Comments on: Go Hear the language

By: Ulrike Tepperberg

Ulrike Tepperberg — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:42:54 +0000

Ohh nice post nonetheless really??

By: Bo Snr

Bo Snr — Tue, 13 May 2008 06:44:51 +0000

So it is you that is THE the supporter

By: Jim & Em

Jim & Em — Tue, 13 May 2008 05:30:06 +0000

Oh you mean Tranmere?

By: Jim & Em

Jim & Em — Tue, 13 May 2008 05:29:28 +0000

Ok cheers…

By: Bo Snr

Bo Snr — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:29:44 +0000

Hi Jim & Em
Is the scouse acent different between Everton Supports and that other team called Everton??

By: Gareth in Malaysia

Gareth in Malaysia — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:17:02 +0000

Yes and many variations on language. The obvious one is Cantonese and Mandarin but many have their own version of Mandarin. On top of this there are the dialects of Wuhan, Tibet, Uiyger, and and and. Hundreds in fact.
The only standard they have is Putonghua which is sort of like their ‘Queens English’ – eg standard Mandarin.
The accents are difficult for us to pick up on but there are many, the Shanghainese sound totally different to the Beijing guys. The Northeast tends to be more of a worzel sounding accent while the Shanghai one is more of a screach for want of a better word.

By: Gareth in Malaysia

Gareth in Malaysia — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:11:41 +0000

Your post was directly related to accents. 95% of those ‘mispronouncing’ place names or words will come down to accents.
You do seem to presume to know rather a lot about who I do and don’t deal with. I deal weekly with Indonesians and have done for the past 1.5 years as we are exporting some designs there and I am acting as an advisor to the project team in a weekly conference as well as them having visited us several times.
So far as the abroad references, how do you know? You’ve stated many times you haven’t done that.
I was pretty surprised by the two groups in question and had a fair argument with one lot regarding their attitude to a party of Chinese that turned up which led to a comment directed at my wife. It stopped short of a punch up but only due to the fact I won’t hit people whom are clearly weaker than myself such as women (and her husband was in his early 60’s), funnily enough they couldn’t take getting it back either.

If you don’t want to be questioned don’t post this sort of thing.

By: Jim & Em

Jim & Em — Mon, 12 May 2008 05:58:16 +0000

Hey AC!

Thanks for the examples…

Em and I always differ over the pronounciation of bath, for example.

I say BATH
Em says Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrth

I say Newcastle
Em says New-Caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarstle

Potato etc.

It would be a boring world if we all hooked into one accent and in the UK for example accents vary every 26 miles, on average.

The US we perceive has 3 accents – Eastern, Western and Mid west drawl, you’ll

Are there accents in China, for example, Gareth in Malayasia?

We’ve seriously no idea.

By: aussiecynic

aussiecynic — Mon, 12 May 2008 04:32:24 +0000

Gareth
My point has/had nothing to do with accents….
it was and is purely about mispronouncing names…
I personally dont particular care whether it is correct English or not, it is how we say it…
so many people come here and want to fit in…
I think your attitude towards people with cultural differences mostly those from the west is rather odd
Us aussie have far more dealings with Bali and other countries in the region than you do in China… and we do have a great relationship with most in the area as well as the large numbers who live here….
The majority of Aussie who go there do not carry on as you described…
If I spit the dummy at you or anyone else I will leave no doubt that it has happened… so rest assured…
The majority of complaints about aussies in these countries relates to parties and not to the attitude of which you speak..
Most of us at my age really dont give a bugger where you are from… it is how you treat people that is more the point… and cultural differences are left out of the mix…
When we go abroad we do for the most try and fit in to the culture, and generally dont make a fuss… so if your point that some fat aussie insulted some bali waiter then so be it…
If however you saw her beating some little begger kids in the street then I hope you went and slapped her… but if you did or said nothing then I am sorry but it is no use complaining about it now….

By: Gareth in Malaysia

Gareth in Malaysia — Mon, 12 May 2008 02:52:29 +0000

That was my point. Embrace it lah.