[lit-ideas] Re: Political Schadenfreude
- From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 18:38:00 +0000 (GMT)
I wonder if there is a study of this.
>
> It's the expression 'a plum in the mouth',
> right?
or 'plummy'. I don't think they and 'old RP' are identical. This isn't bad on
RP, wikipedia's OK too
http://www.yaelf.com/rp.shtml
> It _is_ the English variety spoken by Anglos
> (Anglo-Argentines) in the
> Argentine
Ah. I suppose that shouldn't surprise me.
> www.wikihow.com/Speak-in-a-British-Accent
> Try imagining a plum in your mouth.
:) I found, while Googling some of this, that 'potato in the mouth' is thought
to refer to US accents, which puzzled me a bit. (I'd thought it a variant of
'plum in the mouth'.)
--- On Fri, 6/3/09, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Political Schadenfreude
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, 6 March, 2009, 1:05 AM
> In a message dated 3/5/2009 7:26:50 P.M. Eastern Standard
> Time,
> judith.evans001@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> That is, an old fashioned Conservative RP Brit (Royal
> Family, e.g., in
> earlier years) would pronounce flashlight as fleshlight,
> if they said flashlight
> ----
>
> I wonder if there is a study of this.
>
> It's the expression 'a plum in the mouth',
> right?
>
> It _is_ the English variety spoken by Anglos
> (Anglo-Argentines) in the
> Argentine (it's never "Republic" to them --
> 'The Argentine' simpliciter). I tend
> to agree there's a bit of hypercorrection in the
> Argentine, alla the
> hypercorrection (of mores in general) that E. M. Forster
> detected in "A Passage to
> India".
>
> www.wikihow.com/Speak-in-a-British-Accent
> Try imagining a plum in your mouth. While pronouncing your
> vowels, try to
> keep your tongue as low in the mouth as possible while
> keeping the roof high.
> Talk as normal as possible (not foolishly). The placement
> of the tongue,
> combined with the extra resonance, should make a good
> start to "faking" an British
> accent.
>
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