I am busy tomorrow. But I'm free all day Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday for the next six weeks.

Ow's about before we do this for real, all of us who are interested in speaking on this thing have a big old chat on skype and see what ideas emerge and who seems to be suited to what and all that sort of thing. A cross between a BRAINSTORMING session and a just chat and see where it would meander to left to its own devices sort of thing.

Ey?

Perhaps rather than trying to arrange a time when everyone will be free for this, just if/when you have some free time, pop on skype and if you see anyone else on there, call them for a chat. Do it in dribs and drabs like?

My skype is boffinboots x

Aye.

One critical evaluation will be to determine whose voices are best suited to broadcast, and who are just to dull/indecipherable. Anyone who pronouces 'castle' as 'cassel' rather than 'carsel' should be rejected forthwith. :Y

but ... but ... it /is/ 'cassel', 'carsel' would just annoy me
same for anyone who feels the need to pronounce film as 'fil-um'

So, basically you want to keep out all Northerners from the podcast and have a 'neutral' language idiom throughout?

 

Neutral's another word for bland. You need character.

No, it's 'carsel'. And 'cassel' irritates my oh-so-pert tits right off into the gutter.

 

But then the chances are I won't be listening, so do carry on with your proposal to further bastardise the English language! :{)

I wasn't thinking of neutral so much as proper enunciation such that you could slash your wrists (or someone else's) with it. But then it'd probably be lost on most of the oiks here, so let's not bother eh?

You should will make something that will put people to sleep...

so where is the 'r' in 'castle' then?
ohh, hang on, do you mean more of a caaastle?

castle is "ca" as in "car" (not "cat") and "stle" as in "whistle"

But it's not.

 

"ca" as in "cat" without the t. Then "stle" like you said in "whistle".

I fear you may just be urinating into a oncoming gale.

I can't determine if you say whistle wrong, or if that's just your accent. :/

Maybe we need to have a "how to speak proper" bit, so we can stop trying to write sounds using half-arsed non-phonetics, and actually educate those that insist on inserting a 'u' between 'lm' (and similar nonsense).

A section where Mr Bastard teaches me to speak all proper like would be good.

 

'The caart is in the carrstle having a baaarth'

That would be a great section. I want to learn to talk proper like too.

Do caaaaarts have baaaaarths? I always imagined them as being shaaaaaar vehicles meself.

I'm not convinced that carrstles have gahraaaahjes either