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Lexxi Gynoid
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08-18-2008 12:15
From: Max Herzog
That criminal was the very magnificent Robert Carlyle.

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From: Claire Silverspar
Ooh the canadian accent is fab. Aboot :D hehe

Darling, I was aboot to put your bras in the boot, when I noticed that the coppers dang nab it put a boot on the car.

There, mixed several together and confused everyone (and no, I wasn't talking about putting bras into footware).
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Kaimi Kyomoon
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08-18-2008 12:16
From: Trout Recreant
My Western Washington State accent is NOTHING like a Bronx accent!!! HOW DARE YOU!!

It's more like a Boston accent with a bit of Minnesota and a dash of Georgia. But it's tough because I'm not a native English speaker. My first language was Western Canadian, ey.

I wonder if I have a noticeable accent. It's weird - everyone here talks like me, and I really don't think of people on the West Coast having an accent - whether it's the North West Coast like me or the South West Coast like Kaimi. We life 1500 miles away from each other - there ought to be a difference.
I don't think I'm being all that geocentric when I say that Our left coast accent is the "regular" American accent. Possibly because for some time now it's the one that actors use when they aren't using specific regional accents. I happen to think that Canadian (and Wisconsin and North Dakota) accents are very nice and often not that noticeable. We're talking like like Dan Ackroyd, right?
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=P_NpxTWbovE
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Lexxi Gynoid
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08-18-2008 12:17
From: Amaranthim Talon
I worked with an East African gentleman once who spoke both English and Spanish... sadly I couldn't understand him in either one...mostly I just nodded and smiled a lot-

*nods and smiles*

(hehe)
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08-18-2008 12:17
From: Claire Silverspar
lol Kaimi....there is a new accent every mile or so round here. even just down the road.

Oh, and scouse of a liverpudlian(?) accent Lexxi...Liverpool is just down the road and I work with a lot of scousers

the one accent that melts me into a pool of mush is that lovely Dutch accent. yum!
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08-18-2008 12:18
From: Lexxi Gynoid
I recognize the name but . . . do not recall hearing that accent.

i was referring more to attitude that accent. i think the accent/language in Watts is ebonics.
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Lexxi Gynoid
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08-18-2008 12:19
From: Kaimi Kyomoon
I don't think I'm being all that geocentric when I say that Our left coast accent is the "regular" American accent. Possibly because for some time now it's the one that actors use when they aren't using specific regional accents. I happen to think that Canadian (and Wisconsin and North Dakota) accents are very nice and often not that noticeable. We're talking like like Dan Ackroyd, right?
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=P_NpxTWbovE

I've actually heard it expressed that it is the midwestern accent that is the "regular" American accent.

The proof, though, is in the pudding, and I'm fresh out of pudding.
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08-18-2008 12:20
From: Maureen Boccaccio
lol. When I was living in San Diego, there was a very popular bumper sticker on lots of cars..."There is no life east of I-5"....
I don't know why people think they have to state the obvious on bumper stickers..
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Claire Silverspar
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08-18-2008 12:20
A selection of British accents:

http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/index.html

Though some of these aren't really strong. Birkenhead is the scouse accent. My accent is on there too :D

(try the aberdeenshire one...see if you can understand it ;) )
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08-18-2008 12:21
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Kaimi Kyomoon
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08-18-2008 12:23
From: Lexxi Gynoid
I live in an area where everyone has an accent. It can get very confusing at times. Heck, most of my co-workers have some form of African accented English (no, I'm not being racist here, they are natives of Africa who have come to the USA to, apparently, work for my company).
I have also worked with Africans, they came to the States to study and then came to the packing plant for the summer to make money. I also worked with a lot of South East Asians and Mexican nationals there. It made dinner time really interesting! I love being around different accents and cultures.
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08-18-2008 12:24
So Cal


/me laffs
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08-18-2008 12:25
ooh. Greeks are fun to dine with...
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08-18-2008 12:26
From: Claire Silverspar
lol Kaimi....there is a new accent every mile or so round here. even just down the road.

Oh, and scouse of a liverpudlian(?) accent Lexxi...Liverpool is just down the road and I work with a lot of scousers
I lived around Portsmouth and South Hampton for a few years and lost my Yank accent in self defense. Then my first husband got a job up in North Yorkshire and none of us Southerners could understand some of the locals there. At that time there was also a big difference in class accents.
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08-18-2008 12:27
From: Claire Silverspar
Ooh the canadian accent is fab. Aboot :D hehe


Welllll... aboot is more of an Eastern Canadian thing. Kinda sorta with some French Canadian mixed in with it.
I do NOT say 'aboot', no matter what Max says.

:D
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08-18-2008 12:27
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So Cal


/me laffs
Typical Raiders fan.
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08-18-2008 12:27
From: Lexxi Gynoid
What they heck is I-5? *mutters to self, only one that matters is I-95*


LOL!!

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08-18-2008 12:28
My birth mother was from Massachusetts. she used to pronounce it "abote"
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08-18-2008 12:28
From: Brann Georgia
Welllll... aboot is more of an Eastern Canadian thing. Kinda sorta with some French Canadian mixed in with it.
I do NOT say 'aboot', no matter what Max says.

:D


Me? I was staying quiet, on purpose. Eh.
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Claire Silverspar
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08-18-2008 12:30
From: Brann Georgia
Welllll... aboot is more of an Eastern Canadian thing. Kinda sorta with some French Canadian mixed in with it.
I do NOT say 'aboot', no matter what Max says.

:D

ooo I betcha do, I bet you say aboot and all of those other lovely canadian ways of saying stuffs :p
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08-18-2008 12:31
From: Kaimi Kyomoon
I don't think I'm being all that geocentric when I say that Our left coast accent is the "regular" American accent. Possibly because for some time now it's the one that actors use when they aren't using specific regional accents. I happen to think that Canadian (and Wisconsin and North Dakota) accents are very nice and often not that noticeable. We're talking like like Dan Ackroyd, right?
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=P_NpxTWbovE


Right. I was raised in the San Joaquin Valley and moved north, so my accent is pretty much unchanged and other than my pasty white NW tan, I would probably not be noticeable in San Diego. It's a generic West Coast accent. But I'm not sure anyone can really claim to have a regular US accent. It's so different everywhere you go. I think we defy definition.

Although we sort of recognize a "regular" British accent, even though it changes drastically from region to region in the UK as well. Maybe they do the same for us. Hell, I don't know. It's interesting, though. At least, it's more interesting than anything else I'm stuck doing today.
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08-18-2008 12:34
i have a friend in No Carolina. she talks funny. and she gets so riled up!
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Lexxi Gynoid
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08-18-2008 12:34
From: Trout Recreant
Right. I was raised in the San Joaquin Valley and moved north, so my accent is pretty much unchanged and other than my pasty white NW tan, I would probably not be noticeable in San Diego. It's a generic West Coast accent. But I'm not sure anyone can really claim to have a regular US accent. It's so different everywhere you go. I think we defy definition.

Although we sort of recognize a "regular" British accent, even though it changes drastically from region to region in the UK as well. Maybe they do the same for us. Hell, I don't know. It's interesting, though. At least, it's more interesting than anything else I'm stuck doing today.

The "regular" British accent is the BBC accent. At least that is how I've heard it discribed. I have never found "BBC" on the map.

(hehe, yes, I know what BBC stands for)
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08-18-2008 12:35
From: Trout Recreant
Right. I was raised in the San Joaquin Valley ... It's a generic West Coast accent

depends on how close you lived to Charter Way. LOL
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08-18-2008 12:36
From: Lexxi Gynoid
I've actually heard it expressed that it is the midwestern accent that is the "regular" American accent.

The proof, though, is in the pudding, and I'm fresh out of pudding.
Yes, Lexxi, there's a good case to be made for that. It's what I call a "down-home" accent. (And I had one when I lived in Kansas.) When someone speaks with a mid-west accent they sound more unaffected and "salt of the Earth".
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08-18-2008 12:38
From: 3Ring Binder
depends on how close you lived to Charter Way. LOL


I don't even know where Charter Way is.

I was raised in Visalia, which is about half way between Fresno and Bakersfield in the South San Joaquin. I turned 18 and got the hell out of town so fast you could see flames from my footprints. Moved to Tacoma, Seattle, then down to Olympia. I'd be perfectly happy living here the rest of my life. Or not. I'll probably finish my career here and then go somewhere interesting.
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