Accents and The Escapist!

[RaffB]

South English Accent myself.

Although due to having family from all over the place, I have a habit of slipping into sounding northern or welsh.

Not to mention I'm good at imitating accents so I play on that when its funny..

 

[TheLastSamurai14]

My accent's kind of a mix between typical New Yorkah, and a tad Canadian, being upstate and not far from the Canadian border. I tend to extend "a" sounds, and they come out more like "ah", I turn words like "awesome" into "aouwesome" or "balls" into "baowls". Also, "i"s come out as kinda "eh" sounding sometimes. So yea, that happened.

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.

 

[ungothicdove]

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.

 

[TehCookie]

American. Is there a name for the way north-eastern Americans speak? I guess according to some of the posters above me a neutral accent.

 

[SycoMantis91]

My accent's kind of a mix between typical New Yorkah, and a tad Canadian, being upstate and not far from the Canadian border. I tend to extend "a" sounds, and they come out more like "ah", I turn words like "awesome" into "aouwesome" or "balls" into "baowls". Also, "i"s come out as kinda "eh" sounding sometimes. So yea, that happened.

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.

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.

 

[Veldt Falsetto]

I'm not from New Zealand, I just think this cracks me up

 

[Andaxay]

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.

 

[NegaWiki]

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.

 

[pilouuuu]

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

 

[ace_of_something]

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.

The accent is actually called 'Yooper' or 'Scandahoovian' because it's actually Minnesota-Wisconsin.

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.

 

[skeliton112]

i have an Australian accent, it isnt very broad and it is of the Sydney-ish variety.

 

[JasonKaotic]

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.)

Edit: Also,

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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!

 

[The Bum]

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 IrishIt'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.

 

[Queen Michael]

I speak regular Swedish, if there is such a thing.

 

[Tahaneira]

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.

 

[soulless-5]

i have an Australian accent, it isnt very broad and it is of the Sydney-ish variety.

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 Belgium

 

[BristolBerserker]

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.

 

[DrunkPickle]

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...