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Old 26-12-2011, 19:35   #32
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Re: Linguistic tic's and crutches

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Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob View Post
prior to 1968
What was so special about 1968?

I think the changes set in about ten years prior to that.

Angry young men, kitchen sink dramas, and students at RADA, no longer trying to rid themselves of their provincial accents.

Language is in a constant state of flux.

Always has been. Always will be.

Though we'll always grumble, about those changes.

Personally I can't stand to listen to the mockney, Asian/West Indian hybrid accent, that's spoken by spotty white yoofs.

When was the golden age of spoken English, and where was it spoken?

Milford, or Weatherfield, the East End?





(Couldn't find the brilliant Victoria Wood parody, of a cheerful, chirpy cockney and her mother, filmed at a London bomb site, Pathé News style. Using that clipped, working class accent, only ever seen in Ealing Comedies. )
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