I dunno…we pretty much have given up watching anything on BBC America because we can't understand half of what's being said. and we have a DVR that allows us to re-wind/re-play a scene. part of it may be us getting older because it seems that a lot of dialogue on TV and in movies is slurred or mumbled.
does anyone remember a nothing little movie called 'Jumpin Jack Flash' with whoopi goldberg (1986)? in the beginning of the movie whoopi is at home playing the Stone's song and trying to decipher the lyrics…without much success. at one point she finally gives up and says in exasperation…'Mick, Mick….speak English!"
'73,
rich, n9dko
I used to think I wasn't a morning peson, but things nevere got better after lunch.
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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.
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