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English (as in England) Intonation is quite weird...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/video/40068000/rm/ 40068153 basra kimmit210404 vi.ram
This is an interview between Jeremy Paxman and Mark Kimmit. The American intonation seems sensible and natural. The English (British/England) intonation seems quite bizarre.
Reminds me of Monty Python, they had the strangest intonation.
How did the British develop such unnatural ways? I can only assume a deliberate and pretentious insistence on being proper could be to blame.
This is an interview between Jeremy Paxman and Mark Kimmit. The American intonation seems sensible and natural. The English (British/England) intonation seems quite bizarre.
Reminds me of Monty Python, they had the strangest intonation.
How did the British develop such unnatural ways? I can only assume a deliberate and pretentious insistence on being proper could be to blame.
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ram This is an interview between Jeremy Paxman and Mark Kimmit. The American intonation seems sensible ... develop such unnatural ways?
- ram This is an interview between Jeremy Paxman and Mark Kimmit.
- The American intonation seems sensible ...
- develop such unnatural ways?
- [/nq] What dialect do you speak?
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[nq:1]http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/video/40068000/rm/ 40068153 basra kimmit210404 vi.ram This is an interview between Jeremy Paxman and Mark Kimmit. The American intonation seems sensible ... develop such unnatural ways? I can only assume a deliberate and pretentious insistence on bei
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[nq:1]http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/video/40068000/rm/ 40068153 basra kimmit210404 vi.ram This is an interview between Jeremy Paxman and Mark Kimmit. The American intonation seems sensible and natural. The English (British/England) intonation seems quite bizarre.[/nq]
It may be th
It may be th
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[nq:1]It may be there are things you should know about Paxman...[/nq]
His book "The English" is quite recommendable. What else should one know about him?
Luca
His book "The English" is quite recommendable. What else should one know about him?
Luca
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"Mike Henley" (Email Removed) schrieb im Newsbeitrag
[nq:1]This is an interview between Jeremy Paxman and Mark Kimmit. The American intonation seems sensible and natural. The English (British/England) ... develop such unnatural ways? I can only assume a deliberate and pretentious insistence on being proper could be to blame.[/nq]
You speak, and are used to, American English. I speak, and
[nq:1]This is an interview between Jeremy Paxman and Mark Kimmit. The American intonation seems sensible and natural. The English (British/England) ... develop such unnatural ways? I can only assume a deliberate and pretentious insistence on being proper could be to blame.[/nq]
You speak, and are used to, American English. I speak, and
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[nq:1]http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/video/40068000/rm/ 40068153 basra kimmit210404 vi.ram This is an interview between Jeremy Paxman and Mark Kimmit. The American intonation seems sensible and natural. The English (British/England) intonation seems quite bizarre.[/nq]
Nothing odd
Nothing odd
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Ian Noble filted:
[nq:2]How did the British develop such unnatural ways? I can only assume a deliberate and pretentious insistence on being proper could be to blame.[/nq]
[nq:1]It's a national conspiracy, naturally - planned with malice aforethought specifically to annoy Americans. Eligible upper-class males are inducted into ... which has a tendency to leave them with permanent anatomical
[nq:2]How did the British develop such unnatural ways? I can only assume a deliberate and pretentious insistence on being proper could be to blame.[/nq]
[nq:1]It's a national conspiracy, naturally - planned with malice aforethought specifically to annoy Americans. Eligible upper-class males are inducted into ... which has a tendency to leave them with permanent anatomical
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[nq:2]It may be there are things you should know about Paxman...[/nq]
[nq:1]His book "The English" is quite recommendable. What else should one know about him? Luca[/nq]
He was actually born in Alabama. Like the rest of us he only talks like that when he knows Americans are listening, but doesn't quite get the intonation extreme enough.
Actually what's really depressing about this ques
[nq:1]His book "The English" is quite recommendable. What else should one know about him? Luca[/nq]
He was actually born in Alabama. Like the rest of us he only talks like that when he knows Americans are listening, but doesn't quite get the intonation extreme enough.
Actually what's really depressing about this ques
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[nq:1]Actually what's really depressing about this question, for those of us who live with a media saturated with models of ... up), is that Paxman's speech pattern appears to be the first BrE Mike's heard since Monty Python in the 1970s.[/nq]
I was in a Californian cafe. I asked for a glass of water.
"We don't got that" the waitress lady said.
"No, he means waader" my
[nq:1]Actually what's really depressing about this question, for those of us who live with a media saturated with models of ... up), is that Paxman's speech pattern appears to be the first BrE Mike's heard since Monty Python in the 1970s.[/nq]
I was in a Californian cafe. I asked for a glass of water.
"We don't got that" the waitress lady said.
"No, he means waader" my
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[nq:1]I was in a Californian cafe. I asked for a glass of water. "We don't got that" the waitress lady said. "No, he means waader" my sister replied "Oh, why did'n he say so!"[/nq]
You were probably asking for wota. We ain't got that kind.
[nq:1]Baffling. ALso, try asking for h erbs and see where it gets you. (Not to the herb shelf, that's for sure.)[/nq]
'Erbs is what them is.
You were probably asking for wota. We ain't got that kind.
[nq:1]Baffling. ALso, try asking for h erbs and see where it gets you. (Not to the herb shelf, that's for sure.)[/nq]
'Erbs is what them is.
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[nq:2]I was in a Californian cafe. I asked for a ... waader" my sister replied "Oh, why did'n he say so!"[/nq]
[nq:1]You were probably asking for wota.[/nq]
I'm practising IPA, really, but I'm also learning a smidge of Japanese and it gets confusing.
Kill-filers:
My screen name changes,
My email address doesn't.
[nq:1]You were probably asking for wota.[/nq]
I'm practising IPA, really, but I'm also learning a smidge of Japanese and it gets confusing.
Kill-filers:
My screen name changes,
My email address doesn't.
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