And I Pahk my Cah in the Havahd Yahd

Recognized a guy with my regional accent in an Instagram video today. From my hometown and I nailed it just listening 💁‍♀️ Undefeated SW Ontario accent noticer/promoter my ear is powerful lolll 💪

Megan Thee Stallion & GloRilla - Accent (feat. GloRilla)

J was super sweet, and I had worked with him in the cafeteria of our high school our senior year. Then, sophomore year he just disappeared. When you have 2000+ students in your school, it’s hard to know if someone moved, dropped out, or just has a schedule that doesn’t align with yours. #runaway

38) Runaway Part 1

Do you feel like your accent is holding you back from speaking Hebrew?

Your Accent in Hebrew as an English Speaker

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My Favorites of the Trickmurk Skin Submissions!

Master of Ceremonies by: ExpectancyGate

Tabletop Toss by: northward

Ghostlight Phantom by: everlorn

Thorndark bramble by: MythicalViper

Shroomgrove glow by: Talonmaster

One Card Too Lucky by: 888

So long, Suckers! by: ORIXI

Through the Arch by: staricee

Trickster’s Tales by: Amazonite

Midnight Keeper b: lovelost

Brambleberries by: Phenri

She’s Not With Us by: mevstus

Luciferase Graft by: Erra

Sparkling Night by: iiPessimystic

(via The Boston accent is disappearing. In Southie, that carries a deeper meaning. - YouTube)

Inspiration for a small transitional galley slate floor and gray floor dedicated laundry room remodel with a farmhouse sink, shaker cabinets, gray cabinets, marble countertops, white walls and a side-by-side washer/dryer

Guitar Daily

J was super sweet, and I had worked with him in the cafeteria of our high school our senior year. Then, sophomore year he just disappeared. When you have 2000+ students in your school, it’s hard to know if someone moved, dropped out, or just has a schedule that doesn’t align with yours. #runaway

38) Runaway Part 1

when everyones talking about cute posh london accents but i got nerfed with an accent that fluctuates between ‘deez biscuits r seeeew nice’ and ‘ello guvnar!’ depending on my mood so i highkey just slime myself

Spoiler Warning - Bridgerton Season 4

A Response to Bridgerton Season 4

The new Bridgerton season falls for the same issue as the previous seasons. I calling it the Hamilton problem. The shows progressive veneer hits up against the moderate themes of the story. Sophie Baek begins as a simple servant, aiding by her fellow worker to attend a Ball. However, as the episodes wear on, it is revealed that she is of noble birth and was forced to be a servant by her wicked de facto step-mother.  It’s an old tale that hasn’t been turned on its head in Bridgerton. The new season is a Cinderella story, essentially. I have seen other seasons be compared to other fairy tales, which is quite interesting. But there doesn’t seem to be much meat to these bones. One thing that’s particularly frustrating is the fact that the inclusion of the servants could be an excellent way to increase the class diversity of the show, something that is sorely needed in historical fiction. Yet the way to the representation of the working class is through the secret upper-class, long suffering Sophie Baek. I like her character, but her story irks me. It reminds me of the people I met at university who were from rich families and pretended  to be poor. There’s a falseness to the class representation. The actual working class people are playing second-fiddle to the upper class lady. The accents are particularly egregious. One of the servants (who dedicate their lives to supporting Baek, a similar relationship to the Lady of the house) has a Gordie accent, and can sew! The other servant  has a vague regional accent too. This is a bit ridiculous historically because during the Regency, there wasn’t much of an attempt to flatten regional accents. So why use regional accents to show class now?

Regional accents have been associated with class since around the Victorian era when elocution lessons started to become more mainstream. Elocution has include rhetoric, the ordering of arguments, and the structure of speech, but it can also include the pronunciation of language. We’ll call the former structural elocution, and the latter spoken elocution. The Age of Enlightenment refocussed on structural elocution in order to express the “scientific” and “intellectual” ideas of the era. Whilst Thomas Sheridan (1718 – 1788) advocated for clear pronunciation, the Victorians, as they always do, took it further. This was compounded by the invention of the telephone where clear pronunciation was crucial for communication. Spoken elocution, therefore, became more mainstream. Basically, prior to the Victorians, as long as you could be understood by your audience, it was fine.

But regional accents now became associated with the lower classes (middle and working) because they were blocked out of the schools that provided both structural and spoken elocution lessons. However, middle class people could access these privately through tutors. But regional accents are not a sign of class. They are a sign of someone not being upper class, however they can still very much be middle class. This was the case for Harold Wilson, who was middle class and attended Oxford University (though it was more off his own back than most at that school). People assumed he was working class due to his Yorkshire accent, but that wasn’t accurate. It did aid him in politics to be seen as working class, and he got rid of the death penalty and legalised being gay so I’m okay with this. But, my point is that people often assume regional accents are working class accents, and that’s not always true. The use of a Georgie (northern) accent in Bridgerton signifies, perhaps more so then other accents, that it is a working class person. This is unlike Baek, who speaks in Received Pronunciation (a posh accent). This is for the story, obviously she was raised rich, then became a servant. But it also delineates her from the actual working class people in the story. She’s a rich girl with all the know-how of a poor girl. That’s what makes her unique and interesting to Benedict Bridgerton.

There’s a sense of the paternalistic class attitude here. All the servants seem content-enough in their roles, plodding along happily. There are moments where Baek points out the lack of freedom that working class people have due to them selling their labour. But we know that Baek is going to be unlike that. We know she’ll marry Benedict and escape being a worker in a way none of the other servants can. When a focus on the servants was promised, we may expect something a bit more Downton Abbey, or something that focusses on the realities of being working class. There is a bit of a sense of that with our favourite, Varley, but it is played for humour and doesn’t involve Varley getting more respect or us learning more about her as a person. The maid war doesn’t progress the rights of maids, I don’t feel like I know any house-worker as more than their role. Basically, there aren’t working class people in this show. There are working class figures. Things devoid of any real humanity or personality. Theo, last season, was there seemingly for the progression of Elosie’s story line. He said a few radical things, then fell off the face of the earth, having changed nothing himself. This is a long standing problem for the show.

I said previously that I accept this for Bridgerton. It isn’t trying to be a great political message. I still believe that. But, I can’t help but get increasingly frustrated at the lack of progression with the progressiveness. I don’t think that there needs to be a moment where a maid magically recites Henry the Orator. However, I do think that more nuanced writing could serve the main love stories, whilst also exploring the lives and personhood of the working people. It is the Hamilton problem. A veneer of progressiveness upholding liberal-centrist ideals. They have also made Benedict a bit more heterosexual then he was last season. Perhaps I had my hopes up to high, but I thought he wouldn’t marry because he’s bisexual, or his mother would find out, or they’d be something with his sexuality that makes it part of who he is. Bridgerton has simplistic representation but does not delve deeper then that. Any character could be race-swapped, or made able bodied and it wouldn’t impact the story. Whilst, yes, not every piece of media with a marginalised person needs to feature racism, I am  not suggesting that. I think it’s unusual to have Chinese and Korean characters with no hint of their culture in the show. With the Sharmers, we got a bit of Indian influence, but we don’t have the same with the Baek and Li. It’s curious to think about what can’t be swapped. Gender, sexuality, class. This is the focus of the show. It is about heterosexuals, about the men and women who fit neatly into both categories (yes, even Eloise), and it is about the rich. That is what Bridgerton is about.

Perhaps I am expecting too much of a simple show, and I would accept that criticism as very fair. Objectively, I kind of am. However, it could do so much more with the right writers, producers and directors. I appreciate the little steps they’re taking, but as a working class person, it’s always the question of “where am I?” I never see myself reflected accurately in historical dramas, and when Bridgerton promised a new line of representation, I was excited. “Finally! Something that shows me!” But working class people don’t get that basic representation because we have been systematically erased from history, or not even allowed to write our own histories as they are happening. Where am I? I am invisible. I am not there, and nor will I ever be. We cannot explore history that does not truly exist. There are a few scant documents, but nothing like the books and essays on the upper classes. I am not here. I am in the past, wanting to scream but falling silent.

Even after 15 ish years of understanding English I still fuck up and forget words. I forgot the word “juicer”.

Also reverted back to French when I was too high which is great!! When my two friends were English

Forever headcanon that Ilya does the same when he gets to high!! Reasons why Shane is learning Russian. Or too sleepy, my accent slips up more when I am a sleepy

anyone wish they had a different accent? i’m from the east midlands mines soooo plain and boring get me one from up north

Americans will make fun of British people for not pronouncing there t but then say Briddish instead of British like listen to an American say British they don’t pounce the t

me: i am normal standard english speaker. perfect american broadcast with no problem.

also me during an important business meeting: veri-goot KHHit [oh no] I MEAN, VERY GOOD HAT [perfect Rachel Maddow impression].

Rewatching Bridgerton so I’ll now be insufferably acting as is formal RP is my normal way of speaking rather than my natural estry essex

J was super sweet, and I had worked with him in the cafeteria of our high school our senior year. Then, sophomore year he just disappeared. When you have 2000+ students in your school, it’s hard to know if someone moved, dropped out, or just has a schedule that doesn’t align with yours. #runaway

38) Runaway Part 1