Accents

I don't have an accent. If I did, no one has pointed it out to me. Yeah pretty boring of me.

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Even though I'm Canadian, I don't really have that Canadian accent. People I've spoken to from California have said I don't sound any different from them. But I've also had people on XBL think I'm British. So who knows.

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I'll answer in this, even though my speaking language isn't English. It's Finnish.

I lived my childhood in a small bordertown (5 miles to the border of Russia) that has its own accent VERY distinguishable from every other region/city in Finland. Speaking it sounds like citing a poem, it's quite lyrical and practically every word is a slang version of its original. Everyone natively Finnish speaking understands it, though. The weirdest thing is: it's extremely contagious. Before you know it, you have your friends from the other side of the country speaking with that particular accent to me and to each other. It's quite frightening, actually. The "contamination" can be permanent, meaning I've created another person speaking like that for the rest of their lives. =D

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If it's English I end up speaking in a conversation, I try to keep it without the American accent (preferably talking in some form of British) - sounds like what the language was meant to sound like.

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Originally Posted by guyinrubbersuit

I don't have an accent. If I did, no one has pointed it out to me. Yeah pretty boring of me.

Righteo then smartarse, read out your post and my sentance here and we'll see if you "don't have an accent"

I find that here in Western Australia, due to our extreme isolation, we speak differently to the classical Australian accent Queenslanders and other eastern states faggots have. There are few obvious differences, ie. those morons pronounce derby "darby" and they always call Albany something it's not. "Orll-banny" or something, it's like they're American or something over there. It's fucken Al-ban-ee.

Originally Posted by Angelwing

Even though I'm Canadian, I don't really have that Canadian accent. People I've spoken to from California have said I don't sound any different from them. But I've also had people on XBL think I'm British. So who knows.

The only Canadians who I've immediately reconised as Canadian and not East Coast americans have been from Yukon (seriously) and Alberta. The Alberta girl especially.

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Originally Posted by Angel Of Light

The accent is actually so peculiar we even have our own Newfoundland English dictionary

No... way! I never talked with a person from Newfoundland before. What's up with jokes with NEwfoundland accents? Aren't they supposted to be similliar with BC or Ontario or somethong?

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Oh good god, no. Newfie accents are a thing unto themselves. Not quite Irish, not quite Scottish, not quite East Coast Canadian. Just... newfie.

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I think a sound clip thread would be interesting.

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Originally Posted by Kimchi

No... way! I never talked with a person from Newfoundland before. What's up with jokes with NEwfoundland accents? Aren't they supposted to be similliar with BC or Ontario or somethong?

You can hear my newfie voice on the second page of this thread if you are curious about our sound.

I also agree with AngelWing we need another voice clip thread, the last one we had was fun!

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Originally Posted by christinajon

My grandma is from Connecticut and she pronounces it "melk". She also says "draw" instead of "drawer".

I've got the very common Southern California accent. I say "dude" and "awesome" way too often. I'm not sure if this is a Southern CA or Northern CA thing, but I picked up "for sure" (or, more often, "fo sho") once I got to college.

I also say "y'all" but that's only after I talk to my family that lives in Texas and I stop saying it after a week or so.

Yeah, I also have the California accent going... I say "whatever" a little too much (apparently, according to my Mexican roommate) and dude/awesome/hella. And I picked up the "y'all" bit because of living in Texas 2/3rds of the year, which gets me made fun of by my entire family and most of my friends .

Oddly enough, I've had quite a few people say that I have a Southern accent, and I'm not sure how that is possible. I'll admit that my grandma does say things with a certain twang, and she uses a lot of "okie-isms" (like "There ain't room t'cuss a cat in there!"). Probably comes from her dad, who was from Tennessee. Who knows, maybe the accent filtered down a couple generations .

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Originally Posted by Chibi Neko

You can hear my newfie voice on the second page of this thread if you are curious about our sound.

I also agree with AngelWing we need another voice clip thread, the last one we had was fun!

Heh, I've never heard the newfie accent before.

I'd start a thread with my accent but I have a terrible cold right now and my voice sounds funny.

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Originally Posted by Chibi Neko

You can hear my newfie voice on the second page of this thread if you are curious about our sound.

I also agree with AngelWing we need another voice clip thread, the last one we had was fun!

O_o I dun get the difference.

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I have a Northern British twang to my accent, but I live in Preston where 'No' is pronounced 'Nooorr" and 'innit' is said after everything. I try my best to pronounce my t's too, another thing that the Prestonian accent seems to miss out. Since being in the South West, I find that people have a posh accent; or what Northerners would consider posh, where 'grass' is pronounced 'grahss' and 'dance' is 'dahnce'. I still say it phonetically, but I wouldn't be surprised if I picked it up. I've tried my hardest to not have a Prestonian accent though, it's so chavy and it sounds retarded and foul. My Mum and Sister have both succumbed to it however, nothing too drastic but I still find myself correcting them.

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My speaking language is french... and I think that if I try to talk with someone who has been speaking English since he was born, I will not be able to be understood XD I must have a scary accent >_>

And even here in France, I was born in a region with a strong accent (and also where people sometimes have their own words, lol) I always find it quite fun to hear other people's accent, anyway

FELIPE NO

I'm from New Jersey, but I don't have any sort of stereotypical Jersey accent at all (and besides, that's more of a North Jersey thing). There's a guy who goes to my school from Boston who at times has a heavy accent (the long a's). I just tend to slur words and mumble a lot.

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I don't think I have much of an accent. Perhaps slightly southern in some ways, but I've also had a stuttering speech impediment since early childhood. Stuttering is what characterizes my speech more than anything else.

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