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A positive outlook helps
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I will, if it’s within my power, point you in their direction.
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Yeah, and I guess the whole idea of RP (or whatever you want to call it) is that it's a non-regional accent. Although arguably it's an accent associated with the south of England.
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Flippancy aside, what’s the root of the tendency for people with RP accents to believe they don’t have an accent? The BBC?
With me it’s just my solipsistic only-child syndrome, but there must be other reasons.
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I speak with an Esperanto accent so assume everyone can understand me perfectly.
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Want to give it to him as a box of parts and show him how to build it himself
Rep for forum’s best uncle
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I live in a region: Daily life is a confusing cacophony of slurring and twanging. I can’t imagine how frustrating it must be to talk that way as well as having to hear it all the time.
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I just speak normally - when I speak, in my head it just sounds normal and not at all what it sounds like when, for instance, someone from Wales speaks.
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First whizz round on this thing. Felt a bit odd at first - flat bars on road bike geometry - but it’s quite fun and nippy as a result. The little flash of colour in my lower field of vision raises a smile too.
You can just about see the weird green/grey of the levers in that (awful) photo. I’m pretty sure I can live with it though as they’re actually quite nice feeling levers.
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