I won't take offence to your comment about the Liverpool accent. I don't actually have a scouse accent, although I do come from and live near Liverpool!
I don't really know if my accent is easy to understand.
It's definatly the most distinctive in my school.
It's a cross between;
Broad Geodie, Posh geordie, welsh, liverpool, manchester, plain old british, camp and a tiny bit of irish.
JA
Jamez
jae posted:
I can be understood, my father can't be understood! I would send you a copy of my voice, but I don't know how to convert wav. files into mp3s.
Go to Download.com and get CDEX 1.30.
Then load the Wav file you want to convert to MP3.
I advise you to zip the mp3 before putting it on your webspace, because Mp3's tend to get distortions in them via transfer from your computer to the net.
Quote: from cheshirec, 8:20 pm on June 20, why have the BBC TOTALLY missed this airstrikes story in Iraq?
Sky, CNN and ITN all reported it but there has been no mention whatsoever on any of the BBC services today.
this is a daily event in Iraq. sometimes more active on some days than others. i suppose they just consider it irrelevant. personally i think it is stupid that we bomb iraq (although it is only america who return fire on these events as the uk forces are not allowed to.) there is no evidence of weapon making in iraq and its only the iraqi population who suffer and not the government.
AL
alekf
SkyNews posted:
Alek what about STUART VARNEY on CNN Moneyline before Dobbs was (1. lured back or 2. needed the work!).
A strong English accent with a slight American mannerisms - bet the Americans love(d) it!
I personally couldn't stand Varney. He's accent was sooooo fake. It just sounded unnatural and like he had marbles in his mouth or something!
AL
alekf
So, If I may clarify the stuff on the 'BBC accent' -- it was developed to be an easily understandable form of English, right?
And what 'type' of accent do the newsreaders speak? I know that there is a standard british-English pronuciation. When I was an exchange-student in Belgium they had English class in school and they learnt the standard (or what I assumed standard) form or pronunciation of British-English. How is the BBC accent different from standard British-English? If the BBC accent is a type of 'mix' of all regional accents, wouldn't that make the most sense in being a standard in pronunciation? I think I'm dwelling on this too much!
Oh, and btw, I once wrote an e-mail to the WorldService asking them if they would ever hire an American-English newsreader, and they said that they generally only hire people speaking in the standard English. They did however point out to me Lyce Doucet and Lucy Hockings (sorry about the spelling).
First of all... the UK and US Elections are rare events, they do not come under the term of 'breaking news'.
And the foot and mouth outbreak may have broken at 2am on BBC News 24.
Ok yeah whatever but news stories are still broken 24 hours a day.
SC
ScottC
24insider posted:
BTW Jamez, News24 directors are all lovely and they never shout - so u'd be ok!
Arrr, that's so sweet of you! Makes me feel like going into work tomorrow morning at 0530 now and doing a spot of Directing
Alek, yes it was simply designed so that everyone could understand it.
If you go onto the Radio 4 'Today' website (www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today) there are some old sonud clips in the History of Today section, many of the people in there speak with the traditional BBC Accent.
Also, you can see how it has changed.
at www.bbc.co.uk/insights there is a Real Media file with commentary on the Hillborough disaster, the guy has a BBC Accent only it seems to have weakend over the years: Here are the 2 sound files if you cannot be bothered to look yourself
Now, in the first audio notice the way he says 'Very very serious', the way he uses his tongue is not in a 'posh' manner, it is in a clarifying one, it makes his voice 'accurate' if you see what I mean, that is typical of a BBC Accent.
