This question immediately got me thinking about those kid consoles with mostly licensed or educational games (Vtech etc). I wonder if there is actually a single good game on those.
@exodus So I just checked and did you know somehow Ice-T has never performed in Long Island?
That feels like brand mismanagement. He took part in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction for Rage Against the Machine at Barclays Center (in Brooklyn) in 2023, but only as a presenter.
@exodus London’s general accent has shifted over the last 30 years where it has moved from cockney to something linguists call MLE. If you want to hear an approximation of it, British Siri voice 4 uses it. I have it on my phone as it sounds like the voices I hear all the time; my son, his friends etc
With regards to Pizzer, I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say it like that but you may be right that we just can’t hear how we sound to other nations.
Wait, it was all just a stealth plug for the VGHF channel’s latest video!?
I am disgusted and impressed.
@Punzai Which part of London are you in? I know of Cockney as a real East London accent/dialect more than anything, but say in the West I never heard it before naturally. I always thought of MLE as a dialect than a bonefide language - was a very cool read that wiki page.
And when you were younger, did you “clock” a game ;)
Yes with pizzer! Honestly can‘t even work out how to pronounce it like how it’s written there. Pizz-her?
@Tom @Punzai imagine the regular word “pizza” but instead of “a” you say “er.” like Pete-zer.
"I'll have a Pete-zer and a coke"
"I met my friend Daner in New York" (instead of Dana)
"I like Seger over Nintendo."
Etc. I've met very few British English speakers who don't do this but even fewer seem to notice they do it constantly.
Here's an English person who didn't notice it:
Amusingly he still doesn't notice that he changes the a to an e sound. He thinks he's saying "Americar" but when he actually does it you can clearly hear him saying "Americer" - so the r is added and the a is flattened into an e or "uh" sound. Maybe "pizzur" would be more appropriate to get the point across.
Anyway this is why I say "you wanna order a pizzer" to my partner because it is a funny word to me.
@exodus" Full disclosure, we're all pirates at heart and it sneaks out.
You may be right, I may not notice it anymore but a lot of the people I speak English to now are not native speakers and they've never picked me up on it.
I just think you wanted to play a video that has a Brit saying "The great thing about America is" over and over ;)
Oh and I have NEVER EVER said Seger when I meant Sega. Even if I may have done the pizzer thing, that I am not budging on.
The answer just came to me. Jackie Chan Stuntmaster for the PS1