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Mon Oct-04-10 01:11 PM
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If you could have any accent in the world, what would it be? |
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Mon Oct-04-10 01:24 PM
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Mon Oct-04-10 01:26 PM
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2. Isn't that in another world? |
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Mon Oct-04-10 01:31 PM
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3. Well you didn't specify WHICH world! |
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Mon Oct-04-10 01:44 PM
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I love that one better than anything.
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Mon Oct-04-10 01:55 PM
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I also like that accent, but I know a lot of native New Yorkers who keeyunt steeyund it.
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Mon Oct-04-10 01:52 PM
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Mon Oct-04-10 01:56 PM
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7. Which kind of British? |
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Mon Oct-04-10 02:06 PM
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9. Probably the standard stereotypical one. |
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The fancy-sounding one, though I wouldn't mind one of the more working-class dialects (think of a Guy Ritchie movie).
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Mon Oct-04-10 02:15 PM
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11. The posh ones can sound rather ridiculous. Think of the upper class twits on Monty Python. |
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But then so can the working class ones, I suppose.
I loov British accents, mate. Almost indiscriminateleh.
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Mon Oct-04-10 02:42 PM
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14. I have a very bland, man-from-nowhere accent. |
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So I guess I want to trade up. ;)
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Mon Oct-04-10 02:53 PM
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Wed Oct-06-10 09:58 AM
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46. oh please, I knew you were a Texan the minute I met you!! |
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:rofl: JUST KIDDING!!111 yukyuk
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Wed Oct-06-10 01:23 PM
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51. Manchester with a bit of Germanic overlay |
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Wed Oct-06-10 01:41 PM
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53. Monchister, mein brooder? |
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Wed Oct-06-10 01:40 PM
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52. Yes, because that would mean that I had Norwegian citizenship, too...nt |
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Mon Oct-04-10 02:10 PM
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10. Irish- Dublin or Co Claire |
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Wed Oct-06-10 11:53 AM
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50. That's the one I would pick, too! |
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The Commitments is one of my all time favorite movies -- love the accents!!
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Mon Oct-04-10 02:21 PM
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So I can say "fookity-fook-fook-fook" all day long and nobody will understand in FL wth I'm saying.
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Mon Oct-04-10 06:55 PM
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16. Presently prefer acute. Plenty of time later for the grave. n/t |
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Mon Oct-04-10 09:17 PM
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24. DITTO!!! WITH YOU, hw!!! |
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Mon Oct-04-10 07:39 PM
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19. Scottish. I love a scottish accent. I think there is some sort of genetic memory involved. |
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Mon Oct-04-10 09:06 PM
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21. Probably just that general English Accent. |
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I also dig a northern Minnesotan/Canadian accent, don'tcha know? We watched FARGO last night. LOL Duckie
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Mon Oct-04-10 09:12 PM
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22. Oh yah,me too, you betcha. :-) |
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Mon Oct-04-10 09:13 PM
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Just to raise a few eyebrows.
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Mon Oct-04-10 10:15 PM
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25. Australian's pretty awesome |
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Wed Oct-06-10 12:08 AM
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I consider Aussie accents a cross between British and American
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Mon Oct-04-10 11:17 PM
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26. Regrettably, I *have* any accent I want, entirely inadvertantly. |
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I have a disorder of the tongue when I hear any accent, or even read books that seem to have been written with an accent, that makes me copy that accent. If I talk to someone from Lakewood, I might use Yiddish. If I speak too long with a Southerner, they will ask where I am from assuming it's down south, and "Philadelphia" is a really odd answer once I've lapsed into a drawl. I wish I did not do this. I am freaking Zelig.
What makes this suck most for me is that I am a telephonic customer service representative. I talk to people from all over. I hear all kinds of accents, and I'm a born mimic. I've learned that one of way of getting people to understand you is to speak their language, so I do. This means I do this thing unconsciously. But I've had my drawling, brogueing, overtly East-coasting-it up _PA,NY,NJ generic urban white ethnic__self played back during quality reviews. I've been told I have an accent. It's just by no means a stable one, and when I write, I think I have inherited a ton of Britishisms. I say things like "Rubbish tip" and "to hospital" and "different than" when any natural American speaker knows it's "different from". Give me a minute, and I'll give you the accent. It's pretty much a curse.
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Thu Oct-07-10 10:23 AM
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59. Something similar happens to me, but only around certain persons |
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My accent changes to something like a Northeastern Portuguese-American's when I'm speaking English to Portuguese immigrants and/or Portuguese-Americans. One friend of mine is the latter (3rd generation 1/4 Portuguese, speaks English only), a native of Rhode Island, and she notices that with me. It's nothing I try to do; it just happens to me naturally. She calls me a "sardine can." She swears the hospital switched babies on my mom. :) I just want to know why everybody I know thinks I'm Luso.
BTW, I am a Lusophile who needs to shake the rust off the Portuguese I learned both from immigrants on the streets of Mineola, NY (where I worked) and in college, when I was friends with a number of Portuguese students--who actually took me for a Portuguese!! 20 years of disuse did that to me, and I ended up depressed.
This phenomenon doesn't happen to me around other English speakers, except when I'm speaking to Americans with advanced degrees (my native New York accent had become far less pronounced) or with Spanish speakers. In the latter case, my English pronunciation is that of a middle-class New Yorker, without any Spanish influence whatsoever.
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Tue Oct-05-10 06:28 AM
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27. I would like one of those suave British accents |
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like on The Avengers, if anyone remembers that show
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Tue Oct-05-10 08:00 AM
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Tue Oct-05-10 11:28 PM
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-- and John Steed
Two of my all-time favorite TV characters!
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Wed Oct-06-10 10:49 AM
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Especially Emma. :loveya:
Welcome to DU, by the way! :toast:
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Tue Oct-05-10 06:45 AM
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28. Here is another accent video and IMHO it is better |
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Tue Oct-05-10 07:58 AM
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29. The other one is more interesting for me to look at. |
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But that bloke's well facile, inne?
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Tue Oct-05-10 11:11 PM
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31. I like my Fargo accent just fine. |
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Tue Oct-05-10 11:24 PM
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32. I've had four and can do another 10 |
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Northeast corridor American - Including Wilmington, DE, Philadelphia, Joisey and Ballamore.
Southern from Virginia to Carolina
English - lived there 10 years - East End, Nottingham, Berkshire,
And I speak French as well as English and American (Yes, Virginia, they are 2 separate languages.)
Can also do Ottawa Valley Canadian and Quebecois.
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Tue Oct-05-10 11:41 PM
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Half bright/half sober Hoosier |
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Oh wait, I already have that one.
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Tue Oct-05-10 11:41 PM
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34. Half bright/half sober Hoosier |
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Oh wait, I already have that one.
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Tue Oct-05-10 11:50 PM
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35. I'm quite happy with my Queens Italian-American accent, thank you |
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Why improve on perfection?
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Wed Oct-06-10 12:38 AM
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Which is unusual for a German/Italian/English/Cherokee guy. My German ancestors spent a couple of decades in Russia in the mid-19th Century; maybe that has something to do with it.
Women with Scottish, Irish, or Australian accents turn me on.
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Wed Oct-06-10 07:26 AM
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39. Old New York Yiddish (and I'm not even Jewish). |
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Here. Touch my snuggie so we can fly n'at. :rofl:
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Wed Oct-06-10 08:58 AM
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Go getta rill big turkey dahn Jyne Iggle - keep da change! :rofl: :hi: Bunny! :loveya:
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:D :hi: Richardo! :loveya: :pals:
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Thu Oct-07-10 09:51 AM
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58. I'm playin dat Farmtahn... |
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Wed Oct-06-10 08:25 AM
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also like music from Dr. Zhivago playing very softly in the background. :D
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I can never get it right when I try to do it.
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Wed Oct-06-10 05:11 PM
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54. Probably old Vermont so when I say Ayuh, it doesn't sound phony. |
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Not the My Fair Lady cockney accent, but not the "royal" nasal, either. Just the ordinary British way of talking. My Texas accent is terrible; I hate to hear myself recorded; and don't think people in the north don't think less of your intelligence when they hear any kind of Southern drawl; Texas accent is not Southern, but sort of nasal, and slow. We pronounce our "r"s in contrast with "Southern talk". I wish I had gone to accent modulation school long ago. I also like the British accent of South Africans, and other colonists of the British Empire.
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2.) South African 3.) Kiwi 4.) Northern Irish 5.) Russian
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Thu Oct-07-10 02:12 PM
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60. Ze light French accent, but of course, non? |
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