[quote]bond james bond wrote:
In Canada the east coasters talk in an accent all their own. The rest of Canada sounds the same imo.[/quote]
I’d say anglophones in Quebec have a minor accent too. A classmate of mine from Kingston once asked me “has anyone ever told you that you have an accent?”. I laughed, because I always thought her and I spoke pretty much the same way. She said that I sound like her dad who, incidentally, is a native Montrealer. Since then, I’ve been noticing it more and more.
The guy behind the desk said “Woh’ I thought all you guys spoke Jibberish”. BTW he was serious! He thought Jibberish was an actual language?
All my friend could do was laugh and calmly explain some simple fact about Ireland[/quote]
I get this all the time, except about Welsh obviously. An American guy once said to me “You’re Welsh?! Wasn’t your language made up by a bunch of drunks?”. One of my friends got pretty offended and said “I could say the same thing about yours”.
My accent seems pretty popular up here in England. I like to think I sound like a distinguished Welshman, something like Richard Burton, but it’s probably more like Rhys Ifans in Notting Hill.
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Or God forbid, the only gay in the village ‘Daffyd’.
Have you ever lsitened to a recording of yourself speaking, it’s like holy shit is that really me? [/quote]
Haha I hope to god I don’t sound that bad. I have heard myself on film etc., the thing that struck me was that my voice was way deeper than I thought it was, which was quite a pleasant surprise. I used to hate my accent, but I quite like it now.
I’ve always been pretty curious as to how other nations view the Welsh/Welsh accents though - we certainly don’t get as much love as the Irish.
I am from Omaha Nebraska. People from here have no accents at all, a lot of national news anchors come from midwest cities.
What I find extremely obnoxious is the fact that so many people I know cannot understand people with accents worth a shit. I have a professor with a thick Nigerian accent, I can understand him just fine, but I know a lot of people who hated or dropped his class solely because they couldn’t understand him.
The guy behind the desk said “Woh’ I thought all you guys spoke Jibberish”. BTW he was serious! He thought Jibberish was an actual language?
All my friend could do was laugh and calmly explain some simple fact about Ireland[/quote]
I get this all the time, except about Welsh obviously. An American guy once said to me “You’re Welsh?! Wasn’t your language made up by a bunch of drunks?”. One of my friends got pretty offended and said “I could say the same thing about yours”.
My accent seems pretty popular up here in England. I like to think I sound like a distinguished Welshman, something like Richard Burton, but it’s probably more like Rhys Ifans in Notting Hill.
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Or God forbid, the only gay in the village ‘Daffyd’.
Have you ever lsitened to a recording of yourself speaking, it’s like holy shit is that really me? [/quote]
That happens to everybody. The resonances of your skull make your voice sound different compared to when it projects out to somebody else. You only hear the difference when you record the projected voice and listen to yourself as the rest of the world hears you.
[quote]worzel wrote:
Have you ever lsitened to a recording of yourself speaking, it’s like holy shit is that really me? [/quote]
It’s funny you say this… I listen to recordings of myself often from interviews, and while I don’t think my accent is that thick, you listen to me talk and I sound very, very, very New Jersey. It surprised me haha.
By the way- anyone have different accents than their parents? Mine is much thicker I think than either of my parents, and it owes more to where I worked than where I grew up. I sound much less educated than I am. It’s bizarre.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
I always wondered why Dexter on “Dexter’s Laboratory” had a German accent even though his parents were both Americans without an accent.
Also, why does Stewy on “Family Guy” have a Brit accent?[/quote]
Seth MacFarlane said that he based Stewie’s accent on Rex Harrison’s voice. I don’t know about Dexter, but I like to think that the idea that they were born with seemingly incongruous accents emphasizes their characters: two prodigious kids with comparatively average parents (especially in Stewie’s case, where he and Brian are the most intelligent members of the family) makes them seem even more intelligent.
[quote]VikingsAD28 wrote:
I am from Omaha Nebraska. People from here have no accents at all, a lot of national news anchors come from midwest cities.
What I find extremely obnoxious is the fact that so many people I know cannot understand people with accents worth a shit. I have a professor with a thick Nigerian accent, I can understand him just fine, but I know a lot of people who hated or dropped his class solely because they couldn’t understand him.
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I know I have some hearing issues, which is another story entirely, but I am just NOT good at understanding accents. It’s not like I’m not listening, I try like hell to get it. I’m just not very good at it, lol. I own the movie Crank because I heard it’s awesome, but I’ve never been able to make it past the first 5-10 minutes because I seriously have no fucking clue what they’re saying… no joke. Western European accents are really tricky for me, generally, though.
I have, however, gritted through a trig class with a Nigerian professor as well, it was very interesting!
[quote]roybot wrote:
…And they say cartoons are childish…[/quote]
LOL! The irony of that statement juxtaposed with your avatar!
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I like to think that my avatar is a more accurate representation of who I am than a photo would be.
That particular Garbage Pail Kids card was the inspiration for my user name. It appears to be childish, but there’s hidden meaning there for those who care to look. It also symbolizes my love of pop culture and irony
It links in with my earlier comment about people thinking cartoons are childish. Same kind of people who refuse to look no further than face value. It’s a test of sorts: I judge people by their reactions (last person to insult my avatar was HH, so I think my test works).
I’ve been told in real life that I’m “cleverer than I look” - lol!. Cartoons are cleverer than they look, so I identify with 'em and can see the irony when somebody dismisses them as childish.
in the Charleston,SC area the accents vary within the city a lot. the people from the neck area and the sob’s(south of broad st. the area that most people see in the tourist ads with the big colonial homes) can sound so different it’s like they’re from different states.
if you go a few miles to Wadmalaw or Dafuski Island and talk to some of the locals you’ll think you’re in a different country.
this is the closest I could find to the Gullah they speak locally. this guy is much easier to understand.
[quote]worzel wrote:
Have you ever lsitened to a recording of yourself speaking, it’s like holy shit is that really me? [/quote]
Yeah,I sound really flat and monotone.
The guy behind the desk said “Woh’ I thought all you guys spoke Jibberish”. BTW he was serious! He thought Jibberish was an actual language?
All my friend could do was laugh and calmly explain some simple fact about Ireland[/quote]
I get this all the time, except about Welsh obviously. An American guy once said to me “You’re Welsh?! Wasn’t your language made up by a bunch of drunks?”. One of my friends got pretty offended and said “I could say the same thing about yours”.
My accent seems pretty popular up here in England. I like to think I sound like a distinguished Welshman, something like Richard Burton, but it’s probably more like Rhys Ifans in Notting Hill.
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Let me guess last name Jones?[/quote]
Speaking of Jones, a dude I used to work with was named Jones and I noticed he sounded alot like my sisters BF who also is from England. I asked both of them where they were from and it turns out they were born and raised in the same central English city lol, not a bad guess I thought.
By the way- anyone have different accents than their parents? Mine is much thicker I think than either of my parents, and it owes more to where I worked than where I grew up. I sound much less educated than I am. It’s bizarre.[/quote]
My accent is my mothers accent without a doubt. I have the same voice as the men on her side of the family, same big heads too lol!
My father grew up in London and has a different accent depending on who he is talking to. It is never on purpose it just happens. Usually he has my accent but if he speaks with a Londoner, bingo’ off he goes into londonspeak!
Ive seen this numerous times with other people and even with my wife who will go all County Cork on me when speaking to someone from there (she grew up there).
[quote]silverblood wrote:
in the Charleston,SC area the accents vary within the city a lot. the people from the neck area and the sob’s(south of broad st. the area that most people see in the tourist ads with the big colonial homes) can sound so different it’s like they’re from different states.
if you go a few miles to Wadmalaw or Dafuski Island and talk to some of the locals you’ll think you’re in a different country.
this is the closest I could find to the Gullah they speak locally. this guy is much easier to understand.
I couldnt understand a thing!
Try this one out its a Kerry Accent (South West Ireland) Sounds like an older woman and a middle aged man
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
I always wondered why Dexter on “Dexter’s Laboratory” had a German accent even though his parents were both Americans without an accent.
Also, why does Stewy on “Family Guy” have a Brit accent?[/quote]
Going back to what I said earlier about those two accents, they have an air of evil about them, super educated and capable of the most sinister shit
My accent is more like my dad’s than my mum’s, that is to say slightly posher sounding - my dad is half english so that affects the way he speaks a bit. My mum has a real Swansea accent.
My mom’s from Scotland, Glasgow to be precise, and people in Winnipeg loved hearing her talk.
It’s entirely possibly that when girls knew my mom was from Scotland and heard her accent it may have possiblt helped me to get laid back when I was younger.
[quote]Nards wrote:
My mom’s from Scotland, Glasgow to be precise, and people in Winnipeg loved hearing her talk.
It’s entirely possibly that when girls knew my mom was from Scotland and heard her accent it may have possiblt helped me to get laid back when I was younger.[/quote]
THIS
When I stayed in Georgia my accent helped me get much poon! Even though not one person could understand a word I was saying.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
I always wondered why Dexter on “Dexter’s Laboratory” had a German accent even though his parents were both Americans without an accent.
Also, why does Stewy on “Family Guy” have a Brit accent?[/quote]
Going back to what I said earlier about those two accents, they have an air of evil about them, super educated and capable of the most sinister shit
Like this fucker Hans Landa
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Just out of curiosity do you think Landa has a typical German accent?
Because a typical German accent sounds more like this to me:
This is important to me, because Landa is Austrian and I do not want to sound like Hoppe.
