Do you have an accent?

Joe · Post by **Joe** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 11:42 pm

Do you have an accent? If so what is it

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 12:25 am

I have a slight accent when I talk english.

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Joe · Post by **Joe** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 12:30 am

When i leave the city people tell me i have a accent, i don't realize it though.

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Cisco_Kid · Post by **Cisco_Kid** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 1:51 am

nothing naturally as I was born and raised in the Northwestern US but I have picked up traces of various ones (southern, new england type, etc) that creep into my speech with certain words.

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Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 2:22 am

Joe wrote: When i leave the city people tell me i have a accent, i don't realize it though.

Joe: oi'm goin tuh mek yoo an offer yoo ken't refoose.

Sorry, but New Yorkers has this thick accent, with a hint of Italian. I'm thinking New York may have been called New Italy if the English hadn't beaten the second Italians to colonize the US first.

I can just imagine...

Sir Walter Drake: What the

?

Christopher Columbus: Yo, Adriunne!

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Cicero · Post by **Cicero** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 10:25 am

I have an Irish accent strangely enough but not one of them stereotypical "ah to be sure" leprechaun accents

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shenbaw · Post by **shenbaw** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 11:20 am

I have an accent I was never aware of untill moving from Northern Minnesota (kind of by Fargo, ND) down to St. Paul. Everyone points out my "northern" accent here, I'm sure if I ever moved out of the state it would be even more apparent.

And No, I don't, and not many people do sound like those morons in the movie Fargo.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 11:36 am

It's funny since if I go to quebec people tell me I have an English accent, but if I talk with people that are only English, they say I have a french accent.

but Quebec french is different then Ontario french. Or should I say freedom?

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MrSelf · Post by **MrSelf** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 1:09 pm

I was born in North Carolina and moved to Texas, ironically, NC has a similar accent to TX, just much less pronounsed. For the most part, I don't have much of an accent, but certain regional words tend to pull out certain regional accents.

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FloodG8-9595 · Post by **FloodG8-9595** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 2:50 pm

I have a plethora of accents... none of them are naturally born into me...

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erolyn · Post by **erolyn** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 6:55 pm

I've lived in the Midwest my whole life, so I'm not really sure. Is there a midwestern accent?

I love guys with British accents, though.

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MrSelf · Post by **MrSelf** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 7:18 pm

erolyn wrote: I've lived in the Midwest my whole life, so I'm not really sure. Is there a midwestern accent?

I love guys with British accents, though.

You know, I thougt british accents we're neat too until I had to sit by a group of British guys on the bus once. By the end of the trip, I wanted to gnash my brain out with my fingernails to make their nasally voices go away. Most of it sounded like jibberish! Much nicer in small doses I guess

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Joe · Post by **Joe** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 8:36 pm

William Wallace wrote: Joe: oi'm goin tuh mek yoo an offer yoo ken't refoose.

Sorry, but New Yorkers has this thick accent, with a hint of Italian.

True, I'm Italian and it mixes with the New Yorker. It does sound like that, and everything is yelled.

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erolyn · Post by **erolyn** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 12:12 am

MrSelf wrote: You know, I thougt british accents we're neat too until I had to sit by a group of British guys on the bus once. By the end of the trip, I wanted to gnash my brain out with my fingernails to make their nasally voices go away. Most of it sounded like jibberish! Much nicer in small doses I guess

I went to summer camp a couple years back and one of the counselors in my cabin was from New Zealand. They talk so awesomely...after a week I found out she said all her "e"'s as "i"s...for example, "bed" becomes "bid", "red" sounds like "rid", etc. It was so cool.

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Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 1:45 am

MrSelf wrote: You know, I thougt british accents we're neat too until I had to sit by a group of British guys on the bus once. By the end of the trip, I wanted to gnash my brain out with my fingernails to make their nasally voices go away. Most of it sounded like jibberish! Much nicer in small doses I guess

Scottish is much more raspy, though and not so nasal. I don't have a thick "OCH AYE LADDIE!" accent, just a light Scottish brogue with a spot of Irish mixed in.

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Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 1:46 am

Joe wrote: True, I'm Italian and it mixes with the New Yorker. It does sound like that, and everything is yelled.

I hate that yelling

. I went to New York once and almost punched an Eye-taly-on bloke in the face because of his constant yelling.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 10:52 am

erolyn wrote: I went to summer camp a couple years back and one of the counselors in my cabin was from New Zealand. They talk so awesomely...after a week I found out she said all her "e"'s as "i"s...for example, "bed" becomes "bid", "red" sounds like "rid", etc. It was so cool.

Yes, I was watching a television show with a New Zealander. He sounded…interesting.

I like Scandinavian accents.

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erolyn · Post by **erolyn** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 1:04 pm

Tak wrote: Yes, I was watching a television show with a New Zealander. He sounded…interesting.

I like Scandinavian accents.

If you've got ANY of the Lord of the Rings DVDs, listen to Peter Jackson talk on the special features. They all sound exactly like that.

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MrSelf · Post by **MrSelf** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 1:53 pm

William Wallace wrote: Scottish is much more raspy, though and not so nasal. I don't have a thick "OCH AYE LADDIE!" accent, just a light Scottish brogue with a spot of Irish mixed in.

yeah, it's the nasally sound that grates on your nerves!

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 4:34 pm

I find most americans have an accent. We had a few american preachers come to our church, but it's not really a big accent so it does not get annoying. Scotish accents are cool but I can imagine how it can get to you after a while.

There was someone scotish that came in town for a bit and went to the internet cafe when I was doing my co-op. I did not know they actual wore the whole red/green dress thing. I thought it was only how it is in movies.

He did not have any bag pipes though (probably left them in the car.

)

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Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 6:55 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: I find most americans have an accent. We had a few american preachers come to our church, but it's not really a big accent so it does not get annoying. Scotish accents are cool but I can imagine how it can get to you after a while. There was someone scotish that came in town for a bit and went to the internet cafe when I was doing my co-op. I did not know they actual wore the whole red/green dress thing. I thought it was only how it is in movies. He did not have any bag pipes though (probably left them in the car. )

Probably did. We DO wear the kilt thing. But only when we're visting other countries or when tourists come to scotland.

One thing we love to do is to tell tourist to ask for a Wank at a bar. "it's a REALLY good beer." Then quietly follow them and watch them get thrown out.

FUN!

A wank means a Hand Job, to masturbate.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 7:36 pm

hahahaha funny stuff.

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OLKMED · Post by **OLKMED** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 7:51 pm

erolyn wrote: I've lived in the Midwest my whole life, so I'm not really sure. Is there a midwestern accent?

I love guys with British accents, though.

I live in the midwest and i've been told i have an accent

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erolyn · Post by **erolyn** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 8:50 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: I find most americans have an accent. We had a few american preachers come to our church, but it's not really a big accent so it does not get annoying. Scotish accents are cool but I can imagine how it can get to you after a while. There was someone scotish that came in town for a bit and went to the internet cafe when I was doing my co-op. I did not know they actual wore the whole red/green dress thing. I thought it was only how it is in movies. He did not have any bag pipes though (probably left them in the car. )

A friend of mine (male) wore a kilt to Prom this year (he's Irish, though, not Scottish). It was pretty funny. His girlfriend had a matching sash on over her dress.

I'd like to know how it is that we midwesterners talk. Because I really can't find much of anything. I mean, some people here say things like "warsh" (wash) and "rits" (roots), but nobody I know- mostly just the really really big hicks.

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Joe · Post by **Joe** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 9:32 pm

William Wallace wrote: I hate that yelling . I went to New York once and almost punched an Eye-taly-on bloke in the face because of his constant yelling.

There not all like that, there is tons of different peope with accents.

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