Why Can't The English Learn to Speak?

[Gothampc]

Why Can't The English Learn to Speak?#1

Posted: 7/21/08 at 3:42pm

Finally, someone teaching the British to speak properly.
Link

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

[Weez]

re: Why Can't The English Learn to Speak?#2

Posted: 7/21/08 at 3:55pm

I find the best way to do an American accent is to remember that there is no one American accent, and focus in on a specific one. Americans could do well to remember the same for British accents.

Notes from the Earlham Street Gutter

[LePetiteFromage]

#2

Posted: 7/21/08 at 3:57pm

Updated On: 5/2/09 at 03:57 PM

[MungoGypsy8232]

re: Why Can't The English Learn to Speak?#3

Posted: 7/21/08 at 4:17pm

^ hahaha amen

[toanythingtaboo 2]

re: Why Can't The English Learn to Speak?#4

Posted: 7/21/08 at 4:45pm

We'll learn to speak, when y'all learn to spell.

Oh the maturity...

[WickedBoy2]

re: Why Can't The English Learn to Speak?#5

Posted: 7/21/08 at 7:57pm

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A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!'' Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'

Updated On: 7/22/08 at 07:57 PM

[allofmylife]

re: Why Can't The English Learn to Speak?#6

Posted: 7/21/08 at 8:41pm

Because they are all busy learning Chinese, 驢子面孔

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[DefyGravity777]

re: Why Can't The English Learn to Speak?#7

Posted: 7/21/08 at 9:46pm

I never knew there was a proper way to speak any language.

Don't believe everything that you hear! Only the peeps involved know the truth!

Updated On: 7/21/08 at 09:46 PM

[Weez]

re: Why Can't The English Learn to Speak?#8

Posted: 7/21/08 at 9:57pm

Let's retitle this thread.

Why Can't The BWWers Learn To Read The Linked Article Before Replying?

This isn't a racist slight, guys, it's an article about accent coaching. :P

(And for the record; despite my teasing, I don't mind your American spellings, like "color" or "flavor". I just mind wrong spellings, like "definately" or "favorate". XD)

Notes from the Earlham Street Gutter

[husk_charmer]

re: Why Can't The English Learn to Speak?#9

Posted: 7/21/08 at 10:11pm

Weez-
I prefer "colour" and "flavour" to our versions. I actually get counted off in school for it.

http://www.youtube.com/huskcharmer

[LePetiteFromage]

#10

Posted: 7/22/08 at 9:35am

Updated On: 5/2/09 at 09:35 AM

[Okayfine]

re: Why Can't The English Learn to Speak?#11

Posted: 7/22/08 at 2:10pm

The article is a lot of fun. I have a tendency to pick up accents very quickly when I travel, purely unconsciously. I was never shy, therefore, to take on various accents in acting class. It always suprised me when my acting teacher kept handing me Tennessee Williams. The "southern" accent he had heard me do which he loved so much was Mobile! (I shared an office with a girl from Mobile & it was burned into my brain.) I kept saying, "But, Tennessee Williams didn't set any of his plays in MOBILE!" I heard the difference, but he never did.

[JohnBoy2]

re: Why Can't The English Learn to Speak?#12

Posted: 7/22/08 at 4:58pm

Weez-
I prefer "colour" and "flavour" to our versions. I actually get counted off in school for it.

As well you should!

[JohnBoy2]

re: Why Can't The English Learn to Speak?#13

Posted: 7/22/08 at 5:02pm

And yet another tiresome reference to Dick Van Dyke's accent in Mary Poppins. That he turns in a superb performance (actually two of them) seems to escape everyone. And, Julia Roberts performance in Mary Reilly is one of the worst on film, and it has nothing to do with her accent.

[James885]

re: Why Can't The English Learn to Speak?#14

Posted: 7/22/08 at 9:12pm

Very cool article.

"You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!" - Betty Parris to Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller's The Crucible