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Post by isalee on Dec 8, 2006 14:54:34 GMT -5
Oooh I want to hear your accent, LBS!
My accent has become more english supposedly. Darn!
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Post by 0 on Dec 8, 2006 14:59:32 GMT -5
my accent is like a tv/movie kinda accent .....kinda american accent ...and I curse a lot Thats f**king Canadian sh*t. such language - you Canucks are a handfull!
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Post by Hogan on Dec 8, 2006 15:09:53 GMT -5
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Post by 0 on Dec 8, 2006 15:15:44 GMT -5
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Post by xandra on Dec 8, 2006 16:10:36 GMT -5
I used to be somewhat in denial about my Canadian accent. I figured I had one of those neutral Canadian accents that American news broadcasters were always looking for. But since I've started to talk to people from all over the world (thank you, EAN), it has been brought to my attention that I do in fact have a Canadian accent. Especially when I say about, out, etc. I notice it more in myself and my friends now.
But we don't say aboot. At least I don't. Really. Oh shut up.
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Post by friendswithoutcash on Dec 8, 2006 18:58:15 GMT -5
i thought the scottish accented their 'abouts' to 'aboots'... or at least the simpson's perception of their accent. i think the canadian pronunciation is like a hybrid between 'aboot' and 'about' which makes 'aboat' or 'aboet'.
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Post by jess on Dec 8, 2006 19:41:25 GMT -5
English, Midlands accent...maybe with a bit of a southern twang now that I have been down there for 4 years.
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Post by helles on Dec 8, 2006 20:41:15 GMT -5
haha, I speak some kind of personal pidgin when I talk to my mom or "other foreigners". Not really using foreign words but more like simplifying my style (sometimes to a degree that would render all grammar wrong, most of all syntax!) and when talking to others even my inntonation/sentence melody. my mother (white) does this every time she ever talks to my father (viet) in english. i've brought up how ridiculous it is to them both because he's spoken english for 20+ years and has a master's degree in english. he teaches ESL. he probably understands more english than she does, and yet she'll entirely skip linking verbs, remove plural markers, and add articles where they don't need to be added. lol apparently i do this with too when i talk to my mum. my bf says i dont speak properly at all and just kinda copy my mum's style of english - even though she speaks pretty good english, it is obviously foreign esp with wrong words, no plural markers, missing words and other random grammatical mistakes.
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Post by xandra on Dec 8, 2006 23:35:07 GMT -5
my family and i will use awful english when we're talking to each other (ie. what you say?). it's kind of a joke and we don't even notice when we do it, but my sister's bf teases us and has taken up this style of talking as well. most likely to mock us cause he's like that.
i think my siblings and i just picked it up subconsciously since my dad speaks broken english and my mom's english isn't perfect either. i would guess that we initially started talking like that to make fun of/imitate our parents and then it just became established.
i also notice that when i'm talking to my mom if she asks me to repeat something i'll usually reword what i'm saying to make it easier instead of just repeating exactly what i said before.
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Post by Micha on Dec 9, 2006 12:35:06 GMT -5
Turn on BBC News and you can hear my accent. However, over the past few years, I've attempted to tone down the speaking-like-the-queen in order to actually have friends. In fact, I completely adapt it depending on who I'm addressing.
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Post by 0 on Dec 9, 2006 12:42:26 GMT -5
Turn on BBC News and you can hear my accent. However, over the past few years, I've attempted to tone down the speaking-like-the-queen in order to actually have friends. In fact, I completely adapt it depending on who I'm addressing. do people treat you like you are a snob with that accent? I was told that accents denote class and background in the UK.
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Post by i move the stars for no one on Dec 9, 2006 14:44:45 GMT -5
I used to be somewhat in denial about my Canadian accent. I figured I had one of those neutral Canadian accents that American news broadcasters were always looking for. But since I've started to talk to people from all over the world (thank you, EAN), it has been brought to my attention that I do in fact have a Canadian accent. Especially when I say about, out, etc. I notice it more in myself and my friends now. But we don't say aboot. At least I don't. Really. Oh shut up. take heart,it's a pretty subtle accent.
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Post by Snoopy on Dec 10, 2006 8:06:51 GMT -5
Turn on BBC News and you can hear my accent. However, over the past few years, I've attempted to tone down the speaking-like-the-queen in order to actually have friends. In fact, I completely adapt it depending on who I'm addressing. Hey, don't worry about it. That proper/posh accent is the best English one to have. The other 'dero' english accents are a turn-off
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Post by 0 on Dec 11, 2006 0:25:43 GMT -5
^ It does make people think you are snobby though People over here in the US are so enamoured with that accent, thinking it is spoken basically as the default accent for the entire UK - if they only knew....
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Post by friendswithoutcash on Dec 11, 2006 5:22:16 GMT -5
there was this girl on the big brother uk version this year named bonnie...i think she came from Loughborough and so she pronounced her "me" as "meh" and pronounced her name..."Bonneh"...and the audienced mocked her and the other hosueamtes couldnt understand her so i guess ppl alienate each others accent within the same country.
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