Accents, do YOU speak with one?

[BigJ]

I have a "Lawn Guyland" accent, as told to me buy a bunch of people from Maryland when I went down to orientation.

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: BigJ
I have a "Lawn Guyland" accent, as told to me buy a bunch of people from Maryland when I went down to orientation.

Lol ... I had to read that one outloud to get it!

 

[cronos]

Originally posted by: cerebusPu
look around a little more. tons of voice samples. Im having a blast

me too i can't stop listening!

i didn't have the stupid quicktime plugin before so it was just blank up there.

 

[AzNmAnJLH]

ot: do people lisp naturally or they do it on purpose to sound like the fab 5

accents are cool, lisp are not

 

[Mnementh]

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.

Heh by no means there are many accents in this country that are awful, just in my opinion none of them are as bad as American accents, thats just my opinion.

And I'm not just going by one service call, that was an example, sorry I'll list every single conversation I've ever had with an american shall I will that make it any better?? I'll also list every single American show I've ever seen shall I, like I said it's my opinion, it may be wrong but it's the view I hold...

We get the same over here certain accents are almost impossible to understand unless you are from the region, Glaswegian for example... Hmmm I take it all back we do have one accent that is worse than any American accent... I'll shut up now shall I

 

[Mnementh]

Originally posted by: 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!?!!?!?

Yeah other cockneys heh and the muppets who watch Eastenders (crappy soap opera set in London), my brothers been living in London for a while now and has started talking like that so I'm getting to understand it a bit more

 

[DevilsAdvocate]

I'm Texan. Of course, I do.

 

[Mnementh]

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?

Oops, err a big one

/me apologises to Shinerburke

 

[palle33]

I am from Sweden and my acent is??I love your accents anyway!

 

[AzNmAnJLH]

at what derivative of english could we start labelling dialects?

beside cockney... we all know that's a dialect onto it's own

http://www.evolpub.com/Americandialects/AmDialMap.html

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: Mnementh

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?

Oops, err a big one

/me apologises to Shinerburke

Very gracious ... you might offer some tips to alchemist.

 

[civad]

Im from India, and before anyone of you starts making fun of Indian English accents, let me tell you that I am from Western India, and people here in the US say that I have a distinctly British accent. I dont know wth that means, but as long as they understand what I am saying, I dont care.

 

[Anubis]

slight New England one

 

[CubicZirconia]

Only if people from Minnesota have an accent. I suppose we do, but I'd argue it's much less severe than most other US accents.

 

[cerebusPu]

i have two indian coworkers..one with a very clear understandable accent, the other one with a very unclear crappy accent.

the unclear indian guy says that he had so much trouble with dell's CS until they exported it to india. lol

 

[Chaotic42]

I've got some southern Louisiana accent action going on.

 

[Tremulant]

I lived in NY until I was 11 before moving to South FL. A few people (usually girls), tell me I have a NY accent. However, I don't hear it. Actually, I don't hear an accent on my parents or siblings, except for my sister. But her accent isn't always there, I think she turns it on and off subconsciously.

edit: I can't spell... (2x..)

 

[AzNmAnJLH]

this reminds me of news radio and that girl's boston accent

 

[sniperruff]

Originally posted by: 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

but that only means that is the PREFERRED accent, that everyone thinks is the norm...

now if everyone PREFERS to go about 70 on a 55, that wouldn't mean that its legal

or how about on a road of 15mph? how many people actually drive at 15?

and like you said, it is the midwestern accent itself. eh i guess everyone speaks with an accent somehow...

 

[Gooberlx2]

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?

Not in the slightest. I was forced to move throughout my entire life. By the time I was in college I had already lived in 8 places, in 4 different areas of the country (east, south, southwest, midwest). I've already lived in 3 different places/regions within the last year (internship/jobs...lemme tell: what a PITA).

Anyway, so what I find is that I pick up on accents uber-fast. I'll keep pieces of an accent from places I've stayed longer. I fear that if I were to visit England, I'd start sounding like I had a rudimentary English accent within 2-days and everyone would call me a poser.

So yeah, my accent...currently it's a mix of Midwest, where I spent most of my time, and Floridian/Orlando-Southern (slight drawl on certain words), where I just moved from (to Denver).

....but "ya'll" has always been part of my vernacular for some reason.

 

[Heisenberg]

I'm from the midwest, so I don't really have any accent at all.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
I'm from the midwest, so I don't really have any accent at all.

Where in the Midwest? I lived many years in Michigan, which truly has no accent, unless you live in the U.P. I've also lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (and went to college close very close to Minnesota), all of which has a distinct accent associated to them (atleast in my head).

 

[Heisenberg]

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
I'm from the midwest, so I don't really have any accent at all.

Where in the Midwest? I lived many years in Michigan, which truly has no accent, unless you live in the U.P. I've also lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (and went to college close very close to Minnesota), all of which has a distinct accent associated to them (atleast in my head).

Western Kansas.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
I'm from the midwest, so I don't really have any accent at all.

Where in the Midwest? I lived many years in Michigan, which truly has no accent, unless you live in the U.P. I've also lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (and went to college close very close to Minnesota), all of which has a distinct accent associated to them (atleast in my head).

People from Michigan? No accent?

You've got to be kidding me. It's like listening to a Canadian talk!

 

[Allio]

Can someone explain to me why American TV will subtitle a South African or even an ENGLISHMAN, but won't subtitle a Texan?