It's no good asking Cotty to speak Cockney, he's from Oxford. To speak Cockney properly you have to have been born within the sound of Bow Bells.
This is Cockney: Lawd lavadak gorblimey dahlin' you fackin' sle-e-e-eg. Shat it! dahn vee ole bull'n'bush Mary Poppins This is how it sounds, coming from an authentic Londoner in the sort of scene you can see pretty much every day somewhere in London: http://tinyurl.com/cl2nnr http://video.google.co.uk/videosearch?num=100&hl=en&q=youtube%20dick%20van%2 0dyke%20poppins&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv#q=dick+van+dyke+poppins&hl=en&emb= 1 Now 'ow does that sound? Once you've mastered that you can move on to Advanced English Pronunciation, with Capt. Jack Sparrow. Bob > > Darn, I forgot to ask Cotty to speak some cockney English to > me when we > met back in 2005. I don't recall him having any impression of even > slightest potential to appear brow beating... > > ;-) > > Boris > > David Savage wrote: > > Intimidate. Bully. > > > > DS > > > > 2009/2/17 Boris Liberman <[email protected]>: > >> What exactly "brow-beating" means, please? > >> > >> ;-) > >> > >> Cotty wrote: > >>> And on-topic. > >>> > >>> My son Stefan has been accepted for some work experience in the > >>> photography dept. at our local paper, The Oxford Mail > (and sister paper > >>> The Oxford Times) for a week in July :-) Not without a > little brow- > >>> beating from yours truly of course, but nonetheless, > here's the chap in > >>> action: > >>> > >>> <http://www.seeingeye.tv/pages/video.html> > >>> > >>> Yes, that's a Pentax. > >>> > >>> -- > >>> > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> Cotty -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
