Thomas!! learn to speak..please!!

The OP is from Manchester. Don’t insult him.

I’m pretty sure he’s talking about his son, Thomas, who he’s mentioned in other threads.

Sure but chowder is from Manchester. There’s a world of difference between a Mancunian accent and a south London accent. That said I can’t think why he’s pitting his friend.

Unless Thomas is a Chelsea supporter.

Matter of fact Thomas supports Man Utd, me being a Blue may have summink to do wiv it.

Dominic He isn’t my son.

I wish I’d never started this fred, I feel a right tater now :frowning:

Don’t you mean “Sarff Lunnen”?

You can’t have been paying close attention, then.

In the US, there is a Black English = African American English.

In the UK, there are distinct dialects derived from West Indian English (i.e., from West Indies, not from the west of India), and from South Asian English (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan). Given how much immigration there has been from those regions, those dialects – associated with people with black or brown skins – are very common.

And in Australia and New Zealand, Aboriginal English and Maori English are also distinct dialects.

Basically. What the OP is calling lazy, folks over here would call quaint and cool.

Funny how fluid perceptions can be.

I’ve gotta say, I don’t find it quaint or cool. I adore British accents, almost any accent for that matter, but what I’m hearing in my mind when I read the OP’s examples doesn’t sound like any British accent I’m familiar with. It brings to mind the sound of a small child who can’t speak correctly yet. Nothing cute about that. Maybe I *have * heard it and didn’t perceive it the way the OP does? Can anyone give an example of a character from a movie or something that speaks that way?

Try Ray Winstone or Vinnie Jones in any gangster flick.

It’s London dialect. I was brought up to think it “common”, but I’d doing my best to acknowledge that it’s just another accent.

Aah, fuggetaboudit.

It’s usually called African American Vernacular English (AAVE).

How does the dialect in the OP, which some have called “South London”, compare to a Cockney accent?

Yer, bu a’ leas’ yah dahn saand li’ a faakin kaahn, innit?

Indeed :dubious:

what the hell is he talking here

Danny Blue on Hu$tle.
But it doesn’t always sound like it’s there - unless it does.

Dear OP,

Here are some commas.

,

Please sprinkle liberally throughout.

Sincerely,
OneCentStamp

Dear OneCentStamp

I posted when I’d had a little to much falling down water.

Here is some sarcasm :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Aww, I think it sounds cute. That’s American for you.

Bullshit. You’ve never heard Kat Slater on EastEnders, have you? Classy is not the word I’d use to describe it.

Hell, the whole OP is like a bad episode of EE.

Exactly. We’re so dense, we watch My Fair Lady and can’t tell what all the fuss is! “Huh? She sounds the same to me!” :smiley:

“Yes, but at least he doesn’t sound like a fucking cunt, isn’t it?”

We should get some Brit Dopes to record them speaking online - see if we can educate our friends across the Atlantic on where the different accents come from. We’re not all either cockney or posh gits. :slight_smile:

I, of course, can safely count myself among the Brit Dopes. :smack: