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[AgX]

Sometimes I wonder what other people here sound like, what their accents are, and how a face-to-face conversation with them would be.

I guess a native speaker does not enjoy listening to my accent.
(Meanwhile there are a lot of Germans speaking without a german accent. I'd say: a case of self-denial.)


A german CEO once was told by a native speaker. "You speak the best broken English I've heard"...

 

[cliveh]

Some accents just grow into place; take Arnold Schwarzenegger who had an accent which was initially dismissed as wrong in the film industry and is now one of the greatest.

 

[Roger Cole]

I grew up in the mountains of Tennessee. I shore am glad I don't have no ahhk-sent.

(I sound like I just dragged in off the south 40, in spite of more years of college than probably made any sense and an advanced degree.)

 

[Truzi]

All of us here in England sound jut like Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins.

LOL

 

[Roger Cole]

To make English unintelligible to the English, add a Scottish, Geordie or American accent!


Steve.

I have a friend who describes his accent as "Geordie" too. I finally looked it up to see just what you meant.

Newcastle. Well yeah, my friend is originally from there, lived in London when I first met him, married an American friend of my wife's, and they now live in Miami. So I went to YouTube and I hate to tell you this but to most American ears it sounds...just like pretty much every other British accent (with the exception of the strong Cockney accent.)

I imagine to many Brits my Tennessee hillbilly twang sounds much like a Georgia southern accent (it's different, trust me) and probably not nearly as different from a midwestern US as it does to us. Another friend is married to a Russian woman and while visiting Moscow a British couple walked by talking and she said, "oh, Americans." "No," he said, puzzled, "British." "How can you tell?" she asked in all seriousness. He actually can mimic a pretty fair British accent and tried it out on her - she still could barely tell the difference if she paid close attention.

Subtle differences that are obvious to native speakers attuned to them can be lost in the overall onslaught of major differences when heard by outsiders.

 

[Roger Cole]

Sometimes I wonder what other people here sound like, what their accents are, and how a face-to-face conversation with them would be. I grew up in Sweden, and when we learned English in school we early on had to choose whether we were going to use British English or American English. I chose British English since it seemed more applicable, and I spoke that way well into my 20s. At age 26 I began speaking to more Americans, and just drifted into an American accent, which is easier to do while being a Minnesota resident.
If I could do it all over again, I'd like to have a Scottish accent. A mild one... It's music to my ears.

We could record some sound files and throw in Dropbox or somewhere for download, to say hello to each other.

 

[Europan]

Shutter speed. I dislike shutter speed. In most cases exposure time is meant, so simple, but they must say shutter speed.

Carry on, everybody, I get over it.

 

[Steve Smith]

I hate to tell you this but to most American ears it sounds...just like pretty much every other British accent (with the exception of the strong Cockney accent.)

Actually, I think there might me more variance amongst British accents than there are with American accents.

[video=youtube;5BV8KfpE3BA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BV8KfpE3BA[/video]

Hope this works. I searched for it at work where I don't have the sound connected!


Steve.

 

[E. von Hoegh]

I grew up in the mountains of Tennessee. I shore am glad I don't have no ahhk-sent.

(I sound like I just dragged in off the south 40, in spite of more years of college than probably made any sense and an advanced degree.)

And you now live in Et-lenna Jawja.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire (fahr), I'd say.
We of course have no regional accent up here. Unless of course you need some filum for your camera, or wish to buy some poine paneling for your den.

 

[baachitraka]

Recently I started to hate 'Old School'. I am 34 years old but I like printing in the darkroom.

 

[KenS]

I'd like to have a Scottish accent. A mild one... It's music to my ears.

Actually I do... it is not quite as 'strong' as it used to be before 'escaping across the Atlantic on cattle boat in '63, but I can still, "pit it oan" when the needs or the occasion arrives.

A few days ago, I had been working 'under the dark-cloth' in a down-town park and was now patiently waiting for some 'intruders' who seemed to be well aware of what I was doing... but seemed somewhat hesitant to move out of the field of view such that I might make my exposure.

I'm not sure if I was quietly 'swearing'.... but I was getting somewhat frustrated. I then heard a 'loudly whispered phrase (from behind me) that I had not heard in many, many years

"Gie it laldy son.... gie it some welly"

Ken

 

[pbromaghin]

Sometimes I wonder what other people here sound like, what their accents are, and how a face-to-face conversation with them would be. I grew up in Sweden, and when we learned English in school we early on had to choose whether we were going to use British English or American English. I chose British English since it seemed more applicable, and I spoke that way well into my 20s. At age 26 I began speaking to more Americans, and just drifted into an American accent, which is easier to do while being a Minnesota resident.
If I could do it all over again, I'd like to have a Scottish accent. A mild one... It's music to my ears.

Interesting. The Colorado Avalanche captain, Gabe Landeskog must have have gone to a school that taught Canadian.

As a native speaker of one of da Nordern Minnasoatah dialex, I like to inform anybody who talks about the movie "Fargo" just how fake the accents were.

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

Interesting. The Colorado Avalanche captain, Gabe Landeskog must have have gone to a school that taught Canadian.

As a native speaker of one of da Nordern Minnasoatah dialex, I like to inform anybody who talks about the movie "Fargo" just how fake the accents were.

Ooh ya, shoor you betcha. I have a sneaking suspicion Joel and Ethan Coen were a bit provocative as always. 'Fargo' is such a funny film.

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

"Gie it laldy son.... gie it some welly"

And what does that mean to the rest of us?

'Gie it some welly' I think means to 'strike it hard' or something like that, but the first part I am having trouble with...

 

[pbromaghin]

Ooh ya, shoor you betcha. I have a sneaking suspicion Joel and Ethan Coen were a bit provocative as always. 'Fargo' is such a funny film.

Ohh, ya. When dey played it up nort, nobody laughed. Dey coodn figgur aut what was so dam funny. I seen lotsa guyss sweepn-air driveway widda broom.

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

Ohh, ya. When dey played it up nort, nobody laughed. Dey coodn figgur aut what was so dam funny. I seen lotsa guyss sweepn-air driveway widda broom.

Dats sooper funny, hey. Been up to de iren range a feow times, and de folks liven dere arr too smart ta pick on. That's why dey put de guy throo de meat grinder.

 

[pbromaghin]

Yup, you got it down.

 

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happysnappies

 

[Black Dog]

och weesht and git oan wae it

And what does that mean to the rest of us?

'Gie it some welly' I think means to 'strike it hard' or something like that, but the first part I am having trouble with...

Gie it some laldy- to really go for it

 

[Roger Cole]

Actually, I think there might me more variance amongst British accents than there are with American accents.

[video=youtube;5BV8KfpE3BA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BV8KfpE3BA[/video]

Hope this works. I searched for it at work where I don't have the sound connected!


Steve.

It works, and it's funny.

I know there's variation, I just mean that it seems to me the "farther" (phonetically) from a given accent the person hearing it is themselves, the less they tend to notice relatively small differences. I can certainly hear the difference between many British accents if they're put side by side like that. But if I just hear one in isolation I just think "British" and don't identify it further. It takes a minute of listening to distinguish an Australian from a Brit for example - it's clear enough, but I have to listen for just a bit. It probably takes you about half a word.

 

[yulia_s_rey]

Jerzee accent over here.

 

[Truzi]

All this talk of accents reminds me of The Dialectizer.

 

[winger]

Actually, I think there might me more variance amongst British accents than there are with American accents.

Steve.

Well, it's a large number of variants in both cases, I'd bet. Around Boston alone, there's a difference between East Boston and South Boston and Somerville, Lynn, Cambridge - each is slightly different. I used to work with someone from Somerville and someone from Lynn - check a map, they're not that far apart - and they sounded different and used to make fun of each other's accents.

Every time Ken gets to go to the NYC / NJ area, he comments that he's going where the people don't have any accents.

People have told me I have a Boston accent, so at least it's not one from the Mohawk Valley (that one is called the MoVal twang in our family).

 

[pbromaghin]

In my youth in northern Minnesota one could usually tell by accent which of the surrounding little towns a person came from. These were communities as small as 100 people and none larger than 2,000.

 

[Steve Smith]

It works, and it's funny. .

You might like these then...

[video=youtube;JdAlYF67r9E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdAlYF67r9E&list=PL614DC6F00336C15A[/video]


Steve.