Oh god. I would hate to meet a person like you in real life. No offense, but I'm imagining that every time someone like you said "balls", I'd mistake it for "bowels". Awkward conversations would number in the thousands.SycoMantis91 said:
Accents and The Escapist!
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If you've seen Fargo, that's pretty much me, I guess. They exaggerate the Minnesotan accent in the movie, but then again, I'm from the northern rural area of the state and even my fellow Minnesotans from the southern part poke fun at me and my O's.
I blame it on my Scandinavian heritage.
I blame it on my Scandinavian heritage.
Lol it's cool, I understand. I don't think you'd confuse the two, simply because of the difference in syllables. I just shift the "a" to an o, u, w hybrid. Some people think it's really cool, others feel sorry for me. Matter of taste, I suppose.TLS14 said:
I'm from Lancashire in the north-west of England. And mine is literally the most broad Lancashire accent possible. It's monotonous and you really extend the vowel wine you're from my neck of the woods. So toast becomes tooohhhst, no becomes noooohh and cake becomes caaaa-ache! It's kind of lazy, really. Probably becomes probableh, definitely is definitleh, etc.
I'm weird.
I speak English without an accent (West Coast US I guess) so I had to learn how to speak with a Texan Accent. I speak a bizarre Spaniard-Puerto Rico type Spanish (double v instead of double u) and I sometime interject some slang from Puerto Rico in my Spanish. Every time I speak Spanish the other kids laugh so I say I can't speak Spanish.
I speak English without an accent (West Coast US I guess) so I had to learn how to speak with a Texan Accent. I speak a bizarre Spaniard-Puerto Rico type Spanish (double v instead of double u) and I sometime interject some slang from Puerto Rico in my Spanish. Every time I speak Spanish the other kids laugh so I say I can't speak Spanish.
I am from Chile, but I lived for 15 years in Brazil, so I guess my accent is an odd mix. Both Portuguese and Spanish are my native languages and then I learned English, but I always try to speak in a neutral accent no matter what language I speak. I think my accent is much more american maybe from Los Angeles, due to all the influence from movies and the such. I still cannot fake a british accent no matter how hard I try though XD
The accent is actually called 'Yooper' or 'Scandahoovian' because it's actually Minnesota-Wisconsin.ungothicdove said:
I speak newscaster american English. Which is to say I have no accent. So much so that the city I live in has more call centers then anywhere else in the usa. Because we have the least accent in this part of the country.
I'm seeing some people saying they're from the west coast. There is definitely an accent there. Basically, when I've visited people sound either like 'Bill and Ted' or have a habit of speaking in a way that makes me think that each vowel only makes one sound rather than two in Cali. Aw and ah sound the same when they speak. Another example would be 'elk' and 'ilk' sounding exactly the same.
Least that's how most in and around middle/northern california sounded to me.
I'm going to do what I did in another thread, and type it in how I would say it, and we'll see if you have any idea what I said and what language I'm speaking.
I'm 'riginally from Tewkesbury in England (which is in Gloucestershire, ing'case any of ya' know where tha' is), an' basically because o' tha' I tal' lie' an absolute pillock. Which isn' helped by the fa' tha' I tal' really fast. Seriously, people tha' fink English accen's are sophistica'ed should visi' places lie' Gloucestershire. Yor' be pre'y surprised.
I'm in Gloucester now, an' the accen' roun' 'ere isn' tha' much nicer than Tewkesbury's, bu' 'ey.
(Well, it is. But it's still similar.)
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I'm 'riginally from Tewkesbury in England (which is in Gloucestershire, ing'case any of ya' know where tha' is), an' basically because o' tha' I tal' lie' an absolute pillock. Which isn' helped by the fa' tha' I tal' really fast. Seriously, people tha' fink English accen's are sophistica'ed should visi' places lie' Gloucestershire. Yor' be pre'y surprised.
I'm in Gloucester now, an' the accen' roun' 'ere isn' tha' much nicer than Tewkesbury's, bu' 'ey.
(Well, it is. But it's still similar.)
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I've seen you on a few topics and I feel the need to let you know, your avatar makes me feel warm inside!TLS14 said:
Indeterminate eastern seaboard American with a smattering of English when talking to my friends and family, formal/semi formal faux English upper class when talking to strangers or persons of importance. I can also do a passable faux Irish/Scottish and a bit Australian, but I tend to slip back into English upper class.
EDIT: In me Scotch Irish
It's the most fun)
I gotta say, I quite like doin' th' Oirish accent, I'd never pass fer' a real Oirishman, but Americans seem t' think Oi sound Oirish, when they can ounderstand me.
EDIT: In me Scotch Irish
It's the most fun)I gotta say, I quite like doin' th' Oirish accent, I'd never pass fer' a real Oirishman, but Americans seem t' think Oi sound Oirish, when they can ounderstand me.
I've lived in western Washington since I was born, so I have one of the most boring accents imaginable. Most people can't tell where I'm from. My family is east coast, though, so I occasionally get some New York r's and o's in my speech. Usually when I'm tired.
Mines much the same with the occasional mannerism thrown in and also with words like class and France I swallow the "a" instead of having the more nasally way of saying it. Blame my dad for that since he's from Belgiumskeliton112 said:
I'm from Bristol and I'd say I speak a mix of standard British and West Country/Bristolian. I do sometimes wish I sounded more Bristolian but then I'd sound like a pirate.
Well, originally, I'm from Poland; but I moved to the US when I was about 9, so my accent is very slight, if noticeable at all.
I'm pretty sure I'm the only person I know who can fluently speak both, Polish and English without an extremely thick accent...
I'm pretty sure I'm the only person I know who can fluently speak both, Polish and English without an extremely thick accent...
That's funny, I'm from Toronto (Ontario, Canada) and I pronounce it "deckle" but it doesn't exactly come up often.GrandmaFunk said:
I have also been told that I don't really sound like I'm from Toronto, I have no idea how that's possible as I grew up here.
I can fake a Nebraska accent if I want, because I used to have a job that involved calling down there every single day. That and It's not really that different, you just have to pronounce a few things differently and say some slightly different phrases. It comes in handy at my current job when I have to call the US.
Predominately Australian, but some people think my accent has a bit of an American sound to it (probably more when I say specific words). It's possible, as my mum is American and my dad is Australian, and I've spent a fair bit of time in the U.S.
So yeah, a bit of a mix but mostly an Australian accent. Not like Crocodile Dundee or anything though - I'm from Sydney.
So yeah, a bit of a mix but mostly an Australian accent. Not like Crocodile Dundee or anything though - I'm from Sydney.
My accent is very much like this, actually. My mum grew up split between Los Angeles and Hong Kong, where she attended an international school and picked up a bit of an English accent.Shanicus said:
Thanks! Nice to see fellow FF fans on these forums. I mean Square, and by extension their fans, are kind of looked down upon by most Escapists, at least from what I've seen. But hey, we stick together and don't let them get us down, right?JasonKaotic said:
Anyway, thanks for noticing!