Shocking! Brits Speak With Colonial Accent!

[Technocrat_Prime]

Today I was flabbergasted to find out that the crew and captain of my Warspite are either Americans or at least speak with an American accent! This is an outrage! The Queen should hear about this!

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[anonym_PWjaPYngDhda]

Not to mention the ugly AA tin cans they mounted on top of my once beautiful main turrets, without even asking the first sealord for permission.

 

 

 

 

[principat121]

[Scawl_D_Balls]

Today I was flabbergasted to find out that the crew and captain of my Warspite are either Americans or at least speak with an American accent! This is an outrage! 

 

Have you heard the accent of affluent young English people these days? 

 

They all think they are from California 

 

"So, like, we went to a baaar? An like, I was on my like mobile? Then these guys walked in? And I like todally blushed". 

 

 

[Trainspite]

Not to mention the ugly AA tin cans they mounted on top of my once beautiful main turrets, without even asking the first sealord for permission.

 

 

 

 

 

Boo! I was waiting for those to make Warspite truly be Warspite. Never looked right without them. So I definitely gave permission. (I am the First Sea Lord now!)

[kingduckling]

bang and another quality post was spawned.

[MudMonkey]

I can hear you sipping angrily your tea.

[Admiral_H_Nelson]

bang and another quality post was spawned.

 

What's your point, miseryguts?

 

Are you even aware of the background to all this, i.e. the comic rivalry between two variants of English, and the way that the Septics (*) always assume that we are happy to use their version all the time?

 

(*) A bit of Cockney Rhyming slang for your education. "Septic Tanks" = "Yanks"

[RUSSIANBlAS]

The crew of the Blys are "colonial" too...

 

I imagine the two Pan Asia ships are the same!!

[Procrastes]

Now, now, fellows, there's absolutely nothing wrong with having a chap from the colonies manning the speakers on board the Grand Old Lady. Doesn't matter which part of the Commonwealth you're from, everyone should get to have a go at the hun, I say!

[T0byJug]

Stop Complaining!!! At least they stopped the RN commanders having Moustaches!!! My First commander on Warspite had one! he got Promply tranfered to the TOG II

[22cm]

Next Brexit:  kick the accented Brits out of Britain...

[Dampfboot]

Colonial.....rofl....

 

[anonym_PWjaPYngDhda]

May i have a Commander named Battenberg with a saxony accent please?

 

I'd take him with or without moustache.

[eliastion]

The crew of the Blys are "colonial" too...

 

I imagine the two Pan Asia ships are the same!!

 

Not sure since there is some Chinese voiceover - perhaps Pan Asian ships got that? I'm not sure what nation they are from, though, this could potentially be worse (like, say,  having Błyskawica talk Russian, now that would be a way to get people angry ).

I still hope one day we get a Polish voiceover. It's a big playerbase, it would stand to reason to have voiceover for the Polish client - and, consequently, Błyskawica would get her voiceover this way too.

[Khul]

 

What's your point, miseryguts?

 

Are you even aware of the background to all this, i.e. the comic rivalry between two variants of English, and the way that the Septics (*) always assume that we are happy to use their version all the time?

 

(*) A bit of Cockney Rhyming slang for your education. "Septic Tanks" = "Yanks"

 

Can I just say, it's awesome to see a bit of rhyming slang on the forum?

 

I always wondered why my mum would give me a clip around the ear for saying "Berk", as it seemed such an innocuous insult... until I grew up & learned what it meant!

[BlueMoon51]

Ironically its said that English spoken in West Virginia is the closest thing to Shakespeare's English you can find.

[RamirezKurita]

Ironically its said that English spoken in West Virginia is the closest thing to Shakespeare's English you can find.

 

 

I'm not sure about that. I've heard English being spoken that was literally Shakespearean in some theaters in London.

[BlueMoon51]

 

 

I'm not sure about that. I've heard English being spoken that was literally Shakespearean in some theaters in London.

Sorry I meant the language spoken on a day to day basis

 

According to linguist John Algeo in his essay <<Language Myths>>, (Penguin Press, 1999), he points out that many American forms of pronunciation are older than British ones.

For example, standard American English has retained the pronunciation of the final “r” in words like “father” and “mother,” while British has lost it. Americans have maintained the “flat a” sound of cat in words like “path” and “class” whereas the British have replaced this sound with the “broad a” of “father.”

Americans also fully pronounce all syllables of words like “library” and “dictionary,” but the British shorten them to “libr'ry” and “diction'ry.” Algeo shows us that in all of these examples and many more, the American variation is closer to the original sixteenth century version than the British one.

Modern English really starts with Chaucer, who marks a break between earlier English (with strong Saxon, Angle, and Norse roots) and the language of the Home Counties (which borrowed heavily from Norman French, both in vocabulary and grammar).

American English has evolved much less than British English since the Founding Fathers landed at Plymouth Rock; so it retains many elements of Early Modern English (Fall for Autumn, Gotten as a past participle, Digged in many American dialects). So American English is closer to early forms of Early Modern English (the language of Shakespeare, Spenser, and Chaucer).

Much of American English is older than British English. In fact, some words such as 'pavement (In the American sense),' and 'fall (to mean the season),' which are generally regarded as American terms, are simply holdovers from Middle English. As well, in most cases where Americans "dropped" the U, the American spelling predates the British one. 'Favor' is centuries older than 'favour,' for instance.

Is it in fact British English which has diverged from that of our ancestors and does American English bear the greater weight of antiquity

[cracktrackflak]

Sorry I meant the language spoken on a day to day basis

 

According to linguist John Algeo in his essay <<Language Myths>>, (Penguin Press, 1999), he points out that many American forms of pronunciation are older than British ones.

For example, standard American English has retained the pronunciation of the final “r” in words like “father” and “mother,” while British has lost it. Americans have maintained the “flat a” sound of cat in words like “path” and “class” whereas the British have replaced this sound with the “broad a” of “father.”

Americans also fully pronounce all syllables of words like “library” and “dictionary,” but the British shorten them to “libr'ry” and “diction'ry.” Algeo shows us that in all of these examples and many more, the American variation is closer to the original sixteenth century version than the British one.

Modern English really starts with Chaucer, who marks a break between earlier English (with strong Saxon, Angle, and Norse roots) and the language of the Home Counties (which borrowed heavily from Norman French, both in vocabulary and grammar).

American English has evolved much less than British English since the Founding Fathers landed at Plymouth Rock; so it retains many elements of Early Modern English (Fall for Autumn, Gotten as a past participle, Digged in many American dialects). So American English is closer to early forms of Early Modern English (the language of Shakespeare, Spenser, and Chaucer).

Much of American English is older than British English. In fact, some words such as 'pavement (In the American sense),' and 'fall (to mean the season),' which are generally regarded as American terms, are simply holdovers from Middle English. As well, in most cases where Americans "dropped" the U, the American spelling predates the British one. 'Favor' is centuries older than 'favour,' for instance.

Is it in fact British English which has diverged from that of our ancestors and does American English bear the greater weight of antiquity

 

 

I afraid that he has been listening to the wrong Englishmen; his conclusions about pronunciation are quite wrong.

 

It is true that some common usage of English has recently become lazy in its pronunciation, but that is a feature of popular modern culture and media common to all languages. However if you listen to those who annunciate clearly (what used to be called Queen's or BBC English, before the BBC dropped its standards), then the original pronunciation is still plainly there.

 

 

[StringWitch]

The crew of the Blys are "colonial" too...

 

I imagine the two Pan Asia ships are the same!!

 

There is a Chinese voiceover for... some voice setting, I don't know what that one actually changes, but it means there's probably a national one for the ships too. Britian and Poland are a low priority since they don't have tech trees, and current national voiceovers only include languages the game has voiceovers for anyway, while China is one of the major markets for the game and so probably already had voieovers for this feature.

[Kais_S012]

Next Brexit:  kick the accented Brits out of Britain...

 

whelp there goes yorkshire then!

[BuccaneerBill]

 

 

I afraid that he has been listening to the wrong Englishmen; his conclusions about pronunciation are quite wrong.

 

It is true that some common usage of English has recently become lazy in its pronunciation, but that is a feature of popular modern culture and media common to all languages. However if you listen to those who annunciate clearly (what used to be called Queen's or BBC English, before the BBC dropped its standards), then the original pronunciation is still plainly there.

 

 

 

Yes this pretty much.  Don't think proper English has changed at all. 

[BuccaneerBill]

 

whelp there goes yorkshire then!

 

Bye Wales