Phonetics & class

Royce 2022-03-22 09:01:48

When I was in my third year of high school, I watched the clip of "My Fair Lady" for the first time. It seemed to be an English class. There was a vague guide to learning spoken English, but I didn't know anything about phonetics at that time. Now I read it again and found a lot of phonetics. The knowledge of people, feel the influence of social dialects or regional dialects on people, whether it is a way of thinking or behavior, but whether the film is elegant or noble, it seems that the voice can be used as a landmark. There are some points of rationality and some points of significance, I can't see clearly.

What is class, or what is the so-called gap between the so-called lower class and upper class in the class, and is realizing the class leap from the lower class to the upper class a definition of success? Thinking of the female college students in the news, when they were doing their finals, they dressed up as ladies to join the upper class. This kind of thing seems to be possible. However, there is always a sense of absurdity and injustice at work. I may still not be able to accept such values. Not a fairy tale, this is satire.

In fact, there are men and women, the expression of the concept of love, but I am too lazy to say so much, it is time to sleep.

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My Fair Lady quotes

  • Professor Henry Higgins: Eliza, you are to stay here for the next six months, learning to speak beautifully, like a lady in a florist's shop. If you work hard and do as you're told, you shall sleep in a proper bedroom, have lots to eat, and money to buy chocolates and go for rides in taxis. But if you are naughty and idle, you shall sleep in the back kitchen amongst the black beetles, and be walloped by Mrs. Pearce with a broomstick. At the end of six months you will be taken to Buckingham Palace, in a carriage, beautifully dressed. If the king finds out you are not a lady, you will be taken to the Tower of London, where your head will be cut off as a warning to other presumptuous flower girls! But if you are not found out, you shall have a present... of, ah... seven and six to start life with as a lady in a shop. If you refuse this offer, you will be the most ungrateful, wicked girl, and the angels will weep for you.

  • Eliza Doolittle: [singing] Lots of chocolate for me to eat! / Lots of coal makin' lots of heat / Warm face, warm hands, warm feet / Oh, wouldn't it be loverly?