Armstrong and Miller – RAF Pilots – D Day

Armstrong and Miller – RAF Pilots – D Day

This comedy sketch mainly uses informal language – ‘this is it chaps’. However between the two main characters they talk with a colloquial and intimate register as they are friends and understand one another’s sense of humour –‘he must be a colossal gaylord’, ‘you talking about my granddad?’. We can tell this is highly unrealistic as the time period they are from wouldn’t have used such modern language and phrases which they have used in this video –‘blud’. Unrealistically they are talking about going to the beach to have fun, although they are there for a war. They use phrases such as: ‘I was gonna get chips and shit’ which is a stereotypical thing to do at the beach and the word 'shit' informalises the speech. When Miller says this he uses abbreviation (‘gonna’) and we know it is less likely for a formal register to use abbreviated words. They both use fillers often to break up their speech, their favourite filler seem to be ‘yeah’. Armstrong usually responds to Miller with one word answers, such as, ‘lush’ and ‘classic’ which tells Miller that he is interested in what he is saying and that he is listening. These responses clearly state that they have a strong friendship, as its unlikely we use terms like these with people we aren't so familiar with. They both often use taboo language when talking to each other, they often use the word ‘shit’ to put emphasis on what ever they are saying.