• bunnyBoy@pawb.socialEnglish
    5·
    16 小时前

    My boyfriend from the UK is actually staying with us right now and damn, the accent is powerful. Free food at restaurants, free drinks at bars. People just jumping into our conversations because they want to talk to him. Earlier this week we were taking the train to do some shopping, and when the ticket taker came around to get our tickets, he just said ‘Oh, I’m from leeds, I didn’t know I needed a ticket’ (Even though I bought one for each of us already) and it was fine. Ticket taker just said ‘Oh its all good, welcome to america’ and just… moved on.

  • pjwestin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    19 小时前

    One summer, when I was 19, I became deeply infatuated with a British girl and it took me two full weeks to realize she was really dumb.

  • GreenShimada@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    22 小时前

    Then you see a pack of them getting off a Ryan Air or Wizz flight for a stag party in a place they picked for the sole reason of cheap pints and realize how misguided you were all along.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    7·
    22 小时前

    If you sound like Tom Hiddleston, sure.

    If you sound like Shaun Ryder, probably not.

  • Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 天前

    Depends which British accent. This post is referring to, probably, a fancy southerner accent, but if you speak like a crazed man from Birmingham, less so I’d imagine.

    • GreenShimada@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      22 小时前

      You get 10 fun points, 10 adventure points, and 30 hard drinking points. We’ll treat you like people treat every American in places where they don’t see a lot of Americans.

      “So, uh, do you know Mel Gibson/Hugh Jackman/the Flight of the Concords guys?”

      “Mate, I used to live the next Cattle Station over from Mel Gibson/Hugh Jackman/the Flight of the Concords blokes!”

  • AppleTea@lemmy.zipEnglish
    17·
    2 天前

    don’t worry, this malady can be cured by following british politics for a month or two

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
        3·
        1 天前

        It’s a little tradition that we’ve sadly stopped. Everyone in the country could have had to go by now.

        • AppleTea@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          1 天前

          Starmer seems to think AI is gonna make all the Torry policies he’s continuing actually work. Hard to predict anything, but if nothing happens between now and the AI bubble bursting, then I think the resulting market crash will be what finally gives him the boot.

          • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
            2·
            1 天前

            Oh yeah his obsession with AI is so weird. They were going on about this university supercomputer they’ve built that’s going to apparently run everything and then as per usual we’ve heard nothing since.

            Labour absolutely suck at PR, not that the AI was ever actually going to do anything useful but if you introduce it you should keep going on about it. Otherwise it’s just radio silence.

    • cRazi_man@europe.pubEnglish
      461·
      2 天前

      As far as Americans are concerned, there are only 2 British accents:

      Villain or wise mentor: Queen’s English

      Henchman or comic relief: Cockney

      I would really like to see a movie about a team up between detectives with Yorkshire, Brummie and Scouse accents; working cross regionally to bring down a gang of criminals. Hardcoded subtitles for the Americans please.

    • DagwoodIII@piefed.socialEnglish
      13·
      2 天前

      Anecdotal…

      British gal is visiting New York. Loves it and makes plenty of friends. She learns that if she has a job offer she can almost certainly get permission to stay. Goes to an employment agency and gets an interview the same day. Hired to a prestigious firm almost immediately. They tell her they love her classy British accent. In the UK she was lower middle class.

      edit = silly me. I forgot that ‘middle class’ means different things.

      At home, she would be a barmaid at the local.

      In NYC she was a receptionist in a law firm on Madison Avenue.

        • Apocalypteroid@feddit.ukEnglish
          241·
          2 天前

          My apologies in advance to the good people of Birmingham but it is well documented that the accent is associated with low intelligence.

        • Pipster@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          10·
          2 天前

          Because Americans tend to have positive views of scottish accents. I picked the two most famous examples of accents generally viewed somewhat negatively.

          • SaraTonin@lemmy.worldEnglish
            63·
            2 天前

            Assuming “British” is being used colloquially, as it often is, to describe someone or something from the UK, then there are Irish accents in the UK. The island of Ireland contains Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK. People from Northern Ireland have Irish accents. Try telling Nadine Coyle she doesn’t have an Irish accent.

              • SaraTonin@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                2 天前

                That’s fair. It’s not like the whole thing around Northern Ireland and Britain isn’t without its complications and controversies, to understate it massively. But that applies just as much to saying that people from Northern Ireland aren’t British as much as it does to saying they *are *.

                • The Octonaut@mander.xyzEnglish
                  3·
                  2 天前

                  People from Northern Ireland are legally entitled to choose to be British citizens. That doesn’t make their accent British, any more than them cooking boxty makes boxty British.

            • The Octonaut@mander.xyzEnglish
              6·
              2 天前

              Given that the people of Ireland reject that name, it’s a very British thing to deadname them.

              Serious answer - no Prythonic speakers lived in Ireland, so there is no proper basis for the name beyond people quoting a Greek who had never been there. It fell out of use for a millennium and was revised by a Welshman who spoke to angels as a way to erase the separate identities of Scotland, Wales and Ireland. His reasoning was that the King of the Britons, Arthur, had conquered Ireland (if he ever existed, he did not). I am speaking of John Dee who also coined the terms British Empire (it stuck) and British Ocean (it decidedly did not).

              • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialEnglish
                1·
                1 天前

                To expand on Arthur, if he ever was a real person his first historical record was written 300 years after his supposed death and it claims he was a war leader, not a king, fighting the Saxons to ultimately no avail, though the Historia Brittonnum makes sure to assure the reader that’s only because the Saxons kept bringing in new troops and not because Arthur lost any battles.

    • NKBTN@feddit.ukEnglish
      12·
      2 天前

      It does, but I once met a Mancunian who sounded, in his own words, common as muck and rough as fuck to a fellow brit, but in the states was treated like Shakespeare

  • Flax@feddit.ukMEnglish
    1·
    22 小时前

    I’ve seen Americans comment “bro is speaking English Premium” under videos from English Youtubers

    Which british accent, though? Do they respond the same to Northern English? Scottish? Northern Irish?

  • collapse_already@lemmy.mlEnglish
    13·
    2 天前

    As an American, Boris Johnson and Nigel Garage still sound like morons to me. Factoring in a 20 IQ accent upgrade, puts them in the low 50s. How are they even able to speak?

  • abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    26·
    2 天前

    Which British accent though? Like RP will make you sound intelligent, West Country makes you sound like a farmer, Northern Irish makes you sound like you’re about to stab someone, Edinburgh makes you sound like a lawyer, Glaswegian makes you sound like a docker, Liverpudlian makes you sound like a rascal, Yorkshire makes you sound like a Union leader, and Shetland makes you sound like a folklorist.

  • DagwoodIII@piefed.socialEnglish
    28·
    2 天前

    Lenny Bruce said “Thank God Einstein came from Germany! If he’d told people about the Theory of Relativity in a Georgia accent they’d have laughed him out of the college.”