Accents
Feb 1st 2010, 4:49 am
#46
Curiously Wise
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Re: Accents
Here are a great selection of British accents including my particular pet peeve - the Wolverhampton accent.
Feb 1st 2010, 8:31 am
#47
Jedi Master
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Re: Accents
I have not emigrated, but I moved from England to Scotland in 2003. My accent has not changed at all. I had hoped it would have done by now though, as when I go back to England to visit friends and family, you would not know that I have not lived there for nearly seven years.
Feb 1st 2010, 8:57 am
#48
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Feb 1st 2010, 9:00 am
#49
Lowering the tone
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Re: Accents
Deaf people's accents always make me laugh.
Feb 1st 2010, 9:40 am
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Re: Accents
Feb 1st 2010, 12:20 pm
#51
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Re: Accents
As accents go, I realize the southern British one is the nicest and most correct, people over here comment on it all the time. But what do you think is the worst? To me, the Canadian accent sounds a lot like the American one, but a bit more simple. Personally I think the Australian accent is the worst. It's sort of like the accent equivalent of having bad breath. No matter what they say you just want to get away from them. But accents are curious things. Do think yours has changed since emigrating? Do your family and friends back home now take the piss when you speak to them?
and they usually make it worse by speaking so loud, why I have no idea, but they do. However if this thread ever got on the ultra sensitive oz forum you would be hung up
Feb 1st 2010, 12:25 pm
#52
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Feb 1st 2010, 12:54 pm
#54
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Re: Accents
English people live in Australia ? !
I live (for now) in australia and agree with you, it is the worst accent on the planet, especially on women and they usually make it worse by speaking so loud, why I have no idea, but they do.
However if this thread ever got on the ultra sensitive oz forum you would be hung up
and they usually make it worse by speaking so loud, why I have no idea, but they do. However if this thread ever got on the ultra sensitive oz forum you would be hung up
Feb 1st 2010, 11:26 pm
#55
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Feb 2nd 2010, 12:51 am
#56
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Re: Accents
I don't actively dislike any accent, but would agree about having a distain for lazy speech in any accent, and particularly estuarial english. Although having lived and worked in Essex for sometime I got pretty immune to that.
Although my perfectly articulated RP serves me well, I do find myself adapting and adopting to the circumstances that I'm in. So, when in Essex, one get's a bit Essex dar'nt one etc etc. This is a sub-concious reaction from me and I generally don't realise I'm doing it. Trouble is, that people can think you're taking the piss!
"Yis, 'bys, I talks some different when I'm in Newfoundland."
Although my perfectly articulated RP serves me well, I do find myself adapting and adopting to the circumstances that I'm in. So, when in Essex, one get's a bit Essex dar'nt one etc etc. This is a sub-concious reaction from me and I generally don't realise I'm doing it. Trouble is, that people can think you're taking the piss!
"Yis, 'bys, I talks some different when I'm in Newfoundland."
After living in South Africa for 20 years and in Dover for 4 years It is quite different. I still speak very proper as I was taught !! I do find that kids are very susceptible to accent changes, my teenagers were bullied when we moved to the UK and told to go back to their own country (SA) so they quickly dropped their Afrikaans twang and "spoke like what their mates did" and now in Newfoundland the have dropped a lot of that to speak correct english (because the girls like the accent)!!
All in all I love the Newfounland way of speaking!
Feb 2nd 2010, 4:27 am
#58
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Re: Accents
Here are a great selection of British accents including my particular pet peeve - the Wolverhampton accent.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=IX1Ymf18UY4
http://youtube.com/watch?v=IX1Ymf18UY4
Feb 4th 2010, 1:03 pm
#60
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Re: Accents
Agreed
Dangerous ground your on
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