WHAT?....HAS HAPPENED TO BRITISH....comedy and how we....TALK????

 We got a new British guy at work and he tries to be funny, sometimes he is sometimes not, like all of us i guess. BUT....

He has this new way of talking where he has to accentuate words followed by a  pause in the middle of a sentence for dramatic effect and seemingly comedic effect. Sort of like a modern take of anything Dickens wrote.

I thought it was him just being a knob although Stephen Fry has been doing it for years, but I first really noticed it with Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson in "spaced" - which i adored.

I'd do a little  take off of them talking with the wife, using their dramatic pauses when doing silly stuff, like washing the dishes for comedy effect and I thought it was quite charming.

Just watched the new "Never mind the Buzzcocks" and everyone is speaking this way and it sounds completely rubbish and fake.

anyone ELSE notice this???

Everything now needs to be plumy, measured and accentuated for comedy value - yeah but we all just sound like Donald Sinden now - fucking fantastic

*backs away slowly*

NO... I haven't (Youtube example maybe?).

 Nah very funny guys, but I dare you to watch "Spaced" or in fact anything Simon Pegg says in a comedy film,(not star trek),  and then see how they way he talks has crept into modern bristish ways of speaking. Sort of like a posher version of the way Ali-g talked and the influence on chavs, etc.

OK I'm sounding like something out of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" but honestly it's happened.  

all right I'm off to bed...

They're here already! You're next! You're next, You're next...!

Okay, this is under the category 'linguists  I have known'.

Apparently we've had 50 years of relaxing forced articulation, 'get off' now become 'gedd off' and little difference between 'illumination' and 'elimination'. A couple of things have gone the other way.  1. The glottal stop/ glottal reinforcement had become stronger for 't', so 'a bid of bedda  buda' has returned to ' a bit of better butter'. 2.  Announciation for comic effect.  3. The'schwa' 'Wembley' is becoming 'Wem ba lee', 'ugly' is moving to 'ug a lee'.

So Fortean Times, 'yure nod ga wan mad, yure ex aggerly right.'

wtf