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Post by helles on Nov 26, 2005 9:47:34 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. some English accents are hard for even me to understand.. Proper Scottish accent is soooo harsh on the ears.. as is northern english, east london, brummie..
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Post by Monty on Nov 26, 2005 10:21:33 GMT -5
Yea English speakers come to the UK thinking that they'll be able to communicate without any problems, yet even I have problems understanding some people, especially the more North you go (but who'd want to? jk, if there are any northerners here). Then again, my accent is totally fuct, comes from years of traveling around when I grew up and only settling here a couple years ago. It sucks because women from outside the UK seem to be attracted to the Brit accent, or so I've been told. I'm not really bothered about the local girls, they are all alcoholics, especially with this new 24 hour drinking thing.
So I've started to embrace the accents around me, so that a)people here stop asking me what part of the US I'm from (this happens ALL the time) and b) I can pull more women in my travels.
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Post by undercoverasian on Nov 26, 2005 10:34:46 GMT -5
Lived in Houston, Texas all my life. Southern Texas Twang.
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Post by Micha on Nov 27, 2005 11:18:13 GMT -5
Exceeeedingly English. This is the result of being thrown into private school in London since I could comprehend the English language, a father who is 'so posh' i can barely understand what he says, hanging out with girls who begin each sentence with 'Daddy says..' and end them with 'dahhhrrrling' (with the words Belgravia, country house and Harvey Nichols (department store) thorwn in' not to mention meeting the Eton boyfy's !!!!111!1
.....yes, tragic, i know
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Post by Tristan on Nov 28, 2005 7:31:19 GMT -5
I'm not conscious of any accent at all.
If anything it's a mix between and English and Australian accent but without the extreme pronunciations of either.
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Post by dapper on Nov 28, 2005 8:47:35 GMT -5
I'm nearly convinced the english accent is all act & pomp. Don't get me wrong, I like it and all, but . . .
Why is it that the majority (and by majority I mean the good ones) of British singers sound accentless in their performances (with exception to the more modern entertainers--fraudulently posing as singers or rockers--who inflect or artificially amplify that accent as a crutch, for sure)?
Also, I had 3 friends in high school who were English. Each of these three had probably spent as much of their lives in America as they had in the UK and when they spoke they didn't do so with much accent. However, when around their families, that accent was turned on like a switch. I first noticed this when one of them had to call his mom to ask her permission to stay over at my house one night after our football game and the ensuing party. The call, as I heard it, started out normally for the opening handful of seconds; then I heard him apologize and after he said the word 'sorry' he sounded like a little English momma's boy trying to play his mom against his dad. (As if it were akin to a westernized German having to default to deutsche when around his family.) Ever since then, I've been mock-suspicious about the validity of the English accent.
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Post by garcia on Nov 28, 2005 10:50:09 GMT -5
yeah, were all 'pretending' to have an accent.
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Post by dolcedolce on Nov 28, 2005 16:04:15 GMT -5
Also, I had 3 friends in high school who were English. Each of these three had probably spent as much of their lives in America as they had in the UK and when they spoke they didn't do so with much accent. However, when around their families, that accent was turned on like a switch. I first noticed this when one of them had to call his mom to ask her permission to stay over at my house one night after our football game and the ensuing party. The call, as I heard it, started out normally for the opening handful of seconds; then I heard him apologize and after he said the word 'sorry' he sounded like a little English momma's boy trying to play his mom against his dad. (As if it were akin to a westernized German having to default to deutsche when around his family.) Ever since then, I've been mock-suspicious about the validity of the English accent. yeah my mom does that.. she doesnt have an english accent anymore but sometimes suddenly 'develops' one when she talks to my grandparents... we all know its FAKE it's soooo annoying
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Post by picket on Nov 28, 2005 17:20:53 GMT -5
Some accents are buried down there. Ever hear two people who grew up in Hawaii talk to each other? Haha, after ten seconds its all brah brah da kine etc. then who knows what!!!! That's not fake.
A note to the side: "When you see something from afar, you develop a fantasy. But when you see it up close, 9 times out of 10, you wish you hadn't" My luck is more like 50/50. Maybe my fantasys are too boring! LOL!!!
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Post by sirius on Nov 28, 2005 17:42:10 GMT -5
i love the scottish accent
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Post by Monty on Nov 29, 2005 0:10:29 GMT -5
i love the scottish accent Blasphemy! Kiddin' tho, the Scottish accent cracks me up but I don't think its the best accent that English language can be spoken in. By far, its gotta be Welsh, muhahaha! I got this German friend who lives in Scotland, been there a couple years now. Can you imagine what his accent sounds like when he speaks English? Now thats a voice for the deaf channel.
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Post by sparrow on Nov 29, 2005 3:45:30 GMT -5
Australian with a hint of an english accent, so I'm told by some. (I lived in the UK for the first four years of my life).
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Post by jenming on Nov 29, 2005 4:11:34 GMT -5
the Scottish accent cracks me up but I don't think its the best accent that English language can be spoken in. By far, its gotta be Welsh, muhahaha! especially when one is the "the only gay in the village" ;D on another note... Sometimes I wonder why people think there is so much American exceptionalism. I'm nearly convinced the english accent is all act & pomp. Don't get me wrong, I like it and all, but . . . other times I don't.
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Post by penguinopolipitese on Nov 29, 2005 22:54:25 GMT -5
a fairly neutral canadian accent... the kind US TV anchors who are canadian have. Occasionally some british words and pronounciations pop in due to spending time with my English granny. Used to have a fob accent due to spending a lot of time with my fob friends...I thinks it's gone though.
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Post by sim on Nov 30, 2005 8:15:21 GMT -5
Exceeeedingly English. This is the result of being thrown into private school in London since I could comprehend the English language, a father who is 'so posh' i can barely understand what he says, hanging out with girls who begin each sentence with 'Daddy says..' and end them with 'dahhhrrrling' (with the words Belgravia, country house and Harvey Nichols (department store) thorwn in' not to mention meeting the Eton boyfy's !!!!111!1 .....yes, tragic, i know yea ditto, public school for 7 years had an effect on me. My brother who's at a normal comprehensive doesn't relate cos he thinks I speak posh, although I don't think so! He's more like 'yea i iz gona go to the chippy innit!' I'm surrounded by scouse and Irish people here now that I go to Liverpool Uni! An irish accent is kinda sexy but oh man those scouse girls- they just turn me off! Haha, sounds like my sister and me. All three of us went to public school but my sister has been with her scouser boyfriend (she HATED school) for 5 years now and some of the things she says are funny...like an ex public school girl trying to sound normal...it's hilarious. Why did your brother go to a comprehensive...when you boarded? Just a BIT of a difference there? or did you just go to a private day school?
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