Language and the Lads

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I was responding to a post over at ProsLit, and got a bit carried away with my research, so I thought I might post some of it over here as well/instead. Someone was wondering what in the world the Scottish characters in my story "Never the Words They Say" were talking about, because I'd written it as Scots dialect rather than "Queen's English", and in the course of searching for websites that might be interesting, and thinking back to why accent and dialect in the UK fascinate me, I remembered a show called Auf Wiedersehen Pet and the way I used to watch it in Australia, completely bemused, trying to figure out how that could possibly be English!

It was mostly about three brickies from Newcastle on Tyne, but other main characters were from Cornwall (I think - though he was supposed to live in Bristol), Liverpool (like LC!), Birmingham (like MS!) and London (where Pros is set!). And as I was browsing/reminiscing, I found this...

( A vid clip and more wonderings )

TV voting - knocking in vain at the poll station doors

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

So, woe and alas and the like - UK voters are not currently getting through to Rich Labonte's TV vote site where we have been striving so mightily to get Pros into the top 40. Rich notes that Pros' average of 125 suddenly dropped to 44 when he went to the new server! Does anyone have any news? Is anyone signed in to his forum, so as to be able to ask whether he will give us a few extra votes to make up for it? Well, we can but hope, after all! *g*