thanks for the clarification, I actually had put a question mark after the "british" cuz I couldnt choose between british & aussie. & all this time I thought cockney was the twang you guys were proud of. I wish I could extoll the virtues of wisconsinese but really all I can say is that people around here say that it is the northern midwest version of english that makes for good newscasters read generic.
mIEKAL
On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 02:52 AM, alan bowman wrote:
yep that's mine!
Ive got one track here without an owner.... "sentence.mp3"..... alan
bowman is that yours? voice piece with a british? accent...
british accent? is there such a thing? (I'm not taking you for a ride here
miekal - it's someting that i'm interested in) i guess there's english,
scottish, irish and welsh ones, could there be a generic british accent?
people, americans especially, often think i'm from scotland or ireland (and
therefore related to there friend who's a nyc copper) when in fact i'm from
the north east of england (Quote from a young new yorker i met -"gee! isn't
that an island near scotland?) and have a particular accent, although i
usually have to speak properly. last night i was out with my cousin and 3
other blokes from newcastle (The Toon) and nobody around us could understand
a word that was said - the newcastle dialect and accent is the nearest to
old english as you'll get and is nearer to norwegian and anglo saxon than
english. terms like toon (town), aal laarn ya (i'll teach you), aad wife
(old woman) are pure anglo saxon. combine this with the fact that the
accent changes just about every mile and questions begin to arise. accents
change over such short distances all over the uk that linguistic borders
e.g. scottish/english/ english/welsh are blurred (ireland is different
because of the water) but there is the fact that there is a welsh language
(totally incomprehensible to anyone but the welsh, but a bit like dutch in
the amount of phlegm it produces, and the scots and irish have their own
versions of gaelic.
and now i've completely forgotten what i was on aboot!
yes that mp3 is mine!
anybody else got any unfinished linguistic points to raise?
i am now going to record this email in 'geordie' for anyone who wants to
here the accent - e-mail me for a copy
cheers alan
