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jiberish
Joined: 17 Jul 2006
Location: The Carribean Bay Wrestler
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Oprah = Sales
Oprah is queen of the daytime zombies. They will listen to her every command. |
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nicmunny
Joined: 02 Jan 2010
Location: Jangyu, Gimhae, Korea
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| Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 3:53 am Post subject: |
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["Flava Flav should be the spokesman for Earth Day. He can point to his clock and say "Yo. You Know what time it is? Time to cut your carbon footprint boooooooi!" /quote]
LOL. |
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JMO
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 4:41 pm Post subject: |
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| PigeonFart wrote: |
| What erks me is when american tv shows put subtitles when english people are talking. Come on!!! |
They do this with minority accents in America as well. Its pretty offensive.
I'm very good at understanding accents because I listen and if I don't fully understand a word, I put it in context. You would be surprised the amount of people who don't do that. BTW that Jamie Carragher video seems pretty easy to understand..if you attune yourself to the rhythm of scouse speech. I do have family there though(and all over the north of england)
My least favorite accent is undoubtedly 'estuary english' though. The choice of upper middle class twats who want to sound like they are not upper middle class twats.
I have a fairly neutral accent after 4 years here. People think I sound Canadian at first until I say words like marry, larry etc and say with a big 'a'. The way americans say this sounds like 'merry' to me.
I have noticed that people whose accents themselves change over time (the most easily influenced by voices around them) are the best at understanding other accents. |
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Tundra_Creature
Joined: 11 Jun 2009
Location: Canada
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| Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 4:35 am Post subject: |
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| jiberish wrote: |
Oprah = Sales
Oprah is queen of the daytime zombies. They will listen to her every command. |
Well, you gotta admit, she does give away free everything. It's hard to turn away from that.
I don't normally have a problem with the British accent. I tend to find it sexy. But of course, if it's one of those small town accents, then that's a different story. |
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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="JMO"
BTW that Jamie Carragher video seems pretty easy to understand..if you attune yourself to the rhythm of scouse speech.
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I was on a bus in London, and there were 2 guys talking loudly in the back. I thought they were German or Dutch. It took me about 10 minutes to realize they were talking English. These guys had the thickest Scouse accents ever.
They made Jamie Carragher sound like Prince Charles. |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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Kwangjuchicken
Joined: 01 Sep 2003
Location: I was abducted by aliens on my way to Korea and forced to be an EFL teacher on this crazy planet.
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| Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 3:14 am Post subject: |
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Saying words that end in "a" is if they end in "er" drives me crazy.
Americer
Africer
Princess Dianer
Australier
Chiner
A galer affair
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zz8w1988
Joined: 12 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 2:14 am Post subject: |
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| sorry.. i will choose american,,, i think that brits accent sounds a little heavier and choppy sometimes for my ears. But talking about brits we need to mention ireland as well. there is this irish guy,,, he talks fast but im kind of into that way he spoke, plain, fast, not much information. |
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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 3:06 am Post subject: |
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| I don't think a lot of Americans would even recognize a Brit accent if they heard it. I watched a couple of episodes of 'V' (good show btw), and there is a British character played by an Australian actor. Strewth, he doesn't even try to hide the Aussie accent, but I bet most Americans don't even realize. |
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Sleepy in Seoul
Joined: 15 May 2004
Location: Going in ever decreasing circles until I eventually disappear up my own fundament - in NZ
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 7:13 am Post subject: |
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Long live the Geordie accent!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8u0S1sP8MA&feature=related
For what it's worth, I think that many American speakers sound incredibly lazy, not bothering to sound out vowels or consonants; a 't' doesn't sound like a 'd'... that's why we have the two of them (butter, not 'budderrr'). On the other hand, some of them inject an incredible number of vowels where they shouldn't be. The way that some Americans pronounce 'mirror' as 'meer' (with an extremely over-pronounced 'r') is completely baffling to me. Not to mention a sometimes complete ignorance of adverbs. |
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annuayim
Joined: 24 Mar 2010
Location: Midwest
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:08 am Post subject: |
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| Sleepy in Seoul wrote: |
Long live the Geordie accent!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8u0S1sP8MA&feature=related
For what it's worth, I think that many American speakers sound incredibly lazy, not bothering to sound out vowels or consonants; a 't' doesn't sound like a 'd'... that's why we have the two of them (butter, not 'budderrr'). On the other hand, some of them inject an incredible number of vowels where they shouldn't be. The way that some Americans pronounce 'mirror' as 'meer' (with an extremely over-pronounced 'r') is completely baffling to me. Not to mention a sometimes complete ignorance of adverbs. |
C'mon, now. Languages change. |
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Sleepy in Seoul
Joined: 15 May 2004
Location: Going in ever decreasing circles until I eventually disappear up my own fundament - in NZ
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:41 am Post subject: |
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| annuayim wrote: |
| C'mon, now. Languages change. |
Are you referring to American or English? |
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jugbandjames
Joined: 15 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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| For what it's worth, I think that many American speakers sound incredibly lazy, not bothering to sound out vowels or consonants; a 't' doesn't sound like a 'd'... that's why we have the two of them (butter, not 'budderrr'). |
It has nothing to do with laziness...that's just your language prejudice. It's not like it's more difficult to pronounce /t/ than /d/. In fact, if anything, /d/ takes more effort because it's voiced. Would you prefer a glottal stop to a flap? |
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annuayim
Joined: 24 Mar 2010
Location: Midwest
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 3:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Sleepy in Seoul wrote: |
| annuayim wrote: |
| C'mon, now. Languages change. |
Are you referring to American or English? |
Both. |
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