My main reaction to this show was: "huh...what did he say?" Seriously, maybe it was me, but while 40 percent of this show was hilarious, the other 60% was spent in deep analysis trying to decipher the incomprehensible "cockney accent". And I'm from the Bronx for Christ's sake! The english language doesn't get much more screwed up than that!
Next time I watch BBC America, I'll have to turn the volume up to max and plug in my headphones.
I don't have the slightest problem understanding anything they say. Some of the slang used is unfamiliar, but I often know what they mean from he context the words were used in.
shareI'm not American, but I do have the same problem.
But for me, the speed gives me laughs.
Vicky Pollard is cuute. hahaha
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I'm from Australia and understand about 98% of what's being said. The only thing I guess is sometimes Vicky talks a bit too fast but you get most of what's being said, if not I just rewind and get it the second time.
I don't know about you people but watching something like NASCAR or the Superbowl with American accents is harder to understand... Probably because at least half of what they say is utter crap
well i'm english and i admit that the vicky pollard sketch is hard enough 4 us to understand lol, but the majority of the others are easy enough, i mean the majority of the words are the same apart from the odd thing like elevator/lift etc, so to be honest it is just a matter of a different accent, northern - southern, just like in america. it isn't a different language lol
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"it takes a romm full of americans for the australians and the english to see how much they have in common" Stephen Fry
shareAll accents are understandable to me (not including slang) except some scottish ones I heard this interview with the singer of the expoited on some site & I swear when that guy isn't singing he is impossible to understand
shareI'm american (expat living overseas) and I can understand the accents. Some of the slang is unfamilar, but I can use deductive reasoning and figure it out. Someone said earlier that 'americans think they invented the english language.' Never in my life have I heard an american make that claim.
Also, why would an American (or anyone for that matter) lack intelligence soley due to the fact that they couldn't understand an accent? Ridiculous standards!
I understand it.
I'm not from America and I'm not from England, but I understand it :)
You should just set [English for the hearing impaired] on your telly or summink
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Yeah but, no but, yeah...
What the hell do you people think a 'cockney' accent is!?
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btw, incase anyone hasn't noticed, Vicky Pollard doesn't have a cockney accent, she has a Norfolk accent (i think).just thought i'd mention it ;-)
Oh, and I wish people would stop saying 'British accent' when they usually mean English. Britan is made up of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. So when Ross in Friends was speaking in front of his uni class in a 'British accent', that reeeeeaaaally annoyed me, being English myself.
We're 4 seperate countries people!!!
Stevie Nicks rocks!!
I think she's supposed to have a West Country accent. Apparently, the character is based on someone that Walliams and/or Lucas met at drama school in Bristol
shareWell, I'm Canadian and I have no trouble undersdanding it.
We interrupt this program... Just to annoy you.
well i think it would be hard to understand but subtitles?? thats going a little too far methinks but i know what you mean about spelling i had an argument with a norweigien yank who said organisation did have a z in it and ah he just wudnt listen that is what annoys me
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maybe because i am ENGLISH ( i agree with sam d 2, we are 4 countries) i dont notice all the slang and accents. can the people who do please point it out to me because i fully understand the whole thing.
this may also seem totally off the point but i love the way that americans use different words for the same things. e.g. faucet=tap (spelling?) as part of a stupid quiz at school we had a section on american words, and its amazing how many words have been changed/adapted to suit the american side of english.
and btw, no one has screwed the language up, everyone just has their own take on things. im a sucker when it comes to accents and naturally end up talking the same way as the person im talking to. i cant put on an accent when someone asks me to but i just pick it up when i spend a lot of time with someone, probably because ive moved around so much, so i dont really find it difficult understanding any accent!
Sarcasm keeps you from telling people what you really think of them!
This has all been very entertaining, but Dave Walliams himself said that Vicky is not meant to be understood. Having said that, I'm from the US & I understand everything they say on Little Britain.
The only thing I ever had a problem understanding is when I saw Ali G for the first time, although I did get the gist of what he was saying.
Oh, & that time I was in Scotland & asked a waitress for directions & didn't get a single word she said. Other than that, I find all British (not just English) accents sexy.
"This has all been very entertaining, but Dave Walliams himself said that Vicky is not meant to be understood. Having said that, I'm from the US & I understand everything they say on Little Britain."
I also can understand everything the Little Britain characters say. The only time where I had difficulty understanding an English-speaking person was many years ago while I was in Scotland. A friend and I were in Glascow health club sauna and were sitting next to two Scottish lorry drivers having a conversation. I actually had to scratch my head and say "huh?" because I virtually could not make out a single word of their English.
"The dogs may bark, but the caravan passes on."