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Mt C finally gave in and signed us up for BritBox. While scrolling around he found something he thought we should watch. The Barking Murder.
Barking is an area in Greater London and where I spent my childhood. After watching for quite some time he asked me if I could understand what the characters were saying. I had to confess that I wasn't catching all the dialogue. We agreed that they didn't have the same accent as me! I wonder if it has changed over the years or if I have forgotten how I used to speak.
We also watched an episode of Shetland and struggled with the sdialogue. . I wonder if that goes with age?
We should be able to find some good shows - right?
 
KayTheCurler said:
Mt C finally gave in and signed us up for BritBox. While scrolling around he found something he thought we should watch. The Barking Murder.
Barking is an area in Greater London and where I spent my childhood. After watching for quite some time he asked me if I could understand what the characters were saying. I had to confess that I wasn't catching all the dialogue. We agreed that they didn't have the same accent as me! I wonder if it has changed over the years or if I have forgotten how I used to speak.
We also watched an episode of Shetland and struggled with the sdialogue. . I wonder if that goes with age?
We should be able to find some good shows - right?
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Depends on dialect. For me, Yorkshire only about 25%, lol
 
The diversity of accents and dialects in the relative small area of the UK and Ireland is quite interesting. I'm only familiar with a few of them through people I've known (Lowland Scots, Welsh) or my love of British TV.
 
I can get 50-75% of Cockney, Scouse and Cumbrian. Yorkshire's hopeless, I couldn't watch it without subtitles. In a pub situation, I smile and laugh and just hope I don't agree to anything egregiously awful...
 
BetteTheRed said:
I can get 50-75% of Cockney, Scouse and Cumbrian. Yorkshire's hopeless, I couldn't watch it without subtitles. In a pub situation, I smile and laugh and just hope I don't agree to anything egregiously awful...
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I once had a French woman complain about the dialects in Acadia ... I told her it was like sitting in an English Pub with a Irishman, Scotsman and Welshman ... defined chaos ... considering the Norman source of Gaelic ...

What do we know of our sources? Not much ... some power said it must all be put in his book and then King Jaimes died ...

Forgetting is popular ...
 
The worst of these dialects is the made-up words that just appear in the dialects, like the rhyming stuff of Cockney. Or the rando words. Who'd guess a Judy is a young woman, probably in possession of less than virginal morals, in Scouse?
 
BetteTheRed said:
The worst of these dialects is the made-up words that just appear in the dialects, like the rhyming stuff of Cockney. Or the rando words. Who'd guess a Judy is a young woman, probably in possession of less than virginal morals, in Scouse?
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With a grip on a powerful word ... what can you do with it other than scouse it under the grass cover ... a skirting effect in High Wah EH ... also other Polynesian movements ... all over wiggles ... can cause sensations ... especially in navy folk used to overdressing ... thus spectres!

One must back off some and look in ... thus that out of here appearance ... objective? Difficult concept ... some folk are badly stuck ... skewered ... by their own dumb votes! Bo Ted, floated or Shan ghaied ... shanked? Accept it life is a mess ...
 
a fascinating thing aboot UK languages is their...connection to ruins? i'm trying to come up with a metaphor

like how it is said to go back in history in UK all one has to do is walk 100m?

like these older structures scattered aboot the landscape, even within towns, cities...

or like this guy does

the older, hidden, world poking thru our more modern world?

just some musings
 
Delightful Life said:
like these older structures scattered aboot the landscape, even within towns, cities...
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In almost every town in England, somewhere near a church are likely to be the wooden "remains" of the original stocks, used to lock up people in public. They're just aged petrified little posts by now, but they're often encircled by a little cast iron fence. Very odd.
 
Like the trump card ... don't fence me in ... simpler folks invented play pens ... sometimes little stone boxes! Sometimes the phenomena of will cannot be contained ... dervish? Maybe dar vey ...
 
So Celestial Seasonings has always been a part of my life

Sleepytime with the cute relaxin bear
Red Zinger ZAPP!!!
Bengal Spice with the orange tabby

I did not know aboot their history

A cult, of sorts, involved with Eugenics and Mind Control lol

 
Adolescence is Raugh ... some folk cannot get beyond it and act immature into elder times ... psyche disentanglement with the greater being? It is a matter of epistemological searches ... like; "why are we being this way?" In zones there are no responses whatsoever because of lack ... thus vast agape passed on as something else (rapture). No knocks ... nothing to bump against? Thus 'n rapt 'd ... word of byre (cowshed it is, many beef).

Adolescence is difficult to mess with ... and there are authority that do not know any Beta ...
 
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