Why do teachers talk posh

17 year old apprentices trying to be clever talking in dialect written partly in dialect

Why do teachers talk posh

07 April 2018

11:36

Why do teachers talk posh the lad asked

Dust tha not ken on't fust day A took thi ?
Yaw wer talkin Scots an'tothers Cumbrian

So went int'e my own Yorkshire dialect

Aye the lad sed wi didni ken a wurd

 

I knew what you were all saying

I went to school in Saint Andrews

And have travelled afar

Newcastle: Birmingham; Cornwald

Even to Lancashire they gave me a pass

 

Dialects are all reight

They should be kept live

Its a link to our past

To our ancestors

The people we love

 

When you finish your time

An instrument technician you will be

A ticket to travel beyond our shores

The world is there for you

Your skills will be needed

 

So that why teachers talk posh

So those that we teach

Can ken what we say

Which ever county

Or country we work

Author's Note

written partly in dialect

Reviews

[Dhara_Ditzy Kat]

Good to learn to talk posh, be at par with the contemporary world, so long as one doesn’t forget their roots. To me, these are the roots. Great point you made here, Wild Rose. Back here, there’s something sexy I find in guys who are well accomplished yet don’t hesitate to speak in rustic Indian tones and dialects! ;)

[Wild Rose]

There are groups like 'The Cumbrian dialect society' & the Yorkshire one where the aim is to keep their dialects going

In Wales they speak Welsh Gaelic same in the Scottish Highlands
I know that there are dialect in India We met quite a few when we worked on the markets

some used to speak Urdu

[Dhara_Ditzy Kat]

Interesting...Are these groups old or are they started now to preserve the language forms? Who are the people who run these groups?

Urdu is not widely used in India anymore though we do have pockets left. It’s mostly Hindi in a thousand forms!

[Wild Rose]

Well! there was a Yorkshire dialect Society going in the 1960's, so definitely not new

read moreWell! there was a Yorkshire dialect Society going in the 1960's, so definitely not new

In this village there was a lady who wrote items for the parish magazine in dialect Ethel Fisher she died this time last year - you had to listen carfully to undrestand her in dialect

[Kathy Van Kurin]

'Why do teachers talk posh'
Wild Rose,
This was fun and interesting. I am a blend of Northern European ancestry. Your thoughts definitly were of interest. It is interesting to imagine the people I came from speaking in their own way of communicating. What is old now was surly once new and current. The highlanders of Scotland were a brave group.
Bless you.
kathy.

[Wild Rose]

Thank you for the comment
As you will be aware They had local dialects, which were like separate languages
As I said to them; with their skills they could go to any chemical factory/automated (say) car plant, any where in the world.

[Kathy Van Kurin]

That is so good! Something to be thankful and proud of too.

[barleygirl]

This is one of the most thought-provoking msgs I've seen from you in a while. I love this. I had a million ideas popping as I read. In many ways, I write like a country hick even tho in real life I'm pretty articulate becuz country people are suspicious of hoity-toity poets & my people, from this agricultural/hill country I've lived most of my life love reading poems that SOUND a little like how they talk (this is Steinbeck country & I try to absorb that essence in my own way). Thanks for shooting me off to the moon with ideas . . . I love reading Alan & others becuz of their wise use of dialect. You have the perfect balance here, giving us a full-blown example, but not overloading the poem with it. Great job done with high originality (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[Wild Rose]

Ah yes a class of 17 year olds and a new teacher
We will talk dialect & he wont understand
Our Norther dialects cannot be understood (when spoken properly) by those who live in the south
Here in Cumbria part is in Scandinavian & Dutch
Wall & hedges are called dykes or dijks
Some of the other teachers said I should stop them using dialect > The lads (& girls) did know proper English

Thanks for your responce

[Jennifer Patino]

Ahh, the loss of language & dialect & getting lost in translations. Often, listening closely helps us to understand each other.

I like the lightheartedness of this poem & can relate to language loss for sure, as Ojibwemowin, the language of my ancestors is near to dying out. I learn as much as I can, but don't get to use it much so I tend to forget what I've learned without much practice.

Anyway, awesome writing.

[Wild Rose]

Aye lass thaas reight thire is hard to put some of ours in writing
I have a collection "Do you Remember ....?" about the old times think there are now 10 items with more to add
You can try writing your dialect see what I can make of it

[Jennifer Patino]

I do have some poems with Ojibwemowin words in them. I'll be sure to post them eventually. The only dialect I have really is my slight Michigan accent which isn't very exciting. haha

"Aaaples? Do you like aaaples? Ya know?" It's not hard to decipher. haha

As far as the Ojibwe language goes, the pronunciation is so difficult. I've been studying for years & i don't believe I'll ever be fluent. "Boozhoo" means hello. "Mino gigazheb" means "Good morning". Off the top of my head those are two phrases I know. :D

[‘Thoughts In Time..]

Sometimes I don’t understand it now living in UK- I really have to listen- just speak proper English please- lol- it takes all types I guess 🌹

[Wild Rose]

Hi Thoughts --
Yes that was the point of the talk (to 18 YO apprentices ) they were asking why all the lecturers used proper English

There are so many local dialects some (Like the Cumbrian dialect) are very difficult to understand {Cumbrian is a mixture Scandinavian; Dutch; Scots and a few Cumbrian specific }

[‘Thoughts In Time’🌹]

My mom was british my fathers mom scottish my fathers father norweigen but still struggle to understand lol

[Onlyme]

Ya made me laff out loud with this one. Fandabedozie.

[Wild Rose]

At the time it wasn't for a laugh just to point out why they should learn to use 'proper' English or dialects in their place

[Onlyme]

Ohps sorry Pete, If I had offended you. Don't mean to. Sorry was in daft mood when read it. And it made me think of home. Dawn.

[Wild Rose]

No I'm not offended

previously they made an unsucessful attempt to confuse me by using dialect > Cumbria for half the class & Scottish

[Wild Rose]

stupid machine >> for the rest
So I went into Broad Yorkshire and lost them completely
This event was 12 months later

[Lyn Anderson]

Nicely done. I could follow the dialect well. I think you might have missed an 's in that (that's) last stanza.

[Wild Rose]

Just found this Sorry
We=het aye lass a' left out an s

[Julie McCarthy (juliesp..]

i love this its so interesting amazing and entertaining thanks for entry into my comp

[Wild Rose]

Did ya ken the dialect words > The lads concerned were all about 17 - 18 year old; classes were: part Scots, part Cumbrian
They used to speak in local dialects when they had a new teacher
Other lecturers would tell me not to use dialect (they couldnt understand them)Teach them to speak proper English
The lads knew proper English