Accents, got one? |
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 May 8 2007, 04:50 PM
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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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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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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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Yeah when i speak Spanish.
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May 9 2007, 07:17 PM
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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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May 9 2007, 11:58 PM
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May 10 2007, 06:48 AM
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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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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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