We last heard about Karl Pilkington on my podcast in episode in which we listened to a couple of his Monkey News stories about a chimp that works on a building site and another chimp that pilots a space rocket. Do you remember that? It was a very popular episode and it should make you laugh out loud on a bus maybe. Karl is just an ordinary bloke from Manchester who met comedians Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant when he worked for them as a radio producer in London.
Later, Ricky invited Karl to be on his podcast in order to broadcast his weird ideas and inane ramblings to the whole world, and the rest is history.
He comes from a working class background in the Manchester area, and his accent has many of the features that you would expect from that. We will be going into the specific features of his accent in more detail as we go and this kind of follows on from episode which was all about common features of pronunciation in England which are different to RP.
You might be thinking — Luke, by doing this episode are you saying that we should all learn to speak like Karl? So, you might not want to speak like Karl, but I certainly want you to understand Karl and the many millions of other people who speak English in a non-standard way. So this episode is all about understanding an accent, rather than copying it.
There will also be plenty of vocabulary coming up too as we pick apart the things that Karl says and the way he says them. Welcome back to LEP. This is part 2 of a double Karl Pilkington themed episode. In this part we are going to continue as we did before — listening to Karl Pilkington talking about various subjects, understanding exactly what he says, looking at features of his Manchester accent and picking up vocabulary along the way.
Karl is basically just a normal bloke from Manchester and his accent is fairly typical for people from that area so this episode aims to help you understand his accent and pick up vocabulary too. I just enjoy the way he puts things. He just happens to have a funny way of putting his opinions across. Sometimes the best comedy comes from someone sharing a specific opinion.
One other thing — apparently it is possible to be choked by a live octopus as you eat it. What I meant was that it would be impossible for an octopus to strangle you from the inside, as strangling means choking from the outside of the throat, with your hands for example, but of course a live octopus could choke you from within, by sticking its arms up into your throat or your windpipe. So, fair enough, it is possible for an octopus to choke you. Also, in the UK we do eat oysters — which are raw seafood, so I think raw fish are generally ok in the UK but most other raw things would be considered a bit strange for us.
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