I love Joe and think he's a great presenter for that show. It's a throwaway reality tv programme, ffs, and as such it's better to have slightly wacky presenters. David Dimbleby wouldn't really suit a show like this.
Joe Swash and his atrocious pronunciation.
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I like Joe and his accent doesn't really bother me.
That said I have a workmate with the same accent and what I cannot understand is why he and his wife called their son Theo when he can't pronounce it other than "Feo".
That said I have a workmate with the same accent and what I cannot understand is why he and his wife called their son Theo when he can't pronounce it other than "Feo".
Originally Posted by pinkjazzie:
“just out of interest..do you have a problem with Scottish/Welsh or Irish as they pronounce words differently??”
“just out of interest..do you have a problem with Scottish/Welsh or Irish as they pronounce words differently??”
Well, the TV programme makers obviously do, I've often seen subtitles when the person speaking is from Glasgow or Newcastle!!
I'm not bothered by Joe's accent, I live in London and I hear it often enough, it's just that he's a complete tool. That's VERY annoying.
Originally Posted by JVS:
“Of course it matters, you wouldn't pronounce 'sh' as a 'b'. He's as bad as Jeff 'Firty Fazan Panz' Brazier, only more flatulent, not so polite or housetrained.”
“Of course it matters, you wouldn't pronounce 'sh' as a 'b'. He's as bad as Jeff 'Firty Fazan Panz' Brazier, only more flatulent, not so polite or housetrained.”
Hilarious post and absolutely spot-on.
Originally Posted by kareena46:
“When I hear his voice...not particularly his accent, I have to mute the sound.”
“When I hear his voice...not particularly his accent, I have to mute the sound.”
That is exactly what I do!!
Originally Posted by theid:
“Can Joe Swash (an actor) "do" any other accents? Bit limiting for his career if he can't.”
“Can Joe Swash (an actor) "do" any other accents? Bit limiting for his career if he can't.”
Agreed. His voice is irritating enough but his personality is worse.
Originally Posted by 1fab:
“I love Joe and think he's a great presenter for that show. It's a throwaway reality tv programme, ffs, and as such it's better to have slightly wacky presenters. David Dimbleby wouldn't really suit a show like this.”
“I love Joe and think he's a great presenter for that show. It's a throwaway reality tv programme, ffs, and as such it's better to have slightly wacky presenters. David Dimbleby wouldn't really suit a show like this.”
By 'slightly wacky' do you mean fick? Sorry - thick. Who's said they want David Dimbleby anyway? No-one has said they want someone who can speak the Queen's English, just that they want someone with an extremely broad dialect and thick with it. In some towns in Yorkshire, people still say 'thee, thou and thy' which is the dialect of those places and as yet no-one with that dialect has been on telly as a presenter. Likewise many people don't want to hear the broadest of cockney with mispronunciation and squeakiness, and the slimiest, creepiest of humanity to boot. He sounds like one of the shady characters in a Dicken's film but without any of the charm.
Honestly does it REALLY matter? It may sound "atrocious" to you, but on the other hand someone else might find the way you pronouce something "atrocious".
It's one of these things that can't be helped, it's the way Joe speaks. It's not exactly a choice....
It's one of these things that can't be helped, it's the way Joe speaks. It's not exactly a choice....
Originally Posted by theid:
“Can Joe Swash (an actor) "do" any other accents? Bit limiting for his career if he can't.”
“Can Joe Swash (an actor) "do" any other accents? Bit limiting for his career if he can't.”
He's on ITV2 - for pretty much every washed up nobody on that channel, they have already peeked.
Get over it ffs, he's got a cockney accent. I'd rather listen to him than some cheesy git like Vernon Kay.
By the logic of some people in this thread, we should only allow people with a traditional 1950's British accent on TV. Pathetic people.
Why does he try to sound like a 12 year old boy who hasn't quite learned how to talk?
He sounds like some street urchin out of Oliver Twist or some other Dickens book.
Does he think it makes him sound endearing or something?
He sounds like some street urchin out of Oliver Twist or some other Dickens book.
Does he think it makes him sound endearing or something?
I just wish ITV would put up a warning in the main show before he pops up and his grating voice cuts me in half .
Originally Posted by Alrightmate:
“Why does he try to sound like a 12 year old boy who hasn't quite learned how to talk?
He sounds like some street urchin out of Oliver Twist or some other Dickens book.
Does he think it makes him sound endearing or something?”
“Why does he try to sound like a 12 year old boy who hasn't quite learned how to talk?
He sounds like some street urchin out of Oliver Twist or some other Dickens book.
Does he think it makes him sound endearing or something?”
Connnn sidderrrrr yohself one of us !!!
It is just dialect. And it's a form of rebellion. And it a good way to get bigots out of the woodwork whining with upset.
I don't like Swash because he is affected as hell; but I like what this affectation in this case has done.
I don't like Swash because he is affected as hell; but I like what this affectation in this case has done.
Originally Posted by rmwebs:
“He's on ITV2 - for pretty much every washed up nobody on that channel, they have already peeked.
Get over it ffs, he's got a cockney accent. I'd rather listen to him than some cheesy git like Vernon Kay.
By the logic of some people in this thread, we should only allow people with a traditional 1950's British accent on TV. Pathetic people.”
“He's on ITV2 - for pretty much every washed up nobody on that channel, they have already peeked.
Get over it ffs, he's got a cockney accent. I'd rather listen to him than some cheesy git like Vernon Kay.
By the logic of some people in this thread, we should only allow people with a traditional 1950's British accent on TV. Pathetic people.”
That fella who does the chase is a cockney and fine... It's not the accent it really is his pronunciation, or lack of
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