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Post by strawman on Jan 27, 2005 14:34:23 GMT -5
accents....I remember being in NY and someone at a bar wondering why I was putting on a "fake" accent...I sort of look at him and go ...what??...and on asking him what accent he thought it was, he said Welsh...now I know that guy has no handle on accents...mistaking me for a boyo...still I suppose people are not exposed to our accent that much...
anyhow what does my accent sound like...I suppose the NZ accent is half way between the Aussie twang and the English cultured...I know we talk rather fast...overseas people would stare blankly at me, until I repeated sloooowly...
unlike Aussies we say "sicks" not "sex" for 6....I say tom ar toe, but pit tay toe, and theres a fair bit of Maori slang in the language....
honestly I have never really analysed my accent, but in NZ there are minor regional variations...the most noticable being Southern people roll their "r"...
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Post by bowiglou on Jan 27, 2005 17:54:40 GMT -5
like, you know, I mean you know dude, I don't think for sure for sure, any of us from So Cali, like have any accents or, you know, stuff like that...........
That being said, for myself I honestly don't perceive any sort of accent
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Post by PC on Jan 27, 2005 19:21:42 GMT -5
I was actually born in Delaware, but I've lived in New Jersey ever since I was two. So I definitely have a bit of a Jersey accent, but I don't sound like Carmela Soprano. However, there are some people in North and Central Jersey who really sound like that. But in South Jersey (especially right by Philadelphia/Delaware), the accents are totally different.
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Post by Weeping_Guitar on Jan 27, 2005 22:31:44 GMT -5
I have a midwestern accent, which means not one at all for the most part. If I were to move to the north one gets in on the Scandanavian accent a bit where they're more thick. South Dakotans just cut off things short, we're always goin' and doin'. Shorter is better here, yep.
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Post by ScottsyII on Jan 28, 2005 5:44:21 GMT -5
South Australian accents... we sorta sound like every other Aussie except we speak with more of a plum in our mouths, take more care with pronunciation, etc.... it comes from the non - convict settled colony history of Adelaide and South Australia, we seemed to have inherited this slightly more snotty nosed version of the Aussie accent...
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Post by strat-0 on Jan 29, 2005 16:56:10 GMT -5
Yep, the Midwesterners (away from the larger cities like Chicago) speak the closest to standard US English than anywhere in the country. Also some parts of California. Don't know how they speak in Hawaii.
So, is the heavy Steve Erwin accent associated more closely with the early convict settlements, then?
So many dialects of English (and most other languages, I would say!) I love the explanation Mark Twain included at the begining of Huckleberry Finn where he says that he has carefully tried to faithfully reproduce the dialects of the characters. He includes the explanation because otherwise "the reader might think all the characters were trying to talk alike and not succeeding."
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Post by strawman on Jan 29, 2005 22:10:16 GMT -5
I hoestly feel that Steve Irwin speaks a parody of the Aussie accent...I've heard no others speak quite like him....crikey!!
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Post by rockkid on Jan 30, 2005 0:50:35 GMT -5
I do not say aboot or any other such jargon. British background = proper english.  I’ve been told though that I say the letter H wrong though not IMO. |
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Post by stratman19 on Jan 30, 2005 14:51:05 GMT -5
Stratman, do you have that Michigander thing going?
What do you mean Strat?
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Post by strat-0 on Jan 30, 2005 16:32:51 GMT -5
I should have been more specific - Michigan is a big place. Do you sound like you come from Detroit?
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Post by stratman19 on Jan 30, 2005 17:14:37 GMT -5
I should have been more specific - Michigan is a big place. Do you sound like you come from Detroit? Strat, I always thought I had a pretty standard midwestern accent, but after reading up on how I pronounce a lot of words, maybe I don't! ;D www.michigannative.com/ma_home.shtml |
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Post by strat-0 on Jan 30, 2005 17:37:14 GMT -5
Ah - so when I hear these people that say, "solcial security," they might be from Michican?
Some of those phrases and pronunciations do sound quite southern, actually - possibly from the influx of Southerners around 1900 the site mentions.
I wish I could find somebody around here to play euchre with! Haven't played it with a real person since my days in Indiana!
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Post by stratman19 on Jan 30, 2005 17:59:42 GMT -5
Yep, good ol' euchre...a Michigan staple!  |
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Post by PC on Jan 30, 2005 18:33:41 GMT -5
When I think Michigan accents, I think of Michael Moore's voice. Do you sound like that strat (I know you hate him, I'm just talking about his accent)?
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Post by stratman19 on Jan 30, 2005 18:58:14 GMT -5
When I think Michigan accents, I think of Michael Moore's voice. Do you sound like that strat (I know you hate him, I'm just talking about his accent)? Yeah PC, there's probably many similarities between how Moore sounds and myself. Moore's from southern lower Michigan though, and I'm from northern lower Michigan, so there are some regional differences...also, the people in the Upper Peninsula have a very distinct accent...they sound more like Canadians! ;D |
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