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Rainecloud
10-09-2006, 05:07 PM
Although I'm normally quite good at communicating with others, I sometimes have trouble understanding certain accents and dialects over here in good old Blighty (Great Britain). Scottish and Indian accents are virtually impossible for me to understand, although I do try very hard. I also have trouble with the 'Liverpudlian' and 'Geordie' dialects/accents. Don't get me wrong, I don't disapprove of or dislike the aforementioned dialects/accents, I simply cannot understand them very well at all.
How about you?
Breine
10-09-2006, 05:11 PM
Scottish can be somewhat difficult to understand at times. There's also a southern accent (called "Sønderjydsk" in the native tongue) in Denmark that can be extremely hard to understand. Those are the only ones I can think of right now.
Nice idea for a thread, by the way :)
Ethanol Dreams
10-09-2006, 05:14 PM
I have trouble understading the Indian accent too. There are Indians in my street and I feel really bad when I can't make out what they're saying. :(
Yamaneko
10-09-2006, 05:18 PM
I have trouble understanding Northern Californians. The hippie dialect uses a lot neo-liberal slang. It's quite repulsive.
Madame Adequate
10-09-2006, 05:23 PM
I invariably cannot understand people from The North.
bipper
10-09-2006, 05:23 PM
Gheto ebonix yoe
Very strong Indian accents can pose me a bit of a problem, but I don't normally have any trouble understanding people with accents.
~SapphireStar~
10-09-2006, 05:24 PM
Scottish and Indian for me. Personally at the moment, I cant stand anything Scottish. No offence to Scottish members!
Christmas
10-09-2006, 05:25 PM
As long as they aren't hypellos.
Shiny
10-09-2006, 05:26 PM
I can never seem to understand the Irish Cork accent as it's very strong.
Polaris
10-09-2006, 05:26 PM
American accent... I can't understand it just british accent :D
Shauna
10-09-2006, 05:35 PM
Yay! My accent is not understandable! :D
Rocket Edge
10-09-2006, 05:36 PM
Scottish.
Twisted Tinkerbell
10-09-2006, 05:41 PM
I don't really have a problem with understanding accents.
starseeker
10-09-2006, 05:42 PM
I can't understand black gansta talk. I'm okay with Scottish.
Madame Adequate
10-09-2006, 05:43 PM
Yay! My accent is not understandable! :D
Scottish is actually much easier to understand, for me, than general northern English accents are. xD Maybe because it's similar to Northern Irish, which I'm fluent in? xD
feioncastor
10-09-2006, 05:43 PM
After seeing "The Departed", I've realized that I can't understand people from Boston.
Old Manus
10-09-2006, 05:51 PM
Scottish accents are pretty much another language. Boyo.
I can't understand thick Indian or Asian accents very well. It makes work an ordeal sometimes.
A thick cornish accent is pretty much the hardest thing to understand i've ever heard.
fire_of_avalon
10-09-2006, 06:05 PM
I've never really had any trouble with accents. Fast talking Pennsylvanians can be tough to understand, and so can people from southern Louisiana who speak with Creole infusions. Carribean people, too. That's it.
Quindiana Jones
10-09-2006, 06:21 PM
I can understand (and impersonate) any accent. :bigsmile:
Oh and if you guys think Scottish is bad, Geordie's are worse. In a nice way :love:
Strider
10-09-2006, 06:59 PM
D'ya like dags?
Quindiana Jones
10-09-2006, 07:00 PM
Winnit i'the nood.
Roto13
10-09-2006, 07:07 PM
Well, assuming they're not using heavy local slang, I can understand any accent except one. East coast Newfoundland. My father is from there and I can't understand a word he says.
Ender
10-09-2006, 07:07 PM
Almost any non-American accent sounds like another language to me. When watching a movie like Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels or Trainspotting the first five minutes sound like absolute gibberish to me until I get used to the accent.
I'm a slightly better with Austrialian accents, but not by much.
In the States I occasionally struggle with Deep Southern accents of non-urbanites.
Sylvie
10-09-2006, 07:08 PM
I can't understand strong Indian accents. And some very strong British/Scottish, whatever.
Also, extremely strong Caribbean Patois is also totally impossible to comprehend.
Deep Southern accents, definitely. They're such a constrast to the Noo Yoikah Queens accent that I have. xD
Ouch!
10-09-2006, 07:21 PM
Give me a few moments and I can catch on to just about any variation of the English language.
Just an afterthought--Australians have the sexiest accent. Ever.
I come from Newcastle, so I don't struggle with the Geordie accent at all, and I understand pretty all others. A lot of people struggle with the Geordie accent, though -- So I only speak it at home to my parents and brother as we don't live in Newcastle anymore. When I'm with my friends or people from this area my accent adapts to speak like them, too. I don't make it happen... it just does. :jess:
Quindiana Jones
10-09-2006, 07:27 PM
You should speak Geordie as much as poss :bigsmile:
It's easily the best accent ever.
Lost Number
10-09-2006, 07:28 PM
I am good with NI accents. I have to be. Otherwise i simply couldnt understand anything. Pretty much anyone whom I talk to IRL doesnt understand a word I say, or any of my friends. HEY SUR.
Anything outside of Selkath is understandable to me.
Quindiana Jones
10-09-2006, 07:50 PM
I find it difficult understanding Klingon.
Lost Number
10-09-2006, 08:02 PM
I find it difficult understanding Klingon.
OK, fair point. i dont get that easy.
Miriel
10-09-2006, 08:11 PM
I think Scottish a bit hard to catch sometimes, but I still think the accent is lovely. Given enough time listening to any accent, I can usually understand the gist of what someone is saying even if their accent is super thick.
Jimsour
10-09-2006, 08:21 PM
I have no problem whatsoever understanding people from the north of england, and scotland. But I cannot understand people from Dublin even though I'm from the same island and I'm in the city at least 4 times a year. I remember having a conversation with a taxi driver, and I had to get my mate to talk to him instead while I just sat in the back staring out the window; i couldnt understand him.
I am good with NI accents. I have to be. Otherwise i simply couldnt understand anything. Pretty much anyone whom I talk to IRL doesnt understand a word I say, or any of my friends. HEY SUR.
"O AYE ANO LYKE, tawkin to us norners is hard arent et."
;)
Please don't double post! Use the edit/delete button if you have something to add! -- foa
Lost Number
10-09-2006, 08:23 PM
I am good with NI accents. I have to be. Otherwise i simply couldnt understand anything. Pretty much anyone whom I talk to IRL doesnt understand a word I say, or any of my friends. HEY SUR.
"O AYE ANO LYKE, tawkin to us norners is hard arent et."
;)
Hey Go Ulster Scots Sur. Hey I heel frae goo dol nungibben ach hay sur.
Jimsour
10-09-2006, 08:28 PM
Nah even I cant understand that. My belfast accent cant match it.
where in ni are you?
Lost Number
10-09-2006, 08:34 PM
Nah even I cant understand that. My belfast accent cant match it.
where in ni are you?
I hail from ballycastle, County Antrim. But that was a Dungiven accent.
Jimsour
10-09-2006, 08:38 PM
an antrim man :D
Lost Number
10-09-2006, 08:39 PM
an antrim man :D
Forgive me.
Eminem's_No.1_Fan
10-09-2006, 08:42 PM
The British one is really hard to understand!!!
Jimsour
10-09-2006, 08:48 PM
an antrim man :D
Forgive me.
Eh? I'm from the same county :p
Lost Number
10-09-2006, 08:51 PM
an antrim man :D
Forgive me.
Eh? I'm from the same county :p
Oh, sorry. *moves to Derry*
Jimsour
10-09-2006, 09:00 PM
Haha, great.
An bhfuil is agat gaeilge?
Lost Number
10-09-2006, 09:01 PM
Haha, great.
An bhfuil is agat gaeilge?
Not enough to understand that, sorry. But im learning.
Eminem's_No.1_Fan
10-09-2006, 09:15 PM
Haha, great.
An bhfuil is fhois agat gaeilge?
maybe that's why he no understand?
Jimsour
10-09-2006, 09:35 PM
Ah jesus.
I've been speaking Irish for 20 years and I forgot how to spell it :D
I said (or meant to say) "Do you speak Irish" ;)
Eminem's_No.1_Fan
10-09-2006, 09:40 PM
ive been speekin it 9 years and I thought it meant:
"Do you understand Irish!"
Jimsour
10-09-2006, 10:01 PM
Well, not a lot of difference in the meaning, if someone speaks it, theyll understand it ;) but my grammar is terrible, I wasnt able to speak the language for 3 - 4 years when i left school because no one i knew spoke it, so forgive me.. ;)
Cá bhfuil tú i do chonaí ? Eire? Tá mé ó an tuaisceart ach tá mé i Sasann anois.
Eminem's_No.1_Fan
10-09-2006, 10:06 PM
Éire,
sephirothishere
10-09-2006, 10:54 PM
i dont understand foreigners.....
Decessus
10-09-2006, 10:58 PM
Chatspeak.
i dont understand foreigners.....
AUGHRRR?!!! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU SAYING?!!!!
Oh, wait. I don't care. Nevermind. :)
kikimm
10-09-2006, 11:43 PM
Southern accents I have no problem understanding, but people with southern accents who talk really really fast...:| Oh dear. Normally talking fast is fine cause I do it too but whoa! And it sounds so weird xD I love it.
Loony BoB
10-09-2006, 11:53 PM
The Drunk Irish Villager accent is the only one that really gets me struggling.
Shlup
10-10-2006, 01:38 AM
Took me at least three hours to be able to understand BoB.
Acid Raine
10-10-2006, 02:16 AM
I had trouble with the whole Nebraskan accent (or lack,therof) when I first got here, but Ive adapted over the years.
Try as I might, I can never understand Russains.
Rusty
10-10-2006, 02:28 AM
I have trouble with the New Zealand accent. I have a close friend who comes from NZ and everytime she says 'six' it's takes me a moment to realise she didn't say 'sex'. Stuff like that.
Other than that, accent are fairly easy for me to understand. I know, though, some of my friends have had trouble understanding my accent at times (Resha).
Xaven
10-10-2006, 02:52 AM
I don't really have any more or less trouble with understanding different accents. They're all nonsensical to me. :D
I have trouble understanding Northern Californians. The hippie dialect uses a lot neo-liberal slang. It's quite repulsive.
Seriously, what's with those people in NorCal?
Rainecloud
10-10-2006, 07:48 AM
The Drunk Irish Villager accent is the only one that really gets me struggling.
That's one of the more pleasant ones. ;)
ValkyrieWing
10-10-2006, 07:50 AM
Japanese people speaking english is amusing.
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