no. scottish is scottish. irish is irish. then theres british. im not saying youre all like that. im saying most all british comedians ive listened to are harder to understand because of their accents. and you can't disregard this fact if you LIVE over there and are subjected to it more than i and can understand it. thats all.
But then you have people like Jack Dee and Bill Bailey who talk slower.
I do get the difference though. In England we find concentrated, subtle behavioural things funny, like the UK Office. Whereas the US Office is diluted, much more obvious and direct.
Personally I'm not much into US comedy for that exact reason. On the TV shows and standup it's like they paint giant metaphorical arrows at the joke which is usually about some pop cultural thing I don't get.
there is a major difference between scottish irish and british accents. scottish and irish generally being more heavy. we arent talking location. yes scotland and ireland are a part of GB the UK, and therefore british. but that has nothing to do with accents.
its like telling me that different dialects of mandarin and cantonese are simply chinese. thats ignorant.
i have a less skewed perception of the accents over there since i DONT live there and am less subjected to them.
Lancashire, Beeeelfaarst, Glaswegian (?).
They're also completely different to me. Sometimes I find thick Scottish and S.Irish accents difficult but sometimes its part of the humour (Rab C Nesbit).
To clarify: Ireland and Scotland, along with Wales, Northern Ireland, England and all the surrounding smaller isles. There are many accents, but there is no 'British' accent. However, there are Irish accents, Scottish accents, Welsh accents and English accents. However, these are also split into reginal accents too, such as in England the difference between Geordie's (those from Newcastle, up north) and those from Bristol are very different. This is the same as the difference between Texan accents and New Yorkers.
Originally Posted by Mark Radon To clarify: Ireland and Scotland, along with Wales, Northern Ireland, England and all the surrounding smaller isles. There are many accents, but there is no 'British' accent. However, there are Irish accents, Scottish accents, Welsh accents and English accents. However, these are also split into reginal accents too, such as in England the difference between Geordie's (those from Newcastle, up north) and those from Bristol are very different. This is the same as the difference between Texan accents and New Yorkers.
Do you see?
Not only regions but towns, villages all have their own way of talking. Around here we have a base accent but those from a village a mile up the hill say "bewk" for book. And down the road a kettle is a "keckle". Maybe that's just a northern thing but accents and dialects change every mile.
LOL, cecil, I believe the word is "english accent". Or Cockney or something.
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It's true that Britain has a greater range of accents than the US; this is because the British population is far older, and has had more time to develop different accents in relative isolation from each other (I'm talking hundreds of years, before big population movements). American accents tend to be closer together (but still distinct); there are some misnomers though due to non-English languages (Minnesotan accent, Afro-American speech, Dutch influences).
And Cecil, that "British" youtube example is a bad one, that's a Manc-like accent. "
It's a perfect example of a British accent! Because they're all different. And with my ears I wouldn't say it's a Manc accent, I'd say it was around Blackburn, Accrington, Burnley, somewhere like that.
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