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I can't understand english people....how bout you?

Zebo

Zebo

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Im watching "lock stock and two smoking barrels" and do NOT have a figgin clue to what they are saying. Running sub titles helps a bit but the venacular is still unknown. I've noticed this a lot..I shoulda remembered from watching the PBS show "keeping up appearances" to stay away from foriegn language films.🙁

Do english people even speak english? Or some guttered form? When they sing like clapton and just about everyone with rock talent the english finally start speaking english.
 
Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend
They speak the English dialect, we speak the American dialect.
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I don't buy that. I can understand a southener or someone from wisconson just fine. English don't speak english.
 
I had trouble with that movie, but I got used to it fast. I like brit accents, they're funny. The different words are also quite interesting

"Oy, how's that dynamo under the bonnet doing?"
 
Originally posted by: Zebo
Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend
They speak the English dialect, we speak the American dialect.
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I don't buy that. I can understand a southener or someone from wisconson just fine. English don't speak english.
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I was in West Virginia once, staying overnight on my way to Florida. I could barely, just barely make out wth poeple were saying. Much harder than British IMO.
 
Originally posted by: Zebo
Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend
They speak the English dialect, we speak the American dialect.
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I don't buy that. I can understand a southener or someone from wisconson just fine. English don't speak english.
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I can assure you that the words they use are English, most normally have a thick accent and use an English dialect. Same with the Irish, except with an Irish dialect (broken down to Belfast, Dublin, Cork, and Kilarney dialects). Now, the Scots just don't speak coherently. You don't have to buy it, that's just the way it is.
 
i used to speak with british accent, so no I have no problem with it. I actually love british accent (not scottish or Irish though)
 
Not fair english can understand us be we can't them... Trust begins with communication...maybe that's why the irish had enough of them and scotts want thier own country too?😛
 
Remember that most of the people in that movie are lower class. Just as a heavy southern accent can be more difficult to understand than somebody with a more moderate american accent, so too can there be native english speakers who are more obvious in what they're saying than some backass hicks.
 
Originally posted by: Zebo
Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend
They speak the English dialect, we speak the American dialect.
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I don't buy that. I can understand a southener or someone from wisconson just fine. English don't speak english.
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Hahahahaha!!
 
Part of the problem you're having with that movie is that it uses a particular slang where they say words that rhyme with the words that they actually say, such as Skyrocket for pocket. The dialect also often uses brand names instead of generic names, such as Allens for pants or Chesterfield for sofa. In some cases, these companies have been out of business for decades, but the brand name is still a part of the language. And sometimes, (although I can't think of any that I've been able to decipher in that movie) they use the rhymes of the brand names.

This was such a joke in that movie that in one scene they wrote a monologue (for the bartender in the samoan pub) who used that dialect so much that the director put in subtitles. (Ping pong tiddly in the nuclear sub=Strongest drink in the pub)

That being said, for the majority of the diologue in the movie it should have been understandable to you, after you adjusted a little.

For me, it's kinda like watching Shakespeare, or someting in French (a language I speak a little), where I understand nothing for the first min or so, and then it's like a switch turns on in my head and I'm ok. (OK, often more than a minute for French)

And I agree with the above poster, those from Edinborough are incomprehensible. I once met a guy from a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, who was even worse.

From a signpost in Darby county, England:

"Tek car, lems on rud."
 
The stereotype is that British accents equate to intelligence, while southern US accents equate to a low IQ. While this is entirely untrue, you have to admit the sterotype exists; why else would makers of B-movies and tv shows (which all make B-movies look like cinematographic masterpieces) give someone a British accent when they want them to appear intelligent rather than rely on *gasp* actual character development?
 
Originally posted by: Kibbo
Part of the problem you're having with that movie is that it uses a particular slang where they say words that rhyme with the words that they actually say, such as Skyrocket for pocket. The dialect also often uses brand names instead of generic names, such as Allens for pants or Chesterfield for sofa. In some cases, these companies have been out of business for decades, but the brand name is still a part of the language. And sometimes, (although I can't think of any that I've been able to decipher in that movie) they use the rhymes of the brand names.

This was such a joke in that movie that in one scene they wrote a monologue (for the bartender in the samoan pub) who used that dialect so much that the director put in subtitles. (Ping pong tiddly in the nuclear sub=Strongest drink in the pub)

That being said, for the majority of the diologue in the movie it should have been understandable to you, after you adjusted a little.

For me, it's kinda like watching Shakespeare, or someting in French (a language I speak a little), where I understand nothing for the first min or so, and then it's like a switch turns on in my head and I'm ok. (OK, often more than a minute for French)

And I agree with the above poster, those from Edinborough are incomprehensible. I once met a guy from a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, who was even worse.

From a signpost in Darby county, England:

"Tek car, lems on rud."
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😎

Now that you bring it up Shakespeare is another thing I can't stand. I get drug every year to our local Shakespeare "fesival" and just hate it ... Like a foriegn film with bad acting and no alcohol there either.🙁 I
 
Originally posted by: SirStev0
i'm gunna go on a limb here and say it originated there... they speak it right... we speak it wrong...
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There is a substance of truth in that, however, Lock Stock features South London accents, which are hard to understand at the best of times. Hell, I have trouble with Cockney Rhyming Slang myself too and I live an hour from London.
 
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