*Bri’ish
Innit?
You’re joking but when living in Britain I did know a couple of people who weren’t middle-class English and whose natural accent wasn’t the so-called English RP accent (basically middle-class English / BBC presenter accent) and who made quite the effort to speak with the latter accent.
In Britain (most notably England) one’s accent is a huge part of presenting the “right” image, to the point that the upper class has their own accent (known as the “posh accent”) independent of region, something which is at very least highly unusual in other countries.
It’s very unusual in most of England too.
Which one? Cause some days I don’t know which accent to do…
A right sticky wicket, innit?
What-o, plithering weather we’ve had of late!
You 'avin a laugh, mate??
Are we solarpunk yet ?
OMG, how did you know?!
What does this mean? People putting on a ‘work voice’ or something?
I think it’s just a joke that the British accent is fake
Accents*. Yes, I’m a very nitpicky person.
Yeah, that’s how I interpreted it.
If you’re that nitpicky, surely you should have altered “is” as well.
I read this in at least one British accent.
They invented the language. It’s everyone else that has an accent.
We have so many accents, even within England, let alone the empire, that we had to invent a reference accent. Queens English is what the BBC used for a long time. It was intended that all ‘cultured’ workers should be able to converse in it. This meant the upper class could travel anywhere and not have to deal with local accents, when ordering the servants about.
It’s still quite useful, since it is intended to be easily comprehensible to all English speakers. Downside is that it makes you sound like a posh twat.
And everybody sounds like they’re from somewhere in the Midwest?
Do Americans think they don’t have an accent?
Yah my dude, tohtahlly.
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