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Dec 8, 2004 16:11:10 GMT -5
Post by Amalcas on Dec 8, 2004 16:11:10 GMT -5
Yep. Thats one of the accents I'm working on.
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Dec 16, 2004 8:08:59 GMT -5
Post by Guest on Dec 16, 2004 8:08:59 GMT -5
hahaha
I have many accents. it depends on where i am, what im doing, and who im with. if I watch too much british tv, i start talking in an english accent. lately, i've had a bit of a japanesse accent, because ive been learning to speak the language from audio tapes.
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Dec 22, 2004 14:49:02 GMT -5
Post by littlepea on Dec 22, 2004 14:49:02 GMT -5
i have a scottish accent (of course) but typically a west coast middle class accent. if you heard a west coast working class person talking you probably wouldn't be able to make out a word of what he was saying. i like northern scottish accents, they sound funny. and by the way, i take it when you say british accents you mean english accents? i've mentioned this before, but i'll say it again because it's relevant here: in britain there's lots of telephone salesmen who work in call-centres and do that cold-calling thing where they try and sell you stuff over the phone. well, research has shown that english people like hearing scottish and irish accents over the phone and scottish people like hearing english accents over the phone, so people's jobs in call-centres are targeted to different parts of the country depending on what accent they speak with (so that they sell more stuff over the phone, of course, not so that they can please the people they are phoning). pretty smart, eh?
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Maria
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Jan 1, 2005 17:48:18 GMT -5
Post by Maria on Jan 1, 2005 17:48:18 GMT -5
Well I have a British (English) accent which you would all probably think very posh, even though there's other people here who sound much more so. Lol.
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Jan 5, 2005 19:27:24 GMT -5
Post by littlepea on Jan 5, 2005 19:27:24 GMT -5
what part of england are you from? i'm from the west coast of scotland as you might have gathered, near glasgow, so you might be able to imagine what my accent is like ... i heard some woman on the radio talking about how there's nowhere else in the world that has so many significantly different accents for such a small place, though i think she's being a bit naive there - i'm sure there are similar places with just as many accents all over the world (she can't possibly know how different accents in spanish would sound, or german etc.) i can see her point, though, cos places like newcastle, liverpool, east london etc all have easily recognisable accents. i can tell the difference between different west coast accents and i know a northern, southern, central or eastern scottish accent when i hear one ... is it the same in america or does everyone sound the same? northern irish sounds a lot different from southern irish too, but i guess anyone can hear the difference if they heard it for themselves (northern irish accents are much harsher, southern irish more pleasant - but harder to understand at times )
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Post by Tara on Jan 6, 2005 8:21:28 GMT -5
i can tell the difference between different west coast accents and i know a northern, southern, central or eastern scottish accent when i hear one ... is it the same in america or does everyone sound the same? I haven't travelled much around the states...I've only been around the North East. I only know of the Southern accent as that's one I've heard. Then you have people from other countries like India which I've spoken to. I've also heard a Spanish accent, but that's all I can remember at the moment. I don't know if there is a difference between the Southern and Western accent though. Maybe someone else would know about that.
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Maria
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Jan 6, 2005 18:29:58 GMT -5
Post by Maria on Jan 6, 2005 18:29:58 GMT -5
what part of england are you from? ) I'm from South East England, not too far from London.
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Mar 12, 2005 21:43:49 GMT -5
Post by littlepea on Mar 12, 2005 21:43:49 GMT -5
dunno why i'm bringing this topic up after so long, but i just remembered that my dad spent a couple of months in texas at some point in his student life and he told me that after a short time he could pick out roughly what part of texas people were from based on their accents.
he tells me that there really are people like boomhower in king of the hill, but i'll only believe it when i see it ;D
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Mar 12, 2005 23:54:54 GMT -5
Post by dianaholberg on Mar 12, 2005 23:54:54 GMT -5
littlepea, sadly it's true
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Mar 13, 2005 13:51:10 GMT -5
Post by Tara on Mar 13, 2005 13:51:10 GMT -5
I think that's funny.
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Mar 13, 2005 14:01:49 GMT -5
Post by littlepea on Mar 13, 2005 14:01:49 GMT -5
lol, cool some irish people sound that way when they're talking to me as well, they don't seem to leave any gaps in between the words that they're saying, it all just runs together and i haven't a clue what's going on. it's always a good laugh, though, irish people are amazing
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Apr 28, 2005 20:07:12 GMT -5
Post by psyence on Apr 28, 2005 20:07:12 GMT -5
My accent is the cause of hearing spanish and sometimes poor english at home while growing up, lol.
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Apr 29, 2005 7:13:23 GMT -5
Post by Tara on Apr 29, 2005 7:13:23 GMT -5
I'm trying to imagine what that sounds like. lol
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Apr 29, 2005 11:48:12 GMT -5
Post by littlepea on Apr 29, 2005 11:48:12 GMT -5
i know what you mean, often people have accents because of the way their parents spoke even though they were born and grew up in the same country as you (in scotland there are lots of pakistani and bangldeshi people and most of them speak with a slight accent even though english is their first language). i can't really imagine a spanish/canadian accent though - maybe something like the spanish/american except with funny vowel pronounciation and the odd "eh?" added to the end of a sentence every now and then ;D
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Apr 29, 2005 13:23:26 GMT -5
Post by Tara on Apr 29, 2005 13:23:26 GMT -5
I hope I don't sound like I'm steroetyping or anything, but I immediately thought of Mexican.
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