the "guardian" which is a newspaper and yet exists electrically among internet has been hosting what looks like a community type video documenting project, from "moss side" which is among "manchester", a north west england spot.
I have only seen this one, about a young painter called Lawrence Higgins -- the art he managed did not reach the places his apparent energies were going, but it is an interesting thing to see anyway.
Out of all british accents, mancunian is probably the most acceptable.
Below are some images you may see if you click on the link above that leads to smooth 6 minute video relay. it is better by 6000 than the last doctor who.
cache limit 005 - there there view
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What about the song-song tones of the always jocular Liverpudlian scallywag? Good sir, an email should be sitting in your inbox, all the way from these parts. Adieu.
ReplyDeletei am glad to be rid of most scouse. I find it aggressive, anti intellectual, and also anti all possible kindness. Gentleness is necessary.
ReplyDelete-- I was interested to note how the mancunian allows intellectual, sort of dreamy, discourse.
--- it is possible that an accent allows/limits the things that are said in it.
---- there are certain things, for example, only a german-accented english could say, like werner herzog "it was not a significant bullet"
(I am responding slowly to your gratefully-received email - I have done some erotic content to start with)
I was speaking about this with a Romanian lady from my course, about her first attempt at writing (creatively) in Anglais. I suggested that 'inadequate language skills', as she put it, can free the language itself to create new connections and forms, not immediately apparent to a native speaker, and though not strictly wrong, they are still not regarded as correct usage. In this way, beautiful accidents can occur.
ReplyDelete- The dreamy discourse of Mr. M. E. Smith perhaps? Or Mr. S. P. Morrissey? Thomas de Quincey was from Manchester, though no recordings of his voice exist.
- Geordie and Welsh, for example, are used by advertisers as they are regarded as trustworthy and down-to-earth. A wonderful subliminal scam.
(Good. I was concerned Internet police had intercepted it due to sensitive materials contained therein)
perhaps I was a bit harsh about liverpudlian, perhaps I was in a bad mood.
ReplyDeleteBut perhaps I was right.
I think "voice" is a primary thing for the fiction things, and it doesn't have to be bbc voice , but there needs to be enough understanding of the language in order to make the voice from it? Unless it is some strictly autobiographical sort of spontaneous expression maybe?
or like this author maybe: Lawrence Braithwaite?
http://dodie-bellamy.blogspot.com/2008/08/remembering-lawrence.html
dunno...
I don't think M E smith's voice is all that dreamy! . . he sounds a bit like my friend adam george who was born and nurtured among the wirral... and drunk tone