Re: Noone can understand my accent (I'm Australian)
In US everyone knows I'm a Brit. Back in UK people remark on my American accent, although once someone in a pub though I was Irish.
My accent is all over the place now! I'm lost. |
Re: Noone can understand my accent (I'm Australian)
Originally Posted by Gruchak
(Post 12002488)
In US everyone knows I'm a Brit. Back in UK people remark on my American accent, although once someone in a pub though I was Irish.
My accent is all over the place now! I'm lost. I have only been in the US for fourteen years, but completing school in Glawster and working in Landan didn't seem to do anything to change my accent before I left the UK, so I am not surprised that living in the US hasn't either. I still get comments about my accent most weeks, and often people think I have just arrived. :lol: |
Re: Noone can understand my accent (I'm Australian)
Originally Posted by Pulaski
(Post 12002499)
Where are you from, in the UK? I am from Sheffield and my accent doesn't seem to have changed much since I left there when I was eight years old.
I have only been in the US for fourteen years, but completing school in Glawster and working in Landan didn't seem to do anything to change my accent before I left the UK, so I am not surprised that living in the US hasn't either. I still get comments about my accent most weeks, and often people think I have just arrived. :lol: Are you surrounded by Americans also? Maybe you are just impervious to the influences around you. |
Re: Noone can understand my accent (I'm Australian)
Originally Posted by Gruchak
(Post 12002634)
I'm from Portsmouth in the UK. I don't have any Brits in my life here, neither at home, nor work, so I wonder if that has some to do with my absorbing some of the accent...although any American would instantly spot my British accent. I think, too, that folks from Pompey do have a bit of a lazy drawl with their vowel sounds, so maybe it's also associated with that.
Are you surrounded by Americans also? Maybe you are just impervious to the influences around you. I certainly seem to be impervious to picking up accents, as ten years in Gloucester from age 8 to 18 (when you'd expect that I would still be impressionable) didn't give me the slightest hint of a Gloucester/ west country accent, and ten+ years in London didn't change anything either. My sister on the other hand absorbs accents like a sponge, though she was only four when we left Sheffield, so hadn't been imprinted with a Sheffield accent. That said she has never had much of a long term accent, perhaps because she went to a private school. And while her accent floats around, seven years in France and one in the US didn't leave a lasting impression on her accent. |
Re: Noone can understand my accent (I'm Australian)
Originally Posted by Gruchak
(Post 12002488)
In US everyone knows I'm a Brit. Back in UK people remark on my American accent, although once someone in a pub though I was Irish.
My accent is all over the place now! I'm lost. |
Re: Noone can understand my accent (I'm Australian)
Many Brits themselves cannot place a finger on my accent and where it's from - and have never been able to do, which is odd!
But Americans just know I'm British the moment I utter my first word. Plus my fiance says it's obvious because I have a polite British air about me, whatever the heck that means. |
Re: Noone can understand my accent (I'm Australian)
Originally Posted by jambey2510
(Post 12004018)
..... But Americans just know I'm British the moment I utter my first word. Plus my fiance says it's obvious because I have a polite British air about me, whatever the heck that means.
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Re: Noone can understand my accent (I'm Australian)
Originally Posted by Pulaski
(Post 12004020)
Sounds like my experience, as I am rarely asked if I am Australian - my accent is a mild Sheffield one. I have sometimes wondered if somehow my "air" is British. :unsure:
I jokingly said to my fiance one time 'probably because I don't look obnoxious and brash' and she no that's probably it! |
Re: Noone can understand my accent (I'm Australian)
Originally Posted by jambey2510
(Post 12004022)
I have never understood this whole "air" thing either!
I jokingly said to my fiance one time 'probably because I don't look obnoxious and brash' and she no that's probably it! |
Re: Noone can understand my accent (I'm Australian)
Originally Posted by Pulaski
(Post 12004040)
Refined and sophisticated. :nod:
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Re: Noone can understand my accent (I'm Australian)
Originally Posted by Nutek
(Post 12004061)
You called?
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Re: Noone can understand my accent (I'm Australian)
Originally Posted by zzrmark
(Post 12000562)
"Accent glaze" lol.
Whilst Floridian (using that term loosely as most of them appear to be recent incomers) girls are often curious about my ethnicity, I get the impression that many Carolinian girls, half my age, would happily drag me into a dark corner and thoroughly abuse me!!!:blink: In all seriousness though, the "accent glaze" effects you describe are only too real, girls or guys. |
Re: Noone can understand my accent (I'm Australian)
Originally Posted by Nutek
(Post 12004061)
You called?
Says he who came from Sheffield. :lol: |
Re: Noone can understand my accent (I'm Australian)
Originally Posted by davers
(Post 12004083)
.... In all seriousness though, the "accent glaze" effects you describe are only too real, girls or guys.
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Re: Noone can understand my accent (I'm Australian)
Originally Posted by lizzyq
(Post 12004079)
I presume you mean refined sugar and sophisticaked :)
Originally Posted by Pulaski
(Post 12004084)
I thought you came from Brizzle? :unsure:
Says he who came from Sheffield. :lol: |
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