Adenoidal musings

[Michael Bailey]

The posh British accent is free of adenoidal overtones; Blatherard
would normally be speaking in it

Imagine an opposition between the adenoidal stylings of a Liverpool
accent, and the clear “sans-serif” impression which “received English”
gives

There’s (imho) something friendlier about the Scouse accent - the
Beatles in “Hard Day’s Night” pull out all the (glottal) stops & seem
to emanate a much friendlier vibe than the “Establishment” they make a
point of not being part of…the voice is a big part of that.

When George inadvertently finds himself interviewing for (and
rejecting) what would now be called an “influencer” position, the
interviewer, in clipped, measured “received” cadence, even makes a
point of mentioning George’s “adenoidal glottal stops”

https://youtu.be/QREeweMWTZk?si=6jityF8N-nzwTWNb

It’s almost impossible & certainly undesirable to hear the two of them
and not like George a lot more.

Could we interpret the contrast between accents as between working
class and management - the sound of someone used to giving orders and
scheming all the time, relating to people as pawns in their plans, vs
the sound of someone who works with their hands and relates to people
on a more humanistic level?

It’d be hard, and again, undesirable, to order people to unpleasant
tasks & fates using that friendly adenoidal Scouse accent, wouldn’t
it? And easy to derail the compassionlessness of those who would, in
clear King’s English, order colonial atrocities?

Blatherard’s dreams of the giant adenoid could reflect his longing for
the compassionate tones of working class solidarity, the sounds that
he’s excluded from his own pronunciation - and this interferes with
his role as command-giver

So the proxy dreaming of Pirate temporarily removes this distraction
so Lord Osmo can ponce around ordering devastation, masquerading as,
and continuing to speak in “the voice of reason.”

(Until he’s found drowned in tapioca)