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Accents!

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Haha, I've know this has been done before but it's sort of fun. Topic is simply to discuss different accents in a humorous and light hearted manner.

I kind of scratched my head because I wanted to show an American accent but uh...there are too many. So I'll just throw in a bunch. Nevermind, youtube is retarded.

Anyway, I always get made fun of when I visit the rest of the states because apparently I have a "Minnesota accent" I don't even know what one is supposed to sound like. I was in Ohio and I was at the grocery store. I asked my dad whether he wanted paper or plastic bags. All the sudden the cashier says "Ugh, Minnesotans. It's BAG!" We pronounce it "baeg" and make the a longer but they say bag similar to the way the a is pronounced in "tag" I guess. It's weird. And ofcourse I lived in Ohio and Kentucky for a fair few years so apparently I slip and pronounce words and someone will ask me if I'm from the South. Goodness.

What's really annoying is when you're around other people that have accents and then you, unaware, start to talk like them. I've done that so many times. Went to Georgia and had a good time in Atlanta, I come back and all I friends are picking on me because I sound Southern. Or even worse, whenever I go to England to visit family I will, unaware, start talking like they do. It's embarrassing because when you do it, it's really just your interpretation of what it sounds like, instead of what it actually sounds like. So I always end up looking really stupid. -_-;

I think it's funny in general when people try to imitate accents, especially if they already have one. It sounds really, really funny when someone with a strong Southern accent for example, tries to do a New York accent. And I hate it when people try to do Southern accents. Depending on where you are, in all honestly they can sound pretty nice really. A lot of people have the "Hatfield and McCoy/redneck" interpretation of a Southern accent rather what a regular person in Georgia or Alabama sounds like. Plus there are a lot of different Southern accents too. Not just your stereotypical Texas accent. :P

So yeah, discuss accents. ^_^
 
I don't think I have an accent. I mean... I come from a family who lived in the south (atleast on my dad's side.) He sounds like a redneck, but I don't. :/

I guess I have the accent whateven the people who live in Illinois has.
 
I'm from south yorkshire in england and for some people that don't get it, we tend to talk abit like farrrrmerrrs round ere don't ya know? Well a very small amount do, i'm pertty well spoken for somebody who comes from where i come from, although i do say things like ba-bi (baby) and Wah-ter (water) as a joke ;).Also i dislike how amercian programmes make us british sound lol....i can tell you now that the vast majority of us don't speak like that,lol.
 
Northern england accent crossed with an Irish accent is what taints my voice.

It's come from living in Northern england most of my life and Irish family I suppose. I get laughed at a bit by people sometimes for the way I pronounce words, and if I go to southern England it's guaranteed that some Southerner faggot will attempt to take the piss out of the Northern Accent with a joke they must be blind to not realise I have heard it a thousand times before - it wasn't funny when you said "Oh you're from the north like wey aye man" then, and it's not funny now.

As for imitation, I like to think I can imitate stuff pretty well, hell I had a few girls down the pub not too long ago believe I was german for a couple hours, which was pretty awesome. As for people imitating mine, glhf trying scrub.
 
Well, have an accent where I say O'rly? in my best british accent. I'm Taiwanese, so I just have a strong canadien accent when I speak mandarin.
 
I don't think I have an accent, but when my family went visiting relatives and family friends in Canada, someone said that I had a 'cool Australian accent'. :///
 
I have an English accent, but not like the Queen (then again no one does!). Where I live, most people have a very thick accent, where we pronounce things strange.

Like:

No as Nor

Maybe as Mebee

Etc. etc.

I don't talk like that, most people say I'm posh but I'm not. I have a weird accent for where I live, that's all I can say.
 
I have a sort of new England accent I think. Like I barely pronounce the "T" in "Mountain". I guess it's like "Moun'ain" or something. Bleh. I can speak in a bunch of foreign accents but my natural voice is just normal to me.

Oh, and British accents sound like people opening cans of cat food. Just saying :p
 
My accent's the typical North American type thing. Though I sometimes have these moments when I say a few words in a sort of black manner (which sort of bugs my sister :p).
 
I Have A bit of a bit of a North eastern accent... But I wouldn't count that as a real accent.

once Someone said I had a hint of Italian in my voice, but I don't hear it at all... (well except for a few word.)
 
everybody has an accent guys. it's like saying you dont have a race; you always speak different from other regions regardless.

you are the last person to judge whether you have an accent or not. >_>;;

when i speak to northerners though, people say i sound southern.
 
JoshYEAH said:
Northern england accent crossed with an Irish accent is what taints my voice.
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Don't lie Josh you sound just like Arnold Schwarzenegger I've heard you.

I have no distinct accent, despite coming from the Bronx/NYC area. It sometimes bleeds through when I'm talking but for the most part I have none.

Also, Babylon I totally understand what you're saying when it comes to adapting to people's accents. I remember I went with my grandparents to South Carolina and stayed there for a week, and before the week was over I actually caught myself talking with a slight southern accent. That was the only time, but I'm sure if I visit anywhere else with strange accents it'd happen again. Minnesota accents are funny, though and not in a bad way either. I have a friend that has a Minnesota accent and listening to him talk is always a laugh.

Actually all accents are pretty funny when they're understandable.
 
I have a New Zealand accent. It's pretty cool, but when you go to other countries, you get picked out really easily, especially England and America.
 
GhostAnime said:
everybody has an accent guys. it's like saying you dont have a race; you always speak different from other regions regardless.

you are the last person to judge whether you have an accent or not. >_>;;

when i speak to northerners though, people say i sound southern.
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Yeah, exactly. Everyone has an accent. Even if you think you're normal, there's not one 'normal' accent.

As for me...I've got a bit of a southern accent, mixed with lots of half-finished words. The last part probably has something to do with my innate laziness of not even wanting to speak slow, though.
 
I was wondering when this was going to pop up again.

Anyway my accent is pretty mixed since I've travelled so much so people can't really spot what kind it is. It is mainly a British accent.

I don't say barth instead I say baf, and I drop 't's and 'h's alot unless the t is the first letter in a word it is sort of like a cockney accent. For those who don't know what tha' is go watch an episode of Eastenders, or listen to Russell Brand.

I honesly ate the stereotypical "English" accent, since people fink of England as rich, upper class, snobby place including the people in it. The majori'y of people aren't.
 
Yonowaru in Chaos said:
I don't think I have an accent, but when my family went visiting relatives and family friends in Canada, someone said that I had a 'cool Australian accent'. :///
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Exactly. When people don't think they have an accent, it usually means they just sound like everyone around them. I'm sure if you traveled to another country they would disagree with you none-accent people.

As for me, I can't place it. I have a northeastern accent I suppose? It's not quite New Yawk but it isn't the Bostonian drinking cahfee in my cah either. I can't pronounce the k's at the end of words though. If I were to say flask, it comes out as flass and yes, ask comes out without the 'k' as well :P Sometimes I'll accidentally slip out a 'soorry' instead of 'sorry.' Friends make fun of me soo much for that. Too much Degrassi getting to me xP
 
Despite being in NYC, I'm the only one in my family who doesn't have a habit of leaving off the er sound at the end of words like better and ever. However I saw coffee like cawfee.

I have what I call standard American except that I don't pronounce t all the time like inTernet or accenT and I contract "going to" as "gonna" and "want to" as "wanna".

My favorite accents are Scottish and Australian.
 
If I speak Dutch, my a is a mix of an "a" and an "o". That pretty much marks the coast's folk.
We also use words that aren't related to any other word in Dutch, or another language like 'tsjekkern', 'potvint', 'waiern' and stuff.

Oh, and we can use the word 'yes' as a verb.
 
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