03-05-2014, 11:50 AM
Erthona
I had to google what accentual meant, as I only know accents and dialects.
Anywho...
A friend of mine, a poet, who has a very broad Yorkshire accent, once told me "I have to say Four-wuk, to make it rhyme with Pour-wuk"
When I stopped laughing, I pointed out that fork rhymes with pork anyway.
Which in a sense might sound irrelevant, but in terms of your problem of finding the beat. If you say fork in a Yorkshire accent, you suddenly get two beats instead of one. Whereas if you were to use the god-awful accent that passes for Standard/posh English these days you barely get a single beat, with a strangulated poke and folk.
My sense is that if you were to use your own voice, your own accent (or an accent you were comfortable with) the meaning of what you want to say would come clear.
Which in turn would free you up to be more playful... which in turn would free you up to say what you want to say.
My feeling is that you are trying to be Lawrence Olivier, when you should be more Mark Twain....
I had to google what accentual meant, as I only know accents and dialects.
Anywho...
A friend of mine, a poet, who has a very broad Yorkshire accent, once told me "I have to say Four-wuk, to make it rhyme with Pour-wuk"
When I stopped laughing, I pointed out that fork rhymes with pork anyway.
Which in a sense might sound irrelevant, but in terms of your problem of finding the beat. If you say fork in a Yorkshire accent, you suddenly get two beats instead of one. Whereas if you were to use the god-awful accent that passes for Standard/posh English these days you barely get a single beat, with a strangulated poke and folk.
My sense is that if you were to use your own voice, your own accent (or an accent you were comfortable with) the meaning of what you want to say would come clear.
Which in turn would free you up to be more playful... which in turn would free you up to say what you want to say.
My feeling is that you are trying to be Lawrence Olivier, when you should be more Mark Twain....