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Tiger Beer
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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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I have ownley wun thang t' saiy abowt the - y- em thar areas: deyr fah too braahd to reely capcher th way we tahk iun Ahmuhrakha... hey, I'm tawkin d you! Shee-yit. But a really coo idea.
(There are no spelling errors in the above.) |
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jinglejangle
Joined: 19 Feb 2005
Location: Far far far away.
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Yeah they're far too broad, and the clips represent accent difference, not dialectical difference. Plus the Western example sounded like he hopped the border sometime in his early life, and the New Englander sounded like he got of the boat from somewhere in SouthCentral Asia within the last decade.
PS. Where is this coming from? Got links? |
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Pangit
Joined: 02 Sep 2004
Location: Puet mo.
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| Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 4:39 pm Post subject: |
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| That "New Englander" sounds like the Chinese guy back home I dropped my dry-cleaning off at, right down to the greasy wash water. |
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Tiger Beer
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| I'm rather surprised the Southern dialects are roped together.. driving around there, I swore I heard very distinct accents between a Mississippian and a Texan and a Lousianan, etc. |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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No map but here's a link to some Canadian dialects. ( they've got the rest of the world there too)
http://www.ku.edu/~idea/northamerica/canada/canada.htm
One of the samples is a guy from the town where I was born. Comments on his accent read:
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| It is obvious when listening to this subject that a sense of humour and a love of partying is a clue to grasping the dialect |
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tardisrider
Joined: 13 Mar 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm with Tiger Beer on this one. I'm from East Tennessee, and I know that East Tennesseans and West Tennesseans sound quite different from one another. As a matter of fact, there are a great many variations in both accent and dialect just within East Tennessee itself. |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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Thanks for that. I was a little disappointed by the ones I listened to (Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan) because they didn't really strike me as distinct, but maybe my ear isn't finely tuned enough. I'm going back for a helpin' of Newfoundland in a minute.
When I went back to Manitoba after being there for a year, I REALLY heard some peculiar qualities of the Winnipeg accent, particularly on the radio.
There are some accents I would really like to see on that site: Inuit , Plains Aboriginal, and Montreal Jewish (my favorite Canadian accent of all. See Radio Free Vestibule for more info.) |
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