Your accent...
May 27th 2008, 2:37 am
#76
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Re: Your accent...
When you say the #8 does it rhyme with 'gate' and it is really stretched out. Do you also say you are going for a 'wee dander'.
(It really didn't help when I lived on the 8th floor of an apartment building.)
May 27th 2008, 2:50 am
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Re: Your accent...
don't know if my strong welsh accent helps or hinders me over here. In work it doesn't really matter as it's Markham and they are mostly oriental anyway. In social settings it's usually an ice breaker....in the US the conversation usually goes" What accent is that...I See Welsh......What part of Welsh are you from...Did you live near Diana".......
On the flip side i was surprised when visiting a Canadian friend early in my time here who called her kids in to watch "muffin the mule" on kids TV, Told her that "muffing" the mule was a criminal offense in the UK
On the flip side i was surprised when visiting a Canadian friend early in my time here who called her kids in to watch "muffin the mule" on kids TV, Told her that "muffing" the mule was a criminal offense in the UK
May 27th 2008, 10:21 am
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but I've never said I'm going for "wee dander".
May 30th 2008, 2:18 pm
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Gentlemen.....
Someone shared these Dilbert cartoons with me yesterday. I thought they might be of interest re. this thread!
May 30th 2008, 5:00 pm
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Re: Your accent...
I'm originally from West Lothian, Scotland and have a broad Edinburgh/ east coast accent ( think Sean Connery!) although my family and friends have said my accent has softened being away from home. Here in Holland most people, Dutch and English, think I'm Irish!
It will be interesting to see what the Canadians make of it.
It will be interesting to see what the Canadians make of it.
May 31st 2008, 1:53 am
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Re: Your accent...
Took me 3 tries last night to order 'water' in a quiet restaurant. My canadian colleagues had to rescue me. Next time I'll try to get some 'wada' instead - tastes the same.
May 31st 2008, 2:35 am
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Re: Your accent...
i was chatting to a waitress in a small bar about 2 weeks ago! she said she loved my accent! so i asked her if she could speak im my accent! to see how different i sounded from her west cost BC accent! She started speaking back to me i started laughing! she sounded like the queen herself! not a bad attempt apart from the fact i was brought up in Hull!
May 31st 2008, 4:20 am
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Re: Your accent...
we get quite a few comments regarding our accents, OH has slight yorkshire twang to him, i'm a cockney, usually all good but loads of confusion when the slang comes out, which can be amusing.
May 31st 2008, 11:30 am
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Re: Your accent...
[QUOTE=bananahammock;6389553]I work with special needs kids & sound like Vicky Pollard 
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I work with a group of young adults with disabilities, and unfortunatly, some of the members seem to find the word "rubbish" hysterical. If only I had realised when I started work, I would have tried harder to use the word "garbage." I now have to listen to everything being called rubbish about a hundred times a day....Although, I now have managed to get them to use it only on things that are negative.
One of the autistic members calls me "Sally-James-Bond" and I assume that this is because of my accent.
Another member also believes that I must know Harry Potter personally....Makes a change from The Queen!
It's a great place to work, and the members seem to find my accent very amusing, so I feel that in my job, it definately has a positive benefit.....laughter!
.I work with a group of young adults with disabilities, and unfortunatly, some of the members seem to find the word "rubbish" hysterical. If only I had realised when I started work, I would have tried harder to use the word "garbage." I now have to listen to everything being called rubbish about a hundred times a day....Although, I now have managed to get them to use it only on things that are negative.
One of the autistic members calls me "Sally-James-Bond" and I assume that this is because of my accent.
Another member also believes that I must know Harry Potter personally....Makes a change from The Queen!
It's a great place to work, and the members seem to find my accent very amusing, so I feel that in my job, it definately has a positive benefit.....laughter!
May 31st 2008, 11:38 am
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Re: Gentlemen.....
Someone shared these Dilbert cartoons with me yesterday. I thought they might be of interest re. this thread!
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n...at/dilbert.jpg
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n...at/dilbert.jpg
Atlantic Xpat - they are soo funny!
Jun 1st 2008, 7:34 pm
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Jun 1st 2008, 7:54 pm
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Re: Your accent...
I am from Ireland. When i have been in other parts of the world i find people getting me to repeat things so they can hear my accent. We Irish are massive in America for sure does this stretch to Canada?
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