Casual UK @feddit.uk

2mo ago

I need all of them

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Depends on which accent.
- As far as Americans are concerned, there are only 2 British accents:
  Villain or wise mentor: Queen's English
  Henchman or comic relief: Cockney
  I would really like to see a movie about a team up between detectives with Yorkshire, Brummie and Scouse accents; working cross regionally to bring down a gang of criminals. Hardcoded subtitles for the Americans please.
  
  Michael Cain would like to have a word about the Cockney accent typecasting.
  
  Hey now, I've watched enough Simon Roper to know that's not true.
  
  In Flushed Away, is Rita's accent Cockney? It's certainly not Coruscanti
- Many yanks don't tend to think of brummie or scouse...
  
  Why go with two English accents and not Irish and Scottish?
- Anecdotal..
  British gal is visiting New York. Loves it and makes plenty of friends. She learns that if she has a job offer she can almost certainly get permission to stay. Goes to an employment agency and gets an interview the same day. Hired to a prestigious firm almost immediately. They tell her they love her classy British accent. In the UK she was lower middle class.
  edit = silly me. I forgot that 'middle class' means different things.
  At home, she would be a barmaid at the local.
  In NYC she was a receptionist in a law firm on Madison Avenue.
  
  lower middle class
  Do you mean in US terms or UK? That phrase means something very different in the UK.
  
  In the UK she was lower middle class.
  Did she speak RP tho? Or is this so nuanced in the UK that everyone can tell when you try to speak RP but come from a lower middle class family?
- It does, but I once met a Mancunian who sounded, in his own words, common as muck and rough as fuck to a fellow brit, but in the states was treated like Shakespeare
- Oi! That's a right load of poppycock!
  
  +20 intelligence

Lenny Bruce said "Thank God Einstein came from Germany! If he'd told people about the Theory of Relativity in a Georgia accent they'd have laughed him out of the college."

Which British accent though? Like RP will make you sound intelligent, West Country makes you sound like a farmer, Northern Irish makes you sound like you're about to stab someone, Edinburgh makes you sound like a lawyer, Glaswegian makes you sound like a docker, Liverpudlian makes you sound like a rascal, Yorkshire makes you sound like a Union leader, and Shetland makes you sound like a folklorist.
- And Welsh (particularly central Wales) makes you sound irresistible. That might just be me mind.
- ASAR - All Scousers are Rascals
- I need a Shetland voice actor to read the Silmarillion...
- We know for certain we can rule out the Dudley accent anyway.

don't worry, this malady can be cured by following british politics for a month or two
- I think we were worse than America when we had the conveyer belt of PMs
  
  feel like the conveyor might restart any time soon.
  
  It's a little tradition that we've sadly stopped. Everyone in the country could have had to go by now.
  
  Was that the one with fresh lettuce on it?
- Just listen to Boris Johnson talk. Dude's head is so far up his ass he can taste his own hair.
- A month or two? Seeing the age verification ordeal changed my mind in a matter of 30 seconds.

This is true- am British, lived in America. Also good for dating

It’s because we know you didn’t go to school in America

As an American, Boris Johnson and Nigel Garage still sound like morons to me. Factoring in a 20 IQ accent upgrade, puts them in the low 50s. How are they even able to speak?
- Life finds a way to fuck shit up.
  
  My favorite is how autocorrect turned Farage into Garage. More life fucking things up.
- How does Boris being born in New York change your opinion?
- How are they even able to speak?
  Money and attention. Give a broken record a platform and watch as people dance to the irregular beat

Isn't that already how it works in the UK, for RP? Which is probably the "British accent" that most non-Brits are thinking of, anyway.
- Not necessarily. In many places RP labels you as a posh wanker.
  
  ...or a Tory, Criminal or Conman (or all of the above).

I take twenty away.
I know what you people do at your soccer hooliganeries.
- Ok but the word "soccer" doesn't even exist outside the USA.
  
  Nah, they play soccer in Canada, Australia, Japan, and a few other places
  
  Except for the part about the term starting in the UK in the 1880s as slang for Association Football to distinguish it from ~~rugger~~ "Rugby Football" where it later fell out of fashion but by then had made it's way to America and, due to the popularity of Gridiron Football taking the name "football," needed to be distinguished by another name, and what better to use than the previously established slang term, from Britain, "soccer."

One summer, when I was 19, I became deeply infatuated with a British girl and it took me two full weeks to realize she was really dumb.

Clearly never spoken to a brummy
- The most sensual accent known to man

Then you see a pack of them getting off a Ryan Air or Wizz flight for a stag party in a place they picked for the sole reason of cheap pints and realize how misguided you were all along.

If you sound like Tom Hiddleston, sure.
If you sound like Shaun Ryder, probably not.

My boyfriend from the UK is actually staying with us right now and damn, the accent is powerful. Free food at restaurants, free drinks at bars. People just jumping into our conversations because they want to talk to him. Earlier this week we were taking the train to do some shopping, and when the ticket taker came around to get our tickets, he just said 'Oh, I'm from leeds, I didn't know I needed a ticket' (Even though I bought one for each of us already) and it was fine. Ticket taker just said 'Oh its all good, welcome to america' and just.... moved on.

Oi mate how many points do Oi get with my Aussie vibe?
- You get 10 fun points, 10 adventure points, and 30 hard drinking points. We'll treat you like people treat every American in places where they don't see a lot of Americans.
  "So, uh, do you know Mel Gibson/Hugh Jackman/the Flight of the Concords guys?"
  "Mate, I used to live the next Cattle Station over from Mel Gibson/Hugh Jackman/the Flight of the Concords blokes!"
- +5 knife size
  +7 can throwing
  -2 etiquette
- About 5 surfer points

In their defence, Queens English (Kings English now?) or RP was what most (older) Brits grew up hearing from news and documentaries. I'm still conditioned to give more weight to an argument given in a formal accent.
Though I do love how shocked Americans are by the range of British accents. E.g. the pirate, in "Treasure Island" was using a particularly thick West country accent.
Also see "Hot Fuzz" for the best play on accents!
- He says “an ‘edge is an ‘edge, only chopped it doon cause couldn’t see view no more waz monin bout?”

Depends which British accent. This post is referring to, probably, a fancy southerner accent, but if you speak like a crazed man from Birmingham, less so I'd imagine.

How do You think this works for central Europe?
- Americans mostly just engage with the UK through high budget BBC productions or posh Brits who are rich enough to fly over here. Continental Europeans mostly deal with yobs flying Ryanair to Villinus or Amsterdam for Stag parties.

Well, if we're actually talking TX here, wouldn't that just about put you into Mensa territory - relatively speaking, of course?
- Haha yeah texas dumb
  Also though, not in terms of IQ. Texas is exactly average, which makes sense because it has a massive population.
  Also the mensa cutoff is top 2% of general population or like 130.
  
  That's ok, they're only functionally literate. They don't know any better and didn't say it in a way that makes me think they've got the necessary accent to have extra intelligence.
  
  It was a joke. I'm honestly dunking on them mainly because I don't care for the dominant political mindset. I know they have the same intelligence mix as most any other large populace.

I'm pretty sure that doesn't apply to someone who speaks heavy Brummie or Scouse.

Can I trade them for groceries?

Even the smart Brits are so bad at names that they just change them to English or mispronounce them to sound more white

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