It was bound to happen.

I suppose it was only inevitable. Somewhere between listening to Jane Eyre on tape in the morning, watching old episodes of the BBC series Men Behaving Badly at night, and watching clips of British comedian Russell Brand in between, I have started to think in a British accent.

No kidding. The other day I was looking at two work projects, and I thought to myself, "I don't fink I want to work on eiver of these jobs." (I don't know what region of Great Britain that accent comes from, but if you watch the Russell Brand clip below you'll hear what I'm talking about. Sigh. If only a whole foreign language were this easy to pick up.

And I would highly recommend watching this Russell Brand clip (two notes: language not appropriate for the workplace; and, when it starts, he's talking about his unpopular stint hosting the "VMAs"; MTV's Video Music Awards). Sure, he can be a bit bawdy, but this clip is quite funny and, if you listen closely, you'll hear that he's got quite the vocabulary.*

*Really. How often do you hear the word "tautology" in stand-up routines? I'm quite excited now to get my copy of Brand's My Booky Wook, for which I am on the library's waiting list.

Comments

[Venta]

I don't know, CR, Madonna was able to pick up that British accent easily. I know you can do it, too!

[Citizen Reader]

Venta!
Well, I'm no Madonna, but I actually can do a serviceable British accent out loud--I've even started to branch out into "North England" (too many viewings of "North and South"), East End of London, and Scottish.

I am fully aware I am a nerd.

What made me laugh is that I just naturally had the thought above in a British accent, which reminded me of what people are always saying about how you know you're truly proficient in a foreign language--when you naturally start to think IN it, rather than thinking in your native language and then translating.