Timeline for What does this Peter Sellers sentence mean?
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| Oct 5, 2023 at 20:19 | vote | accept | yglodt | ||
| Oct 5, 2023 at 18:44 | comment | added | Richard | "bow down and hearken [un]to thy weeping children" is part of the Order of Service; westminster-abbey.org/pl/order-of-service?id=10068 | |
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| Oct 5, 2023 at 8:54 | comment | added | Kiloran_speaking | @Tetsujin: yes, I think you're right about the accent. I'm from the West Riding, and it's similar but not identical to what I grew up with. Definitely more of a South Yorkshire twang to it. And yes to your comments on the glottal stop(s) too. | |
| Oct 5, 2023 at 8:19 | comment | added | Tetsujin | @Colin - there should be no 't' there at all. He does the first part of the glottal stop, but then like most people trying to imitate the accent, puts a real 't' in there as well. It's a common failing. Done 'properly', there would actually be two consecutive glottal stops - or perhaps more accurately, one, but you can hear the start & the end of it as two distinct sounds. Bear in mind my ear is very much attuned to it, being a native. T's tend to be dropped at the ends of words, but more rarely at the beginnings. [There might be an actual dialectic rule on that, but I honestly don't know.] | |
| Oct 4, 2023 at 19:49 | comment | added | Colin Fine | @Tetsujin: no, I don't think he's putting a /t/ on the front of Alhambra: I think it's the /t/ on the end of "at". And he certainly pronounces "Bradford" properly. | |
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| Oct 3, 2023 at 16:27 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | Consider putting "Yorkshire dialect" in the title, since that's another key factor in any future readers finding it if they watch the same interview. | |
| S Oct 3, 2023 at 8:33 | vote | accept | yglodt | ||
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| Oct 3, 2023 at 8:13 | comment | added | Tetsujin | "I hear our Willie's appearing at t'Alhambra" with a dodgy fake Yorkshire "should be a glottal stop but southerners seem to hear a 't' & so quote it with a t". The accent overall is passable, but it's South Yorkshire not West Yorkshire, to my [Yorkshire] ear. (It's better than a lot of the accents in Game of Thrones;) | |
| Oct 3, 2023 at 7:23 | answer | added | Tetsujin | timeline score: 30 | |
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| Oct 3, 2023 at 3:30 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Peter Sellers is a terrible mimic! I think he's saying I'll have to bend down and hearken unto him. The bit before it sounds like I hear our Willie's [appealing?] to [Ted? unclear?]. Someone said 'Aye', but I've no idea what that means, if anything. It's probably not really important anyway, but I don't think the words themselves are anything that a real Yorkshireman would be likely to say. And the "accent" is nothing like a real Yorkshireman either! | |
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| Oct 2, 2023 at 21:43 | history | edited | yglodt |
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| Oct 2, 2023 at 21:19 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | Michael Parkinson, the interviewer, a Yorkshire ‘lad‘, wouldn't have had a problem understanding Sellers' line but sympathised that it would be incomprehensible for many. I have listened repeatedly to the excerpt and barely understand a word. It's a dialect, dated, and I suspect only someone from Yorkshire or very familiar with that dialect, could properly decipher it. | |
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| Oct 2, 2023 at 20:32 | history | edited | yglodt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 2, 2023 at 20:25 | answer | added | Weather Vane | timeline score: 7 | |
| Oct 2, 2023 at 20:19 | comment | added | Mitch | @yglodt Excellent, thanks. I am not familiar enough/at all with the Yorkshire accent to say anything. The interviewer in the clip himself says "I'm gonna need subtitles for this one." | |
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| Oct 2, 2023 at 20:02 | comment | added | yglodt | @Mitch can you help quoting? I don't understand the words. | |
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| Oct 2, 2023 at 19:47 | comment | added | KillingTime | I think the quote is intentionally indecipherable for comic effect. | |
| Oct 2, 2023 at 19:44 | comment | added | Mitch | Please quote the sentence here directly. The context is great but links often fail. Also, please point out the exact thing that you think is causing you trouble. Is the vocabulary? The accent? The grammar? etc. | |
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