Can No One Tell The Difference Between Accents!

silver_dreams · Elder Than Dirt Joined: 05 Feb 2004 Posts: 5102

[quote="Paru (Paru)"] [quote="silver_dreams (silver)"] she can't say the word 'seashells' or 'chimney'. [/quote]
I can't pronounce the word seashells. I always wind up saying "sheeshells"

This reminds me of this one time (then this one time, at band camp). I was pretending that I had a Scottish accent all day, and some people really thought I was Scottish....
That was weird..... [/quote]
that is weird.

one of my friends went around tricking people into thinking he had an english accent. he seriously sounded like he was from England..

chibiprincess · Still very bored Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Posts: 388

i have a light lisp so that i cant pronounce my "r's" i prounouce them as "w's"
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silver_dreams · Elder Than Dirt Joined: 05 Feb 2004 Posts: 5102

i always mispronounce things. occaisonally wil lhave problems speaking. no idea why.

LadyoftheDeadlyDance · Forum Stalker Joined: 13 May 2004 Posts: 1144

Heh, my Boston accent is so bad, even my friends make fun of me. (car=cah)
But the weirdest thing is that I don't say "New York" like a Bostonian, I say it like a New Yorker. My principle was from New York, so I kinda got used to it that way.

...My grandmom's from Italy, so when I was little I used to speak in broken english...with a boston accent, of course. ^_^

chibiprincess · Still very bored Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Posts: 388

like i said i have a english accent at almost all tiems and in the other times i have a australlian accent and i havent been to either of the to i havent even been out of the usa..
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silver_dreams · Elder Than Dirt Joined: 05 Feb 2004 Posts: 5102

one of my friends has a speech problem.. it's hard to understand him sometimes.

chibiprincess · Still very bored Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Posts: 388

its nto that hard to understand me unless i am talkin really fast..
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silver_dreams · Elder Than Dirt Joined: 05 Feb 2004 Posts: 5102

i have a tendancy to talk quickly, and even when i'm not i'll often trip over my words.

it also helps that i'm trying to learn both japanese and spanish right now.

the weirdest thing is i more often mispronounce english words than japanese or spanish ones.. WTF?

chibi-cinnamoroll · Newb Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Posts: 21

Sure you can I have this friend from plymouth called tika and you can really tell she has and acsent

Myst · Very bored Joined: 19 Mar 2004 Posts: 176

People around where I live have an accent called Pittsburgese. I only have a slight accent. We say things different and call things weird names. . . Laughing

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of accents people have, but I usually figure it out eventually.

One_Winged_Angel_Returns · Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 5:13 am Post subject:

Well, for a Wisconsinite, I guess I'm not too norml. Japanese and Chinese is quite simple to pic out. I do own 2 horses, like most WI people dont (mostly stupid B/W cows!), and I ride all over in my hometown.
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DaBear · Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 5:34 am Post subject:

my accent from the great Del Val has been said to sound like Stallone from the Rocky movies. I even have the deep voice too! well he was trying to imitate the largest cities accent from the area "Philadelphia", I come from the second largest (just a little north and on the other side of the river) Trenton!

Yo, waz up duudes! whacha talkin' 'bout. dat aint eavin funnae. ma bad.

really wierd when I go somewhere else and get instantly pegged for a Philly person, then I know that the person Im talking to has at least been somewhere around here! and everyone in Joisey dosnt speek with the same accent. you gotta remember that this little state has one of the largest populations in this country, and its the most densly populated, so its only really big states like California and Texas and larger ones with unusually large cities like NYC and Philly that have more people! if you go to the "greater northeast" (what the hell is sooo great Im trying to figure out for 40+ years) they sound kinda like New York City res, and if you go to the shore its different. the Pinnies are like your in a different world, and the you have the Princetonians (I think their from another planet)!

what a ramblin bit of useless knowledge! oh, just watch ATHF and listen to Carl to here the Greater Northeast accent, then listen to Stallone in Rocky to hear the Del Val one!
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One_Winged_Angel_Returns · Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 6:51 am Post subject:

eh...no thanks. Not a big fan of that stuff. Just an annoying person waiting for someone to talk to me.
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