http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/kingdom-real-norfolk-accents Just another bbPress community en-US Sat, 18 May 2013 12:00:12 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/search.php http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/kingdom-real-norfolk-accents#post-34333 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:19:47 +0000 CEPalmer 34333@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Whoever made that up should be shot in the face.<br /> <br /> Trying to make out East Anglians are thick......hmph.<br /> <br /> Atari, queen of subtlety.</blockquote><br /> <br /> lol - Well yes there is that slight implication of intellectual ineptitude I suppose. The use of the sounds in the accent makes it quite lively and funny though. For someone not from the West Country I suppose.... Oops again! &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_wink.gif&quot; title=&quot;;-)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/kingdom-real-norfolk-accents#post-34269 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:09:44 +0000 Gertrude Susanne 34269@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_eek.gif&quot; title=&quot;8-O&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_eek.gif&quot; title=&quot;8-O&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; <br /> <br /> to be precise: Prussians X-D http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/kingdom-real-norfolk-accents#post-34262 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:41:29 +0000 Soupy Twist 34262@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <br /> Germans think Austrians are thick (and sloppy and lazy ) - so we are in the same boat with East Anglians - fine by me X-D I might even blend in nicely should I ever decide to move to East Anglia &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_wink.gif&quot; title=&quot;;-)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </blockquote><br /> <br /> bloody Germans. &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_wink.gif&quot; title=&quot;;-)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/kingdom-real-norfolk-accents#post-34234 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:25:05 +0000 Gertrude Susanne 34234@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <br /> Trying to make out East Anglians are thick......hmph.<br /> </blockquote><br /> <br /> All the people I met in Norwich (and asked for directions because I got lost :-// ) were very kind and helpful, I just had a bit of a problem with their accent &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_eek.gif&quot; title=&quot;8-O&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; (but that´s my fault, nothing to do with their IQ!)<br /> <br /> Germans think Austrians are thick (and sloppy and lazy ) - so we are in the same boat with East Anglians - fine by me X-D I might even blend in nicely should I ever decide to move to East Anglia &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_wink.gif&quot; title=&quot;;-)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/kingdom-real-norfolk-accents#post-34232 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:44:44 +0000 ClareBear 34232@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Whoever made that up should be shot in the face.<br /> <br /> Trying to make out East Anglians are thick......hmph.<br /> <br /> Atari, queen of subtlety. http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/kingdom-real-norfolk-accents#post-34220 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 04:43:47 +0000 CEPalmer 34220@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Oi can't read an' Oi can't write<br /> But that don't really mat - er<br /> Cuz Oi am frum the westcount'ree <br /> An' Oi kin droive a tract - er. <br /> <br /> <br /> Oh gosh, how I love to be stereo-typed by my accent ... <br /> <br /> &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_biggrin.gif&quot; title=&quot;:-D&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </blockquote><br /> <br /> I <em>love </em>this piece! Whoever composed should be immediately made our new poet laureate!<br /> <br /> &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_biggrin.gif&quot; title=&quot;:D&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/kingdom-real-norfolk-accents#post-18219 Sat, 12 May 2007 20:44:53 +0000 Gertrude Susanne 18219@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Oh, Cromer looks very pretty! Thanks for the tip, Atari.<br /> Must pick a time when there aren´t too many tourists around... if I want tourists I can just as well go into London or fly home X-D http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/kingdom-real-norfolk-accents#post-18213 Sat, 12 May 2007 19:53:08 +0000 ClareBear 18213@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Go to Cromer. http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/kingdom-real-norfolk-accents#post-18187 Sat, 12 May 2007 10:00:31 +0000 Gertrude Susanne 18187@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Very interesting, jemmo! Is it difficult to understand for a non-native speaker? That is always my greatest fear, to go somewhere in the UK only to find that I barely understand a word they are saying, makes me feel like a complete and utter idiot :-// <br /> <br /> And what about the Norfolk accent (couldn´t listen to the &quot;accent sample&quot;...) - I am really tempted to go there sometime, not to Swaffham (poor people, will get swamped with tourists anyway), somewhere along the coast, to enjoy the openness - just a bit of daydreaming for the time being... &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif&quot; title=&quot;:)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; <br /> <br /> If anyone watched Timewatch last night &quot;Gladiator Graveyard&quot;, you could enjoy English being spoken with a thick Austrian accent X-D X-D <br /> My accent is, according to my friend who is an English teacher, that of &quot;someone who has been to a finishing school in Switzerland&quot; (whatever that is supposed to mean...I have never dared ask her) &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_eek.gif&quot; title=&quot;8-O&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; <br /> <br /> I like your accent, boffinbabe, and I just LOVE the Irish accent (ROI, that is) &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_cool.gif&quot; title=&quot;8)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/kingdom-real-norfolk-accents#post-18150 Fri, 11 May 2007 23:37:41 +0000 boffinbabe12 18150@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Uncle by marraige- I thought that could sound weird...<br /> And I grew up here in the South East. http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/kingdom-real-norfolk-accents#post-18115 Fri, 11 May 2007 10:31:28 +0000 jemmo 18115@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ I've never heard such a thing before! My eyes are opened to a whole new world!<br /> Today i also found out that my Uncle's parents who i always thought were from Yorkshire just had strong accents from the area that I've grown up in... weird.</blockquote><br /> <br /> Begs a couple of questions....<br /> <br /> a) Your Uncle's parents = your grandparents ? Or is he an uncle by marriage ?<br /> b) Where did you grow up ?<br /> <br /> Just being nosey. &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_biggrin.gif&quot; title=&quot;:-D&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/kingdom-real-norfolk-accents#post-18050 Thu, 10 May 2007 21:14:43 +0000 boffinbabe12 18050@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ I've never heard such a thing before! My eyes are opened to a whole new world!<br /> Today i also found out that my Uncle's parents who i always thought were from Yorkshire just had strong accents from the area that I've grown up in... weird. http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/kingdom-real-norfolk-accents#post-18013 Thu, 10 May 2007 10:13:57 +0000 jemmo 18013@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ There's quite a good example of a Norfolk accent from this site:<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/norfolk/videonation/voices_cyril.shtml">http://www.bbc.co.uk/norfolk/videonation/voices_cyril.shtml</a> http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/kingdom-real-norfolk-accents#post-18007 Thu, 10 May 2007 09:15:51 +0000 Terri 18007@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Oh that's okay then, now I know why I talk like this! &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif&quot; title=&quot;:)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; <br /> <br /> Better turn in my job and go and live on a farm before I lose this rustic &quot;charm&quot; forever! <br /> <br /> lol<br /> <br /> &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_biggrin.gif&quot; title=&quot;:-D&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/kingdom-real-norfolk-accents#post-18002 Thu, 10 May 2007 08:28:05 +0000 trouser material 18002@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ There's lots of farms in Norfolk. And the West Country. So there's your answer.