Nodder/Fixie Skidder

Stephen Fry covered it on ROOM 101, it's called AQI

YouTube- Stephen Fry on Room 101 - 2/3

From 7.55m then overlaps into....

YouTube- Stephen Fry on Room 101 - 3/3

Nail on head!

I have a degree in linguistics and was tutored by one of the country's leading experts on accent and dialect, who is now a highly respected Emeritus professor.

Right =)

AQI means Australian Questioning Intonation and therefore only applies to Aussies btw.

....and 95% of American and British teenage girls, generally, middle-class girls with a private education

I have a degree in linguistics and was tutored by one of the country's leading experts on accent and dialect, who is now a highly respected Emeritus professor.

i've worked in labs with people who worked with nobel prize winners.
i'm still shit at science though.

....and 95% of American and British teenage girls, generally, middle-class girls with a private education

And people from Norfolk, which is weird.

Yeah but I'm right - if they're not Aussie it's HRT, not AQI.

Calling it AQI propagates the fallacy that HRT comes only from British/American teenagers who watched Neighbours and started talking like the Aussies do.

Dialect maps from way back (pre-1900) show HRTs in a band across England crossing through the South West of England and passing across to East Anglia (as Chris just said). This is how most dialect/accent patterns appear across Britain, as bands passing through in a north easterly pattern.

It's not really weird, because some of these people were shipped off to Australia where this intonation became the standardised form as part of a language diaspora. This standardised form then did not evolve, whereas British English did. This meant the differences over time between Aussie and British English became starker.

Until neighbours and valley girls came along, and all of a sudden we were so like all over that linguistic trend.

i've worked in labs with people who worked with nobel prize winners.
i'm still shit at science though.

Whatever you boring cunt, they still sound ridic!

^
fucking excellent explanation of the phenomenon.

75%

well done.

;-)

Just incase

Ha ha, I know, I'd put them in room 101 like a shot too, whatever they're called!

Whatever you boring cunt, they still sound ridic!

Whatever you boring cunt, they still sound ridic!

poxy response.

40 %

more effort required.

Well this thread has been well and truly derailed.

Did someone say something about nodders?!

OP Fail.

I would've bunnyhopped the guy in front and probably thrown in a backflip so I could flip off the people behind me whilst in mid-air.

Sounds like you need some cycle training.

HRT = Hormone Replacement Treatment, no?

^
been watching top gun recently?

Yeah one infront, one behind, in the starting line as it were of a Nodder GP, except i had qualified near the back.

That's exactly why I log on here, fucking brilliant !!! made my day.

(yeah I know its Friday, does not take much to make my day)

That too, lots of linguists jokes about that, not as many as how sly we are though...

HRT = Hormone Replacement Treatment, no?

It's not really weird, because some of these people were shipped off to Australia then did not evolve, whereas British English did.

Racist!

It's lucky I'm working from home this morning because that properly made me lol =)

Racist!

YouTube- Goldie Lookin Chain - HRT

OP Fail.

I would've bunnyhopped the guy in front and probably thrown in a backflip so I could flip off the people behind me whilst in mid-air.

Sounds like you need some cycle training.

I'm not sure i want to get taught to flip people off...

SO it's official, Australians have not evolved, the British have.

so it's official, australians have not evolved, the british have.

FACT!

Actually, 'British' is not quite right. ENGLISH, yes...

Cunning linguists..?

or cunting linguists ?

Whatever you boring cunt, they still sound ridic!

:D

Stroppy cunt!

We didn't evolve, we started as arse kickers and will continue to be arse kickers.