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Other Topics => Polls => Topic started by: Promiscious-boy on August 13, 2006, 06:45:13 am
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Well... I really love the British accent, but I'll bet for the Irish one.. it's so cute.... and yours?
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Irish.
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*ahem*
You forgot Australian in your poll.
And mine is American, especially the North-East one.
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*ahem*
You forgot Australian in your poll.
And mine is American, especially the North-East one.
I so would have voted for Australian. I love their accents. :oops:
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omfgicantvoteinthispollbecauseyouforgottoinclude
KIWI! :D
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I listed both, KIWI and AUSSIE, I just don't know why it's not there....
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This is a unique poll. The Canadian accent isn't especially prominent, is it? Tell me if I'm wrong. But if I had to choose, Australian.
And don't go saying that people in Kentucky have Southern accents cause that's stereotypical and better left for people further towards the border!
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American accent? There are like 10 main ones!
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I would have chosen the Australian accent, but I chose the American accent because it's (where I am) correct.
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Wouldn't the English accent be the correct accent?
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Wouldn't the English accent be the correct accent?
Wasn't there a REAAAALLY long thread discussing this a while back?
There is a correct pronunciation, check the dictionary. And the Midwest/Ohio area is a generally correct accent, minus a few words (Washington is sometimes pronounced "Warshington", uggh).
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Wouldn't the English accent be the correct accent?
Wasn't there a REAAAALLY long thread discussing this a while back?
There is a correct pronunciation, check the dictionary. And the Midwest/Ohio area is a generally correct accent, minus a few words (Washington is sometimes pronounced "Warshington", uggh).
Cincinnati's not bad, I guess, but I almost can't listen to someone from Cleveland without wanting to order sausage from them. A big problem I have with most people in that region is that they tend to silence W's and L's after certain vowels, making it difficult to distiguish some words.
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American accent? There are like 10 main ones!
True. But I suppose the poll means American in general, even though a Southern accent would be quite different from a Californian one.
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American accent? There are like 10 main ones!
True. But I suppose the poll means American in general, even though a Southern accent would be quite different from a Californian one.
It would be interesting to see which accent people in general (esp. those from other countries) feel is the "American" accent, lol.
Or maybe that just interests me because I'm a dork. :oops:
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American accent? There are like 10 main ones!
True. But I suppose the poll means American in general, even though a Southern accent would be quite different from a Californian one.
It would be interesting to see which accent people in general (esp. those from other countries) feel is the "American" accent, lol.
Or maybe that just interests me because I'm a dork. :oops:
For me, the NY accent and the southern accent :D
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It would be interesting to see which accent people in general (esp. those from other countries) feel is the "American" accent, lol.
Hmmm, to me, the most neutral "American" accent is the one from NYC. My neighbor's from there and she once told me her accent is "standard".
I agree with her. Not that I don't like other American accents but I think the NYC accent, if I could call it that, is the easiest to understand for foreign people in general.
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Wouldn't the English accent be the correct accent?
Wasn't there a REAAAALLY long thread discussing this a while back?
There is a correct pronunciation, check the dictionary. And the Midwest/Ohio area is a generally correct accent, minus a few words (Washington is sometimes pronounced "Warshington", uggh).
Yeah, I hate that too. I don't have an accent (at least I don't think so). My idea of the American Accent isn't NYC, but Florida. I haven't met a person from Florida who has any sort of accent.
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Wouldn't the English accent be the correct accent?
Wasn't there a REAAAALLY long thread discussing this a while back?
There is a correct pronunciation, check the dictionary. And the Midwest/Ohio area is a generally correct accent, minus a few words (Washington is sometimes pronounced "Warshington", uggh).
Yeah, I hate that too. I don't have an accent (at least I don't think so). My idea of the American Accent isn't NYC, but Florida. I haven't met a person from Florida who has any sort of accent.
Many people in the Keys claim to have a "Conch accent".
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i didnt think people from california had an accent...
until my boyfriend said that i say "like" so many times that that has to qualify as some sort of accent... but i don't say any words funny...??
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and wouldn't British not be an accent, because they invented the language? so wouldn't however they speak it be the standard way and everyone else who speaks it differently have an accent?
i don't understand how any one can like the American accent? it sounds so cheap and boring..
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Ghisy wrote:
*ahem*
You forgot Australian in your poll.
And mine is American, especially the North-East one.
I so would have voted for Australian. I love their accents.
Have you heard a real Australian? The accents portrayed in some films are so cringe-inducing. :oops: Ugh.
I thought this would be a poll of ENGLISH accents, not accents of just a few English-speaking countries. I would've voted Liverpudlian. :)
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Have you heard a real Australian? The accents portrayed in some films are so cringe-inducing. :oops: Ugh.
They really are, lol.
And yes, I've heard a real Australian. I have a couple friends from there I talk to from time to time :D.
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i don't understand how any one can like the American accent? it sounds so cheap and boring..
Depends on who you ask Jess! ;)
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boston accent
park the car in the harvard yard
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i don't understand how any one can like the American accent? it sounds so cheap and boring..
Well, if you're living in LA you'll have to get used to it :D. I'm assuming (probably incorrectly) that you lived in a different country before.
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i don't understand how any one can like the American accent? it sounds so cheap and boring..
Well, if you're living in LA you'll have to get used to it :D. I'm assuming (probably incorrectly) that you lived in a different country before.
no i just dont like this country or americans in general.
edit: i have lived in another country. but it isn't the reason why i don't like americans.
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You are so NICE!!!
I hate America. It's a horrible place. Never come here.
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I like the NY accent, but there are other American accents that I hate (like the valley girl accent), so I voted for the British accent. They have the perfect accent for telling a joke; especially witty stuff and non-sequitors. 8)
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I like the NY accent, but there are other American accents that I hate (like the valley girl accent),
ITS NOT AN ACCENT.
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I like the NY accent, but there are other American accents that I hate (like the valley girl accent),
ITS NOT AN ACCENT.
then please enlighten me as to what I'm not getting...seriously though, I'm actually not just trying to sound like a dick in this particular case. :lol:
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I like the NY accent, but there are other American accents that I hate (like the valley girl accent),
ITS NOT AN ACCENT.
then please enlighten me as to what I'm not getting...seriously though, I'm actually not just trying to sound like a dick in this particular case. :lol:
girls, from the valley, like me, may say "like" way too much without noticing (we can't help it, really!) but substituting a word in a sentence doesn't change the way you speak the other words, therefore it isn't an accent.
i highly doubt that if i were to go to boston or something, and someone heard me speak, they would say, THAT GIRL IS FROM LOS ANGELES!
wheras, if a person from boston came here and said "park the car in the harvard yard" i could most likely tell that the person was from boston.
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I like the NY accent, but there are other American accents that I hate (like the valley girl accent),
ITS NOT AN ACCENT.
then please enlighten me as to what I'm not getting...seriously though, I'm actually not just trying to sound like a dick in this particular case. :lol:
girls, from the valley, like me, may say "like" way too much without noticing (we can't help it, really!) but substituting a word in a sentence doesn't change the way you speak the other words, therefore it isn't an accent.
i highly doubt that if i were to go to boston or something, and someone heard me speak, they would say, THAT GIRL IS FROM LOS ANGELES!
wheras, if a person from boston came here and said "park the car in the harvard yard" i could most likely tell that the person was from boston.
I wasn't talking about using the word "like" or anything like that. I can hear a definate accent in people from LA. The only example I can think of off the top of my head is from the episode of The Sopranos where Alicia Witt plays a girl in the movie industry (who is from that area) and she uses a very distinct accent.
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I like the NY accent, but there are other American accents that I hate (like the valley girl accent),
ITS NOT AN ACCENT.
then please enlighten me as to what I'm not getting...seriously though, I'm actually not just trying to sound like a dick in this particular case. :lol:
girls, from the valley, like me, may say "like" way too much without noticing (we can't help it, really!) but substituting a word in a sentence doesn't change the way you speak the other words, therefore it isn't an accent.
i highly doubt that if i were to go to boston or something, and someone heard me speak, they would say, THAT GIRL IS FROM LOS ANGELES!
wheras, if a person from boston came here and said "park the car in the harvard yard" i could most likely tell that the person was from boston.
I wasn't talking about using the word "like" or anything like that. I can hear a definate accent in people from LA. The only example I can think of off the top of my head is from the episode of The Sopranos where Alicia Witt plays a girl in the movie industry (who is from that area) and she uses a very distinct accent.
movies/tv tend to try to exaggerate things... like the australians..
don't expect to come to LA and hear people speaking like alicia silverstone in clueless
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movies/tv tend to try to exaggerate things... like the australians..
don't expect to come to LA and hear people speaking like alicia silverstone in clueless
I understand that, but The Sopranos isn't a comedy perpetuating the stereotype of a bimbo for laughs. :lol:
Every part of the country has their own accent. Saying Cal folks don't have one doesn't make any sense. They don't sound like southerners, they don't sound like New Englanders, they don't sound like Midwesterners...they sound unique to all that...they sound like people from California. All I'm saying is that, in most cases, I don't think it's impossible to tell by accent alone that someone is from the West Coast.
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British accent by far, closely followed by Australian. And I get to be surrounded by Brits for 4 months! :-D
As for an American accent...I would definitely put it in to regions. Even in states there are different accents! For instance, if you go up to the northern part of New York by the Canadian border, there is a definite Canadian influence in their accents. But if you go down to the City/Long Island area, they have a distinct accent as well.
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Why is England even in there... English (i.e. the British one) accents suck. Especially mine. Gunna opt with Welsh.
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It's not park the car in the harvard yard, it's Pak the cah in the hahvad yahd =P Or something like that, they don't pronounce R's.
I think it's odd that some of you think that the NYC accent is the most indicitive of Americans because it actually is only a small sector of the states. If you watch American TV shows there is an obvious neutral American accent that most people tend to have, maybe with some slight variation.
I'm told I have a slight southern accent (from Maryland). My mom and dad say "Sundy and Mundy" instead of "MondDAY" if the word is at the end of a sentence, and my mom says "warsh" for wash. My dad says "woosh" for wash. And I say "wahsh" for wash (which is, i believe, the correct pronunciation).
I really dislike when people say "melk" for milk, "wooter" or "wuter" for water, and "pellow" for pillow!! Not really, but it's a little pet peeve =D
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I pick Canadian because I am Canadian!!!
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Is it true that Canadians speak hmmmm. let me.. very hard, very strong.. e.g
I know that canadian english is smiliar to american
I knowr thart canadian english irs smiliar to american
Better - Bettteeeerrrr
Never - Nevvvveeerrrrr
Is that a true info?
But I still prefer british
Nevah, lást, pást, betta, for evah... cãn't
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i like how people talk in Hawaii...i don't know exactly how it sounds, i didn't even realize we had accents, until one of my teachers from the mainland pointed it out to us...we thought he was the one with the accent...lol...so i guess that's American.
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i had no idea that there were so many american accents, i knew of the "typical" accent and the southern accent.
i voted for the american accent. i had boyfriend from america, i would become infatuated everytime he opened his mouth to say something. it's so hot!
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I voted for Welsh, becase of all the groups listed, its probably the one I'd
most like to be able to immitate. I don't have much of an accent myself; I
was born in New Zealand to a Canadian Mother & Bermudian Father, and
have spent most of my time learning 'English' in Australia. If I was to vote
for my favorite 'Southern Hemisphere' English accent it'd be South African
Peace
Aaron