General Chat

I got called Old Fogey and elderly. I’m 37 :-(

Snotty nosed preteen.

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Tawny, what would I be called then I'm 68.

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Imagine what it's like for us real old fogeys! :-D :-D :-D

Of course what we forget is that teenagers know everything while us old fogeys know nothing. ;-)

I am probably about age’s with her mother so in other words ancient. Of course teenagers know everything and we know nothing. Just ask my brownies :-D

I've noticed a lot of English teenagers can't roll their 'r's, and when a 'youff' has tried to be ageist, I've pointed out that, yes, I'm old, I'm a grrrrrrandmamama, then suggested they repeat his 'fact'.
They can't. .
I then stroll off with the parting shot 'Tut, you may be younger, but you're not so clever are you? Unlike me, you can't even roll your 'r's' - which, amongst teenagers, for some reason, causes great hilarity! :-D :-D

Ah, the Northumbrian burr, Maggie. :-D

My son and most of his family live among it now but, so far, have not developed it. It always fascinates and inveigles me, so soft is it, when I hear it from one of his pals, born and bred there.

This old fogey (more than twice your age, Tawny) seems to have lost the ability to adopt different dialects and accents while my children are still brilliant at so doing. I speak now according to where I live but I am told that the hard ‘g’ of the city of my birth is still there as are the many slang words from places I have lived. (Almost always the first type of language learnt to ‘fit in with the natives’.)

Just think smugly, Tawny, your detractors still have a lot to learn from us old fogeys methinks, some of us may have forgotten more than they have yet learned. :-D ;-)

I learnt to 'rrrr' in Scotland.
Moving there from Malta with an 'Enid Blyton' accent, it was called survival! :-D :-D

I'll change my view on 'English' children being unable to 'rrr' to Southern English children! :-D :-D :-D

When i moved here, i soon learnt to drop my" aitches", add a few "aye ayes" as coming from a posh part of the south, my accent really stood out. Locals regularly took the micky of how i spoke saying i sounded like the queen and they did not think much of her in this place!!

I have adopted a local accent now after 30 years and so fit in a bit more but 10 mins back in the posh south and my very English accent returns!

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