Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for September 19, 2013

Good show, m’lady Holly!

Any British people here to confirm/refute this? :D :D :D

Wait- this is International Talk like a Pirate Day! Not British Accent Day!

Frankly, I think it’s still rude and very disrespectful to call your teacher’s ideas stupid, with or without a British accent.

This is fun! Good for the teacher to try and liven it up. As long as they learn something, it doesn’t matter to me what accent they do it in. Hopefully this means they’re studying Shakespeare because it would fit right in.

Holly, there was no question being asked.

“I’m thirty seven!”

Professor Higgins would chide and chastise Holly for that. Then he would make her open her mouth and insert seven marbles, and then make her recite.

Try speaking like (BBC’s ’Allo ’Allo!) Officer Crabtree with his “fluent” French (accent) and see if you can make out what being said.

Not pirate?

In re. “British accents” and “talking like a pirate”: First, there is no one standard British accent (which was the point of Professor Henry Higgins’s work). A Yorkshire accent is vastly different from the Cockney accent of (one part of) London, just for one comparison. Second, the so-called pirate way of speaking was derived from the local dialect of one seaport area in Britain, so is, by definition, a British accent, though not a high-class one.

To add, “Yorkshire accent” is itself an oversimplification. I had a friend from Yorkshire assure me that a lot depends on which part of the shire you come from!

:D

How is it racist? Its just to have some fun while learning. Gads!

We have a family friend from Nottingham. It took me a while to be able to understand what he was saying .After I was used to the accent it was no problem until he used slang. O_o

Hee hee hee!

Really? Pulling the racist card? Might be a bit disrespectful to some Brits, but racist? Um… no.

Racist is, by definition, “a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another.”

Websters defines it as: “poor treatment of or violence against people because of their race”

It’s “Talk Like a Pirate Day” Shiver me timbers!

This is what instructors call a role play.

Anything you say, governor!

The REAL issue here is that there’s no such thing as a “British accent”!!!! Great Britain is three countries: England, Scotland, and Wales. Hence there is no “group” or “common” accent. Bloody shame a school teacher wouldn’t know that. (And, yes, I’m British)

Looks like it wasn’t just the class who woke up!

Thaht’s brilliant!

The French might have accepted the Irish and the Italians, but the Catholic church in the US is not really serving the European emigrants, they are too busy ministering to the Latin Americans too worry about anyone else. Believe me, The Catholic Church south of the border is much different than the one we grew up in. Many of the Saints just took the place of the old gods, just like in Haiti.

JP Steve: I’m not generally one to split hairs, but I consider it to be highly ignorant to “teach” children incorrectly. How about a 3-minute geography lesson instead? Let me try to put this into perspective (I said “try”). How would Americans feel about being told they have a “CanMex” accent?

No such thing as a british accent – there were english, welsh scottish and irish pirates but they spoke with an english, welsh ,scottish or irish accent…..