A guide to living/touring the Black Country.

[Kobrag]

The accent in some parts of the region is largly not understandable even by its own speakers. i.e me
So the two words you'll need to know are:

Narp pronounced Narrrrrup, meaning no.
Yarp pronounced Yarrrrrup, meaning yes.

If you have asked a question like, "do you know where the toilet is", just listen out for these two words.
If you happen to ask "do you KNOW whre the toilet is"....you are on yer own.

Anyone know of a place in their own country where they suffer similar linguistic problems?



Edit: This is of course a parody/joke, though the accent is wierd, they still know how to point.

 

[gamerwiz09]

lolwut

 

[Kobrag]

I got bored and thought i would tell people that might one day decide to browse around the Midlands to beware of possible difficulties par being stabbed or fined.

 

[pentagathus]

For those who "aint from around ear"?

 

[mrcrotch]

Well in Northern Ireland there's a different accent per square mile so I'd be a bit difficult.

 

[Kobrag]

But any incomprehensable?

My accent (Black country) is just a load of load grumblings.

 

[Almalexia]

The accent in some parts of the region is largly not understandable even by its own speakers. i.e me
So the two words you'll need to know are:

Narp pronounced Narrrrrup, meaning no.
Yarp pronounced Yarrrrrup, meaning yes.

If you have asked a question like, "do you know where the toilet is", just listen out for these two words.
If you happen to ask "do you KNOW whre the toilet is"....you are on yer own.

Anyone know of a place in their own country where they suffer similar linguistic problems?



Edit: This is of course a parody/joke, though the accent is wierd, they still know how to point.

Sergeant Nicholas Angel? 

 

[Æon]

Sergeant Nicholas Angel? 

That is my favorite movie that ever existed.

 

[Kobrag]

The accent in some parts of the region is largly not understandable even by its own speakers. i.e me
So the two words you'll need to know are:

Narp pronounced Narrrrrup, meaning no.
Yarp pronounced Yarrrrrup, meaning yes.

If you have asked a question like, "do you know where the toilet is", just listen out for these two words.
If you happen to ask "do you KNOW whre the toilet is"....you are on yer own.

Anyone know of a place in their own country where they suffer similar linguistic problems?



Edit: This is of course a parody/joke, though the accent is wierd, they still know how to point.

Sergeant Nicholas Angel? 

No, you can understand him. I mean, this accent is so thick you couldn't cut it with a 20mm cannon.

 

[Almalexia]

Sergeant Nicholas Angel? 

That is my favorite movie that ever existed.

Have you ever fired two guns while jumping through the air?

 

[Pharaoh Llandy]

Nobody wants to visit the midlands, Kobrag. All the shopping is down souf, and all the scenery is up norf. The only reason anybody stop by the middle is to check out where Ozzie Osborne was from.

 

[pentagathus]

Or for a tea break on a roadtrip.

 

[arbites_augmented]

Nobody wants to visit the midlands, Kobrag. All the shopping is down souf, and all the scenery is up norf. The only reason anybody stop by the middle is to check out where Ozzie Osborne was from.

Or meeting up with okiN, and Bugman.

 

[Almalexia]

Nobody wants to visit the midlands, Kobrag. All the shopping is down souf, and all the scenery is up norf. The only reason anybody stop by the middle is to check out where Ozzie Osborne was from.

Or meeting up with okiN, and Bugman.

No, thats a reason to speed up.

 

[Suspect-Device]

...Only stopping once they have bounced off the windscreen.

 

[Pharaoh Llandy]

Nobody wants to visit the midlands, Kobrag. All the shopping is down souf, and all the scenery is up norf. The only reason anybody stop by the middle is to check out where Ozzie Osborne was from.

Or meeting up with okiN, and Bugman.

You're only meeting up with them on your way up here, so it doesn't really count.

 

[Archonsod]

I have to concentrate to understand pitmatic in a way I don't even need for Glaswegian.

 

[gamerwiz09]

The accent in some parts of the region is largly not understandable even by its own speakers. i.e me
So the two words you'll need to know are:

Narp pronounced Narrrrrup, meaning no.
Yarp pronounced Yarrrrrup, meaning yes.

If you have asked a question like, "do you know where the toilet is", just listen out for these two words.
If you happen to ask "do you KNOW whre the toilet is"....you are on yer own.

Anyone know of a place in their own country where they suffer similar linguistic problems?



Edit: This is of course a parody/joke, though the accent is wierd, they still know how to point.

Sergeant Nicholas Angel? 

No, you can understand him. I mean, this accent is so thick you couldn't cut it with a 20mm cannon.

I think you'd have a hard time cutting anything with a cannon ball. Tearing, pummeling, or crushing, maybe...

 

[Kobrag]

As in a tank buster cannon...automatic chain gun? 

 

[G36E]

I think you'd have a hard time cutting anything with a cannon ball. Tearing, pummeling, or crushing, maybe...

Arr me matey, yer in the wrong century!

As in a tank buster cannon...automatic chain gun? 

20mm's not quite tank buster.