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Post by Ela @ GK on Mar 24, 2009 23:51:18 GMT -5
I dont care either way; But ones that make their English difficult to understand irritate me. I know it isn't the individual's fault, and i hold no distaste for them, but that doesn't stop me from wanting to gouge my ears out with frustration.
I do have a certain love for Irish accents, simply because it sounds so elegant in a casual sort of way.
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Post by Cat on Mar 25, 2009 6:39:13 GMT -5
do any of you from america or australia know what a geordie accent sounds like? that's the thing, britain has sooo many accents that i never know which ones people like when they say "i like british accents". birmingham accents sound a loooot different to ones from london ha! i'm geordie but i'm not from newcastle (i'm from durham) so it's a lot softer and a bit posher, though actual posh people would still see me as very common lol. i sound like this but not so masculine: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxVec_zCC80 (has swearing!)i love the way belgian's talk english for some reason, and i love soft scottish accents. cockney is also veeeery funny! ha
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Post by Star ★ on Mar 25, 2009 8:58:22 GMT -5
^ Totally! I sound completely different to a Londoner, but then you have different types of Londoner accent too. Although i love British accents even though i have one myself, i like when you watch an American film and there is a true Brit talking (not somebody putting on an accent) it makes me swoon, more so the posh end of the London accent than a brummie, but i swoon never the less xD I live in a small town between Birmingham and Manchester (Which are a VERY long way away from one another) in the west midlands, I'm slightly closer to Birmingham but i don't have a Brum accent nor do i have a Mancunian accent.
I think accents are fascinating, although some really bug me! But its amazing how vastly different people talk and how the accent has adapted.
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Post by Brynn on Mar 25, 2009 9:36:02 GMT -5
Being an American is fun, especially if you're from Massachusetts. Where I live (near Worchester) the people are famous for pronnouncing things silly (according to other Americans).
Examples include: Haverhill = averill Worchester = wustah Boston = bahstun Groton = Grotin
and some others I can't remember at the moment.
The one thing that drives me up the wall like no other is when I call for take-out and the person manning the phone has such a heavy accent I can't understand them. I know it's not their fault, but it drives me nuts when I have no idea what the person is asking me when all I want are my gorram crab rangoons.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2009 10:08:31 GMT -5
My all time fav accent is the south african onces <333 I dunno why but I love them I'm from Manchester, well outside of it but because I watch Eastenders too much I tend to talk a bit Londonish with me removing th TH's and replacing them with F's like birfday xD but no doubt a few people do that dx But my accent is kinda dull and not too much too it, though I do have a very colourful vocabulary >_>;
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Post by Spell on Mar 25, 2009 10:59:57 GMT -5
I can hear the difference in Brittish accents but I have no idea where they come from.. I don't live there.. XD
I -can- tell where the different American accents come from. A woman came into my work and started talking to me and right away I knew she was from NY. I went to Maine and they would say "Pak da Cah" (park the car) and they all made fun of -us- because we sounded weird to them XD.
Even in Ohio, which is a small state compared to some of the other ones, there are very different accents. Hell there are different accents in the city of Cleveland than in the surrounding suburbs and I live 15 min away XD.
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Post by R on Mar 25, 2009 11:01:58 GMT -5
@ Brynn: Yesterday, Letty was complaining of being a supposed 'Boston Idiot' because of her pronounciation xD
As long as I can understand what they're saying, it's fine. I know that english isn't easy for people with other accents to say either. Some of our words make them tounge-tied xD
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Post by Brynn on Mar 25, 2009 11:03:36 GMT -5
Pfft, we're smahtah because we had to learn that the written word isn't the truth!
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Post by Spell on Mar 25, 2009 11:07:29 GMT -5
Hehehe Boston accents are one of the most recognizable :3
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Post by R on Mar 25, 2009 11:10:35 GMT -5
xD ily Brynn.
I have a london accent, and apparently I sound posher than most people that live near me but, my cousin's mum always tells me I sound too my like my cousin.
I say Bards instead of Birds, I say vase the american way (instead of Vaase) etc. And I swear an awful lot, I still don't know how I sound posh.
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Post by Spell on Mar 25, 2009 11:24:08 GMT -5
I duno, I think I say words the way they are "supposed" to be said? I really don't know.. We should all record ourselves -I kid I kid-
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2009 11:25:28 GMT -5
^ ahaha if we did that I'd sound like a frog being ran over xD
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Post by Ratqueen on Mar 25, 2009 11:29:58 GMT -5
Some British accents are really difficult for me to understand. I don't know what you call them or where they come from but, as an example, I have a hard time understanding the accent of the woman in the show "Supernanny" (hate that show and never watch it, but I often catch the beginning and switch the channel in a hurry). She sounds so... I don't know, snobbish to me? And she does replace the "TH" with "V". Can barely understand her, more so because of her intonations than the actual way she pronounces words. A lot of old British comedy shows have that same strong accent that sounds "snobbish" to me. What do you call it? Is it what's called "posh"? On the other hand, I do like the British accent of Gordon Ramsey, of the show "Hell's Kitchen". It's softer and, even though he speaks fast, I can understand everything he says. And something amazing: how Hugh Laurie (of "House") is able to completely obliterate his strong British accent for a completely real-sounding Northern American accent. It's impossible to tell he's really British, or even a foreigner at all. I guess I sound like a couch potato now
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Post by Spell on Mar 25, 2009 11:32:10 GMT -5
Rebel: Ahhhh hahaha XD I tell people I sound like a boy just out of going though puberty XD. My voice has a wide range.. I usually have a low/deepish sound but if I'm upset I hit some pretty high octaves :x EDIT: I never knew Hugh Laurie was British until I heard him on a talk show XD. He is very talented! All I hear is a slight lisp.. he has that accent down pat
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2009 11:32:24 GMT -5
^ Lol she's from London I believe :x Edit for Spell: LMAO xD yeah my voice is kinda guyish D: mind you its better than sounding all prissy I like my rough tomboy-voice/appearance lol. >_>;
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