202. British Comedy: Monty Python & The Holy Grail
Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
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The Importance of Intonation and Sentence Stress
Monty Python are making fun of history. And they're also taking the piss out of everyone while at the same time celebrating the language. It's complex language delivered at speed by colorful characters and this is at the heart of the humor in this sketch. The lines are delivered with quite exaggerated and characterful intonation and sentence stress. So to highlight this, I'm going to try and read the script of this scene just to make it a bit clearer. OK. Now we're focusing on theintonation and the sentence stress. All right. We're focus on the intonation! Let's move on. Help. Oh, oh, come and see the violence inherent in
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