#50

Was trying to think of some but can’t think of anything specific, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard her phrase something in the same way that I would have.

Her dad just mumbles incomprehensibly so I go full smile and nod mode with him and laugh when he looks at me expectantly. Standard.

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#51

I find accents really interesting. For example, it fascinates me how someone from, say, Manchester or Birmingham for arguments sake, would hear a Cornwall or Devon accent and wouldn’t know if that person was from down there or Bristol or Somerset or wherever, but to my ears, they’re completely different. I guess it’s the same as me not being able to differentiate between Yorkshire and Lancashire for example. Fascinating.

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#52

My half-Swedish ex and her fully Swedish mum used to switch between languages mid-sentence, to the extent that one or the other would end up speaking to me in Swedish without noticing.

#54

I don’t know what any accent from further south than me sounds like apart from cockney

#55

Maybe that was a bad example actually, different types of Midlands accents would be a better one.

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#56

Please may I have a rewind

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#57

just remembered listening to a JVN podcast episode about language recently. It didn’t go into much depth, as it can’t really in half an hour, but it distracted me enough to absolutely tonk a speed bump at one point.

I used think it would be great if we just all understand each other, but there’s so much beauty in the different ways people communicate with you. you can pick up new ideas or emotions or just something might make more sense in one language but when communicated in another one, not really make much sense.

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#58

Generic southern accent is taking over the country…

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#59

Mentioned on here before but it’s fascinating how most local regions have some kind of unique derogatory description for poorer people, like ‘chav’ and ‘ned’. Round my way the favourite term was ‘scudders’ and I’ve not heard that anywhere else in the country.

Not so many derogatory comments for very well-off people in comparison. The great British class obsession at play.

#60

CAN I GRAB A WITNESS?!?

#61

think these are the only accents I could recognise from England:

Manchester
Liverpool
Birmingham
Midlands
Cockney
Newcastle

I assume there are a few more though?

#62

Can I have a beer?
One beer please?
Oi! Mate! Beer!

#63

nobody would say one beer please, that’s rude

#64

You’re missing at least 3 giant sections of the country!

#65

I wasn’t including Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland because I can’t distinguish anything there

#66

Yeah, should be buying one for your pals too I guess

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#67

I meant Devon & Cornwall, Bristol etc and the South East

#68

like you always should say can I or something similar otherwise you’re implying that they have no choice in serving you

#69

I think this is one of the best things about learning a foreign language. Most of the time in English I never think about how a word has come about, but learning words/sentence structures from scratch in a different language really illustrates how language evolves :+1:

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#70

I don’t know where they are I’m afraid and would just say they speak more or less like me