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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: ##RaCeR## on January 14, 2002, 04:10:03 AM
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People from which country have the most annoying accents? Being from Australia, I would have to say either the English or the New Zealands.
Which accent makes you cringe when you hear it?
PS - This is a non RACIST poll, simply something out of HUMOUR.
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the Swiss gets my vote
don\'t ask why
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The dutch, listen to them speaking and laugh your face off
I myself am one and dont have their stupid gay accent :D
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accent i hate? white kids that attempt to talk like the rappers they oh so love to be
i still have no idea after all these years what a "chumpie" is, oh and while im discussing it, if yer white, and you own ANY article of FUBU gear, please realize yer making a mockery of yerself
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Don\'t know why but I voted for Mexicans.
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I voted for "Other" since it\'s no particular nationality that I\'m about to talk about. The accent I hate is the very same as mm hate\'s, I HATE when some stupid kids are trying to be cool wearing stupid looking clothes and talking like "Yo G, whut up homie." or something at the samelevel of nonsense. bah I hate it, and I make fun of those people whenever I can.
But all in all I find accents to be very cool, that is national accents not made up ones like the one I hate.
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Vietnamese. I\'d rather hear a French try to speak Enlish than a Vietnamese speak the same thing (funny how they both speak French :D )!
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BOSTON, or Eastern US!!
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I don\'t know too much about the other one so I\'m gonna vote for Mexico. ;)
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I voted for Italians, the accent is funny, and I love to listen to it :) I can\'t say I hate it.
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Originally posted by nO-One
I voted for "Other" since it\'s no particular nationality that I\'m about to talk about. The accent I hate is the very same as mm hate\'s, I HATE when some stupid kids are trying to be cool wearing stupid looking clothes and talking like "Yo G, whut up homie." or something at the samelevel of nonsense. bah I hate it, and I make fun of those people whenever I can.
But all in all I find accents to be very cool, that is national accents not made up ones like the one I hate.
I also agree.... I hate em...I voted for Italians, the accent is funny, and I love to listen to it I can\'t say I hate it.
I\'m italian.... I don\'t have an accent like that though. I\'m just a spagetti boy.:)
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I agree about non-blacks acting black is real annoying.
Funny thing is many of these people are racist towards blacks.
Brits have the coolest accents, being that I\'m from the U S of A.
:fro: :fro: :fro:
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It was close between the British and Canadian, I ended up choosing British, can\'t stand it at all, I couldn\'t talk to someone with a British accent for more than 2 minutes
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Originally posted by SmallLady
I voted for Italians, the accent is funny, and I love to listen to it :) I can\'t say I hate it.
have i ever told you that i am half italian ?
but unluckly for me i got the borad Scottish accent.
like grounds keeper willie but only real errmm the accent i mean
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Russians and Germans....i just...CANT STAND THEIR ACCENTS!!!
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I personally can\'t stand listening to a Middle Eastern accent, and this was way before September. I like listening to the commentary tracks on DVDs. I tried to listen to Tarsem Singh\'s commentary on The Cell - I couldn\'t stand it. He sounds just like Abu from the Simpson\'s. Minnesotans/Canadians are in 2nd place IMO.
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Had to go with my "backwards but friendly neighbors to the north."
Let\'s all go oot to the LBC and get a 2-4, eh?
;)
*digs a trench and prepares for wicked backlash from Video*
:laughing:
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I actually wouldn\'t know. If I were to say anyone, it would be someone in a foreign country trying to speek English.
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Please get it right...
Apu and the name Singh are Indian and not Middle Eastern.
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I personally can\'t tell the difference between Indian and Middle Eastern accents. I do apologize for my ignorance, though.
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Stockholm.. I hate it..
Those rich kids annoy me.
And Skåne can be annoying too :)
No.. Smålänska is the way to go! :D
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hmmm i go with french and for no reason really
just the first one that popped into my head
i many accents sexah if ya know what i mean
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I hate Mr. T\'s accent, or what ever he has. :laughing: :nerd:
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Originally posted by Toxical
I hate Mr. T\'s accent, or what ever he has. :laughing: :nerd:
I pity you foo\'. Just kidding...;)
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I\'ll have to say New England accents, how the don\'t pronounce the R\'s. Like "I\'ll get in my caw, and drive down to the pawk, even though it\'s real faw fum heah."
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Bah! I accidentally voted for Americans.
I was going to vote for the white wannabe black accent!
In Queens, we call all of \'em "Wiggas."
There are a lot of them in Long Island.
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Originally posted by theomen
I\'ll have to say New England accents, how the don\'t pronounce the R\'s. Like "I\'ll get in my caw, and drive down to the pawk, even though it\'s real faw fum heah."
I didn\'t even think about that, yeah to me they\'re accent ranks up there with British, damn annoying, I also hate that New York City accent, cool for about two seconds
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"Yo yo G wut up my nigga????"
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Gay
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MINNESOTA ACCENTS!!!!
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Originally posted by CHIZZY
Let\'s all go oot to the LBC and get a 2-4, eh?
ya, that is really how we talk..... eh?
I hope u know that image of our accent is not true at all and i dont know how it ever got started. I am around hundreds of canadians a day and no one i know talks like that. maybe we talked like that a long time ago but not anymore.
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It\'s aboot time Kimahri put in his input, eh?
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Yo, ebonics is off the sheezy. Nawn saying. I\'m out like this.. holla.... ONE!
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Originally posted by Kimahri
ya, that is really how we talk..... eh?
I hope u know that image of our accent is not true at all and i dont know how it ever got started. I am around hundreds of canadians a day and no one i know talks like that. maybe we talked like that a long time ago but not anymore.
Hehehe, same for us Aussies, I hate those lameo 80s Aussie movies with these people talkin really weird. No one in Australia talks like that...
I must say though, the English accent has high puke value...
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I just voted for Italians and i haven\'t heard any Italians having any accents. I just voted it because I know this woman who is Italian decent have a deep, grumpy voice. Her voice sound somewhere between a shreek and a man\'s voice. Very deep, very annoying, and scary. But no accent. Just her voice. She looks like a tomboy, you know. She loves using me and scaring me. She is one heck a mean old *****.
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I LOVE the crocodile hunter accent. What is he, from New Zealand or what? Anyway, he cracks me up everytime I hear his voice. :)
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Got to be the irish... have you ever tried to have a conversation with one?
I was on a bus once for 25 minutes with an irish guy talking about ireland.. i couldn\'t understand a bloomin\' word.
as you do, i just kept nodding my head and saying yeah.. no.. really.. etc.. u get my drift..
The really hard part is if you try to talk to a drunk one.. you\'ll get more sense out of a dried apricot.
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I really don`t hate any accent. But I almost don`t understand South Bavarian people.
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Originally posted by Samwise
I LOVE the crocodile hunter accent. What is he, from New Zealand or what? Anyway, he cracks me up everytime I hear his voice. :)
He is an Aussie, and his wife is from LA.
He lives in Brisbane, where I do, I have been to his crocodile zoo, its pretty cool.
NZ\'s talk with an accent between an AUSSIE and an ENGLISH accent.
Aussies say the word \'Six\' as \'Six\', but NZ\'s say \'Seix\'.
Its sounds SOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooo funny...
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Originally posted by Kimahri
ya, that is really how we talk..... eh?
I hope u know that image of our accent is not true at all and i dont know how it ever got started. I am around hundreds of canadians a day and no one i know talks like that. maybe we talked like that a long time ago but not anymore.
it is true. I live in buffalo, canada is literally 10 minutes from my hoose. I go there to gamble, see concerts, and see naked 19 year old hungarian girls.
a lot.
I spend weekends shopping with my girl in toronto.
You just can\'t hear yourself, brutha.
Now let\'s talk about the western new york accent.
It is very nasal and has strange grammatical errors that seem to be acceptable.
In south b-lo, if you are addressing more than one person, it is fine to say:
"are youse gonna come with me to the store?"
We have this woman at work who sez crap like this all the time.
also, the letter "A" is pronounced strangely. the word "BAG" can come out sounding like "bay-ag".
somehow, I avoided all of this. Beats me.
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Soul Reaver...
Where in Queens you from?
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Aussie accents rock.
Asian accents (Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Indian, etc.) are annoying when trying to speak broken English.
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Originally posted by Kimahri
ya, that is really how we talk..... eh?
I hope u know that image of our accent is not true at all and i dont know how it ever got started. I am around hundreds of canadians a day and no one i know talks like that. maybe we talked like that a long time ago but not anymore.
We\'ve already been over this Kimahri! Just because YOU can\'t hear the Canadian accent doesn\'t mean it doesn\'t exist. I\'ve visited all over Canada, including Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Waterloo, and Vancouver, and I promise you I\'m not imagining it.
BTW, you\'ve got it backwards. My brother-in-law is Canadian, and his father told him that 50 or 60 years ago the modern Canadian speech oddities did not exist. They only came about relatively recently.
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Originally posted by Ashford
Soul Reaver...
Where in Queens you from?
I have 2 relatives here.
One is in Flushing, and the other is in Woodhaven.
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Originally posted by Coredweller
We\'ve already been over this Kimahri! Just because YOU can\'t hear the Canadian accent doesn\'t mean it doesn\'t exist. I\'ve visited all over Canada, including Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Waterloo, and Vancouver, and I promise you I\'m not imagining it.
BTW, you\'ve got it backwards. My brother-in-law is Canadian, and his father told him that 50 or 60 years ago the modern Canadian speech oddities did not exist. They only came about relatively recently.
Im not talking about slight accents, of course we have them. Im talking about this image that has been created about us, like we talk like yokels or pronouncing words differently like "about", and people claim that is becuase of an accent. We dont prononce about "aboot" and i can gaurundamntee you that we dont.
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David Suzuki talks like that.
So did everyone on DeGrassi High.
So do Bob Cole & Harry Neale.
Sorry Kimahri. ;)
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IRISH ACCENTS RULE!!
Me: Hey, what time is it?
Irish dude: Tree-turty
:)
Cool.
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Originally posted by Kimahri
Im not talking about slight accents, of course we have them. Im talking about this image that has been created about us, like we talk like yokels or pronouncing words differently like "about", and people claim that is becuase of an accent. We dont prononce about "aboot" and i can gaurundamntee you that we dont.
See, you don\'t even know how Canadians say these words vs. how Americans say them.
Canadians:
About = " a boat " [like the O sound in "croak"]
Sorry = " Sore -ee " [Say the word "sore" then add another long e to the end]
Americans:
About = " a bout " [like the O sound in "foul"]
Sorry = " Sari " [like the Indian garment; rhymes with "safari"]
There are other examples, believe me.
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Originally posted by Coredweller
See, you don\'t even know how Canadians say these words vs. how Americans say them.
Canadians:
About = " a boat " [like the O sound in "croak"]
Sorry = " Sore -ee " [Say the word "sore" then add another long e to the end]
Americans:
About = " a bout " [like the O sound in "foul"]
Sorry = " Sari " [like the Indian garment; rhymes with "safari"]
There are other examples, believe me.
god!, im so sick of hearing that we say it "a-boat", we do not say it like that..... just cause im canadian and "around it all the time" does not mean that i cannot tell the difference between a-bout and a-boat.
the only sterotype i can admit to is that, yes, we or at least I, use the word "eh" frequently.
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Originally posted by Coredweller
Americans:
About = " a bout " [like the O sound in "foul"]
Sorry = " Sari " [like the Indian garment; rhymes with "safari"]
Huh?
Americans know how to say sorry?;)
Accents on either side of the border, CDN/US, can be perceived as "odd" relative to your position to the 49th parallel. Arguing otherwise,...well IMO, is pointless. Drink and be merry.:)
Suzuki is the man.
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Originally posted by Kimahri
god!, im so sick of hearing that we say it "a-boat", we do not say it like that..... just cause im canadian and "around it all the time" does not mean that i cannot tell the difference between a-bout and a-boat.
the only sterotype i can admit to is that, yes, we or at least I, use the word "eh" frequently.
Ok, so how do you explain this:
http://www.cbc4kids.ca/general/whats-new/daily-top-stories/2000/week-23/tuesday/default.html
and this
http://pasture.ecn.purdue.edu/~agenhtml/agenmc/canada/speak.html
"Canadian speech is much more similar to American speech than to the English spoken in England and other parts of the United Kingdom. However, Americans may hear a British-like accent in Canadian speech. This is due in part to the fact that Canadians often use "raised vowel" sounds, resulting in the more clipped, "British" sound. Listen to a Canadian say "out and about". Americans tend to hear it as "oot and aboot" (rhymes with hoot). Of course, if you mention this to a Canadian he may think you have lost your mind. We Canadians don\'t hear the difference!"
and this
http://www.yorku.ca/twainweb/troberts/raising.html
To American ears, the Canadian pronunciation of about often sounds like aboot, but this is only an illusion. Because the more familiar pronunciation of /aw/ is articulated with the tongue in a low position, and because it raises to a mid position in Canadian English when the vowel precedes the voiceless obstruents listed above, speakers of other varieties of English will immediately detect the vowel raising, but will sometimes think that the vowel has raised farther than it actually does, all the way to /u/, which is a high vowel--hence the mishearing (and not-quite-right imitation) of this pronunciation as aboot.
The last quote is interesting. The author is correct that many Americans think Canadians pronounce the word "aboot." I recognize that this is not the case. My interpretation of the Canadian pronounciation is "a boat," which is one stage less extreme than "aboot." It\'s more extreme than the example wav file posted on that page, but I stand by my assertion that Canadians actually do say it "a boat." Not all the time, and not everyone, but often enough that I\'ve encountered it on many occasions.
Keep in mind that I\'ve never said that Canadian pronounciation is wrong or bad in any way. I\'m just trying to get you to admit that Canadians say certain words differently then Americans do. There\'s nothing wrong with that.
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Of course, if you mention this to a Canadian he may think you have lost your mind. We Canadians don\'t hear the difference!"
Well if your sources are accurate i think that quote about sums up our discussion......i still think you\'re crazy:p
Keep in mind that I\'ve never said that Canadian pronounciation is wrong or bad in any way. I\'m just trying to get you to admit that Canadians say certain words differently then Americans do. There\'s nothing wrong with that.
agreed.....
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Originally posted by Ashford
Aussie accents rock.
Amen brother.
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Coredweller, you rock. :D
BTW, I don\'t dislike Canadians, so I hope it wasn\'t taken that way. ;)
Toronto is one cool city. I\'d rather go there anyday than NYC.
Oh yeah, Suzuki IS the man, and "The littlest hobo" was my favorite show when I was a kid.
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Suzuki is the man.
Yes, YU SUZUKI, that is.
:fro: :fro: :fro:
Soul Reaver...
I\'m from Queens. You live in Flushing?
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:laughing: This has gone pathetically too far.
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Yes, yes, yes this rocks!!!
I have the least annoying accent out of all of you
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Originally posted by Stupid Mop
Yes, yes, yes this rocks!!!
I have the least annoying accent out of all of you
New Zealand accent is the most annoying out of ANY accent in the entire world.
Learn how to say six for crying out loud...
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Sorry, New Zealanders know how to say six. Aussie\'s say sex. Well, thats what it sounds like
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Originally posted by Stupid Mop
Sorry, New Zealanders know how to say six. Aussie\'s say sex. Well, thats what it sounds like
NO WAY BUDDY!!! I was on an Air New Zealand flight from Brisbane to LAX and the lady said to me \'Ailse sex B sir\' I nearly died of laughter.
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LOL!! Thats quite funny how that is. Too kiwis it sounds like Aussie\'s say sex, but the other way around to you guys :)
And how to Americans, Aussies and kiwis sound the same, like Americans and Canadians sound the same to us
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Originally posted by Stupid Mop
LOL!! Thats quite funny how that is. Too kiwis it sounds like Aussie\'s say sex, but the other way around to you guys :)
And how to Americans, Aussies and kiwis sound the same, like Americans and Canadians sound the same to us
Kewis have a much stronger accent, same as with the Canadians.
New Zealand is Australia\'s Canada, if you get what I mean.
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I\'m not reading these three pages of drivel, but I was wondering who in the world would vote Americans? Our accents have come originally from all of you bastards in other countries. Unless you put down redneck american or something as a choice and narrow them down.
We have so many freaking accents in this country that you can\'t just write America. I don\'t even have an accent as most Floridians don\'t.
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You don\'t have an accent Vid? Relative to what? What is the standard? ;)
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Originally posted by fastson
Stockholm.. I hate it..
Those rich kids annoy me.
And Skåne can be annoying too :)
No.. Smålänska is the way to go! :D
Tokholmare, yep.
Stupid bastards ;)
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Originally posted by CHIZZY
You don\'t have an accent Vid? Relative to what? What is the standard? ;)
Huh, I have no accent relative to anything. I say my words distinct. No drawl, no twang, no nothing. Like most non redneck trash in florida speak.
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Originally posted by Ashford
Yes, YU SUZUKI, that is.
:fro: :fro: :fro:
Soul Reaver...
I\'m from Queens. You live in Flushing?
Yea.
But, sometimes I\'m in Woodhaven, New Jersey, or Long Island. Depends who I want to visit.
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Originally posted by Videoholic
Huh, I have no accent relative to anything. I say my words distinct. No drawl, no twang, no nothing. Like most non redneck trash in florida speak.
Vid, get off your high horse. Of course you have an accent.
Americans accentuate their "R"s for example, where as the British don\'t. So there, you have an accent. An accent is purely the way in which you speak, which is relative to where you are born/brought up etc.
You only have an accent when you compare it to somthing else. IE - Australians talk flat, but its only noticable when you compare it to a British accent or something thats stronger.
EVERYONE HAS AN ACCENT.
And Americans accents come from everything else? no way man, your seriously twisted if you think you Yanks got your accent from other countries.
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You\'re right Racer. I think Videoholic is comparing himself to the way people speak on national television programs in the US. This is supposed to be our "ideal," but in fact it\'s very odd sounding compared to the way other people in the world speak English.
I am sick of american accents, including our bland television accent. I like hearing people speak English in an unfamiliar way. I like talking to my friends from Ireland and New Zealand. I like watching Sling Blade and listening to Billy Bob Thornton and Lucas Black speak in that pseudo Arkansas accent.
If there\'s any accent I really HATE, it\'s that dumb airheaded, incompletely educated, snobbish, UCLA sorority girl accent. The movie "Clueless" contains a glimpse of the accent I\'m talking about, but the reality is so much more excruciating! When I hear it I just want to KILL!!!!! :mad:
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Originally posted by Videoholic
Huh, I have no accent relative to anything. I say my words distinct. No drawl, no twang, no nothing. Like most non redneck trash in florida speak.
BUHAHAHHAHAHA.. Dood, did u ever go to school?
EVERYONE has a accent. There\'s no way u can\'t. Unless u don\'t talk.
Which i highly doubt.
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Maybe he\'s a geek and spends his life in computers
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Originally posted by Stupid Mop
Maybe he\'s a geek and spends his life in computers
Not maybe - Definately.
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WHy do you have to have an accent? Have you ever in your life ever heard someone say that he has an american accent? What the F would that sound like? There is no Friggen American accent.
And I have no accent. I have no horse. I don\'t get why I have to have an accent? I don\'t do anything with R\'s or whatever you guys are talking about.
Yawn. You freaking losers. I can\'t understand a damn thing you guys are saying.
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this question goes out to all non-west coasters in the US. Do u guys think Californians have accidents? Because some of my friends and i were discussing this, and we think that we don\'t have any distinguishing features in our speech, other than saying the word "like" left and right.
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I\'m sorry but yes you do have one. All americans sound damn similar to me no matter where they are from in the US. This is because I\'m from a different country where our accent is different.
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Originally posted by theomen
this question goes out to all non-west coasters in the US. Do u guys think Californians have accidents? Because some of my friends and i were discussing this, and we think that we don\'t have any distinguishing features in our speech, other than saying the word "like" left and right.
No, I would say that californians don\'t have an accent. I\'m talking true Californians. Not minorities....
One of our hosts I\'m working with this weekend is from CA and she has no accent.
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Originally posted by Videoholic
No, I would say that californians don\'t have an accent. I\'m talking true Californians. Not minorities....
One of our hosts I\'m working with this weekend is from CA and she has no accent.
Stop talking out of your @ss. Sure, people my have different \'slang\', but people certainly talk the same from the same countries.
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Originally posted by ##RaCeR##
Stop talking out of your @ss. Sure, people my have different \'slang\', but people certainly talk the same from the same countries.
Are you freaking insane?????? You\'ve been in the states so I can\'t say you speak from a lack of knowledge.
Are you trying to tell me that someone from Arkansas sounds like someone from New York? Or someone from North Carolina? Or Rhode Island? Or Mississippi? Or Minnesota? Or Oregon? Or New Mexico? Do I have to name all 50?
You have no freaking clue. Not only does every state have a different accent, but regions of states have different accents. The US is the most diverse country in the world and for you to say the people talk the same is completely idiotic.
Slang refers to the usage of words. Like some areas use words that other areas don\'t. That is true too. But they certainly have different accents as well.
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People in the States, for instance, New Yorkers, talk different to that of say people from the West Coast, BUT THIS IS NOT A BLANKET CASE.
Not EVERYONE talks differently, if you get what I mean.
You are contridicting yourself though, because you say people talk differently depending appon where they are in the States, yet you say you don\'t have an accent???
Doesnt make sense.
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Originally posted by ##RaCeR##
People in the States, for instance, New Yorkers, talk different to that of say people from the West Coast, BUT THIS IS NOT A BLANKET CASE.
Not EVERYONE talks differently, if you get what I mean.
You are contridicting yourself though, because you say people talk differently depending appon where they are in the States, yet you say you don\'t have an accent???
Doesnt make sense.
You would be very suprised to find out that most states actually do sound different, most are suddle differences but there are still differences. I would say its more like regions, like a group of states in an area sound the same. The only thing I don\'t get that Videoholic said was with Californians not having an accent. That doesn\'t make any sense at all. Whos to say that they are the so called "Normal" sound of Americans and that the other states have accents. I\'m sure to people from somewhere like Ohio a Californian would sound like he has an accent. It all depends on what they are used to.
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Originally posted by ##RaCeR##
You are contridicting yourself though, because you say people talk differently depending appon where they are in the States, yet you say you don\'t have an accent???
Doesnt make sense.
I never said that. I said that many floridians don\'t have accents. Or maybe it\'s just the people I deal with. I dunno. Actually the people I work with all have them becasue they are from all over the country, but my mother and father don\'t have any accents. By this I mean, you can\'t go up to my mom after hearing her for a bit and say that she says her r\'s funny. or she adds a drawl there. It\'s just straight talk.
And as far as californians, I really don\'t know. I just know that I know quite a few natives and they talk just like I do here in Florida and you can\'t really say there is a distinct accent.
I\'m over generalizing a lot, but not nearly as much as saying "American\'s" have a certain accent.
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Yes Video, thats true to an extent, but your missing my point.
The thread was almost being very stereotypical. I mean, Aussies these days DO NOT talk the way they are portrayed on TV, simply because the classic Aussie accent is a tourist/promo kinda thing.
That is why when alot of Yanks visit Australia, they say \'Hey, you don\'t sound Australian\'.
Anyway. I think the destinction in the US is more so South/West/North/East then state by state.