Regional accents- the last straw.

[James Wonnacott]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/bbc/11904950/Radio-3-controller-were-not-a-classical-music-station.html

On the one hand he says he wants it to be more like the Third Programme, then he says he wants regional accents????
And if by "Highbrow Discussions" he means the boring nonsense we had at the weekend then I'm off.

[MrGongGong]

Shut the door behind you matey.

[DracoM]

Got to agree about the Tom Service led nonsense over the weekend 'residency' in a 'pop-up studio'.
Yes, both terms used to trail it all ENDLESSLY.
And just apparently inchoate bits of music slapped together betwen talk that made it sound uncomfortably like one of those April Fools Day gags R3 used to do.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Who cares about the accents? it's what people say.

Precisely. Tokenism is stupid.

[Beef Oven!]

Who cares about the accents? it's what people say.

What people say is of the highest importance, but it would be nice if we had 'high' English, at least somewhere, as well as what they say.

[jean]

Tokenism is stupid.

What do you mean by 'tokenism'?

Unless I misunderstand, you do care about the accents.

...it would be nice if we had 'high' English, at least somewhere...

A category unknown to phoneticists!

[Beef Oven!]

A category unknown to phoneticists!

Hurrah! They can keep out of it then.

[MrGongGong]

What people say is of the highest importance, but it would be nice if we had 'high' English, at least somewhere, as well as what they say.

"High" English?? this isn't Oregon maaaaan

[Beef Oven!]

"High" English?? this isn't Oregon maaaaan

I spent a long time in Oregon in 1974 and I will say, it's not England.

[teamsaint]

I assumed that Beefy!! knew what he was talking about, and that High English was just a bit better than Middle English.

[teamsaint]

I spent a long time in Oregon in 1974 and I will say, it's not England.

ah, but that was 40 years ago......its probably like Shoreditch now....

[jean]

"High" English?? this isn't Oregon maaaaan

Nor is it German.

The terms Hochdeutsch and Plattdeutsch are I think strictly geographhical in origin (gurnemanz will know) though I'm told the first has been commandeered by the linguistic snobs to mean something like Beefy's high English.

Brian Sewell, thou shouldst be living at this hour...

[french frank]

Very "Telegraph" to concentrate on the 'accents' point (which was mentioned in the final paragraph of the story but has rather more coverage here).

On reviews (and possibly general arts coverage?) the Telegraph may have a better reputation than the Guardian; but on this occasion the Guardian coverage is serious (like much of the proposed new programming), the Telegraph is lightweight.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... High English was just a bit better than Middle English.

Really?

I love Chaucer

[french frank]

I will start a separate thread on the content of the new programming