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That "RP" really gets my goat, received from whom? Some snot-nosed southern twat it would seem.
by jjgreen 9mo ago
That "RP" really gets my goat, received from whom? Some snot-nosed southern twat it would seem.
- card_zero 9mo agoHow do you feel about the phrase received wisdom, does that also stir you into anger at some invisible caricature?
- forgotusername6 9mo agoReceived from the person who taught it to you. Apparently it is meant to be taught/learnt. It was a way of leveling out all the regional accents for public school pupils. You too can have RP if you want it, it's not owned by the southerners!
- card_zero 9mo agoIt's more like a diagonal line really, as if the Fosse Way had been a fortification.
- ogogmad 9mo agoIs reverse classism still classism?
- jjgreen 9mo agoNot sure where you got classism from, I've got a number of posh southern public schoolboy friends; after all, it's not really their fault that they mispronounce "butter" as "batter". What I object to is the term "received pronunciation" which implicitly places their "fwah fwah" as being in some way correct and standard.