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#4484621 - 07/31/19 08:22 AM Re: Question for native English speakers [Re: Dart]  
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Originally Posted by Dart
I have no accent, as it is how American English should be spoken.

Everyone else has an accent.



But I'm English Dart so you do have an accent!

I had to refine mine, as did my mother before me as one 'couldn't possible find good employment with that accent'. My mother was rather 'cut glass' but reverted to her original East London intonation in the final months of her life.
My wife says she can tell when I have been back to London, as I sound 'a bit geezer' on return to our country idyll. "No wot I mean guv; no wot I mean?"






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#4484622 - 07/31/19 08:29 AM Re: Question for native English speakers [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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British north. Think Ned Stark ("Winter is coming" etc) with a slight Scottish twang.


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#4484628 - 07/31/19 10:31 AM Re: Question for native English speakers [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Where I work they recently hired a guy who is originally from Boston and he absolutely has the classic stereotypical Bostonian accent you hear in movies like "Good Will Hunting" and "The Departed". One day I mentioned to him that I hope he never loses his accent by living in Florida for too long and he immediately said to me "you're the one with the accent, not me!". biggrin


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#4484648 - 07/31/19 02:52 PM Re: Question for native English speakers [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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I've never considered colloquial American english pronunciation as having an accent, but I've oft pondered how odd it must seem to Brits when the hear us. After all, they take classes through primary school teaching them the "proper" way to pronounce and spell their words.

Much good that is. The cockneys seem to disagree with the Queen's english professor!

#4484774 - 08/01/19 05:02 PM Re: Question for native English speakers [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Recently my wife was operated on under a general anesthetic. After she came round from the narcosis and the surgeon visited her to check she was ready to be released he said to her “You speak very good English, you babbled away all through the operation in English.” My wife asked what she said but all he would say was “what was said in the operation theatre stays in the operation theatre “

It is bugging her that she does not know what she said 😀


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#4484780 - 08/01/19 05:17 PM Re: Question for native English speakers [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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I didn't think it would be possible for someone to speak even involuntarily while they were under general anesthesia. Well, you learn something new every day on SimHQ! smile


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#4484789 - 08/01/19 05:50 PM Re: Question for native English speakers [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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I was born and raised in Virginia. My mother was born in Pennsylvania but lived her adult life in Virginia. When I went to college in Michigan, my roommates told me that they could barely understand my mother, when she called, because of her southern accent. I told them that they would be in serious trouble if they ever actually spoke to someone from the real southern states.


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#4484800 - 08/01/19 07:58 PM Re: Question for native English speakers [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Holy smokes. I just watched this video and I couldn’t understand a lot of what this guy said.


@ PM ...of course a lot of that was for comedic effect wink but when Mark was speaking in his normal conversational voice he has a 'townie' accent like me.

He is correct that some folks south of St. John's speak with a very pure Waterford Irish accent. The Irish tourism authority and several Irish universities routinely send send people here and young folks sometimes work in Ireland in the summer in the tourism industry because only native Irish can tell them from locals smile


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#4484803 - 08/01/19 08:18 PM Re: Question for native English speakers [Re: cichlidfan]  
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Originally Posted by cichlidfan
I was born and raised in Virginia. My mother was born in Pennsylvania but lived her adult life in Virginia. When I went to college in Michigan, my roommates told me that they could barely understand my mother, when she called, because of her southern accent. I told them that they would be in serious trouble if they ever actually spoke to someone from the real southern states.


We ain't that hard to understand, ya hear. wink

Here's some trivia: Guess which accent in America is considered the sexiest?


Deep South.

https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/what-is-the-sexiest-american-accent/

#4484826 - 08/01/19 10:53 PM Re: Question for native English speakers [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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#4484836 - 08/02/19 12:26 AM Re: Question for native English speakers [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Hs anyone noticed that after coming back from a vacation, people back home say you have an accent (from where you were vacationing)?


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#4484838 - 08/02/19 01:25 AM Re: Question for native English speakers [Re: KraziKanuK]  
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Originally Posted by KraziKanuK
Hs anyone noticed that after coming back from a vacation, people back home say you have an accent (from where you were vacationing)?


Back when I was in high school I had a friend who spent the summer somewhere in new england. When she came home she had a strong north eastern accent. I suspect it happens more quickly with young folk.

EDIT: Oh yeah, in reference to the sexy accent thing, she was much more sexy with the accent.


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#4484859 - 08/02/19 08:59 AM Re: Question for native English speakers [Re: Mr_Blastman]  
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Naunton Beauchamp Worcestershi...
Originally Posted by Mr_Blastman
I've never considered colloquial American english pronunciation as having an accent, but I've oft pondered how odd it must seem to Brits when the hear us. After all, they take classes through primary school teaching them the "proper" way to pronounce and spell their words.

Much good that is. The cockneys seem to disagree with the Queen's english professor!


That is a thing of the past, mate. Regional and ethnic accents are encouraged now, even with BBC newscasters!

'Yoot' in my nearest city of Worcester try and speak 'gangsta'...very funny to hear with a broad Worcestershire accent!

An example of diversity in dialects:




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#4484865 - 08/02/19 10:34 AM Re: Question for native English speakers [Re: Mr_Blastman]  
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I totally agree with this. An attractive girl with a Southern accent is to die for in my opinion. I know, I dated a few of them in the past. smile

At the other end of the scale though you have the women with the really heavy NYC accent. Ugh...

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#4484870 - 08/02/19 10:59 AM Re: Question for native English speakers [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Ok i just watched that video posted by BD-123.

All I can say is WTF? biggrin

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#4484882 - 08/02/19 12:46 PM Re: Question for native English speakers [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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I could understand a good deal of it, but not all. Some of the subtitles are dead wrong. As we say around here........."ya just got to listen faster" biggrin


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#4484886 - 08/02/19 01:13 PM Re: Question for native English speakers [Re: No105_Archie]  
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Originally Posted by No105_Archie
.."ya just got to listen faster" biggrin



This!

It really wasn't the accent that was the problem, it was the speed at which they were speaking that made it difficult to understand some of the things those guys were saying.


“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
#4484896 - 08/02/19 02:22 PM Re: Question for native English speakers [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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The subtitles are a spoof of course! There are many of these 'Pikey Callout' challenges to be viewed



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Originally Posted by PanzerMeyer


It really wasn't the accent that was the problem, it was the speed at which they were speaking that made it difficult to understand some of the things those guys were saying.


That's why we take our time here in the South to savor our words, and speak them slower. biggrin


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#4484904 - 08/02/19 02:56 PM Re: Question for native English speakers [Re: BD-123]  
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The subtitles are a spoof of course! There are many of these 'Pikey Callout' challenges to be viewed



Pikeys...




And their flippin' caravans.

I bet if I lived in the UK, Snatch would have been twice as funny as it is already is.

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