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[yingwenlaoshi]

It's funny because I'm from New Brunswick and this fkn idiot (whatever was stuck up his ass - maybe he wanted a beating, but I was at work), quickly said, "You said aboot" (he's American). I know for a fact that I didn't. I wouldn't say "aboot." I say "about" or /abaut/. Is it some sort of trying to get under my skin thing? I guess it sort of worked. He's lucky I didn't drag him out of the school and pound his fkg head in. Not because I care how I say "about," but for the pure fact that he thought he could talk to me that way. He was just checking out the school. Only met him that once. He also said something about Chris Paul or something and him being from Canada. Like I fkg care if he's from Canada.

New Brunswickers definitely do have an accent. Depends which part you're from, of course. People on the north side of my hometown (or near downtown on the south side and in a lot of other areas) have distinct, country-sounding accents. It's hard to describe, really. Depends also on where you're parents are from. My parents weren't born and bread where I grew up. Makes a difference there, at least.

[mises]

[peppermint]

I'm one of those people who picks up accents very easily- sometimes without noticing I'm doing it. my default is a fairly neutral North American accent, but once in a while, I slip into a Newfie baymen accent, and believe me, that clip from New York, that's not fast.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m-y-qAbpL0 This one is not only completely comprehensible, it's a little on the slow side to me.

[yingwenlaoshi]

[Jimskins]

R-Seoul wrote:
Oh and an American accent? Easy, just hold your nose and talk normally...

Exactly. Why has no-one else mentioned this?

[mises]

[yingwenlaoshi]

[Juregen]

[Shauneyz]

[quote="Privateer"]

[IncognitoHFX]

"Why, howdy partner. I am from A-mer-e-ca.

You all come-ah back now, hear?"

[Privateer]

[Horangi Munshin]

My first school forced me to change my accent to a North American one and to say I was from the U.S, A-holes!!

I had fun with it of course

[cj1976]

I can understand the confusion with British accents. I'm from the south of England and I sometimes have problems understanding people from certain parts of the country.
I've met people from the north who I can barely understand - mainly people from Liverpool and Newcastle. They speak with a lot of parochial slang and pronounce certain vowels differently.

[mikeyboy122]

Yo homeboy whuh be witt dis axent ting. us amaricens be tawkin like dat. word. i be from souff saynt lewis ah up in da eest syde we be awl up in yo ax wen yuu be moufin' like dat. yoo bee understandable?

[Stormy]