From several sources on Facebook (but ultimately from the Oatmeal webcomic), this item:
This is accent taking in all aspects of a variety of a language, not just the phonological aspects. In this case, phonology is barely involved (though you can imagine some of it, using stereotypes of upper-class British pronunciation)): it’s all about lexical choices, register/style, and conversational topic (leaning heavily towards the sexual) — obscure, perhaps archaic, and pompously rakish.
(This is another case in which I don’t really know whether the item is to be classified as a cartoon, or what.)
May 30, 2014 at 9:09 am |
[…] minimal images, for instance in the Oatmeal effort “How British accents sound to Americans” (here), where the visual contributes almost nothing; this is a comic […]