Re: CHAT: R: Re: CHAT: Blandness (was: Uusisuom's influences)

Ray Brown wrote:

>At 11:56 pm -0400 4/4/01, Roger Mills wrote:
>[snip]
>>slang/idioms, or some of each?   I hear items from the BBC over our public
>>radio network-- most of it's RP, though for some reason the man who talks
>>about sport usually has a regional accent of some sort--
>
>That's de_facto mandatory now-a-days - region depends upon the sport, to
>some extent.>
So I kind-of figured out.  Also, some of the regular news-readers aren't
totally RP-- I gather this introduction of other accents is considered quite
a plus, a radical step even...:-)  Still, they never go beyond the pale, as
far as my understanding is concerned.  And it's interesting that your
regional accents seem to be more alive and well than ours.

>>never impenetrable,
>>however.  The accent in the TV show ("Dalziell and Pascoe") was, I
suspect,
>>Scots
>
>Yorkshire, actually.>
Aha.  I have to confess my knowledge of British dialects comes mainly from
TV police imports-- "Cracker" and "Frost" are usually difficult.  Thank God
for the late Morse, and the upper class twits on Poirot.  (Somehow I suspect
these shows are long-gone from the UK.)  Though as TV, they're all vastly
superior to the car-chases and explosions that adorn the genre over here.

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