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Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Sat Aug 10, 2002 8:33 pm

Today I am in need of your local dialect/accent.

Please don't ask why...it is secret.

"example"

I am from the southern US. (State withheld by court order) I speak with a southern accent...slow and with a draw. (Not too much of a draw...but I try.

) I once worked in Louisiana and the people (The ones I worked with) had a southern accent , but IMHO it was a speed up version.

How about you?

Tybaltus · Post by **Tybaltus** » Sat Aug 10, 2002 8:39 pm

Well, since its on the site somewhere, I think I can reveal what state youre from-Alabama, right? (I say: Forget about the court order!)

Well by speed up version, do you mean their accents are faster?
And by saying "How about you?" Are you asking what accent I have? I dont understand the question

fable · Post by **fable** » Sat Aug 10, 2002 8:40 pm

As I worked in public radio for seventeen years, I developed a midwestern accent which is considered "standard" for media. I can still "do" a couple of those from areas I lived in for quite some time, like the mid-Atlantic states, but not convincingly, since the way they treat words causes me to wince.

Tybaltus · Post by **Tybaltus** » Sat Aug 10, 2002 8:48 pm

Well OK-I dont have much of an accent. I feel sort of lucky because I live only 45 minutes away from Boston, and everyone seems to make fun of that accent, I didnt pick up that accent at all (I kind of like all accents that people have, so I dont have anything against it). So I dont think I have really any accent at all. (Well I dont think I have an accent

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Mr Flibble · Post by **Mr Flibble** » Sat Aug 10, 2002 8:50 pm

I/m not quite sure how to describe the NZ accent, but I've been told by many people that there is one. My sister, who has been living in the UK for 3 years teases me about it now!

Anyway, here are some slightly overdone examples of how to pronounce things in the NZ acccent:

Fish and Chips: Fush un' Chups
Absolutely: Ubsolootey

You get the idea. We also tend to speak rather quickly, but (for the most part) clearly.

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Sat Aug 10, 2002 9:14 pm

Originally posted by Mr Flibble

You get the idea. We also tend to speak rather quickly, but (for the most part) clearly.

@Tybaltus, this is what I was meaning about fast...just forget the clear part.

Once you spend time there (Louisiana) you will pick up the difference. Imagine a french cowboy speaking at twice the speed of a "normal" person. For a southern state..(laid back states) it has one of the fastest ? (looking for a word to describe it) accents maybe.

(Disclaimer. "normal" is just a phrase)

Kameleon · Post by **Kameleon** » Sun Aug 11, 2002 2:57 am

Hmm, well my accent is North London, later corrupted by living in proper-speaking Oxfordshire, with a few twinges of Mancunian creeping in every so often. To you American's, that's a "British" accent...

And there's a helluva lot of American girls that love it

Ode to a Grasshopper · Sun Aug 11, 2002 4:23 am

I have a vaguely British accent despite being raised in Australia, don't ask me why. My mother has one too, when we're overseas people always assume we're British rather than Australian.
And very rarely they think we're Scottish.

/-\lastor · Post by **/-\lastor** » Sun Aug 11, 2002 5:14 am

Well... I speak dutch which is considered a dialect of every language at the same time.
Oh, and my enlish is general American accent (tv forever

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frogus · Post by **frogus** » Sun Aug 11, 2002 6:12 am

Well, I've never lived in Manchester or London, so that just leaves me 'proper-speaking'...I speak in a fairly slow monotone most of the time, but that's just me, not a local standard

. I pronounce 'glass' 'class' and 'fast' etc with a long soft 'a'. I guess I pronounce most words as they're written in the OED, with an accent distinguishable as 'British' to Americans, 'southern' to northerners and 'boring' to southerners

Kameleon · Post by **Kameleon** » Sun Aug 11, 2002 8:46 am

Damn you Ode, you evil avatar-stealer

Vinin · Post by **Vinin** » Sun Aug 11, 2002 10:03 am

I speak in a very slight Chinese accent, like someone who isn't yet totally sure of all the words. Also I speak very proper like a Brit using the correct words and the such, not too much of slang.

Ned Flanders · Post by **Ned Flanders** » Sun Aug 11, 2002 11:03 am

I spent my early years in Rhode Island, mid teens in West Virginia, and the past 15 years in Wisconsin and Minnesota. So, it's not uncommon for something like this to come out of my mouth:

"Look y'all, the kids ah in de yahd, not too fah from de cah, don'cha'know, hey."

I'm a melting pot with a wicked hahd accent combo'ed with a southern drawl, neatly wrapped in the proper midwestern speak as fable pointed out early in this thread.

What a mess.

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Sun Aug 11, 2002 11:23 am

Originally posted by Mr Flibble
I/m not quite sure how to describe the NZ accent, but I've been told by many people that there is one.

I'd recognise the Kiwi accent in a sec, it's very special. It is broader than the British Queens English, and the vowels are more prolonged. It is softer than the Australian accent. It is not at all similar to American or South African English.

I speak British English, I can't really say what my accent is like, probably similar to Frogus with the exception that I am not a native English speaker. I don't have a Swedish accent either, many years of travelling and working in English has made my accent strangely unplaceble. My British friends says it is impossible to tell where I am from. My friends in Scotland used to think I sounded like a snobbish Englishwoman...

Ode to a Grasshopper · Mon Aug 12, 2002 12:11 am

Originally posted by Kameleon
Damn you Ode, you evil avatar-stealer

I'd been planning on using this one for a few weeks, Georgi sent it to me when I asked what her first avatar had been a while back.
Now, of course, Gwally and Georgi have both used it recently, so it's not quite as fun an idea as it would have been.

I've got an idea or two for my next ones, too.

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Mon Aug 12, 2002 4:24 pm

I have an accent made perfectly for impersonating other British accents. I can do Mancunian, ****ney, Scouser, Gerodie etc etc. I am not particularly great at all of them, but i slip in and out of them by accident, the worst one for it is Brummy which is just ooorrriiibbbllllee

There is a hint of Welsh in my voice apparently but i don't hear it unless i start saying things like "Well Boy'o that's lovely isn't it, don't you think so but?"

RandomThug · Post by **RandomThug** » Mon Aug 12, 2002 4:32 pm

ehh lack of

I live in southern california. I say dude and cool a lot. Thats about it. Some people say I have an irish accent even though Im not irish, and they only say it when were all really really really wasted. so i doubt it.

Alright dudes, Im out late.

thug

Nightmare · Post by **Nightmare** » Mon Aug 12, 2002 5:43 pm

I have a typical Torontonian accent. I can't really describe it though, eh?

Tybaltus · Post by **Tybaltus** » Mon Aug 12, 2002 5:51 pm

Originally posted by Gaxx_Firkraag
I have a typical Torontonian accent. I can't really describe it though, eh?

Do you get annoyed that many people make fun of the accent, words like "aboot" and "eh". I know my friend who is a very proud Canadian laughs at the jokes but always denies that anyone ever says "aboot".

Nightmare · Post by **Nightmare** » Mon Aug 12, 2002 7:42 pm

Well, I've honestly never heard any Canadian say "aboot", and we don't say "eh" that often. But its really, really fun when you travel to the US, and start talking like that around some gullible americans...

I consider it hilarious that people make fun of Canadian accents (we have more fun with it then the people who make fun of us).