SultanOfSwing

Read my post - I'm the bloody coach you f***ing numpty, I'm standing with the kids watching them enjoying the game I loved as a child in the UK, passing my knowledge of the game on to them. I and the other parents (on my U14 team) play a bloody game with them once a week at practice. And I'm a ref too.

Keep your nose out of posts I make to others on the board who have actually got something valid to say, OK?

Nutmegger

After ten years, so was I, despite being married to an American and having no day-to-day contact whatsoever with those who spoke with the same accent as me. Now it's almost forty years, and I hear my recorded voice and think who the heck is that?! Over the years, the inflections do start to creep in, despite all efforts to the contrary.

SarahG

I haven't lived in Scotland since I was 18 and my strong accent has softened quite a bit. I lived in Michigan for a year and then moved to England before coming back to the US last Fall. I was surprised when I asked someone for help whilst grocery shopping last week. I was making a roast dinner and wanted to buy some gravy. (yes I know I could make it but couldn't be bothered). When I asked the guy where I could find gravy in the store, he looked at me a bit odd then asked me to say it again. He then smiled and took me to where it was. As I picked up a jar and put it in my shopping cart he asked me again to say it. It was then that I realized that I was saying it with a really strong Scottish accent. 'gray-vay'. Complete with rolling my r! My OH has since pointed out when I get angry with my kids I sound like my mum and speak with a strong Scottish accent. My kids accents are changing more and more each day. My daughter has also stopped complaining how her friends say her name. She was a bit irritated that her friends were calling her kaydee and not kaytee. Her brother calls her both.

My husband uses American terms for some stuff and has started to drop his t's in some words. As for me, my accent is all over the place. A bit Scottish, a bit English and a little bit American.

AmerLisa

How would you know if he's a generous person or not?

Still trying to make friends, DS?

kimilseung

Isn't there a BE award for the most successful and entertaining troll?
If so I nominate drop step.

really, its nouvelle trolling. Pushing the art form in to new areas, that others have been too respectful of the heritage and history of trolling to tackle.

SultanOfSwing

He's certainly helped me put in my day! I wish he'd come back so I can make the afternoon go quicker.

I think I made him cry

paranoidandroid

Actually I don't make a concious effort to not talk like an american, it's just not natural for me to actually do it I suppose. I speak how I speak, which is how I grew up learning to speak.
Forty years eh? Long time. The likelihood that I''ll be here for more than another 2 years is zero, so I can't imagine that I'll be talking like an American before I move back home again.

SultanOfSwing

Yeah, but just to be a dick, when you do move back home you should start talking like one, just to keep the natives at a safe distance and avoid assimilation

paranoidandroid

What do I do if everyone already knows I'm a dick, though?

AmerLisa

Carry on, my dear....

SultanOfSwing

Never thought of that . . .

paranoidandroid

Yeah well, you have to be prepared for anything, the enemy never watches until you make a mistake.

Steerpike

I realize this thread is getting a bit contentious at the moment, so please take my question in the spirit intended ... I can imagine that you use a lot of the same terms you've always used, but do you not modify some terms for the sake of clarity? For example ... would you take your car into the garage/shop and mention a dent in the 'bonnet', or that the spare tire in the 'boot' needs checking? Would you tell your kids to wait on the 'pavement' (which in US is sidewalk, with 'pavement' being the roadway)? Would you order 'chips' with your meal, expecting 'fries' rather than 'crisps'?

"I'm dying for a fag" might raise a few eyebrows if you are a smoker, also ... .

SultanOfSwing

Contentious, nah - just some troll baiting. Entertained me no end while bored off my tits at work today so I should be thanking you really.

drop step

Sultan and the other guy are dead set on talking the way they always talk, and confusing people the way they've always confused people because after all, it's their world.

and they probably wonder why they spend their weekends alone on the couch watching the tele and eating Twiglets and Monster Munch.