disguise it and speak 'posh' - but not doing a very good job.
every few words they slip a bit and certain words in particular suddenly revert and they sound almost like that character in the fast show that speaks spanish and then suddenly geordie.
i ahve noticed many actors do this... just makes them sound bizarre.
i also hate it when actors have roles that they simply cannot do the accent for
unless you can do it convincingly, faking any accent is awful
have to say i dont like it when people seem to be trying to be as scouse possible, exaggerating everything...sounding like they've got a gob full of glass ... why do that?
accentwise i dont really hate any - but what jars most with me is people with any accent and trying to disguise it and speak 'posh' - but not doing a very good job.
every few words they slip a bit and certain words in particular suddenly revert and they sound almost like that character in the fast show that speaks spanish and then suddenly geordie.
i ahve noticed many actors do this... just makes them sound bizarre.
i also hate it when actors have roles that they simply cannot do the accent for
unless you can do it convincingly, faking any accent is awful
Related Questions
Sorry, we can't find any related questions. Try using the search bar at the top of the page to search for some keywords, or choose a topic and submit your own question.