there's several brit accents.
people In London, Yorkshire, Liverpool, Wales, Scotland, Newcastle, Sunderland, Middlesbrough and Derbyshire sound different to eachother.
I may have missed some out.
http://g.1asphost.com/Spyke2005/rand...ecordation.wav example of my voice XD.
LET THE HAMMER FALL
Everyone has an accent...even people from California.
...although Californian accent does approch words pretty normally and doesn't add much strange emphasis or pronunciation to words.
We don't have accents because everyone else speaks crazy.
I'm Floridian. I say "dude" a lot. But I only notice how often I say "dude" when a real southerner mocks me for it.
I find French accents to be quite attractive. I thought this even before meeting my current SO; there's just something charming about it.
I have two accents,I come from Newcastle so I can talk geordie, but I hae lived in Essex for the past 10 years so I can also talk like a southerner. So my accent can be pretty weird on the whole, because sometimes when I'm speaking like a southerner a few Geordie words will slip in here and there, and vice versa.
I don't know what my favourite accent is though, I love accents, they're fun. ^_^
I think LMA only said that I sound Welsh because I said SHE sounds Welsh.
Because she does, and I don't.
BoB's accent made my body lock the doors of the house at night time
But does your mind say YES?Originally Posted by Meat Puppet
I have a Welsh accent (OKAY, I ADMIT IT!) and I sound rather retarded.
What, are you incapable of speaking or something? Everyone has an accent if they talk, there's no such thing as not having an accent. I get it all the time with my northern twang, the "it must be cool having an accent", like it's something odd.
But yeah, accents facinate me. Heck, language in itself facinates me. When you look at just how complex it all is, the subtle changes in dialect overtime, how different accents meld into each other, how words are introduced and the meanings changed (there's an insurmountable number of words in common use today that aren't really related to their original use. For example, did you know Apocalypse used to refer until recencently to the giving of divine knowledge to another?).
There is no signature here. Move along.
YES
More important that accents, each region has it's own colloquialisms.
I'm from Kansas, and sorry to say it, but we have accents. We ourselves can't pick it up because we've been speaking it for (most) all of our lives. Everyone has accents, but they refuse to recognize it because it's normal to them. (Err, sorry I'm repeating someone here, didn't catch it though) Also, our grammar is downright horrible in Kansas compared to other states, may be the same with Ohio, I'm not sure.
And you're wrong about Florida, they have a southern accent, I've been to every main city in Florida on vacation and I think I came across only a few that didn't have accents, but yet this was a long time ago, all I know is that I heard a bunch of people speak in southern accents, just depends on where you go. Especially along that coast, like South Carolina, I went to Mrytle Beach and everyone there has that southern accent.
Also, they tend to speak faster then Midwesterners, I talk to someone from California everyday on the telephone, some say they talk differently, but except for the speed, I haven't noticed anything, maybe they use different words, but that's it.
Last edited by Reles; 10-27-2005 at 02:38 AM.
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
