To find this incredibly irritating and rude?

[Whatonearth17]

Name change for this and I’m sure I’ll get flamed…but here we go…

I’m a Welsh speaker living in Wales and have an accent when I speak English. It’s a lovely thing and I love other people’s accents. I’ve just returned from shopping where an older English speaking ‘gentleman’ asked me to get something he couldn’t reach for him. I did him the favour and was polite to him at which point he repeated what I said in an over the top mocking Welsh accent. It is the THIRD time this week that a variation of this scenario has happened. Once at work (which I pushed back on) once when I was in the park with the kids and decided I couldn’t be arsed to say anything and today. Why do people think this is ok? The guy today in particular was patronising and belittling and quite frankly just rude. Would we do this to someone with a German/ Chinese accent? Or any other accent? Heritage? To their FACE? When it has happened at work and I can definitely identify their linguistic background, it tends to be people with one language? Multilingual people tend to do it far far less. I just find it so rude and ignorant.
YABU - it’s just banter
YANBU- let’s stop copying people’s accents shall we?

Grew up with an RP (I just call it Berkshire posh) accent and swapped it for a Welsh valleys accent due to length of time I lived there.

I was grateful, having always hated RP and how I sounded. Was grateful I pick others accents up!

My partner does the repeating what I've said in a Welsh accent, and it pisses me off. It was bad enough I grew up having my posh accent picked on and ridiculed (including by people living in the same area).

My parents (mostly my dad) does the same thing.

Not voted because this can really depend on the individual situation.

I'm Northern Irish living in England and get people doing the Northern Ireland accent at me, I usually find it funny and like people doing it, however, you get some dicks who are doing it in a mocking way, asking me to repeat certain word for their amusement, honestly, those dicks can fuck off.

So, sometimes I find it funny, other times they get the death stare.

I thnk you're being oversensitive. I have a very strong accent and everyone takes the piss out of it. It's banter

@Maddy70 , it might be banter to you, but it's something many find offensive.

The best retort is generally just to stare at the person blankly. In your case I would have put the item he couldn't reach back up on the shelf.

Have to say as a Scottish person the only place I've had this happen to me (and multiple times) was in Cardiff!

Maybe go and do it to someone with an ethnic minority accent and see if it’s still “banter”.

That was my thought too, @ItTook9Years .

You know when it's banter though and when it's being rude IMO.

My closest friend has another male friend she sees alot. The first time I met him he took the piss out of my Australian accent in a very offensive way. It wasn't banter, it was designed deliberately to put me down. She's suggested a few times that we all meet up together and I simply refused and told her why.

The other thing I am never quite sure about.... I actually have what has been described as a 'soft' Australian accent. People always say that approvingly for some reason.

I was in Oz over Christmas and met up with a friend and the waiter said to me 'where are you from?' I said I was Australian but have lived in the UK for 25 years. He said 'Get the bloody plum out of your mouth when you are here then!'. I found that fucking offensive also.

I've had friends who go straight into Welsh, Scots, Irish accent mode when meeting someone new. At work and play. It's utter cringe and makes me an embarrassed to be English. But then again, I've had terrible behaviour towards me because I'm English from the above.

I don't think there is anything wrong with the Brummie accent (southern softie here!) However, South African/nasally Americans, just no.

I've had the micky taken about my so called posh southern accent by my Yorkshire husband's family and friends. They put on this plummy voice and mock poses eg sticking out one's little finger when drinking from a mug.

I have a mild scouse accent and my French teacher used to make me read passages to give the whole class a laugh . Luckily it didn’t bother me .
I love the Welsh accent especially from the Gwynedd area because two of my grandchildren live there and I love to listen to them speak .

Oft us scottish get it too. Och aye the noo, see u Jimmy etc

I would have taken the item back and put it back on the top shelf lol