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Post by Tellurium on Mar 28, 2010 16:17:41 GMT
Is there a thread where we can all just post ourselves greeting each other? Then we can compare accents... OR would that be setting my canuck ass up for ostracization?
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Post by newslang on Mar 28, 2010 16:34:49 GMT
^^ I'll be joining you in the Exiled Room if that's what happens We did have a thread for that a while ago, actually. Like, a loooong while ago. Called Post Your Voice or something of the like.
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Post by victorinox on Mar 28, 2010 17:12:16 GMT
I don't know if I have a strong accent. If I do, it'll put me in the Exiled Canadians Room. Logically, I couldn't have any other kind of accent... I've been told that I talk like a hipster . That isn't a geographic thing, though. It was nevertheless insulting. Overall I love accents, they're just interesting to listen to. I've read that people find them sexy due to mystery/because it means you'll be mating with someone not too close to your gene pool, which means your offspring are less likely to have mutations, but I'm unsure if that's true.
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Post by Lawrence on Mar 28, 2010 20:00:08 GMT
makes sense.
I want to post my voice and listen to everyone too!
I do remember a similar thread a few years ago
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Post by tarantella on Mar 28, 2010 20:06:16 GMT
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Post by Aly on Mar 28, 2010 20:14:27 GMT
I know it's wrong to base my perception on one person but whenever I think of an Icelandic accent, I think of Bjork's voice. I don't know, I think her voice is cute.
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Post by Lawrence on Mar 28, 2010 20:31:20 GMT
thanks for finding that thread! It was nice to read it back and reminisce
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Post by jay on Mar 29, 2010 0:50:33 GMT
good accents: ireland (more cork and kerry than dublin/ulster/munster/etc) aberdeen glasgow poland (both when they speak polish and when they speak english) germany turkey australia new zealand brooklyn
bad accents: northern ireland liverpool manchester norwich birmingham leicester california texas CORBY.
probably could add a few more in either but i'm stuck.
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Post by newslang on Mar 29, 2010 12:19:11 GMT
One of my Professors last year was from Brooklyn and I loved her accent.
I'm not overly fond of Australian accents. Either I have trouble hearing them, or they seem too harsh. I don't know, I'm weird haha
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Post by jay on Mar 29, 2010 13:38:39 GMT
my best friend is aussie and her accent makes me laugh. it's more all her weird slang that makes it, though. i spoke to her friend who is still back in aus on the phone and i really couldn't understand him very well.. i think we've made holley sound more british over time.
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Post by naaaat on Mar 29, 2010 14:54:44 GMT
I never used to think I had a accent, and then I went to uni and almost everyone there seems to be like, "YOUR ACCENT'S SO STRONG!", so that confused me a bit! We've got a LOT of strong accents in my flat: Wigan, Peckham, Norwegian, Caribbean...
No idea if anyone's mentioned this as I've not read all the thread, but does anyone else find that whenever they start talking to someone with a particularly strong accent for a length of time, you start accidentally imitating them? I'm COMPLETELY incapable of imitating any kind of accent by choice, but on tour last week I was picking up all sorts of bit of accents! My mum reckons it's because I'm a linguist, but I've no idea...
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Post by jay on Mar 29, 2010 14:56:45 GMT
i do that all the time. it really annoys me that i do it!
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Post by helwin tins on Mar 29, 2010 16:25:18 GMT
i'm fucking terrible for that. i find it hard to get rid of after i go to other countries too, last time i went to california i ended up sounding californian (to everyone else, i couldn't hear it) for about a week and a half. my friend lizzie, if drunk, only requires speaking to someone for 5-10 minutes to pick up a strong accent for the rest of the night, it's actually really fucking annoying.
i find it weird that i can't hear london accents because i'm from london, but i can't hear my dad's northern irish or my mother's canadian accents either, when people tell me that they definitely do exist.
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Post by Rosie The Red on Mar 29, 2010 17:09:49 GMT
Being from just outside Manchester this may sound odd, but I actually HATE really strong Mancunian accents, they really get on my nerves.
I have a friend from Scotland who doesn't sound Scottish at all to me, not your usual Scottish anyway. He has weird ways of saying things though {like, 'noy' instead of 'no'. That's not exactly how he talks, but it's hard to type.}. I really love his accent.
In general, I quite like posh accents, and southern accents. I like East London accents {the ones I have heard, atleast}, and the accent my friends have who live in Leeds. But I really don't like Liverpool accents, they make me shudder.
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Post by sarah on Mar 30, 2010 13:07:56 GMT
HA oh no. i don't even know what people say half the time, why do they go up at the end of all their sentences, why must they sneak "BY THE WAY" into the end of them. who knows. posh accents, especially when they have that weird crackly thing about them if anyone knows what i mean, drive me up the wall, although that's probably just because i associate them with the stuck up twats at university. i'm sure there are lots of people who are very lovely with those accents but i can't help but rage inwardly.
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Post by jay on Mar 30, 2010 15:11:14 GMT
a lot of people in my town (my grandma included) are glaswegian, so i find the accent kind of comforting in a way, though it can sound incredibly harsh at times. i love scottish humour, though. dry and sarcastic for the win. i put aberdeen cos it's kind of the 'posh' scottish accent and it makes me laugh.
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Post by sarah on Mar 30, 2010 15:44:17 GMT
haha fair enough, Aberdeen accents are quite entertaining. i agree with most of your list apart from hating on Leicester/Liverpool/Birmingham accents, they make me lol and sound really friendly. California ones though oh my god all the Americans at my halls speak like that and they're SO ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME how dare they be happy, they're in Scotland, they should learn a bit about our culture before coming over here all happy and enthusiastic.
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Post by Lawrence on Mar 30, 2010 18:57:51 GMT
I like alex kapranos' accent. Whats that?
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Post by thecircusgirl on Mar 30, 2010 20:44:16 GMT
I like Newfie accents. But I have an almost-Geordie accent. Which sucks. haha
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Post by Rhiflect on Mar 30, 2010 21:42:45 GMT
YES to the accent thing. I don't live around many different accented people, but when we watch videos or whatever I can't help imitating the accent. And I whenever I'm on the phone to people with strong accents (especially American/northern) i copy them by accident! I wonder what it is that makes that happen.
WYE AYE MAN PET WOMAN MAN PET, THAT'S MINT!
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