Re: CHAT: Cockney Orkish as she is spoken.

On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Raymond A. Brown wrote:

> >On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Andrew Smith wrote:
> >
> >> The
> >> agency through which I am auditioning advised me to do the audition in a
> >> British accent and they suggested Cockney.  I'm still trying to see the
> >> connection.  So can anyone suggest what is so 'orkish' about Cockney, and
> >> how I can 'debase' that dialect to sound authentic.
>
> I find it very sad that after a century which has witnessed far too often
> the hatred, bitterness and senseless cruelty & killing that such
> stereotypes too readily engender, some people seem to be taking these often
> groundless & quite mischievous stereotypes into the 3rd millennium with
> them.
>
>
> I'm afraid IMO the attitude "Oh, let's make the nasty orcs sound like
> Cockneys" shows both lamentable laziness as regards research and
> inexcusably offensive stereotyping.
Hear, hear!  And all the same, Andrew, good luck with it!

Give em a right goin over for us all!

Padraic.

>
> Ray.
>