Post by Verbivore on Oct 5, 2019 11:09:19 GMT
I thought perhaps this a topic worthy of its own thread – it could be if there's sufficient interest. Speech takes us beyond the written aspects of English that we traditionally have discussed, but if it's of interest …
Two-and-a-half weeks into retirement, I've been so busy with a non-language project (automotive) that I've been too time poor, and too physically fatigued at days' end, to miss my recently relinquished language-based job. Or so I thought …
… until a chance encounter online took me on a wee binge of spoken Englishes. (I suspect there's no cure for my affliction.)
This first linked video (next line down) prompted my further searches.
#1
Perhaps it's nothing new to citizens of London, but the material in this first video was a novelty to this un-bronzed Aussie.
I found the above video interesting from phonetics / pronunciation and lexical angles as well as cultural / historical.
With my not being a typical Aussie pubbie, and my non-Britishness, many of the socio-cultural references were foreign to me. I have, however, worked in a couple of Aussie pubs, city and country. In some of those (e.g. the rough end of working-class Sydney and the rougher end of Newcastle, AU, a coal/iron/steel centre) I witnessed the occasional exchange such as the Bermondsey examples in this piece.
The honest rawness and the complete lack of sophistication I found rather appealing (not, I hope, condescendingly), and I believe I understood more than 80 per cent of the chatter – which I much enjoyed.
To continue with the more fruitful results of my searches …
Note: As an Antipodean I can’t assess the veracity of many of the following posted speech styles other than the two Aussies (Yeah, mate, they're dinki-di True Blue!), so should be interested in comments from those closer to such forms of our spoken language.
#2
30 Dialects of the English language in the UK
The maker of this piece claims to represent: Received Pronunciation; Cockney; Brummie; Geordie; Scots; Ulster Scots; Highland English; Welsh English; Manx English; Ulster English; Anglo-Cornish; and dialects from: Kent; East Anglia (Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire); Sussex; West Midlands; East Midlands; West Country; South East; Bristol; Devon; the Potteries; Lancashire and Yorkshire; and the Scouse; Mancunian; Northumbrian; and Cumbrian dialects.
#3
A tour of the British Isles in accents
#4
A tour of northern England in accents
#5
A Londoner explains how to speak Cockney
#6 (audio only)
The rebellious tongues of the North – Melvyn Bragg
(The more interesting part begins 2 mins in.)
#7
Aussie accents: Rove McManus & Steve Irwin
(Warning: cringeworthy TV!)
I found nothing else on Aussie English speech that wasn’t of the increasingly execrable, juvenile style typically found on YouBoobTube. (Yes, I'll be a GORM – Grumpy Old Retired Man – if I want to! LOL) The same comment applies to my searches for spoken Englishes of India, South Africa, and Aotearoa NZ.
Might this be a happening thread or not, People?
Any takers for more spoken Englishes?
Two-and-a-half weeks into retirement, I've been so busy with a non-language project (automotive) that I've been too time poor, and too physically fatigued at days' end, to miss my recently relinquished language-based job. Or so I thought …
… until a chance encounter online took me on a wee binge of spoken Englishes. (I suspect there's no cure for my affliction.)
This first linked video (next line down) prompted my further searches.
#1
Perhaps it's nothing new to citizens of London, but the material in this first video was a novelty to this un-bronzed Aussie.
I found the above video interesting from phonetics / pronunciation and lexical angles as well as cultural / historical.
With my not being a typical Aussie pubbie, and my non-Britishness, many of the socio-cultural references were foreign to me. I have, however, worked in a couple of Aussie pubs, city and country. In some of those (e.g. the rough end of working-class Sydney and the rougher end of Newcastle, AU, a coal/iron/steel centre) I witnessed the occasional exchange such as the Bermondsey examples in this piece.
The honest rawness and the complete lack of sophistication I found rather appealing (not, I hope, condescendingly), and I believe I understood more than 80 per cent of the chatter – which I much enjoyed.
To continue with the more fruitful results of my searches …
Note: As an Antipodean I can’t assess the veracity of many of the following posted speech styles other than the two Aussies (Yeah, mate, they're dinki-di True Blue!), so should be interested in comments from those closer to such forms of our spoken language.
#2
30 Dialects of the English language in the UK
The maker of this piece claims to represent: Received Pronunciation; Cockney; Brummie; Geordie; Scots; Ulster Scots; Highland English; Welsh English; Manx English; Ulster English; Anglo-Cornish; and dialects from: Kent; East Anglia (Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire); Sussex; West Midlands; East Midlands; West Country; South East; Bristol; Devon; the Potteries; Lancashire and Yorkshire; and the Scouse; Mancunian; Northumbrian; and Cumbrian dialects.
#3
A tour of the British Isles in accents
#4
A tour of northern England in accents
#5
A Londoner explains how to speak Cockney
#6 (audio only)
The rebellious tongues of the North – Melvyn Bragg
(The more interesting part begins 2 mins in.)
#7
Aussie accents: Rove McManus & Steve Irwin
(Warning: cringeworthy TV!)
I found nothing else on Aussie English speech that wasn’t of the increasingly execrable, juvenile style typically found on YouBoobTube. (Yes, I'll be a GORM – Grumpy Old Retired Man – if I want to! LOL) The same comment applies to my searches for spoken Englishes of India, South Africa, and Aotearoa NZ.
Might this be a happening thread or not, People?
Any takers for more spoken Englishes?