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Old 29-05-2010, 01:39 PM #1
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Default Do you adopt different accents, posh, rough etc?

we all do

posh one
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Posher on the phone - in a work situation - doesn't everyone?
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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.
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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.
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Nah, mine is generally the same in every situation. I suppose it can be a little more reserved on the phone though.
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i find when i speak to posh people, i speak a bit posher back.
otherwise just normal all the time.
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we all do

posh one
rough one
regular one

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

So when do you change accents LT and why?
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why?
Do you really need to ask?
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Old 29-05-2010, 02:22 PM #10
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Do you really need to ask?
I am curious about the perception that posh is somehow better.
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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.
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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
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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?
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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?
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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.

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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!
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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
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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
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.
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im always posh on the phone if im speaking to someone i dont know
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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
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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
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not if it sounds uppity and fake it isnt
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not if it sounds uppity and fake it isnt
Not uppity or fake - just your best voice - not lazy!
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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
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Not uppity or fake - just your best voice - not lazy!
Agree.
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