Ah, this explains everything

LOL it's not, honestly the whole thing is a parody.

Oh I didn't see those, where are they on the site?

Yeah did have a look round, it is so funny. Apparently I'm going to burn in hell, lol can't wait.

 

I'll get there first, will keep a seat cool for you

 

Awww thanks


Hell is gonna be so fun, it'll be full of really great interesting people.
Really who wants to be stuck for eternity with Christian goodie-goodies?

 

What's wrong with rennies?

 

You know, I ask myself that same question everytime I see one...

I live about 4 miles from the Maryland Renn, it's supposedly one of the larger festivals. I have nothing against reenactors, I know several Civil War types and I'm a 6th Century Celt, a barbarian, and a bard. FOPs have their place and it's usually skinned and drying on the lentel of my yurt. People who affect a 14th century British accent have earned the right to become upholstery.

 

Ooh neat

LOL 14th century British accent. Don't even know what one would actually sound like (because duh we didn't have tape recorders back then).
Even far as 21st century British accents go they are really varied and seemingly impossible for Americans to nail (going by hollywood movies)
Still it's amusing to watch them try.

 

Haha I guess I was exposed to rather a different sort fo rennie. I used to live not overly far from the Texas Renaissance Festival, which I think was supposed to be about the largest in the country Many of them were more drunks and barbarians and such Among other things of course, but all in all it was always a good time.

 

GARDENING is bad!?!!?! AhahahhahahhaHA!

 

I've been to that festival a couple of times back when I lived in TX. Yep, got me one of those free refills pottery beer steins and did some drinking there. And turkey legs! It was always a blast - I want to check out one of the ones up here to see if it is as much fun~!

 

Awesome I used to go camp out there every year when I was in Texas

 

Hey, brits don't exactly have the southern accent down either,
fuck most northern people cant do it either, this is in reference
to hollywood movies again.

I, on the otherhand, have convinced people from different parts of
england and scotland that I am native, so LOL

 

Touche

Southern as is American, right?
Yeah some of those accents are a little bizzare. Don't tend to notice because I'm not familiar with the 'authentic southern accent'.
Wouldn't even try it myself. I am southern, but that's England. Where we prounounce the invisible r in bath (ie bar-th) and rhyming words.


Yay for you
Can you do a good Hampshire accent?
I'm a native of those parts, so mine would still be better. Can't beat true authenticity.

 

True true. But I dont even have the accent native to my area.

I live in south mississippi and sound more like an immigrants
son that grew up in a big city.

If I new exactly what a Hamshire accent was, im sure i could
mimick it, but some accents I can i guess "fluently speak"? lol

My english accent is more a dirty Cockney accent I guess.

But you English have ass loads, that exist across the street
from each other, let alone the other side of the island.

The Southern accent I should have is the one where
words that end in a sound like an "er" Like "Reba"
would be "Reber", which is similar to the Cockney accent.

But my family's accent come more from Mountain influence
than the deep south. My family is originally from the Appalachians,
where they immigrated from Scotland. So its more a Cockney Southern Scots Appalachian accent, if i can think of any more descriptive labels i will
edit later LOL.

 

LOL that's a wonderful description.


Guess you'd have to hang out in my stomping grounds to get a feel for the accent. It pretty much sounds like the 'standard English'*, just a little less polished.

*As heard spoken by British news reports from years ago, the Queen etc. Now an almost purely abstract concept.

 

Actually, British etymologists did a study of the more isolated peoples of Appalachia and found that they speak almost pure Elizabethan English.

And yeah, I saw that on the BBC too.

Turkey legs and free refills (as long as it's good) are the best things about the Renn. Being called "M'lud" when I'm wearing a Ravens jersey and Chuck Taylors just makes me want to jump out of my skin, but for some reason at Pennsic when I'm in garb it's all good.

So I'm thinking of wearing a deerskin loincloth, a whole fleece, sandals and a battlefield grimace and carrying a battleaxe to the MD Renn next year.

 

you also have to consider the evolution of dialect.

It can be argued that Americans speak a more
"English" accent of the colony days than the
English people do.

Like the Scots speak an older dialect of Gaelic
even though its the "Irish" language.

So isolated populations would speak the older
accent than the people who brought it to them.

If you look at african american accents, they
are more English that the English that English
americans speak.

Because they learned it from the slave owners,
and it became a second generation, second
generations evolve slower, so therefore the
modern accent is more like what was spoken
200 years ago by every English american.

Make sense?

As to Appalacia, they speak a Scots dialect, well the
scots decended do, and it can be seen in several
parallels to english in scotland and english in the
American south.

My favorite example is "shits" referring to small children.

Means the same in the South as it does in Scotland.

 

Ah yeah, that makes sense.
Very interesting.

LOL yeah that's a great word, used as an insult or not?
(would be an insult in England, have heard it used as such)

 

No not an insult. Not in reference to feces at all.

"You little shits get in here, its supper time"

Or "That little shit just stuck his tounge out at me"

Its a great word.

 

I spent most of my childhood following my dad around. He was long term military. Therefore, I was always the kid who talked funny. About the time I would get the dialect down good we would move so it was back to square one. As far as the UK accents, they are I think quite lovely. With one exception. About 20 years ago, I heard an economist on the BBC who was (I think) trying to impart some information about the Pound. He had that upper class, academic, swallowing your words speech. Could not understand 9/10 of what the fellow was saying

 

Yep, very southern that. I have heard used it all the time. Those little shits!