Has anyone here received a text in a British accent?

Daegerty · 24-03-2011 12:20AM #1

I have a few here. They contain such words as "wiv" and "anuva" and "Norf London".

I dont talk to as many English people as I did a few years ago but sometimes the accent the text is written in can be hilarious and other times they are impossible to understand without imagining some "chav" reading it out to you

ScumLord · 24-03-2011 12:25AM

Is this what twitter is like?

Colilfc · 24-03-2011 12:26AM

Wot u on about bruv? Innit.

LondonIrish90 · 24-03-2011 12:29AM

Sad times if that horrible way of speaking (by the horrible chavvy types only I hasten to add) has become the foreign perception of the British accent nowadays

eternal · 24-03-2011 12:30AM

I think the Scottish are worse ,they write in their own language .Its annoying and i hardly think they teach em that in school.oh hang on ,most them drop out at 13 get pregnant by ten different fathers and proceed to scab off society while the men bottle each other over football ,sell drugs and end up in prison.
ha ha

Spunge · 24-03-2011 12:30AM

Massiv

ballsymchugh · 24-03-2011 12:30AM

awoite mate, it's like, well mad innit, gettin em texes one afta anuva

KeithM89_old · 24-03-2011 12:35AM

Only: 'Thatll be 20 pounds mate'

deathrider · 24-03-2011 12:40AM

I have a friend from newcastle, and her texts can be near impossilbe to read as they are in a geordie accent. Luckily though, with text you can take the time to suss out what exactly it says before replying. When she speaks to you face to face though, she may aswell be speaking chinese...

ballsymchugh · 24-03-2011 12:44AM

actually, it reminds me of a girl i used to work with. always mixed up her 'th' sound with a 'v' sound. i'd get the odd message with 'netha' in it. took me a while to figure out it was never.

24-03-2011 12:44AM

All the time. I know a girl from Burton-upon-Trent, she regularly asks me if I'm "up to anythink?" or recently she said "find sumat to do" when I said I was bored.

My brother is also going out with a girl from Maidstone, once got a text from her saying "me said nufin eeva."

mud · 24-03-2011 01:02AM

Say wha yhew want youngwans buh ii no yhur jus jelous so gowan and get a liife fawr yer selves,,Nawtn better taw be doiin wit yer lives

This is from an Irish 15 year-old.

I despair I truly do.

Sisko · 24-03-2011 01:05AM

LondonIrish90 wrote: »

Sad times if that horrible way of speaking (by the horrible chavvy types only I hasten to add) has become the foreign perception of the British accent nowadays

Ah c'mon tis not that bad. Sure you lads are always complaining that the world thinks you all sound posh like the queen and Charles etc etc too.

Thing is at least they have the accent right, where as , in America anyway they all think we speak like leprechauns , with this invented accent that doesn't even exist - to the stage where, if americans actually do get an actual irish guy for once, the director will get him to speak with the made up irish accent so American audiences know he's irish. They are so used to hearing the invented american version that they wont thing as real one, is the real thing....

Mind fuck. :pac:

pragmatic1 · 24-03-2011 01:13AM

Skanger London accent is the worst accent in the whole world.

mikom · 24-03-2011 01:18AM

Wonga

starbelgrade · 24-03-2011 01:20AM

pragmatic1 wrote: »

Skanger London accent is the worst accent in the whole world.

A Cork skanger accent is worse.

At least with a London skanger accent, there's always a chance they might break out into a Plan B style rap.

Standman · 24-03-2011 01:20AM

"**** off"

Jesus Wept · 24-03-2011 01:22AM

fack off

pebbles21 · 24-03-2011 01:24AM

The-Rigger wrote: »

fack off

Ye cant

Ruu_Old · 24-03-2011 01:24AM

Gordon Bennett!!

pebbles21 · 24-03-2011 01:38AM

Ruu wrote: »

Gordon Bennett!!

Ahem :cool:

pragmatic1 · 24-03-2011 01:38AM

starbelgrade wrote: »

A Cork skanger accent is worse.

At least with a London skanger accent, there's always a chance they might break out into a Plan B style rap.

No skanger London accent is way more annoying. Plan b is also really shyte.

Azureus · 24-03-2011 08:18AM

LAAAANDAAAAAAAAAN!!

That is all.

tightropetom · 24-03-2011 08:22AM

Wikid, innit?

Dravokivich · 24-03-2011 08:39AM

pragmatic1 wrote: »

Skanger London accent is the worst accent in the whole world.

They call'em "Scalleys."

RichieC · 24-03-2011 08:47AM

Who's dick barton? the peggy nell is padraig pearse!

summerskin · 24-03-2011 09:05AM

Dravokivich wrote: »

They call'em "Scalleys."

nope, they call them chavs. Scallies is a term used in Manchester and Liverpool.

bonerm · 24-03-2011 09:26AM

It's the worst accent I've ever heard (and I've been to Cork).

stovelid · 24-03-2011 09:48AM

ScumLord wrote: »

Is this what twitter is like?

Working in a crèche would be a more accurate summation.

Dravokivich wrote: »

They call'em "Scalleys."

Scallies are not from London.

Gulliver · 24-03-2011 09:58AM

Stuck watching Eastenders one evening, I had to ask why one character was called "Ever" and had to google what a "fish 'n' chip an' a sav'" was. Turns out one is Heather and the other is a red sausage called a saveloy. Still confused as to which is which. :pac:

gerbear1 · 24-03-2011 10:31AM

bonerm wrote: »

It's the worst accent I've ever heard (and I've been to Cork).

Am I the only person that likes the Cork accent?

Daegerty · 24-03-2011 10:32AM

gerbear1 wrote: »

Am I the only person that likes the Cork accent?

No (boy)
Tis daecent!

Cat Melodeon · 24-03-2011 10:35AM

Got a text from an English friend once telling me to meet her in the pub 'with the red orning'. Took me a while to figure that one out.

Fratton Fred · 24-03-2011 10:53AM

Daegerty wrote: »

I have a few here. They contain such words as "wiv" and "anuva" and "Norf London".

I dont talk to as many English people as I did a few years ago but sometimes the accent the text is written in can be hilarious and other times they are impossible to understand without imagining some "chav" reading it out to you

I thinks that's the idea. Half the people that text like that are called Crispin, Daddy's a stock broker and they live in Esher.

Wibbs · 24-03-2011 12:24PM

Another one is how some English accents insist on adding R to the end of words ending in vowels. Instead of idea you get idear. I've seen the latter written a good few times on various UK based forums. Kinda similar to some Irish people who write "then" instead of "than" or the really cringe inducing one "Throath" instead of "throat". They've been taught that you never drop aitches as that's "common" so they add them were not required in text form as that's how they attempt to say it phonetically.

Has anyone here received a text in a British accent?

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