Accents - have you lost yours?
Aug 8th 2017, 6:48 pm
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Re: Accents - have you lost yours?
Oh yeah, lovely people but sometimes the accent could cut through concrete. Not always super harsh, but certainly not posh.
It wouldn't exactly be what I'd call 'lilting'.
It wouldn't exactly be what I'd call 'lilting'.
Aug 8th 2017, 6:51 pm
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Re: Accents - have you lost yours?
People here tell me I have not lost my accent after almost 40 years, but last time I was back in the UK, people told me I had an American accent. So there you go.
Aug 8th 2017, 6:59 pm
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Re: Accents - have you lost yours?
Sometimes with accents that are sounds that only a native speaker hears. I know my wife and I have problems with Pasta, Pastor and Pasteur for example.
Aug 8th 2017, 8:43 pm
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Re: Accents - have you lost yours?
Water still gets me flustered even after all this time.
Aug 8th 2017, 10:52 pm
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Aug 9th 2017, 2:13 am
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Aug 9th 2017, 6:52 am
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Re: Accents - have you lost yours?
Pronunciation of state names - some foolish foreigners pronounce Connecticut as if it has several vowels in it! And a second "c."
Aug 9th 2017, 11:48 am
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Re: Accents - have you lost yours?
Ian
Aug 9th 2017, 1:08 pm
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Re: Accents - have you lost yours?
I read it as Ad - Iron -Daks (the second element like the first two syllable of ironical.)
Aug 9th 2017, 1:15 pm
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Re: Accents - have you lost yours?
Adam, (said Eve), should you choose to deceive, I'll throw this apple at 'cha.
Aug 9th 2017, 1:48 pm
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Re: Accents - have you lost yours?
Interesting thread.
We've been here in Canada 6 years and have made a few changes to the way we speak. Well some of us anyway!
Hubby insists on still saying satnav which I'm sure confuses...he has other words he just doesn't want to let go of!
I've had a few people say they can't hear my accent anymore. What they mean is they're used to it now so don't notice it!!
I had expected my 6 year old to sound Canadian within a few days of school but he's now 12 1/2 and still sounds English. Just he doesn't understand English, you have to speak Canadian to him! Lol
We've been here in Canada 6 years and have made a few changes to the way we speak. Well some of us anyway!
Hubby insists on still saying satnav which I'm sure confuses...he has other words he just doesn't want to let go of!
I've had a few people say they can't hear my accent anymore. What they mean is they're used to it now so don't notice it!!
I had expected my 6 year old to sound Canadian within a few days of school but he's now 12 1/2 and still sounds English. Just he doesn't understand English, you have to speak Canadian to him! Lol