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spiral78
Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 11534 Location: On a Short Leash
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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- especially from the former Confederate States |
Gawd Bless them Cornfeds! (and keep them far away from me). |
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water rat
Joined: 30 Aug 2014 Posts: 1098 Location: North Antarctica
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Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 12:56 am Post subject: |
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scot47 wrote: |
I often find non-native speakers easier to understand than native speakers who use unfamiliar intonation, lexis and structures. Most difficult for me are some American accents - especially from the former Confederate States ! |
Right. Give me a Thai whose English is so limited she has to read airline safety information off a card rather than a native speaker of Singlish, which isn't so much a dialect as sheer ignorance.
While I am not from the South, I am an American, and I find the Scottish accent, by far, the most difficult native accent to understand.
And yet, I remember seeing Max Baer (that's right, Jethro Bodine himself) on the tonight show years ago (an articulate and well spoken man in real life) and though he is a native Southerner, he remarked that there are Southern accents that even he could not understand. Well, 'Long live the difference,' as the French might say when they can speak English. |
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scot47
Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343
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Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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"The Scottish accent" ? there ain't no such thing brother - a huge variety exist from Stranraer via Glasgow and Edinburgh to Thurso and beyond !
You want REAL incomprehensibilty try Birmingham (England, not Alabama) or Liverpool.
On Scottish accents, sample this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9bioqXyblU |
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johncoan
Joined: 02 Jul 2010 Posts: 115
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Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2015 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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scot47 wrote: |
"The Scottish accent" ? there ain't no such thing brother - a huge variety exist from Stranraer via Glasgow and Edinburgh to Thurso and beyond !
You want REAL incomprehensibilty try Birmingham (England, not Alabama) or Liverpool.
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Nah. The Glaswegian accent specifically is probably (famously!) the most difficult for native AND non-native speakers of English to understand. |
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