No door, Brummies does not seem stupid – all ignorant people who make fun of our accent do | Emily Watkins
IT is my curiosity, what escapes from the idea of people from rudeness. For example: The indication that the weight of a person is the lack of consensus, but the height-definitely more arbitrary-is still a fair game. Ditto is highly commented on the location of a person – at least, as long as it is Birmingham, the second city of England and the first punchline for jokes about stupid dialects and general urban depression.
As a long, unusual woman, I grew up in this capital that suffers from it a lot. I have direct experience in both, and I can confirm that although she is an equal footing, the latter is more harmful. It is an unusual thing that comes out of the mouths of people in general when I tell them that I am from Birmingham – from cheerful My condolences for the differences, “Oh, I hear it is terrible.”
Nevertheless, the most common reaction is the caricature echo – “Biirrrrmmingum!” – The joke is that a terrible tone as well as the city (therefore, very funny!). All this, although I have never captured the pies myself; It is not intended, although I am sure that my lack of the distinctive Brummie dialect was protective, social and professional.
When Kate Adi revealed the periodic (informal and historical) table of the country’s low-dialects in the country, no one was surprised by the vision of the worse-poor, who was chosen by Birmingham. When asked why he did not use his original kingdom in the reports, journalist Bramy Michael Burke, apparently, “I did not want to kill threats.” In a 2008 study, researchers found that people who spoke a accent in Birmingham were more likely to be afflicted with those who were absent than those who did not open their mouths at all. Yixes.
Imagine if someone told you that they are pregnant, and I said, “What a shame, I hate children.” Or they were a singer, and said, “music is very boring.” This unequal negativity may seem silly – but although I have not lived in Birmingham since I was 18 years old, in the decisive years, I do not remember hearing a positive reaction after I mentioned that I grew up there.
In fact, this is not quite true – that sharing my Birmingham’s assets served me well once, at a home party where three of the old Etonians come true, as in the dream of fever. When I told them from where I was, their interest in my supposed life was a delicious deprivation of Decnecian. One of them said: “My God, I hear that it is frightening urban.”
To be clear, I don’t expect anyone to respond. “Wow! I love Birmingham!” When I say I am from there – only to respond with the lack of creatures to which any other answer will be based. I doubt that anyone from Norwich or Exter has faced the perplexing hostility that a person from Birmingham used to, but perhaps we must turn the tables until they know how to feel. Chichester? Oh, you are poor something! York? tragedy!
Moreover, the exotic Brumphobia rudeness is only enlarged by realizing that anyone who suffers from his visit has already visited them. It is not something I am facing a convoy of people who traveled to my city, who are somewhat shocking and pledged not to return-on the contrary, they hate this blindly, with amazing self-confidence that is usually intended for textile demonstrators. It is almost funny, only when it is not.
When the cities first transferred me, the vast Ferties of Bermingham led me to (shortly) my private life story. I threw your mind again to the week of hell from junior students and you may be able to forgive me. I alternated between the claim in London, where I was born, or Sydney, where I was born, of my origin. See, there is a lot only “BiirrrrmMingum”The SA teenager can take – but in the end, the cover story did not feel the correction, and I began to own my roots.
Today, I announced them with a celebration, and I am steel for the inevitable sake “Biirrrrmmingum!” The taste. “This is very funny, no one has said before,” I respond, do everything in my pursuit to stop my eyes from my head. “It was ever?”
If not, you must. Birmingham is great. The city is dynamic, varied, open, and One of the most friendly places In the United Kingdom. It seems that we got that More than miles from the channel from the gunAnd everyone knows that what makes the channel beautiful is the time it takes. As for the accent, It is close enough to ShakespeareFor God!
It is recognized that the year 2025 is not the best of our moments-the council is actually bankrupt, and the ongoing strike means that the city is full of mice in the size of a cat-but it will take more than that to flood the good ship. Ironically, the years of ridicule have made it not prohibited external criticism, and it will always feel a tone of my home. Smok amplifiers do not look stupid, but after years of serving their pocket, I can confirm that people who make fun of them definitely do it. Pay to them, no objection, door.