Accent, or no accent?

[Lady Blue03]

LOL, see what simple teenage curiosity can lead you to discover

[Sir Krustin]

Originally posted by Lavindathar: If she has an Irish accent, brown hair and is good looking, I'll marry her. Dream girl described above.

I have to agree with Vaskez, Irish girls are on the main quite attractive, but they can have quite the temper - they may not show it until they get to know you but you just may regret marrying her without dating her for a couple of years first. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[Lavindathar]

Shit, forgot to tell you that I wasn't actually planning and dropping everything and marrying them ON THE SPOT. Was just a phrase.

Sorry.

[Judas Maccabeus]

Kentucky accents are the complete opposite of New England accents. Everyone around me inserts random letters into words.

If any of you Kentuckians are reading... WASH DOES NOT HAVE AN "R" IN IT!!!!

Ah, got that out of my system. Thank you.

[Night Stalker]

and on that note .... to those in Pittsburg .... wash is also NOT spelled/pronouced WORSH!!!

.... could never convince my father of that .....

[Attalus]

LOL, I have tried and tried to convince my mother and mother-in-law of that. My mother says it sounds "more refined," but I say it is ignorant.

[Vaskez]

Originally posted by Lavindathar: Shit, forgot to tell you that I wasn't actually planning and dropping everything and marrying them ON THE SPOT. Was just a phrase. Sorry.

LOL chill man, we were just messing around

[Lavindathar]

Originally posted by Vaskez: quote: Originally posted by Lavindathar: Shit, forgot to tell you that I wasn't actually planning and dropping everything and marrying them ON THE SPOT. Was just a phrase. Sorry.

LOL chill man, we were just messing around[/QUOTE]That was my whole point, so was I. It's just so hard to get sarcasm across. I thought about using a smilie, but it ruined the sense. Didn't come across very well anyway. Lol.



[ 01-21-2003, 08:32 PM: Message edited by: Lavindathar ]

[Yorick]

Originally posted by Lady Blue03: I've always wondered this: Say an Aussie and a Californian are in a room together, talking. Now, would the Aussie think the Californian has a funny accent, or is completely void of one? I think it would be a funny accent, if I were born in Aussie. But my mother seems to think they would think we are lacking of accents. So i figured I'd ask people who are actually living in Aussie. People with non-calif accents are welcome to add their opinions as well

I do not have an accent. Californians do.

It's accepted that ones own voice is accentless.

Now, this is weird. I and other Australians, without losing our own accent, hear the American accent in others less, the longer we are here. When we speak to an Australian back home, their Aussie accent is more pronounced to us - even though our own accent hasn't shifted.

It's a wierd trick of the mind.

THe other wierd thing that happened to me and other westerners when we were teaching in Singapore. and surrounded by pretty much only Chinese all day every day, is that we forgot we were Caucasian.

I remember catching 6ft tall me in a mirror. Long light brown hair, fair skin (that looked redder the longer I was around olive skinned chinese) and being shocked! A sudden reminder that I was different.

Another time, I was with another Aussie friend. We agreed to meet in a food court of a mall. As I went down the escalators, my heart sank. The place was wall to wall full of people. Massive crowd. I figured my friend wouldn't find me.

Imagine my surprise when five minues later he walked straight up to me.

"How the heck did you find me amidst all these people?" I asked.

He looked at me like I was crazy.

"Are you serious?" he said "You're the only one here who isn't Asian. You stuck out like a sore thumb".

ANyhow, re. the accents, everyone I've spoken to in Australia other htan my brother has sounded very very Australian. I've compared notes with other Aussies here. The voices you hear each day become accentless, in spite of the myriad accents you may hear each day. Ones who you don't hear regularly sound different, and this can include people from your homeland.

Why does my brothers not sound different? Well people say we sound very similar. I guess hearing him is akin to hearing me. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Pun alert: "kin" is family....

[Lavindathar]

Foreigners might not tell, but accents in Britain are greatly different!

I've lived all over Britain, and have a mixed accent - A bit Manc (Manchester), some southern (farmer!). Its weird. I either speak very southern or very northen. I cannot tell though! Just been told!