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<blockquote data-quote="gingergenius" data-source="post: 290068"><p>1. People read a lot into whoever they're communicating with depending on their accent/ dialect.</p><p></p><p>If you're talking to someone with a posh accent, immediately there's something in the back of your head saying 'they're posh' and all the connotations being posh has. Equally, with someone who sounds Northern or someone who sounds cockney there's class connotations, however unfounded.</p><p></p><p>Also, I'm doing **** on Scottish identity in Uni and a lot of Scottish think that having a Scottish accent is a key to someone being accepted as Scottish. So your accent can allow you into a certain group.</p><p></p><p>When I talk to someone with a foreign accent, I naturally feel a kind of superiority - even if they are as intelligent as me there's something about their accent which makes me subconciously look down on them. This is not good but it happens.</p><p></p><p>2. There is a distinction between an accent and a dialect.</p><p></p><p>I talk to Scots up here and a lot of the time I cannot understand them and they cannot understand me, especially when alcohol is slurring our words. They're speaking Scots at me and I'm using slang words from London without even thinking about it. This is no good, and even worse, there's something in me that when I'm confronted with someone so obviously from another area, my own accent and slang intensifies. In an ideal world, all English speakers would keep their accent but lose their dialect in conversation with each other; dialects should only be for localised and intimate groups.</p><p></p><p>The strongest example of this difference is a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_IkwcjkNjs&feature=related" target="_blank">Jamaican speaking English (with a Jamaican accent obviously</a>) and a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLss0vA-9sk" target="_blank">Jamaican speaking Patois.</a></p><p></p><p>3. Personally, I love an Irish accent on a girl. I quite like Vernon Kay's accent, and I really like the accent of County Durham. Bristol, Leicester and Birmingham are also pleasant. Caribbean accent is nice as well and I quite like the kiwi accent.</p><p></p><p>Hate the proper Afrikaner accent. Also the New England accent and quite a few others from N America. Northern Irish isn't great either.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gingergenius, post: 290068"] 1. People read a lot into whoever they're communicating with depending on their accent/ dialect. If you're talking to someone with a posh accent, immediately there's something in the back of your head saying 'they're posh' and all the connotations being posh has. Equally, with someone who sounds Northern or someone who sounds cockney there's class connotations, however unfounded. Also, I'm doing **** on Scottish identity in Uni and a lot of Scottish think that having a Scottish accent is a key to someone being accepted as Scottish. So your accent can allow you into a certain group. When I talk to someone with a foreign accent, I naturally feel a kind of superiority - even if they are as intelligent as me there's something about their accent which makes me subconciously look down on them. This is not good but it happens. 2. There is a distinction between an accent and a dialect. I talk to Scots up here and a lot of the time I cannot understand them and they cannot understand me, especially when alcohol is slurring our words. They're speaking Scots at me and I'm using slang words from London without even thinking about it. This is no good, and even worse, there's something in me that when I'm confronted with someone so obviously from another area, my own accent and slang intensifies. In an ideal world, all English speakers would keep their accent but lose their dialect in conversation with each other; dialects should only be for localised and intimate groups. The strongest example of this difference is a [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_IkwcjkNjs&feature=related"]Jamaican speaking English (with a Jamaican accent obviously[/url]) and a [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLss0vA-9sk"]Jamaican speaking Patois.[/url] 3. Personally, I love an Irish accent on a girl. I quite like Vernon Kay's accent, and I really like the accent of County Durham. Bristol, Leicester and Birmingham are also pleasant. Caribbean accent is nice as well and I quite like the kiwi accent. Hate the proper Afrikaner accent. Also the New England accent and quite a few others from N America. Northern Irish isn't great either. [/QUOTE]
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