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Good grief. Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training made a five-minute appearance on British TV show Watchdog tonight ater it emerged that the game doesn’t actually recognise northern British accents.
One woman from Manchester moaned, probably through a mouthful of pie, “Basically you have to say the different colours that flash up on the screen as quickly as possible. I’m saying, blue, blue, blue and it’s saying no, even though it was blue. Then it got to yellow. I’m going, ‘yeller’ and everyone’s saying to me you need to be a bit posher. You need to say, ‘yellow’ and as soon as I did, it picked it up.”
The show’s presenter, Nicky Cambell, claimed that Brain Training “clearly discriminated against” certain accents, especially Northern and Scottish.
We really don’t know what to add. Read the rest of this sorry tale here.
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DUFFKING said:
Damn them for not including the correct pronunciations from all dialects and accents from everywhere in the country from every country the game is released in. DAMN THEM TO HELL!
Arkin said:
lol isn’t it more a case of people not saying the words correctly.
Aretak said:
That’s discrimination that is, Arkin. You’ll be a lucky boy indeed if Nicky Campbell isn’t on your doorstep with a camera crew when you leave the house in the morning.
Killerbee said:
Saw this last night – it was actually pretty funny, although the journalism on display was shoddy as ever. I don’t think “Brain Training” got mentioned more than once – he just seemed to want to lay into the DS itself, which is hardly fair for a software issue.
I was quite pleased that it picked up Bremner’s Queen impression every time. It is, after all, her English!