by I came across these videos on Tik Tok recently and they are hilarious, but the new London working class accent is very interesting, even though I have trouble understanding it myself. London is now very multicultural, and the young West Indians, mainly from Jamaican descent, are now third generation, and their passed down Jamaican accent has combined with the white London working class accent to produce one of the harshest accent I've heard. English, when spoken properly, can be very beautiful. I've included an examples of both very beautiful English and American accents.All languages are beautiful when spoken correctly. In this first video the boys are just acting and so speak quiet nicely at the start, which is probably their normal accent, but then they go into the new hybrid working
Topics:
Mike Norman considers the following as important:
This could be interesting, too:
Lars Pålsson Syll writes Andreas Cervenka och den svenska bostadsbubblan
Mike Norman writes Trade deficit
Merijn T. Knibbe writes Christmas thoughts about counting the dead in zones of armed conflict.
Lars Pålsson Syll writes Debunking the balanced budget superstition
I came across these videos on Tik Tok recently and they are hilarious, but the new London working class accent is very interesting, even though I have trouble understanding it myself.
London is now very multicultural, and the young West Indians, mainly from Jamaican descent, are now third generation, and their passed down Jamaican accent has combined with the white London working class accent to produce one of the harshest accent I've heard.
English, when spoken properly, can be very beautiful. I've included an examples of both very beautiful English and American accents.
All languages are beautiful when spoken correctly.
In this first video the boys are just acting and so speak quiet nicely at the start, which is probably their normal accent, but then they go into the new hybrid working class accent for the second part.
This black guy here speaks very nicely, but he gets a shock.
White working class Londoners do speak like this now in some parts of London. They had to put subtitles in so people could understand it, but the syntax is very different to and also difficult to understand. The youngsters love talking like this - street talk - and getting it right is important for status and acceptance.
Some examples of very beautiful English accents.
The content of these videos below are very interesting in themselves too.
Why I dress as a Regency gentleman... everyday of my life - BBC News
Zack MacLeod Pinsent dresses as a British Regency gentleman every day, saying that the clothing is a "huge confidence builder".
He ceremoniously burned his last pair of jeans when he was 14-years-old and hasn't looked back since.
He's a tailor and has found a market for clients wanting historical pieces overseas
A very beautiful American accent, I thought.