Renowned Death Hag
I babysat for my bosses little boy tonight. Her husband dropped him off and picked him up an I don't think her husband understands my Northern WI accent..... I, for the most part, can understand him (they are Pakastani), but I don't think he has any clue what the hell I am talking about.
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Lol! I was curious about that one.Originally Posted by JudyAnn
I watched a couple of minutes. I could only understand a little because of the accent and he was talking fast. If I visited there I would spend the whole time saying what?
I have "The Full Monty" (which is set in Sheffield and is a really great film) on DVD.I watched a couple of minutes. I could only understand a little because of the accent and he was talking fast. If I visited there I would spend the whole time saying what?
It has at least two English audio tracks. One for UK English and one for the US market.
And please please please please, somebody really make this "Don' you go Rounin Roun to Re Ro" movie. It would be brilliant! Loren Michaels, are you listening out there?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HWNNZGuldI
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That could be it too. Although, I've found that South Australians and Western Australians have more British-sounding speech, e.g. saying "cassle" with a short sound instead of "cah-stle" for the word "castle", and "dah-nce" for "dance", etc. Queenslanders in the central/north of the state, as I said, tend to draw their words out more and put "hey" on the end of every sentence.
I saw a documentary not long ago called "The Sounds of Aus" about the Australian accent and how it changed in the different parts of the country from settlement to the present day. It was quite interesting.
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Kewl! I wouldn't have guessed that the British accent had changed much at all in the past 200 years.
My Shi-CAH-gah AYYCK-cent comes out when I'm homesick, drinking, and/or talking to someone who also hails from Chicago. All my "a's" get flattened out...like thaaaaat. We don't all sound like Chris Farley, however ("Da Bearsss...Da Bullsss..."). The thickest Chicago accents are maintained by the cops. Even I can barely understand them.
I played in a national orchestra once (members from all over, incl. Alaska & Hawaii), and of all the collected accents, mine got made fun of the most. Which I can understand...it's pretty cloying.
My favorite accents are: Tennessee; British; Irish; and Singapore (more the emphasis on unexpected words: "What is your DAMN problem! Just get me the HELL out of here!").
"We've had threads about guys fucking picnic tables, animals and dead bodies. Third boob ain't going to stop a damn thing." - cleanskull
Allow me to add to that!
nebby = nosey
redd up = to clean
jaggers = thorns
On another accent subject, I have always been fascinated by how English folks can pick up someone's social class and where they're from just by their accent. To me, all English people sound the same (except for the really, cockney I think it's called, ones). I wonder if all Americans sound the same to British and Australian people?
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Up in Northern Maine and Northern NH there are a lot of people of French Canadian background and they have a distinct accent too. Here is a good example of it: http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/american-loggers/
I am fluent in the Southern accent. Been in the south all my life.
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Ha ha ha...me too, I'm a native Texan! When I was in Philadelphia (my mother's home town) and NYC (my husband's home town), everyone kept asking me to "say something" just to hear me talk...hilarious!
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That is kind of like the IT department where I work. They outsourced it to India. The funny thing is they use American names but they have such heavy accents. When they call back about an IT issue they always say "Hello, this Christopher, how may I help you."
After they resolve the issue we usually get a survey sent to us and we have to rate how well we can understand them, how heavy their accent is etc....
Re: British accents. If your class is determined by your accent, do people fake an upper class accent? (I think I would)
I seem to recall that PM Margaret Thatcher affected an upper class accent that belied her lower-class upbringing and this caused a bit of controversy.
Re: American accents. My father, age 78, grew up in poverty in Washington, D.C. He learned to "drop" the working class accent that his brothers and sisters still have in order to go on to college and make his way in the professional world. No one would accuse him of being fake; he just sounded less "country" and more mainstream East Coast.
The D.C. accent is similar to the Baltimore, Maryland accent.
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I was raised in Southern Indiana but my dad is from Southern Kentucky. I say mik instead of milk, accent is akkcent, and I brush my hayre, not hair. Celery is salary. Onion is ongyun.
I have no idea why but it must be a mix of my parents and grandparents who were from Oklahoma.
I moved to Texas and have now picked up some of that. I am an accent mutt. I can clean it up a bit when I'm being professional. But for the most part I just go with it.
I was born in Indiana and lived there until I was 11, then we moved to Colorado in 1981 and I've lived here ever since. I don't think I have an accent, but people often ask where I'm from. When I tell them, they say, "Noooo, I thought you were from...." Then they say any number of other places. California, New York, Minnesota, seriously, all over the place.
So, I think that maybe I just speak strangely? Not an accent I picked up from living anywhere, just some weird crap I spew forth and can't hear that I'm doing?
Whatever, call it Djenspeak.
Next time someone tells you that, tell them you have an ideolect. It's just a fancy way of saying "that's just the way I talk."
It's really funny when German speakers try to guess where I am from. Usually it is painfully obvious that I'm American. Sometimes if I'm really disciplined with my pronounciation, for example, in court, I get Canada or England. On a good day I get Denmark or Norway. On a bad day, I occasionally get Switzerland or even Turkey. I think the later is probably proof of the power of suggestion, because I look vaguely Turkish to them. I get treated poorly by people who are laboring under the illusion that I am Turkish.
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Scottish accent here.
I have a question about Irish accents. Do the folks in Ireland sound different than the folks in Northern Ireland? (to other Irish people, I mean. They'd all sound alike to me).
Why thank you, I'll do that next time!Next time someone tells you that, tell them you have an ideolect. It's just a fancy way of saying "that's just the way I talk."
It's really funny when German speakers try to guess where I am from. Usually it is painfully obvious that I'm American. Sometimes if I'm really disciplined with my pronounciation, for example, in court, I get Canada or England. On a good day I get Denmark or Norway. On a bad day, I occasionally get Switzerland or even Turkey. I think the later is probably proof of the power of suggestion, because I look vaguely Turkish to them. I get treated poorly by people who are laboring under the illusion that I am Turkish.
You're welcome. Cunning linguists aim to please.
I really don't have an accent. Unless I leave the United States for a foreign country...then folks point it out. :P
Best accent in the world.
If I could accquire one accent in the world instantly, I think Scots English would be the one I would choose.Best accent in the world.
A most excellent choice! It's sexier than hell.If I could accquire one accent in the world instantly, I think Scots English would be the one I would choose.
That's how my relatives sound. They are in Derbyshire.
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I teach English in South America. My students crack me up because after being in my class for a couple years, they start sounding like Michiganians. I have to laugh when I see a couple of Ecuadorians talking in midwestern accents about what kind of "pop" they want, coke or pepsi.
Senior Death Hag
WOOT!
Don't forget to teach them to add Vernors and Faygo to the pop list.
"I don't want the bodies, just the pictures."
--Castle
This is going to make things hard for those guys in the back room doing machine translation. Now we're going to have to teach our neuronal networks to divide the world into things that are and are not pop.WOOT!
Don't forget to teach them to add Vernors and Faygo to the pop list.
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^^I can relate to that. My MIL still speaks the same way.
Me, I have a touch of "southern" when I'm very tired or drunk. "Missipi" is how we mention "MS" LOL.
Everyone must die but not everyone has lived
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That made me laugh! Do they like Faygo Red "pAHp"?
Archer Fact: You canâ??t tourniquet the taint. (Source: Ray Gillette)
Ha Ha, like the commercial with the foreign guy named "Peggy"
I'm imagining trying to teach a neuronal network that the set of things that fulfill the conditions "associated with pop=true" + "associated with coke=false" + "associated with pepsi=true" + "associated with king=true" + "dead=true" includes Michael Jackson.
Every time your brain identifies a word, it's like playing twenty questions at the speed of light.
And they say computers will one day make human translators obsolete. Puh-leeease
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I lived in the south(Arkansas)growing up for 10 years and had a pretty strong southern accent. Then I moved to Chicago and was tormented for my accent so much that I worked really hard on getting rid of it and I guess acquired a Chicago-like accent. I've lived in Ohio now for 10 years and have picked up a bit of their half-ass southern slang but not much. My husband gets tickled to death and finds it quite hilarious that whenever I'm drunk or royally pissed off then my southern accent comes back full-force and there are still words that I can't say without a southern accent.
As the son of an educated Ohio hillbilly, I deeply resemble that remark!
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I'm Scottish, does that count?A most excellent choice! It's sexier than hell.
Those are my principles.If you don't like them,I have others.
-Groucho Marx-
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Depends. Do you have a kilt, and what's worn under it?I'm Scottish, does that count?
Renowned Death Hag
DependsDepends. Do you have a kilt, and what's worn under it?
Those are my principles.If you don't like them,I have others.
-Groucho Marx-
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To me very different. The inflections are the same but the tone is totally different. Google Gerry Adams and then Father Ted and you'll see what I mean
Well done lad! The mark of a true professional is knowing when his partner is setting up a punchline for him.Depends
Maybe we should team up and hit the late night circuit? We could be Craig Ferguson's evil twin brothers.
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Great idea, but i can only do Conan O'brien...I'm not allowed to stay up that lateWell done lad! The mark of a true professional is knowing when his partner is setting up a punchline for him.
Maybe we should team up and hit the late night circuit? We could be Craig Ferguson's evil twin brothers.
Those are my principles.If you don't like them,I have others.
-Groucho Marx-
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Renowned Death Hag
Since we're on the topic of accents, I've seen snippets on the Internet about how the United States regional accents are slowly disappearing due to our uber mobile society now. That kind of makes me sad. Our accents are part of who we are and make life interesting.
A couple of years ago I was chatting with a man from Boston about accents and he told me that in many of the Boston schools, they are teaching the kids to not use their Boston accents!!I love all of the different New England accents. Seems kind of a shame that they are doing that in Boston schools (if that is true).
Yep, it counts.I'm Scottish, does that count?
What?! Not partial to a good old Oil City accent?A most excellent choice! It's sexier than hell.
Oh yeah, that one will get me every time, too!What?! Not partial to a good old Oil City accent?
Got that West Virginia drawl that sounds cute on my mom, but slow on me
I don't but everyone else does
I have the most hillbilly Southern drawl you can possibly imagine and it doesn't bother me a bit. I talk very slow and draw it waaaay out and butcher the hell out of a lot of words.
Yes, i'm Australian. G'day Mate!
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I'm right there with ya, Mammy!
I agree with you. Melburnians also seem to have a more clipped, British-style accent. I'm from Queensland, and the accent here is very broad and flat, like Steve Irwin's, for example.
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People sometimes cock their heads to the side and ask me where I'm from or, "What's that accent?". See, I've been to every state and have lived in at least one state in the north, south, east and west. The answer they get depends on how they ask. Sometimes I'll tell them what I justwrote there. And other times I'll wave my arms and say, "Tay the wiiiiin'", while throwing in a little Matthew MaCaunaghey drawl and wander off, as you do.
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