I love the way you guys say ‘yall’
The other one I really like is ‘sumbitch’
Speaking of accents, heres one for y’all…
Try saying the words ‘beer can’ in an English accent without sounding like a Jamaican saying ‘bacon’
[quote]Ren wrote:
South African accent > British accent[/quote]
South African accent = EVIL!!!
(joke!)
Its funny how people think South African, Australian and New Zealand accents are the same.
[quote]comedypedro wrote:
I love the way you guys say ‘yall’
The other one I really like is ‘sumbitch’[/quote]
Go to merriam webster online dictionary and play the audio clip of sumbitch. Hilarious.
DB
[quote]comedypedro wrote:
I love the way you guys say ‘yall’
The other one I really like is ‘sumbitch’[/quote]
Damn, you like it? I think it makes us sound unintelligent, no matter how smart a person is.
[quote]dollarbill44 wrote:
comedypedro wrote:
I love the way you guys say ‘yall’
The other one I really like is ‘sumbitch’
Go to merriam webster online dictionary and play the audio clip of sumbitch. Hilarious.
DB[/quote]
Cant find it. Got a link?
[quote]BIGRAGOO wrote:
comedypedro wrote:
I love the way you guys say ‘yall’
The other one I really like is ‘sumbitch’
Damn, you like it? I think it makes us sound unintelligent, no matter how smart a person is.[/quote]
Just in a light hearted way!! The sterotypical redneck parody is hilarious to people over here. Dungarees and a straw hat, ‘yep, yall nutin but a bunch of sumbitchs’
We have our equivilent to this character, as do most countries!!
Dang!!
Dag-nabbit!!
Just a cotton-pickin minute there son…
[quote]comedypedro wrote:
BIGRAGOO wrote:
comedypedro wrote:
I love the way you guys say ‘yall’
The other one I really like is ‘sumbitch’
Damn, you like it? I think it makes us sound unintelligent, no matter how smart a person is.
Just in a light hearted way!! The sterotypical redneck parody is hilarious to people over here. Dungarees and a straw hat, ‘yep, yall nutin but a bunch of sumbitchs’
We have our equivilent to this character, as do most countries!!
Dang!!
Dag-nabbit!!
Just a cotton-pickin minute there son…[/quote]
you forgot “dag-gum” As in “that dag-gum thing won’t work.”
[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
lumbernac wrote:
Zap Branigan wrote:
Unless you are an actor don’t be the guy that fakes a British accent.
Everyone hates that guy.
Thats not my intention.
I just like accents and think that it would
be entertaining to improv a upper crust kind of character.
The only other acceptable use would be for picking up dumb chicks.[/quote]
I have successfully accomplished this once. To this day, that dingy broad thinks she got shagged by Roy, the produce inspector from Liverpool.
I live in Gods Own County, also known as Yorkshire, and it constantley amazes me just how different the accents and slang terms can be just within this relativeley small area. Barnsley, Sheffield and Rotherham lie within a 20 mile radius of each other and you can pick out strong regional differences with ease!
And even in my home town of 250,000 people there are recogniseable differences between each borough or village!
I was once told that these pronounced differences are a result of groups of people being concentrated near certain resources or industries i.e. coal mining, textile factories, with relativeley little internal relocation within the country, hence specialised ways of speaking were concentrated amongst that population and thrived in that particular area.
By the way have any of you non-UK lads and lasses heard of a fantastic band called the Arctic Monkeys? Prizes for whoever knows what a “Mardy Bum” is?!
I’d seriousley recommend anyone interested in new music or British culture to give these guys a listen. The album is basically a guide through being young and working class in Britain today, and sounds bloody ace!
[quote]Ashes wrote:
I live in Gods Own County, also known as Yorkshire, and it constantley amazes me just how different the accents and slang terms can be just within this relativeley small area. Barnsley, Sheffield and Rotherham lie within a 20 mile radius of each other and you can pick out strong regional differences with ease!
And even in my home town of 250,000 people there are recogniseable differences between each borough or village!
I was once told that these pronounced differences are a result of groups of people being concentrated near certain resources or industries i.e. coal mining, textile factories, with relativeley little internal relocation within the country, hence specialised ways of speaking were concentrated amongst that population and thrived in that particular area.
By the way have any of you non-UK lads and lasses heard of a fantastic band called the Arctic Monkeys? Prizes for whoever knows what a “Mardy Bum” is?!
I’d seriousley recommend anyone interested in new music or British culture to give these guys a listen. The album is basically a guide through being young and working class in Britain today, and sounds bloody ace! [/quote]
Arctic Monkeys kick ass, the entire album rocks hard. no bloody idea what a mardy bum is.
[quote]Neebone wrote:
Ren wrote:
South African accent > British accent
South African accent = EVIL!!!
(joke!)
Its funny how people think South African, Australian and New Zealand accents are the same.[/quote]
Yup. Actually, I have been asked whether I am also from all England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Boston, and New York at some point as well cos of the accent.
Any of you ex-pats that have the accent faded away a bit notice that it comes back stronger after a couple of drinks? 9 or 10 beers in and I have the girls biting on every half-intelligible word cos of the resurgence of my accent.
[quote]comedypedro wrote:
Off the top of my head I can only think of 3 prominent american accents; Noo Yawk, West coast and cowboy/Texas.[/quote]
Believe me, there are a LOT more than that. There’s the Mid Atlantic accent, which is considered the generic “standard” that a lot of broadcasters prefer. There’s also several different varieties of Southern accents from the high cultured ones (which are very rare these days) all the way down to straight redneck. There are the hillbilly accents…Wisconsin, Minnesota and Chicago all have similar but distinct accents (or ayeck-sents as they’d say). I could go on and on, but believe me, there are plenty more accents than those three around here.
[quote]Ashes wrote:
By the way have any of you non-UK lads and lasses heard of a fantastic band called the Arctic Monkeys? Prizes for whoever knows what a “Mardy Bum” is?!
! [/quote]
I’ve heard of them. I don’t know what a mardy bum is, but I do know that they bet you look good on the dance floor.
[quote]Ren wrote:
Any of you ex-pats that have the accent faded away a bit notice that it comes back stronger after a couple of drinks? 9 or 10 beers in and I have the girls biting on every half-intelligible word cos of the resurgence of my accent.[/quote]
No, but alcohol makes my drawl really, really pronounced. Almost to the point of slurred.
[quote]BIGRAGOO wrote:
Ren wrote:
Any of you ex-pats that have the accent faded away a bit notice that it comes back stronger after a couple of drinks? 9 or 10 beers in and I have the girls biting on every half-intelligible word cos of the resurgence of my accent.
No, but alcohol makes my drawl really, really pronounced. Almost to the point of slurred.[/quote]
same thing basically
[quote]Panther1015 wrote:
Wisconsin, Minnesota and Chicago all have similar but distinct accents (or ayeck-sents as they’d say). [/quote]
Yah, donchaknow!
[quote]ToShinDo wrote:
Panther1015 wrote:
Wisconsin, Minnesota and Chicago all have similar but distinct accents (or ayeck-sents as they’d say).
Yah, donchaknow!
[/quote]
Haha, that’s how my aunt from Montana speaks. It’s funny. Kinda like in the movie Fargo.
When I first moved back to Western Colorado after living in Hawaii for 15 years, I really noticed the Western Drawl people use.
After about 6 months I was right back into it, I sound just like every other Colorado Hick.
The Hawaiian Pidgin accent is my favorite. It’s almost it’s own dialect.
We need Chinadoll to chime in, “Teach us how fo’talk da kine brah”
[quote]comedypedro wrote:
X-Factor wrote:
comedypedro wrote:
X-Factor wrote:
Somebody wants to hear a fuckin awesome british accent, you should have hearn my thick belfast before I moved to Canada.
Right craic.
Dead on mate! What about ye?
Naught, you’re right with the breakdown of accents, my dah has a funny one. He lived in letterkenny up until 12 before moving to belfast, my mah is from Dunmurry, which is pretty much where I lived until I was about 11. My dad was a builder so we kind of flaked around homes, and I spent near everyday at my grannys in dunmurry, not to mention thats where most of me mates and family are now. Go back quite too, try to make it annually. Whereabouts are you from?
Originally Belfast, now living in Bangor. Ever been to Bangor?[/quote]
Used to go all the time, what the fook is the name of fuckin picadilly water thingamajig, you know beside the paddle boat stand? I remember that as a kid, in fact I was there just last summer when that stupid fair comes, it was fun though. And there was this eatery that sold like toasted sandwiches and had a very floral natural decor that used to make mean toasted ham and cheese sarnies. I’ve pretty much been all over , my parents liked vactioning within the coutry when we lived there, been all the way down to dingle, tralee is a cool place too that I loved to visit, very rugged. As for accents Ballybeen is quite a shite hole with a fuckin weird accent, wee kosovo it is. The 2 things I miss most being in canada, are pasties and pot noodles.