Accents, do YOU speak with one?

[PatboyX]

jersey over here!

im the only one in my family that says "wooder" rather than "water"

 

[Armitage]

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

Actually, I've heard that there are the equivalent of accents in sign language as well. Sign language is supposedly very interesting to linguists because it has proven to be a true language in most/all respect which says interesting things about how the brain is organized for speech ... ie. it isn't neccesarily hardwired to the mouth & vocal cords.

Anyway, I used to speak with a strong PA dutch accent, to the point that southerners had a hard time understanding me when I went to college. I lost most of it in college, not sure that I have a readily identifiable accent now. It's funny though, when I go back to PA and am around people with the accent I start picking it up again. A friend who grew up in Tx has very little accent ... until she starts talking about growing up in Tx! She didn't notice it herself until I pointed it out.

 

[Spamela]

i'm told i have a deep, mellifluous, mid-western USA voice - the kind that
would calm people walking to the electric chair.

 

[Brutuskend]

Originally posted by: Spamela
i'm told i have a deep, mellifluous, mid-western USA voice - the kind that
would calm people walking to the electric chair.

SEE, you missed your TRUE calling!

 

[Armitage]

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

Lol ... and how much of a cu*t would you feel like if you found out that shiner is just spouting off a relatively well known movie quotation?

 

[Sid59]

would California count as an accent? I'm not talking about slang of california but the accent.

What state would have the least detectable accent?

 

[cycochic]

Originally posted by: Armitage

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

Lol ... and how much of a cu*t would you feel like if you found out that shiner is just spouting off a relatively well known movie quotation?

Snatch, great movie!!!!
Anyway, I have a Northern Californian accent. My kids are picking up an British accent, which is very interesting in my 5 year-old, one my British friends loves to hear her speak, she said it reminds her of the little boy on "Big Daddy"

 

[lokiju]

I remember when I was 12 my family moved to North GA from south FL and my first day at school some girl comes up to me and says "Yooooou talk funny" with a typical southern draw to it. I burst out laughing because to me she sound like, well a redneck and I couldn?t help but responded with "at least I don't sound like a dumbass" or something along those lines.

After living there for 4 years, I noticed my older brother started picking up that "southern draw" more and more. Thank God we moved back to south FL!!

j/k

But that was an eye opener in the sense that to me, they all sound like rednecks but to them I sound like, what they called "city folk".

So it?s all really subjective.

But having traveled most of the east coast of the US a few times, I have noticed that in cities most people all talk the same, but out of the city and more in the surrounding areas is where you hear that?s areas accent.

 

[Atomicus]

I'm Taiwanese, no chinese accent nor a New Yorker accent. I speak like a regular American with no accent. Accents are cool. I am not. Woe is I.

 

[xcript]

Yes, everyone does. I have an English accent (south-western, nothing specific) and live in Canada.

Unfortunately my social ineptitude negates any advantage it may have given me with the ladies.

 

[Strk]

Originally posted by: Atomicus
I'm Taiwanese, no chinese accent nor a New Yorker accent. I speak like a regular American with no accent. Accents are cool. I am not. Woe is I.

No accent? Only way to have no accent is not to speak.

 

[vshah]

no accent most of the time, i get a slight one when i'm in India for a few weeks or more..very hard to notice though.

 

[Isshinryu]

I have an Irish accent. The girls love it

 

[Supermercado]

I don't think I've got much of an accent. I lived in the midwest for most of my life and I've lived in South Carolina for the last four years and I most definitely haven't picked up any southern accent. I refuse to say "ya'll," etc.

 

[brunswickite]

new jersey accent here

 

[TwinkleToes77]

I've got a bit of a Philly/Valley Girl/Canadian accent going on.

 

[MaxDSP]

Originally posted by: cycochic

Originally posted by: Armitage

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

Lol ... and how much of a cu*t would you feel like if you found out that shiner is just spouting off a relatively well known movie quotation?

Snatch, great movie!!!!
Anyway, I have a Northern Californian accent. My kids are picking up an British accent, which is very interesting in my 5 year-old, one my British friends loves to hear her speak, she said it reminds her of the little boy on "Big Daddy"

ummm...Snatch isn't the movie

 

[xSauronx]

im from north carolina....usually my accents not too bad, and when it is i drop a brick on my own head, i hate this regions accent

 

[cycochic]

Originally posted by: MaxDSP

Originally posted by: cycochic

Originally posted by: Armitage

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

Lol ... and how much of a cu*t would you feel like if you found out that shiner is just spouting off a relatively well known movie quotation?

Snatch, great movie!!!!
Anyway, I have a Northern Californian accent. My kids are picking up an British accent, which is very interesting in my 5 year-old, one my British friends loves to hear her speak, she said it reminds her of the little boy on "Big Daddy"

ummm...Snatch isn't the movie

I know, but Snatch is a good movie, oh yeah and so it that one.

 

[Zenmervolt]

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...

Technically for American English the Midwestern dialect is the dialect on which the language is standardised. You don't have Tom Brokaw or Dan Rather going on every night with a NY accent, nor a Boston accent, nor a Southern accent, etc.

ZV

 

[SociallyChallenged]

Originally posted by: DurocShark
We all have accents to others.

Except for news anchors...

SERIOUSLY! What's the deal with that? They all sound like they're from California to me

 

[cerebusPu]

i fell in love with this asian girl with a british accent. met while travelling and never saw her again.

 

[cycochic]

Stella!!!

Just something that I thought might be interesting for yall

 

[cronos]

Originally posted by: cycochic
Stella!!!

Just something that I thought might be interesting for yall

this is cool. but no voice sample?

Edit: never mind, should have read the FAQ first.

 

[cerebusPu]

look around a little more. tons of voice samples. Im having a blast