tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post9048527141156359236..comments2024-03-27T11:23:43.902+00:00Comments on Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley: Speak like a ClergyWodeWosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18381754587879658356noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-19084649093986278282013-06-23T17:28:58.895+01:002013-06-23T17:28:58.895+01:00I have a pact with a clergy friend that if either ...I have a pact with a clergy friend that if either of us starts getting a parsonical voice, the other must shoot them immediately (or at least metaphorically!) Actually there is now TV evidence that I still have a moderate Nottingham accent, and therefore am suspect.Mike Peatmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03385223912601726849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-45681101536962016632013-06-07T23:06:26.605+01:002013-06-07T23:06:26.605+01:00My parish have known I'm an rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr s...My parish have known I'm an rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr soul for a long time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-66818464572185757432013-06-07T21:40:36.491+01:002013-06-07T21:40:36.491+01:00Oh dear, I fear I have discovered that our "c...Oh dear, I fear I have discovered that our "clergy" is an imposter.<br />He fails all of the above tests.<br />Must get on to MI16 to find out who sent him.Ray Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09209429097744326143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-19713659831737822162013-06-07T21:24:49.396+01:002013-06-07T21:24:49.396+01:00Or the Geordie bloke from Big Brother? "Year ...Or the Geordie bloke from Big Brother? "Year furty in the deser'. Merses is reet angry wi' the peeple uv Izrairl" (apologies to Geordies)Archdruid Eileenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11849759985107161674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-64762715545764235732013-06-07T20:34:24.597+01:002013-06-07T20:34:24.597+01:00Thanks for this, Eileen. Now I know where I've...Thanks for this, Eileen. Now I know where I've been going wrong all these years. I simply cannot roll my "r"s. no wonder people can't tell from listening to me that I'm a Clergy. Sigh....Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-82532457334256050682013-06-07T20:18:26.821+01:002013-06-07T20:18:26.821+01:00Our minister (Methodist of course) is from 'Ow...Our minister (Methodist of course) is from 'Owdham' (Oldham to southerners). Strangely accent is no problem. Perhaps the C of E needs to follow Channel 4 with its huge range of regional voiceovers.Southportredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16351795261739264439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-61976276691893339762013-06-07T19:19:00.118+01:002013-06-07T19:19:00.118+01:00When you deal with Clergy Speak, what about Church...When you deal with Clergy Speak, what about Church speak?<br /><br />The Church has a language of it's own, and I don't mean Hebrew, Greek or Aramaic. I'd call it a mix of Etonese and Estuary English.<br /><br />Church speak is non-confrontational, inoffensive and kindly, a little like someones favourite grandmother on steroids. Church speak doesn't contain any blasphemy and the occasional 'bl**dy or 'bo****cks' is met with pursed lips and disapproval, particularly if it comes from the Vicar as he bangs his/her thumb with a hammer when nailing up Christingle decorations. When you have a conversation with a Churchie you inevitably end up feeling either 'nice' or outraged, with no in-between. <br /><br />A softly spoken conversation between the Church Warden and the Organist over the choice of hymns sounds quite civilized on the face of it, but words spoken from gritted teeth, bitten lips with clenched fists by their sides, demonstrate the power of restraint and why both the Vestry and Choir Vestry both have punch bags in the corner. You never offend, you take it out on the punch bag.<br /><br />While this is bad enough, the technical terminology of the church can be very confusing to us poor mortals in the pews. The terms derived from Latin for various Vestments, furniture, Altar furnishings, Eucharistic crockery etc are confusing to the lay person, not in the know and the smile of smirking superiority of the Verger of Sacristan as they know your discomfiture as 'not being in the know' demonstrates that 'secret societies' are alive and well in the church. What I don't understand is if we have freed the Church from Rome and Mass in Latin in the 16th Century, why, 450 years later do we persist with this stuff. In my days in the Army, a Corporal was a Junior Non-Commissioned Officer, not a bit of linen that is used on the Altar. And if I told any self respecting Corporal that he was just an old piece of linen, I'd have rued the consequences either oral or physical.<br /><br />No, the Church of England needs to grow up and keep up with the times. Liturgy and sermons spoken phonetically in 'text' speak will draw in the younger generations, while driving the 'graying ones' into the arms of FiF, Reform, Fulcrum and other like obsolete organisations - peace all round.UKViewerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18114944341930758335noreply@blogger.com