I'm so frushtrated...

[yello]

I quite like Adele's singing.

'Skyfall' gets a smile here in France. It's the 'crumble' bit. Crumble (as in apple) is a popular dessert here so I guess it amuses people to think Adele is singing about a pudding. No custard though.

 

[Drago]

It's called Skyfall? Then why does she sing "Skyfaw?"

 

[Mandragora]

It's called Skyfall? Then why does she sing "Skyfaw?"

C'mon Drago! This is where we started!

I quite like Adele's singing. It's just I can't listen to anything she sings where the words end with an 'L'.

Skyfaww

Turning Taybuwwws

Take it Awww

and 'Set fire to the rain' is also a challenge...... Three seconds of 'I let it fawwww, my heart' and I'm reaching for the off button.

 

[Drago]

Its all the radiation from those nukular weapons made me have short term memory loss.

 

[Mandragora]

Getting forgetfuwww?

 

[Fnaar]

The phenomenon in the OP is called assimilation... we all do it to a degree, without thinking about it. Younger generations might do it on different words... that's how language changes over time... you can't stop it. You probably say things that would horrify 'purists' from 100 years ago. Just sayin'

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

The phenomenon in the OP is called assimilation...

No, it's called being an ignorant nobber.

 

[Drago]

We can stop it. Since the advent of widespread recording the basic phonemes of lamguage have essentially become frozen. Consequently there is unlikely now to be a noteworthy long term changes in pronunciation, with changes swinging more now towards the use of new words, acronyms, brand names and trademarks, and inappropriate words, ie, " bad" for good etc.

 

[Saluki]

Overheard at today's cake stop (Whitwell station do very nice carrot cake BTW)
"....that woman is a law until herself."

I fort of this thread, and after all, it's the fort what counts.

 

[Fnaar]

No, it's called being an ignorant nobber.

Fair enough, but should we ever meet, I shall point out examples of assimilation in your own speech. Everybody does it. Fact.

 

[Drago]

Everybody does it. Fact.

Except for mute people.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Fair enough, but should we ever meet, I shall point out examples of assimilation in your own speech. Everybody does it. Fact.

I'm a nobber tho.

There is no point where people should "assimilate" to pronouncing "shh" where the sound is "s", whoever started doing it needs to be shot told off in a shtern manner.

 

[Ern1e]

I came on here for advice about my breaks and peddles.

You asked about breeks and puddles ?

 

[Fnaar]

I'm a nobber tho.

There is no point where people should "assimilate" to pronouncing "shh" where the sound is "s", whoever started doing it needs to be shot told off in a shtern manner.

I'm willing to bet I can find exactly that in your speech :-)

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I'm willing to bet I can find exactly that in your speech :-)

shite.

I'm Scotshh tho so my speech is full of ochs and sshs and other guttural sounds - that's not assimilation, that's just the way to speak. These nobbers are just nobbers. People in Fife are prime nobbers, they even pronounce "shh" for "f" e.g "I have shfive fingerssh on my handssh"