Regional Accent
 

A useless thread for sure, but I was just listening to a McDonalds advert on the TV about the burger chain's sponsorship of youth football in New Zealand. The voice over sounds quite British. If you know the advert could you tell me what region the accent is from?

Yes, info that is completely useless, but I like useless FYI.

Thanks.

Re: Regional Accent
 

I can tell you one thing...It ain't from chesterfield mi duck!!! LOL :rofl:

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People speak differently throughout the country. I actually can't recall the ad you are talking about and while they all sound decidedly kiwi there are certain variations. I swear teenage girls sound different than how they used to sound. Not just the upward inflection but some weirder upward inflection than usual (think: kiwi version of the american 'valley girl').

and that is not even taking into account the Southlander's who roll their 'R's and the far north inhabitants who sound completely casual and relaxed!!

I suspect, however, that in regards to the advert, if it is a kiwi accent then it is probably simply a person with more received pronounciation.


Recent link:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/thepress/4403001a19743.html
One link:
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411319/1148759

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Hehe = yes going down the local Maaall seems like you have landed in Val's-ville, CA.
My former boss was really openly annoyed that she had to deal with lots of UK regional accents and could not understand many of them. Suppose we Pomms should learn to speak more slowly..........

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i quite often get blank looks yet I consider to have one of the plainest voices (thanks to years of elocution) with very little accent.

You'd have thought that no accent at all would make perfect sense to anyone!

Hmmm on reflection, maybe its the verbal diarrhea that gets them....

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Yeah, you pommes really should sort your accents out :rofl:

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Says he with his cut glass Edinburgh accent!! :p

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ooo, posh!

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Aye right, ya ken, that'll be shining bright so it will hen, ya ken, by the way... ;)

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Funny story to tell about accents....

shortly after arriving in NZ I needed to buy a fan for our bedroom.... it was early spring and not easy to find in shops, so I was having to go into Noel Leaming etc and ask for "desk fans" repeatedly I kept getting directed to the telephone department of the electrical stores.....??? I then realised that the uk to kiwi accent thingy was being translated to "desk phone". I was determined not to alter my accent in order to be understood in english, but several shops later and still no desk fan (though plenty of desk phones) I was getting rather irritated so found myself asking (through gritted teeth) the shop assistant for "deeesk fins" ahhhh to my amazement I got directed straight away to a huge display of fans!!

Not sure what the point of this reply is, but it keeps me smiling whenever I think of it!

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Tee hee - me too. :thumbup: