Accents, got one? |
 Jun 10 2006, 05:39 PM
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 Antho a.k.a the Afrodisiac  Group: Member Posts: 640 Joined: Apr 2006 Member No: 396,805  |
I was in this Krogers yesterday and i was talkin to the cashier. she just graduated or whatever and we started talkin about Frisco bein boring as hell! Anyway, im about to leave and she tells me "You have the cutest Texas accent". I was like
 thinkin' 'i ain't got no damn accent', but i smiled and left......That's why i made this topic. now does anyone have an accent so i don't feel weird and "Texan" |
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May 8 2007, 04:50 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 7,025 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 4,051 |
People as close as New Jersey notice the difference. We say caw-fee instead of coffee, and long-guyland instead of long island. And Dawg instead of dog.
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May 8 2007, 04:52 PM
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 long time no CB. Group: Official Member Posts: 3,889 Joined: Jan 2007 Member No: 493,502 |
Nope. I don't think people from NJ have accents.. ?
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May 8 2007, 06:33 PM
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 vivacity Group: Official Member Posts: 3,183 Joined: Jan 2007 Member No: 495,247 |
Nope I don't have an accent.
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May 8 2007, 09:40 PM
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c[: Group: Member Posts: 2,302 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 2,876 |
lol a lot of people say i sound like i'm from New York, but i've never even even been up north...the farthest up north i've been is...Georgia? lol.
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May 9 2007, 04:56 AM
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 PedaLPusherr Group: Member Posts: 44 Joined: May 2007 Member No: 522,376 |
Not that i know of. I mean, everyone has an accent, but I don't know what you would classify mine as. I grew up in NewYork, but moved down south in `03. Since that, the way I talk has been mellowed out (not so much NY). Somebody down here told me I sorta have a western drawl. which translates into "plain", not one way or the other.
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May 9 2007, 05:35 AM
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 What a sick, masochistic lion. Group: Member Posts: 1,853 Joined: Sep 2006 Member No: 460,535 |
Yeah, I do... not sure where it's from, exactly though. I just know that if I speak English to Japanese people here, they'll go "Oh, you have an American accent!" Nothing HUGE though. |
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May 9 2007, 06:34 AM
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 Don't touch me you drink! Group: Member Posts: 310 Joined: Apr 2007 Member No: 518,707 |
QUOTE(APPLEjuicex @ Jun 10 2006, 7:09 PM)  i was born in hong kong but then moved to the united states at 3. so it was easy for me to learn. so, no. i dont have one. although, i can do a killer british accent. Haha! I can do a killer British accent too! I'm from long Island, and I got the accent BAD. It's mellowed out a little, now that i live somewhere else...but it's still really prominent. |
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May 9 2007, 09:11 AM
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umm..yes i have a mass and nyc accent arrg ihate them!~!
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May 9 2007, 11:01 AM
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 Black Barbie Group: Member Posts: 177 Joined: Jan 2007 Member No: 494,605 |
i have multiple accents. its not anything that i do on purpose, but i tend to take on the accent of the area i am in. my original accent was deep southern new orleans accent, then moving to NC it changed to a high country accent, now its a mixture of both. i tend to go back in the new orleans accent when in the state of being angry and yelling or arguing. i dont know im weird i guess,lol.
its like i can stay somewhere for a few weeks and automatically capture part of the accent in that area. |
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May 9 2007, 07:06 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Official Member Posts: 3,291 Joined: Feb 2007 Member No: 503,024 |
Yeah when i speak Spanish.
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May 9 2007, 07:17 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Official Member Posts: 7,149 Joined: Aug 2005 Member No: 213,509 |
YEAH Linda said I have one, and I have one. :D
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May 9 2007, 11:57 PM
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Newbie Group: Member Posts: 3 Joined: May 2007 Member No: 522,715 |
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May 9 2007, 11:58 PM
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Newbie Group: Member Posts: 4 Joined: May 2007 Member No: 522,780 |
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May 10 2007, 06:48 AM
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 The kooks Group: Member Posts: 499 Joined: Apr 2007 Member No: 516,563 |
Being born and raised in Oxford, you would think I would sound posh but actually I don't. I'm really well spoken and it shocks alot of people for some reason. Also I don't have an accent which is cool since it means everyone can understand me rather then a few.
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May 10 2007, 09:53 PM
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 Too slow. Group: Member Posts: 2,730 Joined: Mar 2005 Member No: 108,320 |
People say I have a hispanic accent but iunno. I guess i do cause sometimes i do hear it but most of the time i cant.
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May 11 2007, 05:30 AM
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I'm from the north of England, but where I live, I kinda sound different to the other people. I dunno why >.> I think it's because I picked up on how both my parents speak, so I'm just one big mess......but then again, I don't really have an accent...it's just northern. Everyone can understand me.
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May 11 2007, 06:19 AM
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The kooks Group: Member Posts: 499 Joined: Apr 2007 Member No: 516,563 |
QUOTE(Puppy Chan @ May 11 2007, 11:30 AM) I'm from the north of England, but where I live, I kinda sound different to the other people. I dunno why >.> I think it's because I picked up on how both my parents speak, so I'm just one big mess......but then again, I don't really have an accent...it's just northern. Everyone can understand me. Excuse me Madam, could you please say that again, I can not understand juu! 
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May 11 2007, 06:28 AM
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QUOTE(Mystic Eyes @ May 11 2007, 11:19 AM) Excuse me Madam, could you please say that again, I can not understand juu! You cheeky git  Whenever I hear customers in our shop it's weird....I can't understand the majority of them. O_o=3 heheh I'm glad I don't sound like them. |
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May 15 2007, 04:39 PM
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I've met some Americans who claimed I have some sort of Canadian accent, but I don't think so... *shrug*
I heard lots of different accents on my vacation a week or ago. Texan, Mexican, British, etc... |
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May 15 2007, 08:43 PM
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 we go a-drowning Group: Member Posts: 964 Joined: Apr 2007 Member No: 519,725 |
i dont have what you would call an accent but i do sorta slurr my speech which makes me sound like a deranged drunk sometimes :D lol
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May 15 2007, 11:15 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Official Designer Posts: 441 Joined: Dec 2005 Member No: 330,617 |
English accent here.
Bet you didn't know that. ;) |
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May 15 2007, 11:28 PM
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^ Whoa, nope. I didnt. Thats awesome...
I'm sure if I went up north or something, they'd think that I did. But no. I'm just glad I dont have a southern accent.  I'm just... normal [Though, there really isnt such a thing]. |
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May 16 2007, 04:33 AM
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QUOTE(brownsugar @ May 16 2007, 5:33 AM) Well don't we all technically have accents?  lol that's what i was thinking the entire time i was reading through this thread... confuuuuuuusd 
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May 16 2007, 04:50 PM
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Senior Member Group: Official Designer Posts: 441 Joined: Dec 2005 Member No: 330,617 |
Well yeah, accents are definitely relative.
Most Americans have an American accent, and within America, there are different accents, e.g. Southern, New York, etc. But then I believe there are people here who don't have a classifiable American accent, i.e. they don't have an accent associated with a particular region. So as Americans, we will consider those people to "not have an accent." If you look at it like that, I know lots of people "without accents." |
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May 16 2007, 04:55 PM
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 consistently inconsistent. Group: Member Posts: 509 Joined: Dec 2004 Member No: 74,128 |
Yessss, very much so. I have a southern accent. I know because I moved to Colorado for a year and the people at school would tell me, "Awwe, your accent is so sweet/cute!" I'm like, "Thanks"
 . But now since I've moved back home, I've gotten my accent back, and it's deeper now than it was before I left. 
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