---- Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Once a month (whether required or not) a Cockney will take a "barf in 'o' wa'er". It's one of their (possibly the only) endearing characteristics. > > 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. -- 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.
