I am not letting the jet lag win, it will be a battle to the death.

[gfrancie]

Well, so I am back in the land of big stuff and Carrot top.
*muses for a moment*

I have become acquainted with many accents. When Andrew wants to make me laugh he will do a Cornish accent (trust me you have to be there) I can do a Yorkshire accent (which really isn't English) and I can immediately tell the difference between an assortment of accents. (I feel like Prof. Henry Higgins heh)

I have become equally acquainted with the British road and street system, where there is no grid system and the rules and laws were invented by Dr. Suess (though many make a great deal of sense and I like round-abouts) and I didn't lose my mind too much, though at a stressed moment I told Andrew that the reason Britain wasn't an empirical power anymore because of their lack of grid systems in street design.

I am beginning to have an appreciation for beer. There are a lot of good things out there and I figure as someone who likes to learn a lot about food this is fairly important since beer has been about since the dawn of western civilization. I had quite a bit, and we are talking the big pints. and quite frankly I don't know how some people down more then three pints. (of course those are the sorts with beer bellies)
Jennie, a friend of Andrew's from Cambridge used to win some impressive drinking competitions and I definitely had some respect for her. I rather liked her a lot. She is this fiery red-head (take a deep breath ekdogg she is taken) with a very pretty northern accent who I kept up with when drinking and then she dragged me over to talk to some firemen when I was quite drunk. She explained her technique for winning such competitions, she would drink a pint in one breath and akinned it to blowjobs when it comes to the swallowing.
Damn, what a country.

I took the tube around London in the stifling heat on a Saturday night filled with all sorts of people (including a man with the worlds ugliest feet) and we took the train to Leeds...and have seen all sorts of strange things and people.

Soon I will have photographs to show....

I am rambling. a lot.

Comments

[noogienubs.livejournal.com]

Hey,
Glad you had a good time. Do your accent for me sometime k? We gotta get together sometime soon though cuz I miss you.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

yes we ought to do something together sometime...

[duhbigman.livejournal.com]

I find English accents harder to understand than any other European accents. I think it's because people with other first languages are trying harder to be clear in English, whereas English people assume you can understand them if you speak English. Also because England has so much weird slang, and every city in England has its unique accent and unique local slang...(according to Bernard Shaw, it varies in London by the street)

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

I haven't had much problem. It is just a matter of listening and occasionally asking questions about slang.
heck, I can even understand the Welsh.
so I may be a bit dotty.

Accents

[cogshiftingman.livejournal.com]

How do you get on with a Geordie accent? Sounds a little like successive attempts at clearing the throught, until you realise it was a question.

Re: Accents

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

give me half an hour and I probably could figure it out.


There is this old italian woman in my hometown parish. She came here just after world war two as a war bride, and you would think she would begin to have a clearer accent after fifty-some years of being here.
Nope! yet I have learned to understand her.

Re: Accents

[cogshiftingman.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure you can (easily) lose an accent. I spent 15 years living in France/Switzerland, but I didn't end up with a French accent :-) (thank goodness, eh bien).

Re: Accents

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

maybe not...but I figured since she was so young when she came here...people to soften their accents over time.

[ekdogg.livejournal.com]

all the good ones are always taken, Bella.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

tis a pity.