Questions For British People

biffbelvin

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Ahh. Regional subtleties lost on outsiders. Still couldn't tell them apart to hear, at least not right now, but good to know.

When we get most of our info on accents or cultures from Hollywood or the movie industry, we should perhaps hold off on making sweeping statements about them. Relying on Hollywood for info about other cultures is basically repeating inaccurate info gotten from a bunch of know-nothings. Never a wise thing to do.

This is true on an even smaller scale. I can tell the difference between people from my city and adjacent towns, whilst people from another county would likely lump us together.

I think a lot of it is tied up in knowledge. I could definitely tell the difference between southern accents (at least between states), but I couldn't assign them to a particular state as I've never been sat down and told "this is how Georgian's speak".

I remember reading about similar links between colour perception and language.

I have to ask though, can you honestly not tell the difference between Received Pronunciation and a Sheffield Accent?
 

EIRE24

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He doesn't have a British accent. He has an Irish accent. He's from the Irish Republic and yes he is gay.
There are a lot of Irish people involved in British tv.
He does not have an irish accent, i'm irish and his accent doesnt even relate to what an irish accent is. His accent is very british if anything
 

Sunny Jack

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[QUOTE="Westside PUFAs, post: 264287, member: 2491"Does your milk have vitamin's A and D added to it?

Can you go to a farm and buy milk and eggs directly?

What are the major differences between London, Manchester and Birmingham?

When you leave the cities, does it become mostly rural farmland?

Everyone is political now but what were people like 10-20 years ago in the political sense? I know everyone hated George Bush but there wasn't as much fervor as there is now with all the protests and violence etc.

Do you really drink tea everyday?

If you had to guess, how many distinct American accents do you think there are? Not regional slang, but accents.

I have more but that's all I can think of at the moment.[/QUOTE]

Normal milk does not have any vitamins added to it. To obtain some American-style milk we would have to go out of our way to purchase some expensive milk from specialist stores.

Most farms do in fact sell milk and eggs directly, but they also have farmers' markets where it is more convenient to buy them.

People are friendlier in Manchester, and to a lesser extent Birmingham. Each is very different from each other in terms of accent. They are all multicultural, though Birmingham might be the most 'mixed'.

Cities generally give way to suburban housing estates before they become rural. Being smaller than America, Britain has a lot of suburbia surrounding each major and even minor city, before those familiar hedgerows start showing up, if one is travelling by train.

Britain's view of America comes from BBC/ITV which is like having CNN only, with no Fox News to balance it out. Like the rest of Europe really. Though having a common language, British people can look at alternative US websites easily enough. Ten to twenty years ago, there was a lot of hatred among the professional leftists regarding George W. Bush, though it was more directed towards Blair for his involvement in Iraq. The coastal liberal US view of the stereotypical Texan/Midwestern rural gun-toting stereotype is well-known in the UK. See Richard Dawkins' recent tweet regarding the Las Vegas shooter for an example of this. People seemed to like Bill Clinton in the 1990s, though, and thought the Lewinsky scandal was overblown.

A lot of people drink tea everyday, in the morning and throughout the day, often with milk and perhaps sugar. It is usually teabags nowadays, though, instead of real tea leaves. Coffee shops like Starbucks are very popular on the high street, however.

American accents seem to fall into: Noo Joyzee/Noo Yawk, Kennedy's Boston accent, Texas/"Southern" Redneck accent, weird old-time New England accent, California "surfer" accent, subtle Chicago accent, the African-American stereotypical accent of movies, and the standard American "Darth Vader" accent. So that's eight. Obviously there will be more, but the average British person will not know them.
 
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