Accents... Whats yours

[v_various]

Funny, I just went home for vacation last week, from Vancouver to New Brunswick.

I've been away for 7 years, it's funny, I never noticed how much my parents sound like hicks. My sister has gotten worse, living out in Charlotte county. Even as I was talking to them, I was totally aware my "old" way of talking was re-asserting itself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nQzOo6t_l0

he's right about the pinched lip thing, I think that's the french influence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7bFVj-0IsQ

it was actually pretty hard to find video of the east coast accent, the best I could find was someone making fun of it. About = a boot, somewhat, but it's subtle.

 

[vetusvates]

Mike, I don't know how to record my voice and upload it, but I will try to learn.
I tend to imagine people's posts in what I think would be their accents, too.
I know when I really try to speak well, I try to avoid making glass rhyme with ice (glice), and I try to give sugar an "r" (instead of shuga). :laugh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8kNhMu6FZE&NR=1&feature=fvwp

I've grown up, and lived all over....The South! LOL.
Birth-kindergarten in Panama City, Florida.....my Louisiana grandfather said we 'talked funny' as kids.
Spent summers in Springhill, Louisiana with grandparents......right at Arkansas line. (Heavy local accent.)
First-sixth grade near Paducah, Kentucky (Ohio River bottoms).....I was called a 'yank' when we moved back to Louisiana (where all my relatives are).
1975-1985 Natchitoches, Louisiana. Cane River, creole country.
Then Shreveport, to Monroe, to Baton Rouge.
So I would say generic southern.
Lori and Robbie and Katie have talked to me.

 

[ZoologyGirl]

it was actually pretty hard to find video of the east coast accent, the best I could find was someone making fun of it. About = a boot, somewhat, but it's subtle.

I used to work as a relay operator for the deaf, in which we called basically any number that was given to us for a deaf person. I once called an 800 number and I just knew it was a Canada company I called. The way they said 'about' and 'locator' (heavy on the o's). Turns out it was some canadian airline.

 

[snakewispera snr]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrCMB7N5V1s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuBe31j3H9U&feature=channel

I could guess your accent as I've worked with Glaswegians so many times, and Billy Connoly is my favourite comedian.... LOL
But I would love to hear you use it....

You've heard me speak, Mike, how would you describe my accent?
I can do absolute cut-glass upper class twit if I want to, I probably lost my native 'Sarf Lundun' accent as a result of going to grammar school and then away to university. So I would imagine I fall in to the middle range normally, but it's hard to judge your own voice.

Your accent is middle of the road southern England....
Get it up on hear so we can all hear it......

Here Mike, I can follow instructions.
Alan's accent.

Thats the way Alan, now I can put names and faces to the sound of your voice.... You have a great accent, thanks for sharing it with us......
It's strange how we all think that we don't have an accent, and yet we all clearly do.... Mine is Welsh, but I live on the border.... Now a couple of miles down the road, and it's so thick, I can't understand them......

Mike, I don't know how to record my voice and upload it, but I will try to learn.
I tend to imagine people's posts in what I think would be their accents, too.
I know when I really try to speak well, I try to avoid making glass rhyme with ice (glice), and I try to give sugar an "r" (instead of shuga). :laugh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8kNhMu6FZE&NR=1&feature=fvwp

I've grown up, and lived all over....The South! LOL.
Birth-kindergarten in Panama City, Florida.....my Louisiana grandfather said we 'talked funny' as kids.
Spent summers in Springhill, Louisiana with grandparents......right at Arkansas line. (Heavy local accent.)
First-sixth grade near Paducah, Kentucky (Ohio River bottoms).....I was called a 'yank' when we moved back to Louisiana (where all my relatives are).
1975-1985 Natchitoches, Louisiana. Cane River, creole country.
Then Shreveport, to Monroe, to Baton Rouge.
So I would say generic southern.
Lori and Robbie and Katie have talked to me.

It's easy Eric.... record your voice onto your mobile/cell phone, load it to your pc and then upload it to photobucket the same way you do a pic.....
Come on Eric, the Southern accent is one of the coolest, just be sure to use colloquialisms to give it effect... LOL
And if any of you from California do a recording be sure to say dude a couple of times:sidestep:

 

[snakemom1961]

"bloody brilliant"
I'm from Ohio, that's the midwest even to midwesterners ( Why are we called that, we're not anywhere near the middle of the West, Oh yeah, it was probably coined when Kentucky was the West).
We are the only people in the world with no accent, TV personalities train to speak like us...does a slight lisp count? lol

Exactly. I can listen to many TV shows and not hear an accent unless the people are suppose to be from out east or down south. Otherwise they all sound like me.....lol

 

[vetusvates]

I could guess your accent as I've worked with Glaswegians so many times, and Billy Connoly is my favourite comedian.... LOL
But I would love to hear you use it....

Your accent is middle of the road southern England....
Get it up on hear so we can all hear it......

Thats the way Alan, now I can put names and faces to the sound of your voice.... You have a great accent, thanks for sharing it with us......
It's strange how we all think that we don't have an accent, and yet we all clearly do.... Mine is Welsh, but I live on the border.... Now a couple of miles down the road, and it's so thick, I can't understand them......

It's easy Eric.... record your voice onto your mobile/cell phone, load it to your pc and then upload it to photobucket the same way you do a pic.....
Come on Eric, the Southern accent is one of the coolest, just be sure to use colloquialisms to give it effect... LOL
And if any of you from California do a recording be sure to say dude a couple of times:sidestep:

Mike..... :laugh:
It's beginning to sound like this is for your entertainment. :laugh:
But i know it is meant in good spirits and that is not true.
I don't post in colloquialisms, nor talk in them. Much.
What I hate the most is when people think we all talk like on the old show "Designing Women" or the movie "Gone With The Wind".
What is even more insulting is the series "True Blood", set in Louisiana. In some amorphous Louisiana town, with every accent from every corner of the state all "polyglotted" into one mysterious town, said to be simultaneously near New Orleans and the Arkansas line.
The show is as culturally clumsy and uncouth as would be a mysterious borough in the UK, where accents from Aberdeen to Ipswich to Swansea to Cork to Londonderry were all mixed and spoken in the same pub.

 

[snakewispera snr]

Mike..... :laugh:
It's beginning to sound like this is for your entertainment. :laugh:
But i know it is meant in good spirits and that is not true.

It's for everyones entertainment, Eric... I'll bet I sound strange you you guys....

I don't post in colloquialisms, nor talk in them. Much.

I do and I know I do, it's all part of local accents to me....
Like the 'Bloody brilliant' We all say it, and 'tidy' is our way of saying 'that's neat'.... LOl
The best of the lot is 'I du do that, I do'.. Proper S.Welsh..... LOL
Another famous Welsh one is 'Who's coat is that jacket'... LOL

What I hate the most is when people think we all talk like on the old show "Designing Women" or the movie "Gone With The Wind".
What is even more insulting is the series "True Blood", set in Louisiana. In some amorphous Louisiana town, with every accent from every corner of the state all "polyglotted" into one mysterious town, said to be simultaneously near New Orleans and the Arkansas line.

Now this I wouldn't know about as I've never heard or seen any of them..... And as for Gone with the wind... I thought that was an advert for flatulence....

The show is as culturally clumsy and uncouth as would be a mysterious borough in the UK, where accents from Aberdeen to Ipswich to Swansea to Cork to Londonderry were all mixed and spoken in the same pub.

So you get Eastenders over at your side of the pond, do you?

 

[vetusvates]

It's for everyones entertainment, Eric... I'll bet I sound strange you you guys....

Probably not too....I watch a lot of british TV.

I do and I know I do, it's all part of local accents to me....
Like the 'Bloody brilliant' We all say it, and 'tidy' is our way of saying 'that's neat'.... LOl
The best of the lot is 'I du do that, I do'.. Proper S.Welsh..... LOL
Another famous Welsh one is 'Who's coat is that jacket'... LOL

OK, I see.

Now this I wouldn't know about as I've never heard or seen any of them..... And as for Gone with the wind... I thought that was an advert for flatulence....

Vivien Leigh,...Leslie Howard,...Olivia de Havilland....ring a bell...??? :laugh:

So you get Eastenders over at your side of the pond, do you?

No, but we do get plenty of penny-dreadful authors who want to make money by packaging a complex culture/cultures in a nice neat paperback for sales to the masses.

 

[snakewispera snr]

Vivien Leigh,...Leslie Howard,...Olivia de Havilland....ring a bell...??? :laugh:
.

TBH..... I always use it as a good excuse to escape to th pub for a couple of hours.... LOL

 

[diamondlil]

Alan, what a beautiful accent!