The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to memes@lemmy.world · 5 months agoListen to those funny accentslemmy.worldimagemessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1152arrow-down114
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minus-squareBarqsHasBite@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·5 months agoHonestly I find the British accent really hard to understand. On tv anyway.
minus-squareGreatAlbatross@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·5 months agoWhich British accent? Westcountry or Scouse, you probably have a point.
minus-squarethetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoAny thick accent is hard to understand really. And in almost all parts of the UK there are people with thick accents.
minus-squareBarqsHasBite@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-25 months agoYou could slam your wang in a car door and not feel a thing.
minus-squareAA5B@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-25 months agoI imagine this could be funny but the link only shows an ad. I’ll assume it’s one of these, and chuckle https://biztechmagazine.com/article/2017/04/advent-office-pcs-wang-2200-reigned-computing-dynamo
minus-squareAA5B@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoAh, ok. Needed volume, huh? I guess I’ll never know
minus-squareCosmo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·5 months agoAnd then you go live the UK, realize that tv uses only a small subset of British accents, and sometimes find yourself wondering “Huh I wonder what language that is?” only to realize it was English 20 minutes after the fact
minus-squarecfi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-25 months agoReminds me of this scene from Hot Fuzz
minus-squareThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 months agoI have to turn on captions sometimes
Honestly I find the British accent really hard to understand. On tv anyway.
Which British accent? Westcountry or Scouse, you probably have a point.
See this is the problem.
Any thick accent is hard to understand really. And in almost all parts of the UK there are people with thick accents.
You could slam your wang in a car door and not feel a thing.
I imagine this could be funny but the link only shows an ad.
I’ll assume it’s one of these, and chuckle
It’s a fake ad.
Ah, ok. Needed volume, huh? I guess I’ll never know
It has audio.
And then you go live the UK, realize that tv uses only a small subset of British accents, and sometimes find yourself wondering “Huh I wonder what language that is?” only to realize it was English 20 minutes after the fact
Reminds me of this scene from Hot Fuzz
I have to turn on captions sometimes