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L O W L A N D S - L - 31 December 2006 - Volume 06<br>======================================================================<br><br>From: <span id="_user_ptatum@blueyonder.co.uk" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Paul Tatum <
<a href="mailto:ptatum@blueyonder.co.uk">ptatum@blueyonder.co.uk</a>></span><br>Subject: LL-L 'Language diversity' 2006.12.31 (02) [E] <br><br><span class="q">Sandy wrote:<br><br>> In the past I think the norm would have been to get an actor with a
<br>> strong accent to neutralise it a bit unless they were playing some<br>> decidedly provincial part.<br><br></span><div style="direction: ltr;"><span class="q">> We Scots were very disappointed in Lulu taking on a strong English
<br>> accent. This was long, long ago, of course - the early 1960's, when<br>> viewers would actually complain about not being able to understand<br>> regional accents and everybody going on TV with a strong accent would
<br>> give a lot of thought to how they could change it. ITV had already set a<br>> precedent with Coronation Street, though.<br>><br>> Around the same time the Beatles were insisting on sticking to their<br>> Liverpool accents
<br><br></span></div><div style="direction: ltr;">These days it seems that certain regional accents, such as<br>north-eastern, are desirable, to the point where I suspect that certain<br>presenters assume their regional accent when they were actually brought
<br>up to speak RP. (I'm trying hard here not to launch into a diatribe<br>against a certain TV "personality" who raises my hackles :)). Like books<br>about colloquials, learned accents stick out. I have lived in the
<br>north-east for 20+ years, having been born in Kent and raised in Wigan,<br>but I do not try to speak Geordie - people only notice when you get it<br>wrong, not when you get it right...<br>however my pronunciation is such that northerners think I'm a
<br>southerner, and southerners think I'm a northerner....sigh.<br><br>Happy New Year to followers of the Julian calendar, TTFN to everybody else,<br></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span class="sg"><br>Paul Tatum.
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