Do you adopt different accents, posh, rough etc?

[Crimson Dynamo]

we all do

posh one
rough one
regular one

?

[WOMBAI]

Posher on the phone - in a work situation - doesn't everyone?

[xDramatick]

I've naturally got a bit of a slightly camp/londoner accent but as my boyfriend's from birmingham I find myself adopting the Brummie accent when I go up there.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Posher on the phone - in a work situation - doesn't everyone?

why?

[Tom4784]

My accent's quite conflicted, I had to go to speech therapy when I was little so I've got quite a normal accent at times but it slips into a black country accent often. If I'm talking on the phone and situations like that then I'll try to speak posh sicne my accent can be difficult to understand sometimes.

[setanta]

Nah, mine is generally the same in every situation. I suppose it can be a little more reserved on the phone though.

[Stacey.]

i find when i speak to posh people, i speak a bit posher back.
otherwise just normal all the time.

[Shasown]

we all do

posh one
rough one
regular one

?

Do we all? No we dont. I use the same accent all the time.

So when do you change accents LT and why?

[WOMBAI]

why?

Do you really need to ask?

[Crimson Dynamo]

Do you really need to ask?

I am curious about the perception that posh is somehow better.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Do we all? No we dont. I use the same accent all the time.

So when do you change accents LT and why?


I would doubt that.


My accent changes when i am with my parents, for example or when I am on the phone, or if I was at a football match in Glasgow.

[Lucy.]

Phone voice - Usually miserable cause I hate answering the phone
People like pizza guy, shopping assitants, teachers etc - I go all coy and say thanks a ridiculous amount of times
Then If i'm with my friends I sound more common :P

[Shasown]

I would doubt that.


My accent changes when i am with my parents, for example or when I am on the phone, or if I was at a football match in Glasgow.

Doubt all you want, Thomas.

Why change it for different people?

[Crimson Dynamo]

Doubt all you want, Thomas.

Why change it for different people?

you must speak different to your Mum than you do at work or in the pub?

[Shasown]

you must speak different to your Mum than you do at work or in the pub?

I communicate with my mother by thought, she died a few years ago.

Next.

[WOMBAI]

I am curious about the perception that posh is somehow better.

You know as well as I do that - in business - a good, well spoken telephone manner is desirable!

[Boothy]

I find my accent changes unintentionally. My grandparents are quite posh so when I'm with them I usually pronounce all my 'T's and generally dumb down my accent. When I'm with my close family, friends or people with a strong accent I speak pretty normal, and if I'm in something like an interview for college or a job or something, again, I dumb down my accent.

I don't know why, I don't actually mean to, it just happens :laugh:

[Shasown]

I find my accent changes unintentionally. My grandparents are quite posh so when I'm with them I usually pronounce all my 'T's and generally dumb down my accent. When I'm with my close family, friends or people with a strong accent I speak pretty normal, and if I'm in something like an interview for college or a job or something, again, I dumb down my accent.

I don't know why, I don't actually mean to, it just happens :laugh:

I take it you mean play down your accent as in softening it as opposed to dumbing it down, in a lot of peoples eyes the Brum/West Midlands accents sort of dumbs down its owner.

Stereotypical I know but its true people perceive brummie speakers as thickos, I quite like it though.

[ILoveTRW]

im always posh on the phone if im speaking to someone i dont know

[LaLaLand]

My accent makes me seem like I'm a first-language Welsh speaker so I get quite a lot of "Ohhh tell me what ____ is in Welsh!" and stuff (I'm not, just the basics).

I do put on a posh voice on the phone (to banks, college etc) it just seems to happen naturally then after I think "WTH was I doing that for?!" For example, saying "yes" properly as I always say "yerrr" :P

[Vicky.]

I think i talk differently on the phone...other than that, not really.

Though when i lived in greece, I started sounding a little...I dont know...foreign.. Picked up a lot of how they speak over there, was very strange coming back to england :laugh:

[Crimson Dynamo]

You know as well as I do that - in business - a good, well spoken telephone manner is desirable!

not if it sounds uppity and fake it isnt

[WOMBAI]

not if it sounds uppity and fake it isnt

Not uppity or fake - just your best voice - not lazy!

[Boothy]

I take it you mean play down your accent as in softening it as opposed to dumbing it down, in a lot of peoples eyes the Brum/West Midlands accents sort of dumbs down its owner.

Stereotypical I know but its true people perceive brummie speakers as thickos, I quite like it though.

Yeah that's probably a better word actually. I agree, when I listen to Adrian Chiles on Match of the Day he sounds like a right thicko! I obviously can't really tell when it comes to how I sound because I'm so used to it, but yeah, we're just a collective of thicko's here :D

[sooty]

Not uppity or fake - just your best voice - not lazy!

Agree.

[Crimson Dynamo]

If any of you lot met the Queen, lol, I can just imagine your best "posh" voice....

hoho

[InOne]

Yorkshire

[_Seth]

i find when i speak to posh people, i speak a bit posher back.
otherwise just normal all the time.

Pretty much this. :)

[*mazedsalv**]

Since I have started college i have realised i slip into different accents without actually realising, my friend for school who i was best friends with told me, and all my otehr friends.
I didnt use to, but now i would go into a bit of Cockney, Londoner, with an Italian accent (which is intentional), and sometimes Scouser. Don't ask why! Im from Surrey, quite a posh place but i talk kind of like a londoner apparently.

But working, I am more polite and all that, speaking to my friends is like a different person.

[Firewire]

Around family and stuff I do my normal Scottish accent.
I can do Posh when I want, to make it easier for people to understand me.

[Raph]

I have a Welsh accent.
But then an american one as well.

Depends on who I'm with :tongue:

[Ninastar]

I do this really bad thing where is someone talks to me in a certain accent, I do it back. Like when this woman came to my grandads house and she had a baby and told me his name was zack (she had an New zealand accent so she said it like zeck) and I was like "Zeck? I love that name" in the most retarded New Zealand accent ever. I was so embarrassed.

[Princess]

I don't think I ever speak any different than how I usually do. No one has ever told me I do anyways.

[Stephanie]

i talk the same all the time, i don't know what i sound like really. people say i sound like i'm from london but a bit different :shrug:

[Lewis.]

At work I always have a higher tone of voice when speaking to the customers. I work on the counter and till, so i'm constantly speaking to customers. I always try and make myself sound welcoming. With friends I just speak like normal. With parents and family the same.

[sooty]

Some time ago I saw Sky Newsreader, Stephen Dixon and his guest were talking about local accents.
Dixon said he was from North (Cumbria?) and said "I do not speak like this when I am at home."

So it is quite obvious lots of people on public figures, like him or politicians, show business people must adapt standard or posh accents for the obvious reason.


The other day I saw a young actress called Michelle Keegan from Coronation Street was making a speech at the British Soap Award 2010 when she won a award.
I was quite surprised she was still speaking with the local accent.
I would have thought actors/actress would be able to speak at least standard accent.
I thought how pity high profile night like that it was the great opportunity for her to show the world (?) that she was capable for any acting parts as she is a very good actress.
It is big difference between "do not" and "can not"

Well this thread is not about show business people nor politicians but us, TiBB members.
The answer is yes I would like to adapt speaking less heavy Japanese accent.

[Niamh.]

I am curious about the perception that posh is somehow better.

it's a more formal voice rather than posher especially at work cos it's work and you have to be more courteous

[Beso]

I do a silly spanish accent by adding an o to the end of every word when i'm on holiday.

[sooty]

I do a silly spanish accent by adding an o to the end of every word when i'm on holiday.

You sound like LT's brother.

[mkdfan]

I sound like ure average Coronation Street resident normally but I sound proper manc when I argue with ppl lol.

[Niamh.]

I sound like ure average Coronation Street resident normally but I sound proper manc when I argue with ppl lol.

I love that accent:hugesmile:

[Jamesy]

My voice is all over the place:tongue:

It all depends who I'm with. Sometimes I speak posh, other times common, some people I've met on holidays abroad say I sound welsh but I just can't see any welsh sounds in my voice at all :laugh: