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How not to do an American accent
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Posted 22 July 2008 - 01:58 PM
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Posted 22 July 2008 - 02:00 PM
Shinrei no Shintai;356810 said:
You need to brush up on your reading skills. I did NOT claim to have no accent.
I didn't claim that you did, did I?
I said it annoys me when midwesterners claim that they have no accent, and then pull the newscaster card as if it means anything...
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Posted 22 July 2008 - 02:50 PM
Illuyankas;356830 said:
@[linet]Obdigore[/linet] er, *cough* Cougar: This kind of teddy?
Keep it in your pants god damn chicken
Also is the 'newscaster card' anything like 'playing the race card'
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Posted 22 July 2008 - 03:11 PM
As Shin so rightly pointed out nobody has no accent. One of the most hilarious things ever is to hear some of the very posh Scots who insist they don't have an accent.
I'm not especially good at placing accents myself;for instance I would have placed Cougar's a bit further out into the sticks for some reason. And Mezla's I would have placed as generic Northern.
I have been told in the past that mine is a particularly hard accent to place. My hard "a"s give me away as a northerner and that's about it; the rest is pretty much RP with the very odd hint of Jamaican that creeps in when I least expect it.
I'm not especially good at placing accents myself;for instance I would have placed Cougar's a bit further out into the sticks for some reason. And Mezla's I would have placed as generic Northern.
I have been told in the past that mine is a particularly hard accent to place. My hard "a"s give me away as a northerner and that's about it; the rest is pretty much RP with the very odd hint of Jamaican that creeps in when I least expect it.
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Posted 22 July 2008 - 03:18 PM
I'd be interested in hearing what kind of English accent you guys at the BBQ felt I had. I don't think there's many examples of famous people from my neck of the woods around to compare.
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Posted 22 July 2008 - 03:31 PM
I didn't notice much of an accent, so I guess it must be fairly similar to mine.
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Posted 22 July 2008 - 03:44 PM
Illuyankas;356915 said:
I'd be interested in hearing what kind of English accent you guys at the BBQ felt I had. I don't think there's many examples of famous people from my neck of the woods around to compare.
Is patronising an accent? Anyway I couldn't hear what you were saying because of the volume of your shirt.
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Posted 22 July 2008 - 03:55 PM
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And Mezla's I would have placed as generic Northern.
My region-specific twang has been diluted somewhat from spending a long time around filthy southerners. My mother thinks I speak the Queen's own English in comparison to the rest of my family and tells my sister she'd do better to talk like me
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Posted 22 July 2008 - 05:06 PM
Terez;356851 said:
I didn't claim that you did, did I? 
I said it annoys me when midwesterners claim that they have no accent, and then pull the newscaster card as if it means anything...
I said it annoys me when midwesterners claim that they have no accent, and then pull the newscaster card as if it means anything...Sorry, but your post quotes me and then the first thing you say is "This annoys me". I thought it was a pretty strong inference that my post directly applied to what annoys you.
Well anyways, mistakes never happen on the internets.
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Posted 22 July 2008 - 05:16 PM
Shinrei no Shintai;356964 said:
Sorry, but your post quotes me and then the first thing you say is "This annoys me". I thought it was a pretty strong inference that my post directly applied to what annoys you.
Well, it did directly relate to it, since you mentioned the newscasters. But it wasn't meant to be a personal attack or anything.
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Posted 22 July 2008 - 07:04 PM
Mezla PigDog;356940 said:
My region-specific twang has been diluted somewhat from spending a long time around filthy southerners. My mother thinks I speak the Queen's own English in comparison to the rest of my family and tells my sister she'd do better to talk like me
Similar to my grandmother. She thinks I talk like a "posh git", to quote her. Just imagine how common she sounds. Now quail with fear.
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Posted 22 July 2008 - 08:45 PM
Thelomen Toblerone;357011 said:
Similar to my grandmother. She thinks I talk like a "posh git", to quote her. Just imagine how common she sounds. Now quail with fear.
Good god, Christmas at the Toblerone house must be like the musical Oliver!
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Posted 22 July 2008 - 09:08 PM
You ARE the son of Dick Van Dyke.
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Posted 22 July 2008 - 09:12 PM
TT is Barry van Dyke???? Oh man! I love you in Diagnosis Murder and that double episode of The A-Team (that I believe was called "Bend In The River")
Yes, I have followed the career of Barry van Dyke a little too closely!
He was also in The Love Boat, Airwolf, Battlestar Galactica (the original of course!), Remington Steele, Magnum P.I., Mork and Mindy, Wonderwoman, Remington Steele, T.J. Hooker AND The Dukes of Hazzard - A true 80's hero, I'm sure you'll agree.
Yes, I have followed the career of Barry van Dyke a little too closely!
He was also in The Love Boat, Airwolf, Battlestar Galactica (the original of course!), Remington Steele, Magnum P.I., Mork and Mindy, Wonderwoman, Remington Steele, T.J. Hooker AND The Dukes of Hazzard - A true 80's hero, I'm sure you'll agree.
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Posted 22 July 2008 - 09:23 PM
I am now terrified.
Hello, soldiers, look at your mage, now back to me, now back at your mage, now back to me. Sadly, he isn’t me, but if he stopped being an unascended mortal and switched to Sole Spice, he could smell like he’s me. Look down, back up, where are you? You’re in a warren with the High Mage your cadre mage could smell like. What’s in your hand, back at me. I have it, it’s an acorn with two gates to that realm you love. Look again, the acorn is now otataral. Anything is possible when your mage smells like Sole Spice and not a Bole brother. I’m on a quorl.
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Posted 22 July 2008 - 09:26 PM
Edited to add even more useless information! Woohoo! I pity the fool who mess with Mezla's Dyke (hehehe) obsession! The A-Team remains awesome to this day. Never has such destruction occurred without deaths.
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Posted 22 July 2008 - 09:34 PM
HoosierDaddy;357137 said:
Edited to add even more useless information! Woohoo!
As the keeper of such sacred knowledge, I feel it is my moral duty to share it with humanity at all available opportunities! I love the Dykes! There's a great Christmas episode of Diagnosis Murder with his sister in too and they all sing together!
Oh god, I just can't stop! Mother, it's happening again.........
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Posted 22 July 2008 - 09:37 PM
Mezla PigDog;357143 said:
I love the Dykes!
Greatest post ever.
Trouble arrives when the opponents to such a system institute its extreme opposite, where individualism becomes godlike and sacrosanct, and no greater service to any other ideal (including community) is possible. In such a system rapacious greed thrives behind the guise of freedom, and the worst aspects of human nature come to the fore....
