Mister H
22 Feb 2010
UK, Ireland / "Strange " English language.. [255]
The way you have written what you're hearing does not make sense to me, so I can't hear it in my head enough to comment, however, the word "mate" being said as "mait" and so on is the norm - it's how I say it and I grew up in the leafy Home Counties !
What I would say though is that the London/cockney accent is changing into something that isn't good.
I'm not sure what the influence is for it, but it seems to be changing into something more resembling street slang rather than an actual language or accent.
I rang my bank the other day and the guy at the other end (who sounded no more than about 20) was inarticulate and that's the only way to describe it. He spoke with that "Am I bovvered" type accent. How these people get jobs is beyond me, I wouldn't have given him a job.
The problem is these days is that it is seen as ok to have low / no standards in almost everything and anyone wishing to change or correct them is seen as the one with the problem.
Is it proper English or just a slang, cockney ?
The way you have written what you're hearing does not make sense to me, so I can't hear it in my head enough to comment, however, the word "mate" being said as "mait" and so on is the norm - it's how I say it and I grew up in the leafy Home Counties !
What I would say though is that the London/cockney accent is changing into something that isn't good.
I'm not sure what the influence is for it, but it seems to be changing into something more resembling street slang rather than an actual language or accent.
I rang my bank the other day and the guy at the other end (who sounded no more than about 20) was inarticulate and that's the only way to describe it. He spoke with that "Am I bovvered" type accent. How these people get jobs is beyond me, I wouldn't have given him a job.
The problem is these days is that it is seen as ok to have low / no standards in almost everything and anyone wishing to change or correct them is seen as the one with the problem.