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ArishMell · 70-79, M
They are national, not regional, accents lampooned there!
Besides, "Oi bruv moo innit" talk, like Received Pronunciation and "Estuary English", is an affectation, not a real accent, even without the "moo"!
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It reminds me of a mouthy, pasty-faced adolescent accompanied by (I assumed) his girlfriend behind whom I was queuing in a shop yesterday. He was very much white, and we are well over 100 miles from London. Yet he was trying to affect that "yo bruv innit" nonsense, as if trying to sound like some London-resident, would-be rapper of Caribbean descent.
As they left, the other customer and I looked at each other and agreed, "That's never his real accent! He's just trying to impress the girl!"
He didn't impress us, nor probably, the shop staff, of Asian background, though they discreetly ignored the twit's language.
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So where was this OP from? I am not sure, but I did catch a humorous remark on the radio about cattle having regional accents - of which the British Isles has a huge range.
Besides, "Oi bruv moo innit" talk, like Received Pronunciation and "Estuary English", is an affectation, not a real accent, even without the "moo"!
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It reminds me of a mouthy, pasty-faced adolescent accompanied by (I assumed) his girlfriend behind whom I was queuing in a shop yesterday. He was very much white, and we are well over 100 miles from London. Yet he was trying to affect that "yo bruv innit" nonsense, as if trying to sound like some London-resident, would-be rapper of Caribbean descent.
As they left, the other customer and I looked at each other and agreed, "That's never his real accent! He's just trying to impress the girl!"
He didn't impress us, nor probably, the shop staff, of Asian background, though they discreetly ignored the twit's language.
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So where was this OP from? I am not sure, but I did catch a humorous remark on the radio about cattle having regional accents - of which the British Isles has a huge range.
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