Epiphany! You guys talk funny....
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The549 said:I just occured to me that so many of you guys are from the UK, so you must have accents! (it's an accent if it doesn't sound like the guys on mtv) You don't all speak Californian!
That's hella cool...... 8)
Errrr.... that's a nice way to view things... Like ET calling us "aliens".
Like Pavarotti calling normal people "skinny"....
By the way, i have a London/cockney/american/southafrican/italian/french accent. Depending on what i say when i say it, delete the appropriate.
Funny this thread should come up, I was in a team meeting down south (in the south of the UK that is), and many of them couldn't pick up my accent. I've always known its not very strong but I think its defintely yorkshire. I guess its because I don't have that southern "sounds-like-a-sealion" thing going on, and its not an extreme accent I confuse people.
same here . .she's been in the uk for nearly 40 years and still says "yewellry" and "peyama's" . .The549 said:
went to sweden with my mate and his mom last year . though she can still speak swedish, she has a very perculiar northern english accent now
so her brothers were teasing her about it !Sage said:
Please, for the love of God, don't try a cockney accent!!!
Ever since Dick Van Dyke (there's a joke in that name somewhere) butchered the cockney accent in Mary Poppins, I don't think I've ever seen a film in which an American actor managed an even passable 'mockney' accent. The worst I've seen/heard came from the black fella in the remake of Ocean's Eleven the other year - utterly atrocious.
As a matter of interest, how well do British actors tend to manage American accents in films? Most of them seem to do a passable job but, not being a native, I wouldn't know one way or the other really.
On one final language note, could Americans please note that Elgin, the small town in Scotland (of Elgin Marbles fame/infamy) is pronounced 'El-gin' where the 'G' has the same sound as in the word 'goat'. It is NOT pronounced 'El-jin'. This week on TV, there has been a reference to the Elgin Marbles in both 'The West Wing' and 'Six Feet Under' and it was mispronounced both times.
Mariner said:Sage said:
Please, for the love of God, don't try a cockney accent!!!
Ever since Dick Van Dyke (there's a joke in that name somewhere) butchered the cockney accent in Mary Poppins, I don't think I've ever seen a film in which an American actor managed an even passable 'mockney' accent. The worst I've seen/heard came from the black fella in the remake of Ocean's Eleven the other year - utterly atrocious.
As a matter of interest, how well do British actors tend to manage American accents in films? Most of them seem to do a passable job but, not being a native, I wouldn't know one way or the other really.
On one final language note, could Americans please note that Elgin, the small town in Scotland (of Elgin Marbles fame/infamy) is pronounced 'El-gin' where the 'G' has the same sound as in the word 'goat'. It is NOT pronounced 'El-jin'. This week on TV, there has been a reference to the Elgin Marbles in both 'The West Wing' and 'Six Feet Under' and it was mispronounced both times.
Try Spike in Buffy...... urghhhhhhh
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Oh, I didn't know that either.
I have lived 'down south' for about 6 years but still retain my Manchester accent . It was never a very strong one as I actually come from a village a bit outside Manchester (Hadfield, now made famous as Royston Vasey in the 'league of gentlemen'), and has actually been described as a 'posh' manchester accent. Still I think it is an unpleasant sounding accent but think it is quite easy to understand for most people.
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Crisidelm said:Fiòi, I can speak Venetian, if you really want to hear me. ("Fiòi" stands for "Guys" here).
HAHAHA Fioi!!! I can speak with a perfect (see: heavy) Bolognese and Sadinian accents (mum is from Bologna and dad is from the United Sardinian Emirates), and pretty much fake most major accents you can find in Italy...
london-boy said:Crisidelm said:Fiòi, I can speak Venetian, if you really want to hear me. ("Fiòi" stands for "Guys" here).
HAHAHA Fioi!!! I can speak with a perfect (see: heavy) Bolognese and Sadinian accents (mum is from Bologna and dad is from the United Sardinian Emirates), and pretty much fake most major accents you can find in Italy...
Wait they have accents in that language? </stereotyping>
sytaylor said:london-boy said:Crisidelm said:Fiòi, I can speak Venetian, if you really want to hear me. ("Fiòi" stands for "Guys" here).
HAHAHA Fioi!!! I can speak with a perfect (see: heavy) Bolognese and Sadinian accents (mum is from Bologna and dad is from the United Sardinian Emirates), and pretty much fake most major accents you can find in Italy...
Wait they have accents in that language? </stereotyping>
You type in stereo? That's so 90's, we're in the surround era now!!!!
/runs
sytaylor said:london-boy said:
Thats just horrible...
Besides has anyone noticed, really stroung southern (british) accents, sound like sealions after a while "arr arr arr" *clap*
Never noticed... But i did notice that the northern/Birmingham accent is strikingly similar to the Venetian accent in Italian. I'm serious...
london-boy said:sytaylor said:london-boy said:
Thats just horrible...
Besides has anyone noticed, really stroung southern (british) accents, sound like sealions after a while "arr arr arr" *clap*
Never noticed... But i did notice that the northern/Birmingham accent is strikingly similar to the Venetian accent in Italian. I'm serious...
wait a second brummie and northern are VERY different!
Brummies have live in birrrrrrrrrrrrrrrmingum.. wheras yorkshire men go 'tut pub ^^
sytaylor said:london-boy said:sytaylor said:london-boy said:
Thats just horrible...
Besides has anyone noticed, really stroung southern (british) accents, sound like sealions after a while "arr arr arr" *clap*
Never noticed... But i did notice that the northern/Birmingham accent is strikingly similar to the Venetian accent in Italian. I'm serious...
wait a second brummie and northern are VERY different!
Brummies have live in birrrrrrrrrrrrrrrmingum.. wheras yorkshire men go 'tut pub ^^
To me, anything above Zone 3 in North London is "Northern"....
