your accent
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- kelpie0
and, for the record, im calling bullshit on people saying that bostonians have funny accents. we were founded by the english, the same people who started the language. and, a boston accent doesn't pronounce the 'r' just like most english accents. thus, i am going on record and saying everyone else speaking english in america has a funny accent!
mattyd04
(Nov 21 06, 11:05)oi. fuck off with your non rotary pish. r's are for pronouncing, don't let anyone tell you different.
- Concrete0
Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop."
Wrong.
Next quiz.
- kelpie0
british regional version required for the GMT crowd, I feel, I'd love to hear what it came up with for the amerikanskis
- paraselene0
Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak.
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kelpie
(Nov 22 06, 02:14)tell me about it. i got the same response!
:l
i sound like kelpie!
:D
dulcet tones, etcetera.
- kelpie0
I always thought I could hear the spanish bleeding through into your voice, quite interesting and I honestly couldn't possibly place your origins in a thousand years.
I wonder if most scots would get the same answer as me, if there are specific yank accents which are most likely to match up (according to this quiz) with specific Limey ones.
am I bored?
- paraselene0
man, i don't even know anymore. every time i take that damned test i get a different answer.
you'd probably get a similar result if you polled all my mates. but i'm an unusual case...
thing is, you'd expect all people from leeds or belfast or the same part of glasgow to get the same results on that test, as they'd pronounce things the same way. however, the markers are calibrated to an array of distinguishing american phonemes, so the distinction between the various pronunciations may be negligible to a british person, thus queering the results.
is that gaycist to say queering like that?
:l
- kelpie0
I think its gaycist to use the term gaycist
- paraselene0
ten hail barbra's and we'll call it even?
- kelpie0
I'll give you 5 hail dorothys, that's my final offer
- paraselene0
deal.
- Kuz0
i got new york new jersey too.
- kelpie0
so, New Yorkers speak better english than the rest of the nu worlders then, agreed?
- Kuz0
agreed :)
- Kuz0
true tho. When those customs guys at New York are grilling me, i'm always htinking "what the? they sound like a mix between Geordie and the West Country". Weird.
- kelpie0
howey lad, got any canny bombs like, m'luv?
- rafalski0
Usually when I meet "internet people" in real life, I hear what they write in their own voices later on. I can hear Kuz and moth in my head when I read them here, but para.. I think I lost your voice.
Wait.. I've got it.. aa.. no, I ain't got it
- Concrete0
*makes everybudy a corfee.
- paraselene0
maybe i don't exist. is that what this is about?
- rafalski0
wait para.. I can hear you now, but you'r voice is breaking up :)
At some point on Saturday I got a feeling my friend Tom sounded little like Borat (I suppose I must've sounded similarly).
I've been wondering who Cohen had based Borat's English on. Given both "jak sie masz" and "dziekuje" are 100% Polish, I wouldn't be surprised if this was the right track to find the origins..