The perfect example of differing British accents causing a comprehension problem.
Famously when Jacob Rees-Mogg stood as the Conservative candidate for 'Central Fife' (in Scotland) in 1997, it was claimed that the electorate couldn't understand a word of what he was saying; nor could Mogg understand them! Not surprisingly, he failed to be elected.
I can understand some of what this Scottish MP is saying, but he can't resist breaking into an indecipherable accent at the key moment.
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I stay in North Fife and used to have trouble. When in a three way conversation but after a few months one picks it up. Weegie is far worse and one lady I know still speaks very slowly as if to an idiot. Happen she's not far off the mark.
The MP in this video really does need subtitles!
He's doing it on purpose.
You may well be right; his 15 mins of fame!
I am spaniar and no spiking inglis, and I yes understood the parlamentary scotis.
is very easy with good will.
Jajaja
I could understand him perfectly well. He did speak very quickly though, and as suggested, perhaps deliberately. Scottish is easy compared to the Lancashire accent.
That is funny to listen to, but I think everyone would understand if he just spoke slower.
Well I understood it and don't understand what the fuss was all about
Well, you're a better person than me! I could just about understand half of it; but I'm a southerner.
Bits were OK, but then he suddenly breaks into the unknown.
He suddenly speeds-up, as if he wants to get it over with. It's at that moment when it fails.
Have you Scottish ancestors?
Don’t know what the problem is. Perfectly intelligible to me.
It would be helpful if all politicians, newscasters, actors and actresses spoke in solid Yorkshire accents. I would be happy to involved in the lucrative voice coaching scheme. It would be extra helpful if Jacob Rees-Mogg had his voice box surgically removed.
I understood everything - I just love his accent!
Are you Boris McTavish from The Highlands?
Mogg has a perfectly good, clear, understandable, accent. I suggest he does Elocution lessons on BBC TV.
Looks like it's just me and the Aussie who have problems.
My mother tongue being of the guttural variety too I have no problem understanding the Scottish accent.
However, what that guy in your clip did is discourteous. He was asked to slow it down, he didn´t. That´s just a piss take.
Mind you, and this may amuse you, on my first visit to England to meet my future parents-in-law the father spoke VERY LOUDLY when addressing me, the foreigner. "She isn´t deaf", his son drily observed.
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My daughter had a run-in with a Geordie accent while trying to sort out some required paperwork. Her husband was no help, rolling around in hysterical laughter like he was. I could not understand the man, but I am still on my first coffee. He was asked to slow down, but he did not slow down...in fact it seems that he did just the opposite. I expect that he's quite a lot of fun at a gathering.
The old British idea of foreign languages was to speak slowly, and loudly, in ENGLISH. It always worked.
I'm sure that broad Geordie is the most difficult of accents to understand. I'm even amazed that they can understand each other!
Love it
It's all good fun.
Passing judgement on an individual based on dialect/accent is common in many circles. For example, in Boston, Massachusetts: if you slur your "R's" you are identified a Bostonian. The test is: try saying "Park the car in Harvard Square like this: Pak the ca in Havad Squae." Omitting the "R" is the give away.
I hope you're not suggesting that this was 'passing judgement' in any form. It's always been a bit of fun in the UK to play with regional accents; we love them all (some more than others!).
WHAT! Like Jared O'Mara you mean, the bloke you voted for and was so spaced out you couldn't see it.
The kinder voice of the leftard. Nowt wrong with Mogg other than he's a bit lefty.
My grown up Grandsons were born and raised in Ayr in Scotland and when they call me on the phone I have to keep asking them to repeat themselves because the accent is so broad.
Briony
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Just remembered the builder that we use comes from Liverpool and he is even worse. He talks so quickly and is completely unintelligible. lol
When I was a Samaritan , if I got a Glaswegian caller , i more or less gave up
Really 'broad scouse' can be very tricky, and of course they have their own words for certain things.
I think the man in the video is from Glasgow.
We Aussies don't pronounce our "Rs' and our "Ts" mostly come out sounding like "Ds'
We're a lazy bunch I guess. But I don't know anyone who DOES pronounce the "R" that ISN'T American.
McTraveller from The Lowlands.
David Linden is very softly spoken for a Glaswegian.
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