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quinaraDid little productive today. Got orchestra this evening, but otherwise washed clothes and larked around on YouTube. Did find this though - a sketch from Children in Need years ago, where Catherine Tate as Lauren Cooper goes on EastEnders. It's not actually that funny - but! It is a wonderful case study in East End Estuary English (which is basically Cockney for teh yoof) and West End Estuary English (which is obviously an excellent accent we all like).
So, if you can hear the difference between the accents of the 'local' EastEnders characters and that girl wandering round causing havoc, you're doing very well. And know why it's just plan ignorance when people here mock me for sounding like I'm from Essex. (There is actually someone doing a PhD who's from Essex, and a professor from there. Don't let TOWIE fool you! But I'm not from there.)
PS. Apologies for the horrendous quality of the video.
PPS. Obviously, there are also loads of us on here from both of these locales. Let us rejoice in our differences!
So, if you can hear the difference between the accents of the 'local' EastEnders characters and that girl wandering round causing havoc, you're doing very well. And know why it's just plan ignorance when people here mock me for sounding like I'm from Essex. (There is actually someone doing a PhD who's from Essex, and a professor from there. Don't let TOWIE fool you! But I'm not from there.)
PS. Apologies for the horrendous quality of the video.
PPS. Obviously, there are also loads of us on here from both of these locales. Let us rejoice in our differences!
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Date: 13/10/2014 03:28 (UTC)And now I'm quite curious to hear your voice and accent.
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Date: 14/10/2014 18:22 (UTC)I'm sure you must have had a chance to hear my voice before now - but even so, while I lay claim to Lauren's accent here, it isn't really massively audible in how I talk most of the time. For various reasons - not least that my parents aren't from the south,I went to school with enough people from cushy backgrounds that the average was much mellower (+ it had people coming in from further out into the countryside than me), and then I went to uni with very few people of that accent and don't live very near home anymore - the way I talk is very flexible and I codeswitch from basically one sentence to the next. (Of course, this may or may not be noticeable to other people much, but it is to me! The main upshot is that I don't really know what I sound like on average.)