Do you sound Canadian?
Oct 18th 2016, 5:17 pm
#46
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Oct 18th 2016, 9:56 pm
#48
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Re: Do you sound Canadian?
Yes I use north american words for things, mainly so people understand me, which doesn't always happen. Mork, Malc, Murg, and Rob are seemingly what Mark sounds like. It seems I'm also apparently Australian rather than British. Never worked that one out, and seems to be a Canadian thing as I've been to various places in the US and they never stated that.
Oct 18th 2016, 11:32 pm
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Oct 20th 2016, 3:13 pm
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Re: Do you sound Canadian?
I have now been here four years, but I don't think much of my language has changed. I do say 'trunck' instead of boot and 'garbage' instead of rubbish....when speaking with Canadians, as it's just more simple.
I now have a friend from New Zealand and one from South Africa (I have strong links from both of those countries in the past) and when I am with them, I find myself effortlessly slipping into their accents and mirroring them perfectly, I have a musical ear and am very good on local English dialects...I moved around a lot as a kid and it made fitting in easier. Very a la John Barrowman, who can switch to Glaswegian, it would seem, at will.
I have never done it with Canadian, despite having been married to one for ever. My son tells me an accent is like 'a club membership' and all I have to do is speak like them and I'll fit in better! True, but possibly easier said than done (pun intended).
Do you think your accent has changed? Have you tried to change it? Some of you have been here a very long time, do people still 'pick you out' as being Brit?
I now have a friend from New Zealand and one from South Africa (I have strong links from both of those countries in the past) and when I am with them, I find myself effortlessly slipping into their accents and mirroring them perfectly, I have a musical ear and am very good on local English dialects...I moved around a lot as a kid and it made fitting in easier. Very a la John Barrowman, who can switch to Glaswegian, it would seem, at will.
I have never done it with Canadian, despite having been married to one for ever. My son tells me an accent is like 'a club membership' and all I have to do is speak like them and I'll fit in better! True, but possibly easier said than done (pun intended).
Do you think your accent has changed? Have you tried to change it? Some of you have been here a very long time, do people still 'pick you out' as being Brit?
Back in the mid '70s I found myself working with a colleague who on first encounter I would have sworn was a born and bred Canuck. Turns out he had been in Canada for only 6 weeks-just got of the boat as it were from London.
After arriving in Canada in the '60s, I then went to France for four years-high school and then two years at college. Some friends and relatives claimed that when I returned to Canada I sounded like a Frenchman speaking English.
Fifty years later, in my small English village, I am sometimes asked which part of America I am from.
I am trying hard to speak English as English is spoke-but it often sounds put-on.
Oct 23rd 2016, 1:21 am
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Re: Do you sound Canadian?
In order to sound culturally correct, I have studied the nuances of Canspeak assiduously and compiled my findings as "Fifty Shades of Eh?", part of my treatise "Putting the Can in Canada or Vice Versa."
Oct 23rd 2016, 1:22 am
#53
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Re: Do you sound Canadian?
Chat about dressing like a Canadian? Who is wearing a plaid shirt and jeans right now?
Oct 23rd 2016, 11:25 pm
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Re: Do you sound Canadian?
[i can live with my daughter sounding Canadian/Miley Cyrus apart from Toosday, toones, etc.]
Last edited by Teaandtoday5; Oct 23rd 2016 at 11:27 pm. Reason: Just had to vent - it's u not oo!
