.......Dotun Adebayo. I was listening to him last night on "Up All Night" and was quite amazed He is interviewing an African sports correspondent and starts of with his normal accent and then very soon mimics the African guys accent. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qdrh8 Start at about 3hours 48 minutes.
Heh heh...........too funny (or should that be funne?). You can take the Ade out of West Africa but you can't take the West African out of Ade. Start ar 3 hrs 48 minutes though.
I used to play six-a-side up in Barnet with Dotun and a big crowd of Nigerians. The same thing there, the accent gets stronger in the presence of others! Didn't sound like he does on the radio. Sound and funny bloke though, I always had a laugh playing with them even if it got a bit heated from time to time The accent thing is the same with everyone I think, my wife's Irish accent doubles in strength when we're over there.
Funny but very true. I'm friends with a Nigerian guy through refereeing, and his English is superb. However, when he speaks English with other Africans you can notice the change in accent.
If you've ever moved about during your life this just happens! I was born in Southampton, moved to Bristol as a kid then Wales for University and work (before disappearing to Serbia). When I visit Bristol 3 pints and I'm talking brissol, 3 pints in Wales and I'm speaking some tidy Welsh buttie, in Serbia I have to speak English or no-one would understand me!
At Uni in Cardiff and when you get a group of girls from the Valleys together, even if they're speaking in English, it sounds like another language.
Nice link, StG. I abhor the Australian Question Intonation. You know, the rising of the tone of a voice at the end of each sentence. Yet while in the presence of my niece, despite my best efforts, I end up doing it as well. It drives me bonkers. Whenever she's around I end up saying something like... Ah, we're all fully fledged in Australian now. It's just the circles she mingles with that affects her. We are all programmed to be mimics to a greater or lesser degree because we unconsciously want to fit in. I'm totally with our old RB, C B Fry's successor: [video=youtube;OluCvL0lRnI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OluCvL0lRnI[/video]
