Accents

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You know the orange alien on ATHF? I got his voice down perfectly.

[The Captain]

Being born and raised in NY tends to give one that fast-talking Long Island/NYC type accent, where the emphasis ends up on the wrong part of the words. However I have endeavored to slow it down and pronounce words in a more sort of neutral American way. Can't say whether it works or not, but that's what I try to do.

I would assume, that must Californians DON'T want to sound much like their Governor for one thing. I'd also imagine that they have a pseudo-similar accent to the one most New Yorkers possess, only probably a bit more laid back and slower or faster depending on topic and location. Of course, I've only met and actually spoken to a minority of Californians, so my assessment can be very off.

Take care all.

[Ouch!]

I don't have a specific accent. I used to be able to impersonate a couple, but I'm rusty now.

[Wizdumb]

I can fake a pretty good German accent. ^_^

I think Californian's do have accents. I was in Utah for a week (last week) and the people there automaticly knew that I wasn't from Utah. Which was a little wierd.

[Meow]

From what i've read, it isn't so much that California (and the western US in general) lacks an accent so much as it's a hodgepodge combination of different eastern and foreign dialects. That is, while a given western area's accent won't carry the distinct and traditionally "accent-defining" flavor found in more eastern areas, it isn't necessarily nonexistent. This is thanks to the land rushes back when the west was still primarily unexplored territory, and easterners with all sorts of location-defining accents (so definitive thanks to the pockets of folks coming over from Europe) mingled linguistic heritages as they moved towards the Pacific Ocean. As you move out west today, accents become less obvious affairs, but still carry regionally definitive flavors - as Wizdumb mentioned.

The key to an English accent - any accent, really, but particularly English - is vowel pronunciation. English carries the most complex, loose and dynamic set of diphthongs around (which, for the record, is my absurdly silly sentence of the day). It's usually different combinations of vowel pronunciation that both define and conceal more western accents, because they're as obvious for someone from a different part of the country as they are ignored in their areas of prevalence. Californian English, for example, often takes a slightly Spanish-influenced approach to the pronunciation of its vowels.

So, in summation, all you Californians shut yer yaps. :aimsmile:

[Shlup]

I don't have an accent! Puh!

[Yuzuki130]

I have a Mexican accent! NO TENGO DINERO! Yes I have the accent, no I really don't have any money!

[RSL]

I don't think of myself having an accent. But I like to think of it this way, if someone talking to you has an accent, then you have an accent to them.

A long time ago I was talking to a friend of mine on the phone who was from Canada (someone from the internet and it was the first time I talked to her on the phone) and she said that she loved my accent. I had never thought of myself as having an accent before that, but it sort of makes sense. She has an accent to me, and so to her I would have an accent.

[Jebus]

I've been trying to get rid of my accent, if I ever had it, I don't really know, because the southern/southern midwest accent pisses me off to no end.

[escobert]

uhh a vermont one? I dunno

[Kirobaito]

See for yourself.

[CloudDragon]

I did a new version, of just myself, no brother including. My blowing into the microphone actually sounds like a nice beat, instead of what it really is.

<a href="http://www.angelfire..com/rpg2/shadowblaster/soundfiles/myzeldarap.wav">Zelda Rap</a>

[nik0tine]

i do a pretty pathetic job at emulating a british accent

[Rase]

I have a Eastern American Accent, even though I've lived on the West Coast since I was 3.

I can do a mean Australian, English, and Pirate.

[Silmaril]

Absolutely none.