Tarlybarn, Brark ubarma, Parkystarn...

Is that how everyone speaks in the yuk these days?

We have an English tv channel here called BBC World. I was just watching
it whilst waiting for my soup. We're not just talking BBC employees -
everyone interviewed seems to be infected.

Even those from the frozen north of England, surely the home of the rock
hard vowel, are heard to order here in bars "tinto de vraarno" (the word
is "verano" 1 r and 1 a).

Will I have to speak like that to be understood next time I'm there?

 

'Brark' is the correct pronunciation. Can't say I've noticed Tarlybarn
& Parkystarn though.

 

More importantly, why did this thread just vanish from my newsreader?
Has the german server killfiled me?

 

I thought it was pronounced 'Saddam Hussein Osama'.

 

Only by his closest friends.

 

Is Krusty pronounced 'post-editing ****'?

 

It is, but you can just call me ****.

 

What, pronouncing words correctly?

No, not generally, but the BBC have an entire department devoted to it.

 

Will you foork.

T*a*lib*a*an,

Bar*a*k *O* barma

P*A*kist*a*n

Just like it ever was. Those on TV? They're just cahnts.


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More importantly, why did this thread just vanish from my newsreader?
Has the german server killfiled me?

Nope.

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How does that work? Two As, or one drawn out A (third syllable)?

Why the second R?

Oh, capital letter means stress?

I've been using a phonetic language so long now, I forget how to
pronounce English. There's no sense in it. Why doesn't it have accents
and stuff? Would be so much easier.

 

If you want to know how to pronounce Pakistan, listen to how someone
from Pakistan says it. If you want to know how to pronounce Barack
Obama, listen to how the POTUS himself says it.

But, for the love of god, don't take your linguistic tuition from a
fucking northerner.

 

ogden posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_Harrison

 

Rex Harrison may have been a northerner but I very much doubt 'enry
'iggins was.

 

The * *'s are just to emphasise the "hard" letter in the word.

It's how they say it oop 'ere. I've also heard lots of TV reporters stick an
extra R in there.

Ind*ee*dy

Coz we're all so fucking clever, we just know when to accent a particular
letter. Innit.


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I'll 'ave you know, I'm a sitting and typing northerner, not a fucking one.

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sounds awfully technical.

 

It is for southern types.


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if he says there is a hard letter i'm sure there is one. they all look pretty
easy to me, though.

 

Did I ever say I had?


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