Brit thread.

Tatelou said:
Ooh eck, where to start?

Go to the Abs for Popess thread, it should explain all. :D
Should I be nervous or excited?

I'll bless myself before I start reading. :rolleyes:
 
A7inchPhildo said:
Scones and cream on your desk.

I kind of like this thread, wondering after hearing Katie and others talk funny. Has anyone put to gether a story in Brit accent?

:D Phildo

I don't quite know what you mean by that. How would you do that?

My stories are mostly set in England. Some of them are set at my house. And everyone who isn't talking German is talking British english (apart from the chain story). Some even talk Yorkshire. But if you're American, I'm not sure you'd recognise it in print, you probably reinterpret it as some other accent you're more familiar with.
 
cahab said:
I don't quite know what you mean by that. How would you do that?

My stories are mostly set in England. Some of them are set at my house. And everyone who isn't talking German is talking British english (apart from the chain story). Some even talk Yorkshire. But if you're American, I'm not sure you'd recognise it in print, you probably reinterpret it as some other accent you're more familiar with.

Hi Cahab!

I think what Phildo meant was, has anyone written a story (narrative and dialogue) using regional British slang. Further on in the thread, I think Alex mentions that he has written one in Geordie. Pops wrote a novel using purely English terms/slang and phrases.

Lou
 
Would anyone bother reading them or voting for them though
D'ya ken whit a mean, mon.
Ya canny whackit
 
Tatelou said:
Hi Cahab!

I think what Phildo meant was, has anyone written a story (narrative and dialogue) using regional British slang. Further on in the thread, I think Alex mentions that he has written one in Geordie. Pops wrote a novel using purely English terms/slang and phrases.

Lou

I penned one (Blood Money) where one of the characters is a call girl from London and used a bit of slang etc to build her character.

It may confuse some people who do not understand the lingo but I feel it adds significantly to the story. After all not every one speaks Queens, I certainly dont being a Durham boy whose lived darn sooth for ower twenny odd yors man.

As my dad says in a term of exasperation to me mam "Aaww Man woman man!"
;)
 
Goldie Munro said:
Hello from deepest darkest Kent - well not that deep or dark really... :)

Hello right back atcha, from deepest, darkest Dorset. Sometimes deep, but often sunny. ;)
 
I thought this was a very good time to bring this thread up from the basement again, what with all the Brit-speak going on in the "mood" thread today. :D

(And the fact that Lew told me the other day he was gonna resurrect this thread, but couldn't find it. Us women have to do everything... ;) :p )
 
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