Monday, April 24, 2006

Paralinguistics

There are some moments that are just too good to keep to yourself and I just have to share with you the surreal events of this morning. So here's the scene - my guv'nor who's a bit of an east end geezer (innit you slags!) attempting to explain the finer points of english like wot she is spoke by the Queen to a Pole - who's english pronunciation is far way better than the boss.
The highlight of this was where he said "You should pronounce fings all phonetical like innit you unnerstan? Then you won't sound Polish"
That unfortunately is true - instead she'll sound like a cross between Dick van Dyke in Mary Poppins and half the cast of Eastenders innit you slags! You unnerstan now?

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