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Accents
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I spent half of today on the phone with someone who was obsessed with my British / Irish mixed accent so I am never ooohing over accents again
He made me repeat stuff over and over and I asked him if he was having trouble hearing me (the phone sounded fine on my end) and he said no, I just want to hear your accent again. Uh I have work to do people!
He made me repeat stuff over and over and I asked him if he was having trouble hearing me (the phone sounded fine on my end) and he said no, I just want to hear your accent again. Uh I have work to do people!
I like English accents as well as the ones you all have mentioned!
I'm a big fan of Scottish accents, but also like Spanish as well...
I think I am missing this one. Explain please?
Have to admit that there was a time when I didn't notice anything odd about it until I heard a really hard core Bostonian speaking with a group of non natives.Originally Posted by MonaxLisa
I have a really hard time with the Boston accent too, argh!
OK then why is it that some people put the letter T in the middle of Massachusetts? I can't figure that one out.
That being said....I agree with Sarah on this one...I don't have an accent the rest of you do.
Not long ago I had a lady on the phone who asked where I was (at work I get calls from all over the country) when I told her she was surprised. She said that she thought that I sounded like I was in New York.
That made me laugh
Why is it that some people think there is an "r" in Washington?
After working at a camp that hires staff from all over, I'd have to give nods to the aussies and eastern european accents. Specifically...Hungarian, Ukrainian and Russian.
After working at a camp that hires staff from all over, I'd have to give nods to the aussies and eastern european accents. Specifically...Hungarian, Ukrainian and Russian.
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I am normally not bothered by accents as long as they talk properly and use correct english (I hate slang) then I love it!
But I love it when either the welsh or the irish sing!!!!
But I love it when either the welsh or the irish sing!!!!
I LOVE British accents!
Although I am horrible at understanding anyone with a foreign accent, especially over the phone since I can't see their lips! Usually when I get a call at work from someone with an accent I have to pass the call on to someone else, I feel bad constantly asking them to repeat themselves!
I also LOVE Jamaican accents! That has more to do with me falling in love with their country though, but their accents are really cool!!
Although I am horrible at understanding anyone with a foreign accent, especially over the phone since I can't see their lips! Usually when I get a call at work from someone with an accent I have to pass the call on to someone else, I feel bad constantly asking them to repeat themselves!
I also LOVE Jamaican accents! That has more to do with me falling in love with their country though, but their accents are really cool!!
I just love all accents -- they fascinate me! But my favorites are Scottish (specifically Sean Connery's... goodness, I love to hear him talk!) and South Carolinian. I fell in love with the South Carolina accent about thirty years ago, listening to Uncle Walt's Band, an acoustic trio who came from Spartanburg, but found their musical home in Austin. Such a lovely, lilting sound!
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My friends & family have a difficult time trying to understand what my s/o is saying sometimes, too.Originally Posted by Dixie_Darlin
His accent is so thick that some of my friends ask me what he's saying
When I first moved here, I couldn't understand half of what people were saying to me.
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I used to get that all the time too, when I worked at a catalog company and I received calls from different locations. On more than one occasion, I was told that I sounded like "Marge" in that Fargo movie. People would make me talk, too, just to hear my "accent".Originally Posted by CheshireCat
Not long ago I had a lady on the phone who asked where I was (at work I get calls from all over the country) when I told her she was surprised. She said that she thought that I sounded like I was in New York.
That made me laugh
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Originally Posted by roxsam
I also LOVE Jamaican accents! That has more to do with me falling in love with their country though, but their accents are really cool!!
I'll watch a movie of his just to listen to him talk! And he ain't too bad on the eyes, either!
That so bugs me, too. I had a college professor when I was in the MBA program at U of M who put that 'R' Washington. I couldn't figure out why a professor would not pronounce the word correctly.Originally Posted by Whisky'sDad
Why is it that some people think there is an "r" in Washington?
"Hat," although closer to "hot," is the Boston pronunciation of "heart."
The T in Massachusetts is a southern, and especially a Texas thing. Not sure where it came from.
I heard a story about a woman visiting in Boston who was asked by someone there if she had "PSDS." She couldn't figure it out, until the woman pronounced it slowly, while holder her earlobe between her finger and thumb.
I looooooove Australian accents!!
Makes me wonder if I have been pronouncing things wrong all these years.
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That one made me lmaoOriginally Posted by sarahp
What do you mean "Australian accent"? We don't have accents, all you guys are the ones with accents!
Just so you non Australians know, we don't all speak the same here. Some of us are 'ockers', ones who speak with a broad accent. Or bogans, the real uncultured type. Lazy with their language, go out shopping dressed in whatever they fell out of bed in. We have the real blue collar ones who say g'day and love their dogs and utes and barbeques. Then there's me. I have an australian accent, without the 'aussie' slang or twang, and sometimes a bit of brummy slips in (blame my grandmother). Also each state has a slightly different way of speaking as well. Not to mention the immigrants with weird mixed accents.
Well, there's alot anyway
Anyway, i love...SCOTTISH people. Whenever i head David Tennant (current Dr Who) speak i swoon and slide down off my chair to the floor. Apart from his absolutely delicious eyes and whole presence, oh his voice...i'm lost for words
