I was a deep-South-speaking kid plopped into the middle of London. Somehow
communication managed to happen! (I was also going to a French school --
talk about total mish-mash!)
OTOH the Londoners were probably more used to *any* kind of Yank (US)
accent than I was to Brit (which I'd probably heard very little of)
-- this being just a few years after WWII.
bj
-----Original Message-----
From: Carlee Marrer-Tising
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2014 6:15 AM
To: iPad@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [iPad] Netflix Subscribers - the IT Crowd/Kris
I have seen movies where the British English was so different from the
norm--I think it might have been Cockney--that I could hardly even get the
gist of it. In other words, I definitely couldn't decipher it! But if the
Brits speak standard British English (BBC English, or the Queen's English,
or whatever it's called) I have no problems at all, and you probably
wouldn't, either. You just have to get used to it. Same goes for some
American dialects like the Creole you mentioned, as well as some Australian
ones.
-------Original Message-------
From: Just Murray
Date: 02.03.2014 07:02:29
To: iPad@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [iPad] Netflix Subscribers - the IT Crowd
On a spectrum they may be different to me but I could see how I can't
stomach Shakespearean English and what I mean is I can't decipher it.
On Feb 28, 2014, at 3:36 PM, "bj" <bjones44@verizon.net> wrote:
"hard to decipher" is not the same as "can't stomach".
bj
-----Original Message-----
From: Just Murray
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2014 1:27 PM
To: <iPad@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [iPad] Netflix Subscribers - the IT Crowd
some of the thicker ones can be as hard to decipher as creole!!
`KM
On Feb 27, 2014, at 5:13 PM, bj <bjones44@verizon.net> wrote:
What is wrong with British accents????
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