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Post by BayBoy415 on Nov 23, 2005 1:21:02 GMT -5
i have a deep spanish accent as i used to live in a colombian jungle town since i was 14 years old chopping and producing the coca
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Post by Mr Hairy on Nov 23, 2005 20:18:27 GMT -5
Dreadfully Austrayen, to the point where I drop off beginnings and endings to words, and even whole words. "Ay, how y goin?"
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Post by nmffnurse on Nov 24, 2005 0:33:10 GMT -5
Neutral American accent I suppose. The weirdest thing happened the other week when I was in Richmond, VA at a football game. I was asking some woman where a particular area was, and for some reason I said it with a slight southern twang. It didn't phase her like it was weird, but I was thinking to myself, why in the f*ck did I just do that. For all four years I went to school in the South, I've always made a concious effort to keep my neutral accent the way it is, but it just came out in that one sentence for whatever reason. Neurons misfiring or something. A Southern twang? Sigh..... I love that accent. Keep misfiring those neurons.
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Post by thea on Nov 24, 2005 1:34:54 GMT -5
I've got a very SF Bay Area accent. Standard American English, maybe with flat sounding vowels. Although, during my teen years I picked up foreign colloquial expressions, Valley girl slang, Old School Hip Hop Slang (80s's), Irish expressions from my husband. I used to love watching De Grassi Street Kids and De Grassi Junior High on PBS, certain words were pronounced slightly different from American English. For example, the word about (when pronounced by Americans the vowels sound like "ow", whereas Canadians saying it the vowels sound like long "oo", same thing goes for the word house etc. Common American greeting, " How are you?" and response, "I'm fine thank you." Common Irish greeting, "How are you ?" and response, "Fine, considering...." What's the common Australian greeting? The response I've usually heard is, "No worries, mate."
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Post by erika on Nov 24, 2005 3:03:15 GMT -5
I sound like a kiwi bro!
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Post by erika on Nov 24, 2005 3:34:15 GMT -5
Dreadfully Austrayen, to the point where I drop off beginnings and endings to words, and even whole words. "Ay, how y goin?" lol i can just hear that in my brain...
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Post by londongirl on Nov 24, 2005 17:16:15 GMT -5
rough south london/cockney
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Post by Vietmunde on Nov 25, 2005 0:20:01 GMT -5
rough south london/cockney I love that accent but hard to understand sometimes I have a typical american accent.
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Post by Uncle Hank on Nov 25, 2005 0:27:06 GMT -5
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Post by londongirl on Nov 25, 2005 1:15:52 GMT -5
ah sam you are amazingly sweet. When I am not in the south-east of the UK, or I am staying in the U.S.A. or any other english speaking country, I will try to speak more clearly than usual. I know that grime (UK hip hop) has been held back slightly from conquering the U.S. as a result of the faster spitting over the beats beeing hard for non-brits to understand. Then again, it dosen't seem to matter for jamaican MCs.
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Post by y2j on Nov 25, 2005 6:39:34 GMT -5
Ut's sux thurty, bro! I love that accent! The Maori's in my area talk like that! It's great! ;D
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Post by erika on Nov 26, 2005 3:13:10 GMT -5
Ut's sux thurty, bro! I love that accent! The Maori's in my area talk like that! It's great! ;D haha i dont exactly sound like a maori just the words i guess haha
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Post by erika on Nov 26, 2005 3:14:12 GMT -5
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Post by shugi on Nov 26, 2005 3:21:00 GMT -5
I wonder if anyone else has noticed that gay men whever they are in the world all have that same Airy fairy accent... Its always puzzled me, do they have a secret underground network that promotes this accent as a universal voice for gay men. Not that i have anything against gay people, the accent just fascinates me
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Post by erika on Nov 26, 2005 3:39:36 GMT -5
I wonder if anyone else has noticed that gay men whever they are in the world all have that same Airy fairy accent... Its always puzzled me, do they have a secret underground network that promotes this accent as a universal voice for gay men. Not that i have anything against gay people, the accent just fascinates me not all gay people have that sort of accent i think... maybe they try and talk like a girl so it kinda sounds odd some gay men sound more like a girl than me... humm thats really confusing
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