Does anyone else hate the Glottal Stop?

[ladybirder]

One of my adult children, a few years ago, probably to annoy me, decided to adopt estuary English. I have just been asked by him to put some wa-er in the ke-ul for a cup of tea so he'll feel be-er. I have also just seen an Asda ad on the TV where the girl talks about something being pos-i-ive. SCREAM ........ Why can't people speak properly nowadays? I can understand if everyone around you speaks that way then you are going to pick it up and of course it's a regional thing, I think. But he has made a conscious decision to adopt this accent and thinks it makes him sound cool. Incidentally my daugh-er thinks he's a right plonker. What do you think? Go on hit me with it I can take it.

[jackthehat]

My boy went down the route? of the upward inflection? both at the end? and in the middle? of his sentences?........:o(

Thankfully it was short-lived.

[Canary42]

Yes, I do.

[EvianBaby]

Lol, that aussie thing is spreading.

[Mosaic]

There's a cocktail of trendiness, peer group pressure and media influence going on. I find it irritating but nowhere near as bad as gangsta text and speak. I'd rather listen all day to fingernails on blackboards.

[rockyracoon]

Lol, he should have asked for a cuppa tea. Everyone spoke like that when I was growing it so it was kind of how I spoke, I try really hard to speak properly, I was constantly correcting the kids when they were young and they speak very well. A lot of kids round here speak, like, innit, with a bit of West Indian twang thrown in for good meaure, now that drives me mad.

[WyeDyed]

A friend would admonish her children with "There are two T's in better, pronounce one of them"
Hopefully' he will eventually realise that he sounds like a Neanderthal and get over it.

[owdhamer]

ignore him till he taliks sense

[ladybirder]

You mean like asking a question when you're not Jack - my daughter did that for a while after spending a few years in Oz so at least she had an excuse.
Mosaic at least I haven't heard an "innit" yet but I'm bracing myself.
Rocky all my children spoke properly and would be pointed in the right direction if they didn't. Now I ask myself why I bothered. Luckily my other children think he's as daft as I do.

[jackthehat]

That's the one........

Luckily I think he realised that he sounded like a plonker and stopped it.
Well, that and me answering his 'question' every time it sounded like he had asked on. His exasperation with me quickly aided his resumption of normal speech patterns. :o)

[ladybirder]

LOL. Very clever Jack. OK, I'll play him at his own game then. I'm off to practise my own glottal stop:-)
or
I could take owdhammer's suggestion and ignore him until he talks sense. Hmm, he's been doing it for a few years now so I don't think he'll stop any time soon.

[WyeDyed]

If you're going to do it, do it properly, Ladybirder.
Don't just drop your Ts, drop your Ds and Hs too and turn Th into F; thus: "I fumpt 'im di'n' I"

[ladybirder]

OMG, perish the fought WyeDyed.

Have to say I'm surprised how many peeps have agreed with me. Not just me then:-)

[FredPuli43]

He is learning mockney! That is, adopting a mock 'cockney' (really an estuary English) accent. Ignore it. 'Mockney' is what Nigel Kennedy, the violinist, has learned. He was on TV as a boy prodigy when he spoke with a very 'correct' accent,dead posh. Now, it's quite another ma--er.
If he does it to annoy you, ignore it and he won't get the satisfaction. If not to annoy you, still ignore it; it's his choice !

If he adopts estuary grammar ( 'they was' etc), then you should worry!

[ladybirder]

LOL Fred. Yes I remember the NK thing. He got "mocked" for it at the time. But look how long he's kept it up:-(

My son is married so I don't have to live with it thank goodness. Oh the grammar, that's another thing. Thud.

[jamesnan]

This has been one of the things to wind me up for many years! Sound all the letters of the word - not half of them.

[jno]

how do you pronounce "half", jamesnan" How do you pronounce Featherstonehaugh? (It's Fanshaw.) English pronunciation has been all over the shop for centuries and so has spelling. Why is it receipt but deceit? Why is there an S in island? (Answer: it got confused with isle.) (And do you say the W in answer?)

[Ann]

It really grates on me - but sometimes it is highly amusing. There was a girl interviewed on TV the other night talking really fast (as youngsters do!) referring to her ta-oo. Hubby looked at me over his newspaper with puzzled look on his face "What on earth is she on about?" Neither of us could make it out what she was saying until she pointed to her arm. We fell about laughing ................ its so stupid, like a new language!

[FredPuli43]

Oh, I dunno. Featherstonehaugh is Feston-hew, round 'ere.
Curious how what is accepted ain't so later. The country squire went 'untin, fishin' and shootin' . The Prince of Wales (Edward VII) once ridiculed a Mr Harris, who was wearing newly fashionable, but somewhat casual, clothes, with "Goin' rattin', 'Arris?' Many a true Cockney would 'ave sounded no 'haitch' and lost the 'ing' sound as His Royal Highness did.

Ladybirder, do tell, what bad grammar does the son employ? Does he have all this for 'I was' etc': I were, you was, he were,we was, they was, or employ some local variant thereof ?

[ladybirder]

You've got it Fred, we was etc. Too painful to talk about. Grhhhh!
And he can't say No anymore. it's Naaaaaaa.
Thing is he has a good managerial position and I can't believe he speaks like that at work. He must switch back the minute he enters the building. You know, telephone voice and all that.
Or of course he could just switch it on when he sees me come into sight:-)