PMs change and lol we're all gonna die (but brexit will never end)

In my experience, European ESL teachers are generally beholden to the notion that BBC English is the sole correct variant, so their students follow suit.

All accents are good

my younger kids are in an English language international section at their public French high school/middle school, where they take the regular courses in French and then have lit and history courses in English. their English-language teachers are Irish, Scots, and English. our kids are American and speak accordingly, but in order to get the highest marks in courses, and on the concours for the grands écoles, have to learn to speak BBC English (well, they call it Economist English).

hopefully after Brexit we'll all switch to Irish English, the nicest sounding version imo.

our kids are American and speak accordingly, but in order to get the highest marks in courses, and on the concours for the grands écoles, have to learn to speak BBC English

Sad. I remember discussing this with a Frenchwoman who had lived in London for a few years before moving back to Paris to teach ESL at the lycée level, and her overt contempt for non-BBC English and sociolinguistics in general was an eyerollercoaster.

every esl child should be taught to speak in the manner of ian paisley imo

ulster says no

W. B. Yeats or gtfo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLlcvQg9i6c

He's working those r's like no-one's business.

Yeats barely sounds Irish to me - might be class, might be time he lived (had an old English teacher who pronounced “poem” like he did, with two syllables).

every esl child should be taught to speak in the manner of ian paisley imo

I went to a language school in either Brazil or Argentina (iirc), a few years ago, where the teacher had studied in Belfast and was passing on a noticeable NI accent to all the kids.

(xp) Sounds like someone trying to do a Scottish accent tbh.

Ascendancy!

_every esl child should be taught to speak in the manner of ian paisley imo_


I went to a language school in either Brazil or Argentina (iirc), a few years ago, where the teacher had studied in Belfast and was passing on a noticeable NI accent to all the kids.

Meet the Syrian primary school pupil so good at languages he's been acting as an interpreter for his classmates 🗣https://t.co/PNNlAv4sEA pic.twitter.com/K2fWhViEVG

— BBC News NI (@BBCNewsNI) May 26, 2019

The intro gives you a slightly better sense of Yeats's accent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2FT4_UUa4I

But I agree that it doesn't sound very Irish.

omg, <3 xxp

Can we have the video now?

I voted against the Letwin amendment. Parliament now meets again Monday to debate the new deal. Will post a video over the weekend laying out my thinking.

— Rory Stewart (@RoryStewartUK) October 19, 2019

Mad props to Mohammed btw.

Like right this sec xp

Yeats still sounds pretty Scottish to me.

I know what he sounds like, he just doesn’t have a very representative accent.

Agree. I don't get this at all:

Yeats “had a very distinctive Irish country accent, from Sligo,” noted Patrick McAfee, a visitor earlier this month.

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/arts/design/20dwye.html

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHP1K7sWsAQgaJv?format=jpg&name=large
Oh no

lol yeats sounds way more irish than I would have expected. I grew up around a lot of people with similar sounding accents (very affected, galway).

Maybe it’s a class thing? But he has that sort of stilted sounding speech that makes it difficult to tell (for me anyway).

I thought Dev would sound like that, but he actually sounded like any auld lad.

lots of guys who hang around trad pubs and quote kavanagh have that accent regardless of class origins. I don't think there's a large enough residue of that kind of aristocracy to account for it, its pure fiction for the most part, but Yeats is of a very different class settlement than exists now.

gyac thank you for posting the video of that tremendous boy, I salute him

Ditto.

Think Rory Stewart might be bad, fellas

Well like others I was taken in by @RoryStewartUK, the fact that he apparently did not vote for the Letwin amend. shows his character. No scrutiny. He remained quiet over the last days, and now, he stabbed People in the back. Don‘t bother standing for London Mayor. You‘ll lose.

— Rabbit Lady #FBPE🕷🕷🕸🕷🕷🎪🎪🎪 Register to vote (@RabbitLady4) October 19, 2019

Think Rory Stewart might be bad, fellas

Well like others I was taken in by @RoryStewartUK, the fact that he apparently did not vote for the Letwin amend. shows his character. No scrutiny. He remained quiet over the last days, and now, he stabbed People in the back. Don‘t bother standing for London Mayor. You‘ll lose.

— Rabbit Lady #FBPE🕷🕷🕸🕷🕷🎪🎪🎪 Register to vote (@RabbitLady4) October 19, 2019

did you know that he walked across afghanistan and speaks dari tho

i know what the spiders mean and i guess by association the spiderweb, but what is the signification of the three circus tents?

jesus god the replies to that thread are beyond parody

circus tents are where clowns live, is my measured conclusion after reading that

i know what the spiders mean and i guess by association the spiderweb, but what is the signification of the three circus tents?

I fear it may be a Big Tent.

oh fuck :(

Rory is intents

A local councillor is so desperate for my vote he's been ringing me for days, turned up on the doorstep twice, local CLP secretary has been ringing me. I did tell them all I'm a f/t carer of two and rarely get spare time and don't want to spend any time in bullshit meetings unless it is in a pub. He must be short of numbers because he's got one of his runners to give me a lift to some meeting and back. lol didn't realise such responsibility came with party membership. Tbh I was all geared up to tell him to go fuck himself but he pleaded so hard I couldn't be so rude - the story of my life... alas.

I've been engaged with these kind of arguments calz and they've done nothing to endear me to party ultras

xp must be some sort of vote on?

How angry are some unionists, you ask? Well, Jetedty Cromblyn isn’t looking so bad now:

Jeremy Corbyn, yes that Jeremy Corbyn has actually never advocated that which Boris just signed up to. That is a damning indictment of Boris.

— Christopher Stalford (@CStalfordMLA) October 19, 2019

Corbyn would at least get a 2nd referendum and remain likely winning and keeping all the UK together. You lot have shafted us and expect us to just take it.

— Horatio Nelson (@HoratioNelson0) October 19, 2019

thank god all those people online shamed him into going to Westminster today instead of fleeing to Liverpool like he truly wanted to

the unionists shd do a deeper-magic-from-before-the-dawn-of-time* move to unravel what they helped wreak vonc-wise in 1979

*dawn of time = my 19th birthday as you know

Jared O'Mara could have given Sir Alfred Broughton a few lessons on unselfish national interest voting etiquette :p

lol

Loooool “I won’t sign it so I hope the EU see my keyses behind my back too”

I was not expecting this to be the thread where I learned that Groundskeeper Willie was a Yeats impersonation.

all my threads are educational

Nothing in the latest tactical idiocy to cause alarm

The Benn Act letter is sent, these other reported letters legally inconsequential

Seems clever, and will impress the easily impressed, but nothing to worry about

— David Allen Green (@davidallengreen) October 19, 2019

The extension request has just arrived. I will now start consulting EU leaders on how to react. #Brexit

— Donald Tusk (@eucopresident) October 19, 2019