I heard that Shakespeare's plays are best read if you have an "Irish" accent.
By the way, what accent is this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89BwSqKfpQU
Sounds Shakespearean to me.
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I heard that Shakespeare's plays are best read if you have an "Irish" accent.
By the way, what accent is this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89BwSqKfpQU
Sounds Shakespearean to me.
Sorry for off-topic.
Some English dialect or other. Frankly, I couldn't stand to listen or watch for more than a few seconds. That was truly excruciating.
Excruciating as a video or excruciating as the "sound of the accent"?
Sorry both ways.
By the way, I still think that text messages like this: "How r u? I m fine." or "Wer 2 go?" are ruining the English language.
Excruciating as a video or excruciating as the "sound of the accent"?
Sorry both ways.
By the way, I still think that text messages like this: "How r u? I m fine." are ruining the English language.
I think it is annoying as well, but I don't think they will have an effect on English over all. I think texting like that is disrespectful; am I not worth the extra time it takes to spell 'you'? However, it can be fine if it's a long text and you would go over the 160 limit otherwise.
Whenever I receive texts that I cannot read because of it's texting slang I reply with, "Ya! Totes, ROTFLMAO OMG LOL BBQ!"
Sounds 20th century Home Counties at a guess.
Olivia Hussey is (was) easy on the eye, but not enough to make up for those bulging tights.
Sounds like how a young William Shakespeare would talk.Sounds 20th century Home Counties at a guess.
I apologise about that video then if it was inappropriate. I just wanted people to hear the accent only.
Edit: You gentlemen are some of the greatest people I ever talked with.
You are great people and I have learned a lot from you.
Thank you.
Old English music hall joke: What's the difference between a buffalo and a bison? You can't wash your hands in a buffalo.
The audio accompaniment to the YouTube example makes my ears bleed, but I did manage to listen to most of it...
What accent? I hear a tenor clearly annunciating his words, who's articulating consonants, singing diphthongs correctly, and in-general following the "rules" typically used by classically trained vocalists. Normally (in the classical world at least) the listener shouldn't detect any sort of "accent" unless the piece requires it. Any English language performance of Handel's Messiah should sound the pretty much the same no matter where it's performed, if the rules are followed.
doesn't bother me because i'm one of the lazy ones.
What really annoys me are the people who use periods at the end of every single response:
-Hey, whatsup?
"Nothing."
-The weather sucked today, didn't it?
"Yeah."
-Did you go to work today
"No."
dunno bout everyone else, but I think 1 word replies with periods are rude :/
What really annoys me are the people who use periods at the end of every single response:
-Hey, whatsup?
"Nothing."
-The weather sucked today, didn't it?
"Yeah."
-Did you go to work today
"No."
dunno bout everyone else, but I think 1 word replies with periods are rude :/
actually from my professors back in school a southern american accent is probably more akin to the accent's used in Shakespeare's times, but then again, who knows.
It's just proper punctuation, so you shouldn't assume that the person is being rude. I think most people punctuate their sentences by force of habit. They're just doing what they were taught in school, not adding something superfluous.
Actually, it shouldn't have a period, as it is not a full sentence. A full sentence must contain a finite verb and a subject, therefore, one word "sentences" aren't real sentences, therefore, don't merit a period.
According to whom does conversational English have to consist of full sentences, and according to whom are only full sentences deserving of punctuation?
*Thinks he'll regret entering the thread*
That's not entirely true; imperative sentences don't require an explicit subject because they have an implied one.
That's not entirely true; imperative sentences don't require an explicit subject because they have an implied one.
sen·tence
noun
1. Grammar. a grammatical unit of one or more words, bearing minimal syntactic relation to the words that precede or follow it, often preceded and followed in speech by pauses, having one of a small number of characteristic intonation patterns, and typically expressing an independent statement, question, request, command, etc., as Summer is here. or Who is it? or Stop!
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sentence
noun
1. Grammar. a grammatical unit of one or more words, bearing minimal syntactic relation to the words that precede or follow it, often preceded and followed in speech by pauses, having one of a small number of characteristic intonation patterns, and typically expressing an independent statement, question, request, command, etc., as Summer is here. or Who is it? or Stop!
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sentence
I think its really sad that people care so.
The primitive desire to feel superior I find very ugly.
Americans would only do that if they like wasting u's or are just that pretentious. (note: I'm not suggesting the British are pretentious)