Re: What book)s) would use modern upper class English?

[Dan Goodman]

On Sat, 04 May 2013 09:55:59 +0800, Robert Bannister wrote:

> On 4/05/13 5:45 AM, Robert Carnegie wrote:
>> Oh, and <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_Chelsea>
>>
>> Sometimes I'm very glad that I'm Scottish.
>>
>>
> Surely there used to be a special upper-crust, Edinburgh accent. I have
> heard people trying to imitate it in plays.

I've heard a Dublin-area Irish-English accent which sounded almost like
RP -- but with r's pronounced as strongly as in Scottish.



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Dan Goodman

[Dan Goodman]

This topic really belongs in rec.arts.sf.composition; hence the
crossposting.

Recommended nonfiction: Language in the British Isles / edited by Peter
Trudgill. Cambridge University Press, 1984.

On Fri, 03 May 2013 22:48:57 -0400, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:

> On 5/3/13 7:38 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
>>
>>
>> "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <sea...@sgeinc.invalid.com> wrote in message
>> news:km12kl$4kj$1...@dont-email.me...
>>> On 5/3/13 2:55 PM, Lawrence Watt-Evans wrote:
>>>> On 2013-05-03 14:46:38 -0400, t...@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan said:
>>>>
>>>>> In article <MPG.2bedb2d8c...@news.newsguy.com>,
>>>>> J. Clarke <jclark...@cox.net> wrote:
>>>>>> In article <340bce21-ede9-45d8-b680-d707cc1b5161
>>>>>> @yb1g2000pbc.googlegroups.com>, seanea...@hotmail.com says...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have a character that should speak like that. But I do not even
>>>>>>> know how they say hello. So I need some reading material, and
>>>>>>> *Not* regency.
>>>>>>> Suggestions?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Define "modern upper class English". Are you talking about the
>>>>>> English of the British uppah clawsses or something else?
>>>>>
>>>>> For the US, just imagine Charles Emerson WInchester or Thurston
>>>>> Howell III talking...
>>>>>
>>>>> :-)
>>>>
>>>> Speaking as a Princeton alumnus who's talked to a Vanderbilt and a
>>>> couple of the Chases of Chase Manhattan, and whose own ancestry
>>>> included some old money, let me say that that's flat out wrong.
>>>> That's how Hollywood thinks upper-class twits should sound; it isn't
>>>> how they actually DO talk.
>>
>>> Do they actually talk significantly differently than anyone else these
>>> days?
>>
>> Bet they do. Wankers like that normally do, just because they are
>> wankers.
>>
>> The British ones certainly do.
>>
>>> At least, assuming roughly equal education levels?
>>
>> That's very unlikely indeed unless you mean only the crudest measure of
>> education level like primary, middle, high school and tertiary etc.
>
> I mean same degree level. There really isn't THAT much difference
> between going to Big Name School and going to Decent Lesser School in
> terms of your education; it's mostly reputation and research
> opportunities that will differ.





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