British blogBLAB

Cheerio Ol' Chap! How's the queen? Now, I figured out today that speaking in a British accent, is 1) Infectious and 2) The BEST THING EVAH!! I think it goes back to "playing pretend" as a child. Adapting a fake posh or cockney persona and dedicating yourself to it. However, I figured out, after greeting people in the hallway and on the bus for about an hour, that a British accent is very hard to get rid off. It is essentially the flu of accents. You have to work hard to "phase it out" by putting your R's back into your words, and ridding of phrases like "Thawt would be simply delahghtful". However, you get so used to some words (or or pronounced British-ly as "weuhds") having no "r" sound, or you get used to saying phrases like "Oh! That's bloody brilliant!" that they kinda just pop up in regular conversation post-accent. So you end up saying "Oh hey there! I love your shoes sooo much...whueh did you puhchase them?" And when you reach that moment of half-posh, half-American accent, that you know that its time to go cold turkey. You have to stop all together scratching that infestation of chicken pox, or should it be "chicken paux?" I don't even know anymore.

WAIT!!! Did I just ramble on for a long time about adapting a British accent? Well, now I need to say something actually interesting or leave a link or picture that will stay with you when you leave this post so that you can say "Well, this guy's blog post today started off a bit lame, but...OH LOOK, an amusing idea has left me wanting to come back for more." Ummmm.....pressure much?

Ok...well...ummmmmm...let me think here. Okay. Here's Marla Mindelle. She belts. She's funny. And she doesn't care at all whether you have a British or American, or even a Zimbabwean accent (ARE THERE SUCH PEOPLE?!?!) Enjoy!