What's in an accent - Page 3

garinda · 30-01-2012, 17:57

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Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob

It has often puzzled me why people who speak with the broadest and most convoluted scots accent can sing in purest mid-atlantic.

Yes, you'd never know Lulu was a ginger gonk, in little tartan trews, just from listening to her records.

jaysay · 30-01-2012, 18:14

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Originally Posted by garinda

Yes, you'd never know Lulu was a ginger gonk, in little tartan trews, just from listening to her records.

LuLu ain't bad really, her accent isn't as pronounced as it used to be, but Clare Grogan, hell her accent is still as thick as treacle

garinda · 30-01-2012, 18:29

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Originally Posted by jaysay

LuLu ain't bad really, her accent isn't as pronounced as it used to be, but Clare Grogan, hell her accent is still as thick as treacle

Lulu has no Scottish accent.

Saw her talking about it the other day.

She can still do a strong Weegie accent, but was only fifteen when she moved to London, and it just changed, because at first no one could understand the poor we hen.

Acrylic-bob · 30-01-2012, 18:32

And now everyone wishes they couldn't understand her, the wee auld broiler.

garinda · 30-01-2012, 18:34

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Originally Posted by garinda

Lulu has no Scottish accent.

Saw her talking about it the other day.

She can still do a strong Weegie accent, but was only fifteen when she moved to London, and it just changed, because at first no one could understand the poor we hen.

Thinking about it, I'm a good mimic, and can do most accents passably, when I lived in Scotland, although I never had a a Scottish accent, to put people at their ease, I did use particular Scottish words, such as wee, dreaky, and stay.

jaysay · 30-01-2012, 18:34

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Originally Posted by garinda

Lulu has no Scottish accent.

Saw her talking about it the other day.

She can still do a strong Weegie accent, but was only fifteen when she moved to London, and it just changed, because at first no one could understand the poor we hen.

Once actually saw a program about her Rindi, she went back to her roots and the accent came back as soon as she started talking to old friends, she actually commented on the fact, mind you actors have to learn accents for certain parts, bit of a petty Russell Crowe didn't quite get the English accent right when he played Robin Hood

garinda · 30-01-2012, 18:37

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Originally Posted by jaysay

Once actually saw a program about her Rindi, she went back to her roots and the accent came back as soon as she started talking to old friends, she actually commented on the fact, mind you actors have to learn accents for certain parts, bit of a petty Russell Crowe didn't quite get the English accent right when he played Robin Hood

Yes, should have asked Dick Van Dyke, 'ow to pall it orf, cor blimmy, govnar.

jaysay · 30-01-2012, 18:38

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Originally Posted by garinda

Thinking about it, I'm a good mimic, and can do most accents passably, when I lived in Scotland, although I never had a a Scottish accent, to put people at their ease, I did use particular Scottish words, such as wee, dreaky, and stay.

I used to work with a Glaswegian, and picked up a lot of saying over a two year period, got the Slange of to a tee

Acrylic-bob · 30-01-2012, 18:50

Well we know where to come if we ever need a translation. Gosh, Hot Buns and a linguist too. What a man!

cashman · 30-01-2012, 18:53

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Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob

Well we know where to come if we ever need a translation. Gosh, Hot Buns and a linguist too. What a man!

Yeh shouldn't mock the afflicted bob.

mobertol · 30-01-2012, 19:06

My best friend has been living on the outskirts of Belfast for the last 12 years -she is from Accy, passed through Brussels for 12 years where she spoke mainly French but can do a fantastic "Norn Ir'n" accent -I can't understand a word of it but it doesn't bug me.

Tower of Babel at work within our one United Kingdom -imagine how it is across the whole world.

As a side-note I watched an excellent film (Il Vento Fa Il Suo Giro - The Wind Blows Around) last week in "Occitane" - the old Lingue D'Oc of Southern France, a dialect which is still alive in certain Alpine valleys in Italy. Having lived in Piedmont for 8 years, near Turin, I can understand Piemontese -which is practically a different language to Italian. This combined with my Italian and French means I can follow about 90% of Occitane.

Before i learned Italian I learned to speak and understand the dialect of Pavia (Pavese) which is what my new Italian family spoke (Italian came later through watching RAI, the equivalent of the BBC in Italy). I can also understand a wide range of different Italian dialects although i can't speak them like Pavese or Piemontese .

Even though American English is now permeating most English speaking and European countries - the diversity and local identity which a dialect gives will hopefully persist a little longer but slowly and surely they will die out which is a great shame.