Give up your roots ?

arrry



Joined: 19/08/2008
Posts: 1235

Message Posted:
06/12/2008 13:33

If your boss told you that your accent was too much .



Would you change it, put non a "telephone " voice.



Would you tell him where to put his job ?



Would you give up your roots ??

britvic



Joined: 05/09/2008
Posts: 3039

Message Posted:
06/12/2008 13:39

My accent is too much, particulary the American's had a hard time with understanding when we were over their. It's a good job we don't write as we speak!

arrry



Joined: 19/08/2008
Posts: 1235

Message Posted:
06/12/2008 15:20

But if you were asked to tone it down for your job



Would you do it ?



Should you do it ??



Would you take it as an insult ??

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
06/12/2008 15:32

arrry,



No way am I going to hide my blue blood... ;¬)

littlenige



Joined: 24/12/2006
Posts: 3594

Message Posted:
06/12/2008 15:39

If your boss told you that your accent was too much .( Yes he did say that )







Would you change it, put non a "telephone " voice. ( i did try )







Would you tell him where to put his job ?( no it paid very well )







Would you give up your roots ?? ( would gladly give up the grey ones )



When I worked in Altincham My thick accent led me into difficulties so I had to learn to speak in a precise way it took about 6 months to get the hang of it but paid off very well.

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
06/12/2008 15:49

Never give up your roots. Adapt, to keep your job.

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
06/12/2008 15:51

Nige you still type with a thick accent! ha ha ;¬)

simbas



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Posts: 5943

Message Posted:
06/12/2008 16:03

Never never never

The-Wicks


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Posts: 2279

Message Posted:
06/12/2008 16:07

Why do Americans always think Londoners are Australian? Well, those of us who speak with "Estuary" type accents?

Turtle


Joined: 28/05/2007
Posts: 2669

Message Posted:
06/12/2008 16:08

I have worked all over the country and without noticing over the years my Sheffield accent has neutralised, people do somtimes pick up on certain words.

The worst thing is lots of people think I come from Lancashire.................what a terrible thing to say to a Yorkshireman

Bradus


Joined: 25/02/2007
Posts: 2641

Message Posted:
06/12/2008 16:41

Sheffielder too Turtle and I've also had that said.

Groucho



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Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
06/12/2008 16:58

My daughter was born in Scotland and had quite broad accent that lasted all of 6 weeks exposure to the south of England, aged four years old...

louthlass


Joined: 09/11/2008
Posts: 271

Message Posted:
06/12/2008 16:59

I think dialects are great, and it's only the uneducated that would make comments about it, particularly if you were good at your job.

We can't all speak BBC English like what I do!!!

Rocker



Joined: 24/09/2008
Posts: 384

Message Posted:
06/12/2008 19:03

Many years ago I hAD TO HAVE speach lessons as I WAS TOLD NOBODY COULD UNDERSTAND ME.ıF HAD NOT DONE SO MY Promotonal future was finished. That was the UK Now retired I revert back to my own way of speaking. When you have no choice you have to change

newlad



Joined: 02/03/2008
Posts: 7819

Message Posted:
06/12/2008 19:38

Proud of my roots.And cant stand snobbery,

Paul.

MUSIN M


Joined: 26/06/2008
Posts: 1352

Message Posted:
06/12/2008 21:08

innit doh paul ,



musin

Coachie



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Posts: 2135

Message Posted:
06/12/2008 21:51

We lived in Hampshire for 8years and my two eldest daughters were born there and were 7 and 8 yrs old when we came back to the Potteries.I can still remember the eldest one coming home after her first day at school and saying to me " daddy I cannot understand what they are saying to me" to which I tried to explain about dialects.She listened to me trying to explain in my semi -geordie accent and then suddenly said " They all say I must be posh because of the way I speak" and I replied "dont worry you will soon be speaking like them" She now has the broadest potteries accent after35 years...

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
06/12/2008 22:11

My neighbour never forgets her roots- she has them bleached every month.

Coachie



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Posts: 2135

Message Posted:
06/12/2008 22:34

and some blokes do No1...

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
06/12/2008 22:51

Spot on coachie!

arrry



Joined: 19/08/2008
Posts: 1235

Message Posted:
06/12/2008 23:03

OOh Coachie



You made me look in the mirror and my highlights need doing badly lol



Funny you should say about people thinking you are posh !



My son and daughter have the same thing, every time they go to to see me ol



mum all the family say"don't your kids speak nice " . But they talk like wurzells!!



It's just what you are used to !!

w26kay



Joined: 14/10/2007
Posts: 479

Message Posted:
06/12/2008 23:21

My Mum (who grew up in Birmingham in the poorest of families and conditions) always has, and still does, speak without an accent. In fact as I said previously she was "the Mrs Bucket" and I'm sure that woman is modelled on her. LOL.



As a consequence, we didn't speak with an accent. No falseness. No telephone voices. That's just the way it was when we were growing up. We were constantly corrected on speaking properly, and good manners.



I worked in Walsall for a short period of my life, and had to get a secretary to translate a client's instructions to me because I could not understand a word she was saying.



I get REALLY worried now that I can understand the Cannock dialect, which is even broader. Just what you get used to I suppose.



Now I really must go and polish my tiara! LOL

phylray



Joined: 21/09/2007
Posts: 1727

Message Posted:
07/12/2008 01:23

Och weel , ye'll jist need to onerston each ither

joandjelly


Joined: 24/02/2008
Posts: 2953

Message Posted:
07/12/2008 01:30

I'm an Essex girl but born in East London and lived there until I was 9. I'm proud of where I'm from and wouldn't change it for the world but my friends used to say I had a "telephone voice" when I answered the phone at work! Adapt to the circumstances, it's never held me back.

arrry



Joined: 19/08/2008
Posts: 1235

Message Posted:
07/12/2008 02:17

Jo



Good on yer girl !!



But my main concern is .... should you HAVE to change your accent to please



the boss ?



Is that not classed as discrimination ??



How many B B C Newsreaders speak Brummie ?



It's snobbery at the highest level !



I would not change the way i speak for anybiody !!!



Anyway Jo , babe have you been dancing round yer and bags tonight ?? lol

w26kay



Joined: 14/10/2007
Posts: 479

Message Posted:
07/12/2008 03:33

How many B B C Newsreaders speak Brummie ?

It's snobbery at the highest level !



None as far as I know. It's called roots, and does it really matter where you are from, and in what accent you speak, if you are a good person IMHO.

arrry



Joined: 19/08/2008
Posts: 1235

Message Posted:
07/12/2008 03:52

Kay



Exactly babe !!



If you went along to the audition for a news reader with a broad brummie



accent ...it would be "thankyou very much we will let you know "....



I love regional accents !



But how many celebs etc have retained their natural accents ??



Obviously in your line of work ,you may have to talk,lets say properly !!



But if you had a blatant accent would you be willing to talk proper ?



Big companies do not care about things like that you might be the



best person in the world but .....you don't speak the way they want you



to ! Would you then give up your roots to keep your job ???











+

cmriver1


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 34

Message Posted:
07/12/2008 06:58

i think the british accent is great. as for me being from the US and living in Texas you should be glad you don't have to listen to our Texas accent all day. you would laugh. when i call an other place in the US they state how funny we sound and then followed by you texans sound so cute. like if we are some type of entertainment. But alway proud in being a Texan.

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
07/12/2008 07:21

Cindi



If only George W. Bush didn't come from there.....



Oh, I know he was born in New Haven Ct but they soon realised what a liability he was and moved him on to Midland and Houston...



He's blackened the reputation of the Yellow Rose... still I suppose it could have been worse... he could have been English..

cmriver1


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 34

Message Posted:
07/12/2008 07:27

Groucho,



Being from Texas and having Georgie Boy in my back yard now is not very good. He just bought a house here in the Dallas area. I'm glad to see someone can still buy a house.HA!HA! as for us the true poor texans we hope we will be able to buy food in the next coming months. Sorry but our dear Bush has made a big mess for everyone.

cruggs


Joined: 06/04/2008
Posts: 498

Message Posted:
07/12/2008 08:44

hi cmriver1,how about a swop,(gordon brown)and (a darling)for george bush.

at least bush cant do anymore damage,as he is on his way out,......special

offer....two for one,you can even keep the change if any.

fire starter


Joined: 19/06/2008
Posts: 3401

Message Posted:
07/12/2008 14:11

would i change my accent, no never!

london girl through and through, why would i?



hackney born ( and no i'm not black,lol.)

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
07/12/2008 14:56

Bill



I didn't know you came from "Sarf Lunnen" (on another thread)..



I used to know a young lady from Wricklemarsh Road, Blackheath... which bit are you from?

cmriver1


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 34

Message Posted:
08/12/2008 05:21

cruggs,



i afraid you can keep gordon brown but i will take tony blair he is cute.



cindi