Laurence Fox. The twat.

[philosophical]

Fox is not a reasonably decent actor though.
He makes Arfur Mullard look like Daniel Day Lewis.

 

[moochedit]

Try “I wish to wash my Irish wrist watch”, which is the whole thing. I can say “Irish wristwatch” fast without much trouble, but add the rest and I’m all over the place.

Irish wristwatch
Irish wristwatch
Irish wristwatch

Piece of piss

Go on then! ......

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[quiet guy]

Old Bond???

The names Bond, Basildon Bond.

 

[Orang Utan]

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Kind of ruins the joke, but if you insist:

 

[danny la rouge]

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[LeytonCatLady]

Show off!

 

[philosophical]

I have a feeling the ‘t’s are a bit ragged here.

 

[Orang Utan]

I have a feeling the ‘t’s are a bit ragged here.

Accent-shaming. Tsk

 

[philosophical]

Kind of ruins the joke, but if you insist:

Slow and steady.

 

[danny la rouge]

I have a feeling the ‘t’s are a bit ragged here.

I’m Scottish, you monster!

 

[philosophical]

The twenty to two train to Tooting tootled tunefully as it tore through the tunnel.

 

[danny la rouge]

The twenty to two train to Tooting tootled tunefully as it tore through the tunnel.

Fuck off!

 

[philosophical]

If it helps I reckon every effort so far is better than any effort by Fox.

 

[philosophical]

Choose stew Tuesday, Tuesday is stew day.

 

[danny la rouge]

 

[scifisam]

Fox is not a reasonably decent actor though.
He makes Arfur Mullard look like Daniel Day Lewis.

He is though. I mean, if there's any doubt, he played Hathaway as a calm, logical and highly intelligent man who's respected by his peers, and was believable at that, so that clearly proves pretty good acting skills.

The vocal exercises thing is fun, but they're mainly a snobbish tool designed to filter out people with regional accents, and RP speakers like Lozza usually ace them with no effort (and without slowing down), since he is also a snobbish tool.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

 

[T & P]

Just as we finally got rid of gerbils in this thread, along comes a pronunciation discussion

 

[two sheds]

You can't mention them

 

[Voley]

If we could get a Welsh person on here to say 'Ian Beale' this thread would be complete.

 

[philosophical]

He is though. I mean, if there's any doubt, he played Hathaway as a calm, logical and highly intelligent man who's respected by his peers, and was believable at that, so that clearly proves pretty good acting skills.

The vocal exercises thing is fun, but they're mainly a snobbish tool designed to filter out people with regional accents, and RP speakers like Lozza usually ace them with no effort (and without slowing down), since he is also a snobbish tool.

The vocal exercise thing is not about accents, it is about clarity of diction.

 

[T & P]

You can't mention them

 

[philosophical]

The vocal exercise thing is not about accents, it is about clarity of diction.

 

[maomao]

The vocal exercise thing is not about accents, it is about clarity of diction.

I can say 'I wish to wash my Irish wristwatch' fine in my posh voice but it all goes wrong if I speak cockney.

 

[danny la rouge]

The vocal exercise thing is not about accents, it is about clarity of diction.

Well, you criticised my Ts. I’ve got pretty clear diction, but the way I pronounce Ts is characteristically Scottish.

 

[philosophical]

For the record I love accents, all of them.
Even Scottish ones.
I have a problem for instance if somebody says they fouled their exams instead of failed their exams.

 

[philosophical]

Though there might be a couple of footballers called Charlie and Hilary Exams, then it would make more sense.

 

[danny la rouge]

For the record I love accents, all of them.
Even Scottish ones.
I have a problem for instance if somebody says they fouled their exams instead of failed their exams.

I love accents too. However, I’m wondering if you’d think someone with RP saying “law and order” had “clear diction”, when it sounds to me like they’re saying “Lawr and awdah”.

 

[Lord Camomile]

As someone with a very typical "regionally ambiguous middle-class accent"*, I've always thought that although it's 'boring', at least pretty much everyone who speaks English can understand me, regardless of where they happen to be from.

Of course, though, that's largely because, just like English itself, everyone has basically been forced to 'learn' my accent due to over-exposure.





*though I was genuinely delighted when someone said "your accent is clearly from London"

 

[scifisam]

The vocal exercise thing is not about accents, it is about clarity of diction.

It is about both. With the Irish wristwatch one, for example, some accents (like old school cockney) say their Rs differently, so would struggle a lot more than RP speakers, but it doesn't actually make them unclear as speakers. It's clarity of diction specifically in RP.