Living English

[the_vulture]

Well, after living two years in this particular region of southern England, I finally discovered a few critical rules to simulating the local accent. It hit my like a bolt from the heavens when a child called out to his parents "Can I go on d' compu-ah?" I'm certain he intended "Can I go on the computer?", but the locals here (and I'm amazed I only just really put the pieces together) are lazy about TH sounds (changing them to D or F sounds), exceptionally lazy about T sounds (to the point of completing omitting them), and modifying RR sounds to AH. Before I leave this country, I might actually be able to fake a genuine English accent that isn't some parody of posh a la Monty Python. Yay me! *chuckle*  

Another fact of existence in England was brought to the forefront of my awareness this weekend. As I went about to the shops and did my running in a T-shirt and shorts in the middle of January, it was again affirmed: English winters are PUSSY!!! (What can I say? Any opportunity to proudly display my Canadianity... )