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01-21-2003, 09:13 AM | #12 |
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Interesting topic LB!
I am very aware that in the UK we have a myriad of different accents - I grew up in a small village, and our village had a different accent to other nearby villages - they were all slightly different. For example, a village near where I lived was called Gomshall. In my village, Chilworth, we pronounced it 'Gomshall' whereas Gomshall natives pronounced it 'Gumpshaw'. So even within the space of a few miles there are differences in accent. I now live in London. I don't have a London accent, although hearing people speak I can usually tell whether they are native to different areas of London. Accents in South London are slightly different to those in the East End where I live for example. Someone from another country may not be able to pick up on the subtle differences between the two. One thing I have noticed, is that Scottish and Irish accents are miles apart, and sentence construction, idioms etc. are different - yet sometimes people from other English speaking areas of the world are hugely confused and cannot tell where a Scotsman or an Irishman are from by listening to them speak, whereas to me it's blatently obvious. I particularly like local idioms. A footpath running between buildings, I would call an 'alley' or 'alleyway'. In the county of Sussex, it is a 'twitten'.
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01-21-2003, 10:03 AM | #13 |
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And let's not start on Kiwi accents.
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01-21-2003, 10:17 AM | #14 |
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The standard TV announcer in the USA speaks with a so-called "Midwestern" accent. I have always heard that Brits have the keenest ears of all for accents, and can tell your birthplace and socioeconomic status by them after a few sentences. By what Epona say, I guess that is true.I have to rely on Galadria, and she goes mostly by their shoes.
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01-21-2003, 10:20 AM | #15 |
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Personally i dont understand how people develop accents because I've been around so many differint once I have no accent.
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01-21-2003, 10:26 AM | #16 |
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Ah, DK, but you have an American accent, one that would be immediately apparent to an Englishman, for example. Lord knows, I have heard them make fun of mine often enough.
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01-21-2003, 10:32 AM | #17 |
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And then there´s the Canadian accent, regarded as mix between American and English accent. [img]graemlins/idontagreeatall.gif[/img] I find it somewhat strange that so many people have difficulties in recognising it. Of course all Englishmen I´ve spoken to dismissed the idea I was an American and suggested Canada very quickly. And approximately 60 miles south a roof is pronounced "rough" and a pop is called soda. You crazy Americans.
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I've always grow up around London. When I started my teens I was speaking to my friends in the common grunt-language adopted by adolescents at the time, and now that I've moved to the East-End I don't ahve to change it [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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I've always grow up around London. When I started my teens I was speaking to my friends in the common grunt-language adopted by adolescents at the time, and now that I've moved to the East-End I don't ahve to change it [img]tongue.gif[/img] [/QUOTE]Whereas we in the North of London are naturally more superior and speak in a more refined, clipped accent.
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Donut, ya rich toff! [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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