Epiphany! You guys talk funny....

I speak with no accent

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What do you call the generic north american accent? The one most american TV shows/news announcers have? That's the accent I have. (I'm from Indiana, but the upper tippy-top left corner....10 miles south of me is where the accents start, it's weird.)
 
digitalwanderer said:
What do you call the generic north american accent? The one most american TV shows/news announcers have? That's the accent I have. (I'm from Indiana, but the upper tippy-top left corner....10 miles south of me is where the accents start, it's weird.)
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Yeah, that's what I would catagorize it as. Ofcourse, to the Brits or other such folk, we probably sound pretty funny... :p
 
One of my friends from University was a Geordie (from Newcastle in the North East of England) and they have a very distinctive accent.

I normally don't have problems understanding the various British dialects of English but I must admit that when I went up to Newcastle to visit, I could barely understand a word that my Geordie friend's Grandfather said! I mentioned this to my friend who reassured me that he himself:

"Can't understand what the mad old bugger is saying most of the time either!"

:LOL:
 
zurich said:
digitalwanderer said:
What do you call the generic north american accent? The one most american TV shows/news announcers have? That's the accent I have. (I'm from Indiana, but the upper tippy-top left corner....10 miles south of me is where the accents start, it's weird.)
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Yeah, that's what I would catagorize it as. Ofcourse, to the Brits or other such folk, we probably sound pretty funny... :p
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Hey Brits, what do you call my accent? :|
 
Aw, I was hoping I'd learn what slang term brits use for americans.

"Yankee" is the only one I know that comes readily to mind, what is a meaner one?
 
digitalwanderer said:
Aw, I was hoping I'd learn what slang term brits use for americans.

"Yankee" is the only one I know that comes readily to mind, what is a meaner one?
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Can't help you here matey, i am a very well-spoken kind of guy... :devilish:
 
A lot of people here are of the opinion the average american is the charichture george bush "toxic texan" and gun toting. "Fuckin americans init, n that twat stood by the big red button". Not a sentiment i share, but its stunningly common. "Damn yanks" and "Fuckin yanks"...

Thats usually about it, we're not as bad as the aussies, who have a thousand and one words for brits and everything else. The simpsons summed it up with their episode in australia, when an aussie sees a weird frog he asks its name and goes "Thats a funny name, I'd have called it a chazwozza".

British slang is very varied though, www.urbandictionary.co.uk is a good place to start with words like "scally", "quid", "wedge" etc... theres loads.
 
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