Armstrong and Miller RAF pilots ‘D-Day’
This comedy sketch is hilarious due to the words and phrases
these two men from a past era use – they use common slang from the present
tense like ‘blood’ – this is somewhat ironic because they are unaware that they
are going to war where blood will be shed. Another lot of dramatic irony is
shown when one of the men say ‘classic’ in a slang format but the definition
says otherwise. You could say that the
register is wrong for that period of time but that’s what makes the clip so
funny – it makes them stick out like a sore thumb but if we put them in today’s
world, they would be unnoticed, apart from their posh accent.
They constantly use similes without intention ‘like that…’
the word ‘like’ meaning to be used as a filler (like today’s dialect) but as a
result to their accents, it sounds almost clever, like they are comparing
things continually.
The two time genres are constantly being compared and
contrasted, for instance, the head officer uses low frequency lexis (formal
speech) – using the word ‘chaps’ whereas the two guys repeatedly use
non-standard grammar, resulting in the massive speech variety.
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