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No. We really don't. People who speak Received Pronunciation (RP) may speak more in this way (look up Jacob Rees-Mogg if you really want to see how stupid it s
by abracadabra_ 4y ago
No. We really don't.
People who speak Received Pronunciation (RP) may speak more in this way (look up Jacob Rees-Mogg if you really want to see how stupid it sounds) but they are a small minority of the British people.
- canbus 4y agowe definitely don't speak politely about Jacob Rees-Mogg
- Beltalowda 4y agoHm? He's certainly the smartest and most skilled MP by far. A Victorian gentleman who invented a time-machine to travel 150 years in the future? Name one other MP who can match his genius.
- DrBazza 4y agoI’m curious why you think RP sounds stupid.
- abracadabra_ 4y agoI was more saying that one particular example (JRM) sounds stupid. I don't think this is a contentious issue. However, RP can sound a bit silly with some pronunciations. The same is true with any accent.
- abracadabra_ 4y agoP.S. I'm from Yorkshire so I'm used to accents being mocked.
- DrBazza 4y agoHow JRM speaks doesn’t bother me at all. Must be an age thing. What bothers me is the emergence over the last 10 or 15 years is the new London accent that was previously Thames Estaury in the 90s and before that an actual bona fide London accent that my grandparents had. The new accent is typified by -ah or -ar instead of -er. The police recruitment adverts being the best example. Become a police office-aah instead of police office-er.
- flir 4y ago> and before that an actual bona fide London accent that my grandparents had. It wasn't really, though - it was just the first one you heard. Accents are always in flux. (An interesting comparison for me is the Sex Pistols' car crash Bill Grundy interview against a modern London yoof accent. Major, major change just within my lifetime).
- DrBazza 4y agoBy bona fide London accent I mean that the way both sets of my grandparents spoke was different to each other in London and different again to their cousins that lived in Kent and Surrey. The Thames Estuary accent pretty much replaced the London accent and those of each of the Home Counties.
- flir 4y agoSure, I get it. I'm not trying to be nitpicky (I swear!) I'm just trying to point out that the Elizabethan London accent, the Victorian London accent, and today's London accent are no less bona fide.
- BoxOfRain 4y agoInterestingly JRM doesn't have any blue blood at all despite the whole 'honourable member for the early 19th century' persona, public image is a fascinating thing!
- flir 4y agoHe's confusing RP with how JRM speaks. JRM has entire layers of silly cosplay on top of RP. Personally my go-to for RP would be Trevor McDonald.
- oblio 4y agoIsn't RP basically BBC-speak and thus a lot more widespread? Even if it's not the native accent of a lot of people.