Does Alex talk funny because of his dentures?

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Wee Tinkers

01-07-2016

Originally Posted by sutie:
“I went to school in Liverpool (a good one.) We had an elocution teacher.

I think she would want to punch his face.”

I'm have no qualifications relating to diction but I feel the same way.

Kopite1763

01-07-2016

Originally Posted by Tyyleer:
“I love his teeth. I have seriously teeth envy, they must have cost him a fortune.”

He's got too many!

Wee Tinkers

01-07-2016

Originally Posted by Kopite1763:
“He's got too many!”

Maybe it was buy one get one free.

Kopite1763

01-07-2016

Originally Posted by Wee Tinkers:
“Maybe it was buy one get one free.”

Well BOGOF describes him to a tee, in my humble opinion

nattoyaki

01-07-2016

Originally Posted by Wee Tinkers:
“I should be able to make him out because my husband and I realised recently that in the 16 years we've been together I've rarely made out a full sentence that he's said. I'm a skilled interpreter of people who do not enunciate.

I'm a culchie, he's a townie and he talks so damn fast. None of my family can make him out and when he speaks they immediately turn to me as his interpreter.

But - and I hadn't actually realised this - turns out i'm only picking out, on average, three words in a sentence and pretty much guessing what he's saying. But it works.

It's testament to how well I know him that I've always just 'got' what he was saying but when we're talking about something so abstract I couldn't possibly fill in the blanks I'm stumped.

I do scold him but he's completely incapable of enunciation. "Ack, dunmatter, dunmatter."”

Oh me, oh my!!! Are you sure he actually asked you to marry him?

wilfsgirl

01-07-2016

Originally Posted by Wee Tinkers:
“I don't think it is the Scouse accent - I like the accent and never had a problem understanding it before.

I think the op might have something - he does sound like a man who's unfamiliar with his teeth. I'm sure they'll bed in some day.”

i dont post here much but that made me rofl . i thought it was just me that can not understand a word alex says.

Applebee

01-07-2016

Originally Posted by Hardeep_Singh:
“He's a scouser. They all talk like that.”

Know us all, do you?

dee-rec

01-07-2016

I like the Scouse accent and have no problem understanding it, but I can only just about understand Alex. He seems to whistle through his teeth like an old guy with ill fitting dentures, I don't think it is anything to do with his accent.

kitten1

01-07-2016

Originally Posted by Salv*:
“He just sounds like a standard Scouser to me.”

No, he doesn't sound like a scouser at all! I'm from Liverpool and haven't heard anyone speak like that. I think he mumbles and has a bit of a strange twang to start with, but definitely not a typical Liverpudlian accent!

Janette800

01-07-2016

it's Veneers not false teeth,you can spot them a mile away

SaturnV

01-07-2016

Originally Posted by SegaGamer:
“Exactly, it's just how people from Liverpool speak.”

I'm a scouser and find him difficult to follow.

Wee Tinkers

01-07-2016

Originally Posted by Kopite1763:
“Well BOGOF describes him to a tee, in my humble opinion ”

Originally Posted by nattoyaki:
“

Oh me, oh my!!! Are you sure he actually asked you to marry him? ”

Oh, I think he would say there's a question mark over that one.

Originally Posted by wilfsgirl:
“i dont post here much but that made me rofl . i thought it was just me that can not understand a word alex says.”

Nope, we're all a bit stumped. You should post more.

We need to muck in together to decipher what the buggers mumbling about.

Queen Rizla

01-07-2016

It must be taking a while for those teeth to bed..this is him last year, still as incoherent as ever!

https://youtu.be/_Ht0XuRWdA0

Scarlett Berry

01-07-2016

Originally Posted by Janette800:
“ it's Veneers not false teeth,you can spot them a mile away”

I think the OP is playing on words....either way his teeth are false.

Queen Rizla

01-07-2016

Watching this I think the problem is his tongue is actually too big for his mouth and his teeth are tripping on it

https://youtu.be/3bCMO-WfIOE

Irishdave

01-07-2016

He sounds like Lily Savage (Paul O Grady) to me everytime he speaks.

Scarlett Berry

01-07-2016

Originally Posted by Irishdave:
“He sounds like Lily Savage (Paul O Grady) to me everytime he speaks.”

Don't insult the institution that is the fabulous Lily.

Paul isn't bad either

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