Dan Damon BBC world service Inteview with Liam O'Sullivan - Accent: Does it Matter?
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
British (General) British (Received Pronunciation - RP, BBC)Transcript
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This is Dan Damon with your World Update Daily Commute recorded on Tuesday at 5:30 a.m. U S East Coast time Now what's in an accent? The water in New Yorker doesn't taste like what it all the war in Georgia Don't taste like what it all the water in your doesn't taste quite hard Should my jewels New Yorker jur ca ca Tell any data summit freshman in here, You get your life in giving on that gun. Whoa, don't Thais What? That's a TV commercial for a brand of lager advert from the 19 eighties, turning a lighter Do Little Storey on its head, the beer transforming the very well spoken young lady into a really gor blimey **** Cock me. Well, I've been speaking to someone who says that there are many more people who don't want their posh voices to shorten their career. He is Liam O'Sullivan. Most of my students are more interested in dumbing down or lowering the way they speak. I've had clients who are interested in presenting themselves in a more amenable way, for example, of students put social workers who just wanted to come across as being more sympathetic more warmer in the way they actual presented themselves in their job environments. Can you give us some examples of the kinds of words or the expressions? The accents that people feel now puts them in a kind of Anita's position, which isn't popular? I think it's the actual tone of the voice, which is used. I think if you look at some of the modern ministers and government, I think that the projection off that home is one ofthe being very haughty and very cold and sympathetic on that strikes people as being unfriendly, uncaring on not being in touch with reality. To be honest with you, I think they need to serve, be warmer in the way they present themselves. Of course, even the queen doesn't speak the Queen's English not in the way that she used to in the 19 fifties. Does she know she doesn't? I think it's sort of less, but it's still the queen, and that's very, very, very pronounced than that about the way she speaks, because accent shouldn't matter, should it? But clarity should. There is a tendency now to leave out the teas in lots of words, war and whatever and so you know those things. I mean, they don't don't help you understand the word do that. It doesn't matter if somebody speaks as though they come from the north of from six. It's a ttle reasonable, so long as you can understand what they're trying to say. I don't think the accent is that important. It's the clarity off how someone speaks that that is what is important. I think if you're your turn is good and your clarity is good people and understand you. I don't see why your accident should impede you in anything that you want to do. If you why should it? It's this way you speak is really showing your personality and who you are and the warmth of your personality. I don't think people should be judged on their accent. I think it's just the clarity is good. That's the important issue. Whose are the voices that are accented but which you like because they're clear. I love the one actor I really, really like Eyes Tony on band eras. Here are my terms for peace. The bed is big enough sand. From now on, we'll keep that as a no man's land between us. Neither may claim it. I love the way that he uses such brilliant intonation. Uses neutral English as the base, and he has his own embellishments on his own accent. Added to that. But I love the way that it's The addiction is so precise. It is warm. It's funny on the clarity is absolutely superb. Um, I also love, I think Patrick Stewart. I love the way he speaks as well. It's that's ivory rich tone that very so his voice is well projected. I think that's a fantastic we're talking. It's like a chemical reaction in my body tells me this isn't him writing at this point. It's like Act one of tights. Andronicus absolutely isn't William Shakespeare. And the moment that act to begins and air on comes on and says now kind of town are Olympus. Stop! Here we are. I know who this is and any whose voice is great with you. Prince Philip radios greatly with the way that he talks should draw me to do an impersonation, how he speaks and how it grates upon May. Please. You know, you know everyone, never here and speaking as like Excuse me. Goodnight grab a cup of tea, please. Good bread first, just very grating on your ears on. To me, that really hurts. I'm afraid that's the knighthood gone. I'm sorry. That's Liam O'Sullivan, who promises to reduce your accent and soften it, because a lot of people apparently are scared that their posh voices are going to limit their access in society.