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Stormy
Joined: 10 Jan 2008
Location: Here & there
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| Frankly Mr Shankly wrote: |
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Aussie Aussie Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!
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If you did this in a bar, I would throw something at you. Something large and heavy. Again, it all depends where you are from. Urban accents, whilst still a bit pronounced, are nowhere near as thick or slang-ridden as those from say rural Queensland or the NT. |
Don't you go lumping us in with those bloody Queenslanders mate! At least we don't add 'eh' to the end of every sentence. |
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A2Steve
Joined: 10 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 3:37 am Post subject: |
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| The 'Peter Jennings' and 'Dan Rather' accents are understood throughout the world, |
Peter Jennings had a Canadian accent. It was also not a "common" Canadian accent, but a well-educated/high-class kind, like Christopher Plummer, Alex Trebek, or William Shatner.
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Bill Shatner is Canadian? For some reason, that makes me feel prouder to be an American.
Now, if I can just hear that Carrot Top or Gallagher are British, my work is done....... |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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| Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 5:07 am Post subject: |
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| IMF crisis wrote: |
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Peter Jennings had a Canadian accent. It was also not a "common" Canadian accent, but a well-educated/high-class kind, like Christopher Plummer, Alex Trebek, or William Shatner.
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In other words, educated Canadians sound like Americans. |
If you mean to say that Americans sound a hint British, then yes.
Peter Jennings sounded nothing like Tom Brokaw, or of course, Dan Rather. |
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Rae
Joined: 10 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 6:40 am Post subject: |
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I use the toothless, trailer just got hit by a tornando, Alabama buiscut eating accent.
tater=potato
mater=tomato
samich=sandwich
winder=window
Also it helps to give one syllable words a couple of extra ones. |
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ds_fan
Joined: 07 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 6:17 pm Post subject: |
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| iv got a broad belfast accent, fine for teaching, hasnt given me any problems, you learn how to pronounce things easy in certain situations after several jobs, i.e call centers for international customers etc gotta say though, i dont get why they want yank accents, if anything id have thought people from england would be thought of as speaking in the clearest form of english- especially southerners |
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