Fer sure. None of what I wrote was meant to suggest it isn't funny or that it's wrong to find it funny. I laughed - literally - out loud on first hearing it.
I prefer it to the scouse accent, it's easier to understand and you don't get the feeling that a fights about to break out
WHAT AN ABSOLUTE COCK!!...hahahaha....hes being serious as well!...the french league is boring??...hahahaha
Very funny mate. Myself and my mum put on a fake Irish accent. It's very weird why I do this. It drives my wife mad. She also says that I change voices according to whom I am speaking to.
Easy to do, Nines. My mum said that when she and my dad were on honeymoon in Cornwall, my dad talked to a local farmer in an increasingly West Country twang. So much so, that Mum was worried the farmer might think my dad was taking the mick out of him. He wasn't of course, just a sympathetic attempt to reach to common ground...which, I think, is what Joey is attempting, but blows it when he accuses the French League of being boring and slow!
Well i lived here for over 10yrs, and people still ask me what part of london do i come from. Bonjour cock
As hilarious as it is, this sort of thing isn't actually uncommon and constitutes an active field of linguistics research called Convergence. It's basically a subconscious thing we sometimes do in order to align ourselves with a particular social group... for example if a guy with a broad Essex accent came in to Halfords looking for a head gasket or something when I used to work there, I'd subconsciously adapt my accent and language use slightly to make it similar to his (e.g. "Alright mate, what can I do for ya") whereas my language use would be significantly different if I was serving a grandmother and her grandkids in the Bikehut ("Hello madam, how can I help you today?"). Joey probably wasn't aware he was doing it and was simply subconsciously aligning himself with the French reporter who asked him the question initially in order to make himself more accepted/acceptable. Pretty interesting really! Can you tell I studied French and linguistics at uni?! Wasn't half funny though
I really hate to defend Le Tosseur, but to be honest I perfectly understand that he might do that because it is an affliction I suffer from myself. As QPRNUTS might testify, when I am "home" in Ireland my accent goes native within 24hrs even though I was born and brought up in the UK (my eldest is similarly afflicted). Automatically once I arrive in Rosslaire Port "an idiot" instantly becomes " a bollix" or "an eejit". At work I manage a team of developers based in Warsaw and as I am on daily conference calls with them every day over the last 18mths I have found that I automatically now talk in Englski and my use of English becomes more basic and I would drop the word "the" from sentences. It is not intended to be condescending, but keeping it at a more basic level in the way they talk it themselves tends to help avoid ambiguity on complex topics. I am not sure if having a musical ear increases the chances of someone doing this sort of thing, but I also love different regional accents and try and imitate them when i hear them on the television, so if I was in the west country for a couple of days and was talking to a farmer then I would be doing exactly the same thing.
