Accents, do YOU speak with one?

[Brutuskend]

Don't you find it interesting that people HAVE accents?

What causes them do you suppose?

Is it the area where you live (literally) or just because the others around you have one?

If people were FORCED to move every few years through out their lives, do you think accents would go away, and everyone, after awhile, would sound the same?

Is this a phenomena that happens just in the US or do people, say in southern England, have that same southern drawl?

Inquiring minds want to know.


I've been told I have a accent though I don't see it myself (though most people DON'T I suppose). You would think that having lived in Oregon so long my Missouri accent would have gone away. When I was in the south during my stint in the service I noticed I started speaking like they do down there. Do you find yourself speaking like those around you?

 

[moshquerade]

everyone else has an accent, not i

 

[Nikamichi]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
everyone else has an accent, not i

A fellow NYer w/o an accent?

pfft!

 

[Juno]

A deaf guy with an accent? I don't think so.

 

[Mnementh]

Originally posted by: jewno
A deaf guy with an accent? I don't think so.

Deaf people have accents too, my ex girlfriend was deaf and she definitely had a birmingham accent the same as me...

Thats Birmingham UK not US btw, so yes Brutuskend English people have accents too thankfully none of them are like american accents which are truly awful imo. I had to ring up a helldesk in america once and the woman at the other end was unintelligable the only thing I understood was the obnoxiously oversweet and nasal "Have a nice day" at the end of the conversation <shudder>

 

[DurocShark]

We all have accents to others.

Except for news anchors...

 

[Ikonomi]

Meh, this is actually a really interesting question, and I can't formulate a complete response. I wish I were a linguist.

If people moved around a lot, they would pick up different pieces of regional dialect, but the accent they learned as a child would remain. Speech patterns learned when young are very deeply ingrained. However, if someone from one area were to move somewhere with a very different style of language, especially a foreign country, they'd definitely pick up some new speech patterns.

Edit: And oh yeah, I do have an accent. I can't hear it, though. I don't have a Texas drawl or anything, but I do say "y'all" sometimes. I also have a bit of a black accent. People from other parts of the country have told me that I don't have an accent, but I'm sure they mean "a Texas accent".

 

[sniperruff]

there is no REAL english. there are always accents. you might think you speak the correct english but others might not think so.

for me its chinese/british/NY accent. haha...

 

[Pliablemoose]

Hell, I even' type with one.

Grew up with a very flat midwestern accent, have lived in TX long enough to pick up a Southern drawl. I couldn't even buy stuff @ stores when I moved down here til I started to draw, they couldn't understand me.

 

[biostud]

I have a danish accent

and there's maybe 15-20 major accents in Denmark, a country consisting of ~5 mio people.

 

[Juno]

Originally posted by: Mnementh

Originally posted by: jewno
A deaf guy with an accent? I don't think so.

Deaf people have accents too, my ex girlfriend was deaf and she definitely had a birmingham accent the same as me...

Thats Birmingham UK not US btw, so yes Brutuskend English people have accents too thankfully none of them are like american accents which are truly awful imo. I had to ring up a helldesk in america once and the woman at the other end was unintelligable the only thing I understood was the obnoxiously oversweet and nasal "Have a nice day" at the end of the conversation <shudder>

Call me and you'll figure out how horrible my accent is. I'll be talking like gibberish..

 

[Megatomic]

Being a navy brat and then a squid myself I moved around a lot, but I did live in SE VA for most of my life so I suppose I have a slight southern drawl.

 

[Mnementh]

Originally posted by: sniperruff
there is no REAL english. there are always accents. you might think you speak the correct english but others might not think so.

for me its chinese/british/NY accent. haha...

Not quite correct, Real English is commonly understood to be how the Queen speaks ie "The Queens English" everything else is a regional derivative of that base accent.

 

[Mnementh]

Originally posted by: jewno

Originally posted by: Mnementh

Originally posted by: jewno
A deaf guy with an accent? I don't think so.

Deaf people have accents too, my ex girlfriend was deaf and she definitely had a birmingham accent the same as me...

Thats Birmingham UK not US btw, so yes Brutuskend English people have accents too thankfully none of them are like american accents which are truly awful imo. I had to ring up a helldesk in america once and the woman at the other end was unintelligable the only thing I understood was the obnoxiously oversweet and nasal "Have a nice day" at the end of the conversation <shudder>

Call me and you'll figure out how horrible my accent is. I'll be talking like gibberish..

LOL so whats new

j/k

 

[jadinolf]

I get spotted as being a New Yorker even though I have been in CA for 44 years.

I'm originally from CT about 56 minutes from NYC.

 

[Eli]

Well, uh.. doesen't that depend on whos point of view you're looking at it from?

You have an accent to an Australian, just like they have an accent to you.

 

[Juno]

Originally posted by: Mnementh

Originally posted by: jewno

Originally posted by: Mnementh

Originally posted by: jewno
A deaf guy with an accent? I don't think so.

Deaf people have accents too, my ex girlfriend was deaf and she definitely had a birmingham accent the same as me...

Thats Birmingham UK not US btw, so yes Brutuskend English people have accents too thankfully none of them are like american accents which are truly awful imo. I had to ring up a helldesk in america once and the woman at the other end was unintelligable the only thing I understood was the obnoxiously oversweet and nasal "Have a nice day" at the end of the conversation <shudder>

Call me and you'll figure out how horrible my accent is. I'll be talking like gibberish..

LOL so whats new

j/k

Seriously, I guess I'm a deaf guy with gibberish-like New Jersey accent.

 

[blakeatwork]

A little at times... especially if I'm angry. But I found it easier to be understood not talking with an accent in Canada, so I did away with it... Course, after being home a couple of weeks, it comes back out...

 

[mugs]

I wouldn't say I have an accent, definitely not a "typical" New Jersey accent (which doesn't exist in most of NJ). But when I went to school in Indiana, people noticed that I pronounced orange as "AH-range," forrest as "f-AH-rrest," Florida as "Fl-AH-rida" and so on and so forth. So glad to be back in NJ where people know how to talk.

My grandparents moved to Alabama and started talking like rednecks.

 

[shiner]

English motherfvcker, do you speak it?

 

[Mnementh]

Originally posted by: shinerburke
English motherfvcker, do you speak it?

And how much of a cu*t would you feel if you found out English was his second language? Fvck off and troll in someone elses thread d1ckweed

Back to the thread I tend to find my accent becomes a lot broader than usual when I'm drunk as I tend to try to minimize it when sober as I no longer live in the city of my birth and people where I live now have problems understanding me...

 

[shiner]

Originally posted by: Mnementh

Originally posted by: shinerburke
English motherfvcker, do you speak it?

And how much of a cu*t would you feel if you found out English was his second language? Fvck off and troll in someone elses thread d1ckweed

Back to the thread I tend to find my accent becomes a lot broader than usual when I'm drunk as I tend to try to minimize it when sober as I no longer live in the city of my birth and people where I live now have problems understanding me...

Hey dumbass....get your panties out of your ass.....it was a joke.

 

[Strk]

Originally posted by: Mnementh

Originally posted by: jewno
A deaf guy with an accent? I don't think so.

Deaf people have accents too, my ex girlfriend was deaf and she definitely had a birmingham accent the same as me...

Thats Birmingham UK not US btw, so yes Brutuskend English people have accents too thankfully none of them are like american accents which are truly awful imo. I had to ring up a helldesk in america once and the woman at the other end was unintelligable the only thing I understood was the obnoxiously oversweet and nasal "Have a nice day" at the end of the conversation <shudder>

There are over 200 million Americans who speak English, yet everyone has an awful accent? How many American accents have you heard? Out of the 64 million people between the United Kingdom and Ireland, not a single one has an awful accent? Do you mean an accent that makes the person incoherent? Or does it just not "sound pretty"? If you are going by not being able to understand someone on a service call, so what, they aren't linguists. Hell, if you got a southerner with a thick enough drawl, most people outside of the region(wherever it might be) probably couldn't understand her.

 

[Brutuskend]

Originally posted by: Strk

Originally posted by: Mnementh

Originally posted by: jewno
A deaf guy with an accent? I don't think so.

Deaf people have accents too, my ex girlfriend was deaf and she definitely had a birmingham accent the same as me...

Thats Birmingham UK not US btw, so yes Brutuskend English people have accents too thankfully none of them are like american accents which are truly awful imo. I had to ring up a helldesk in america once and the woman at the other end was unintelligable the only thing I understood was the obnoxiously oversweet and nasal "Have a nice day" at the end of the conversation <shudder>

There are over 200 million Americans who speak English, yet everyone has an awful accent? How many American accents have you heard? Out of the 64 million people between the United Kingdom and Ireland, not a single one has an awful accent? Do you mean an accent that makes the person incoherent? Or does it just not "sound pretty"? If you are going by not being able to understand someone on a service call, so what, they aren't linguists. Hell, if you got a southerner with a thick enough drawl, most people outside of the region(wherever it might be) probably couldn't understand her.

Yeah, what about cockny? Can ANYONE understand THAT!?!!?!?

 

[FuZoR]

i have a accent... sorta. some people can tell im asian american over the phone... others think im white.. meh i dont know

oh yeah... i grew up in New York/ Brooklyn... I don't think i have a ny accent.