People who use perfect RP English in their every day speech, without any hint of accent or dialect. No personality. Fucking tiresome to listen to.
More especially, when these cunts "correct" you for speaking in a different manner, due to your own accent or dialect; for example, one anal cunt of a teacher at my secondary school who would reprimand students based on the way they pronounced their Hs and Ts. Bear in mind that this was in south Leeds.
Fuck off. I'm not talking wrong, I just don't gie a fuck ow yer ment ter.
Yeah, they shouldn't be dongs about it, but I think it's important that teachers give people at least the knowledge (and therefore option) of how to speak without a thick accent.
I'm from West Yorks too (Bradford, fuck off Leeds), and I've worked abroad where people - who are fluent in English - literally can't understand what I'm saying if I speak the same way that I do with me mates. After a couple of years abroad, surrounded by only neutral and foreign accents, I came in contact with a guy with the heaviest Manc accent. My first thought was 'fuck me, he sounds thick'.
I'm very aware of this, and it's part of what fuels my anger. In other words, prejudice against people's manner of speaking is a very real thing; however the solution is to stamp out people's accents. It's like if the solution to racial segregation had been to bleach all the non-whites.
>>16248 I'm sure non-whites would turn themselves white just to fit in. Besides, it's silly to compare something you can change, like your accent, to something you can't, i.e. race.
No, but that's the point I was making in >>16224 . It doesn't have to change your core personality.
It isn't the teachers job or right to forcibly change students. But giving them the option of speaking neutral English (I'm not talking posh elocution lessons here) is an important thing. At home I'm sure I speak just as Yorkshire as you do, but it's also pretty useful to be able to speak clearly in other environments (I did a gig teaching English abroad, or a job interview).
It's the same as knowing good manners - nobody eats like posh fucks at home, but if you find yourself at a fancy business do or in certain social circles it's nice to have the basic knowledge and not look a chump.
Maybe it's just part of my principles to act as I am, rather than to put on an act for people, but such things do tend to leave me with a bad taste in my mouth.
I'm perfectly capable of emulating a neutral accent, in fact I can impersonate a lot of accents with ease, but it seems to me that would simply be dishonest.
As is much in life I suppose but... Ehh you know what bollocks to it, I just don't like this planet or the people that live on it.
>Ehh you know what bollocks to it, I just don't like this planet or the people that live on it.
None of us awake at 4 in the morning do. I hope you include yourself in that number though.
