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Post by Thorngrub on Feb 17, 2005 12:22:32 GMT -5
Strat-0, mi accento no tiene nada de hacer con un Norteamericano, ni tampoco con un accento Latino. En serio, yo no tengo accento, hijo! La razon es porque yo naci en Centro America y aprende Espanol Y Ingles al mismo tiempo, y despues cuando mis padres se divorciadon, yo tenia once anos de edad, y mi mama y mi hermanito fuimos a los Estados Unidos para vivir. Empezamos en Carolina del Sur, pero despues de dos anos, fuimos a mover a Nuevo Mexico, cuando mi Mama se caso para la segunda vez. Mi segundo padre trabajo para el gobierno, y por esa razon nosotros movimos cada ano y medio, y yo vivi en varios estados, hasta que cualquier accento que posiblemente podria tener, desaparacio completamente. En realidad, mi accento se cambia depende en cual lugar me encuentro. Si vivo en el sur, rapidamente mi accento empieza a sonir come ellos. Ahora que estoy viviendo en la Ciudad del Lago de Sal, mi accento esta neutral.
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Post by strat-0 on Feb 17, 2005 12:45:46 GMT -5
No accent, eh? I didn't know you were not a native, Thorn. Salt Lake City. It's a dry heat.
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Post by rockkid on Feb 20, 2005 10:53:42 GMT -5
Latin.......... that's hot
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Post by Philemon on Feb 20, 2005 11:23:01 GMT -5
Muy calor !!
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Post by Thorngrub on Mar 21, 2005 17:41:07 GMT -5
666 posts . . . that's hot
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Post by rockkid on Mar 22, 2005 9:44:55 GMT -5
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Post by Thorngrub on Apr 28, 2005 16:57:59 GMT -5
*evil grin* yeah strat-0 I moved to salt lake city in 2000 on a happenstance trip through Burning Man that year. yeah me & the chica-@-the-time "Burning Girl" -- yeah she burnt me alright -- but one helluva ride it was -- We were livin in Portland maine and we saved up our $$ quit our jobs and moved to BLACK ROCK CITY, babies. Damn I could fill a BOOK about our experiences there. Then we scratched our heads and moved to SLC. 4 months together in a small apartment, then we went our seperate ways, she went of to Colorado and I stayed here, workin' at the U hospital ever since. What a long strange trip its been I tells ya. Before living in Portland maine I was living in Boston. Graduated from Emerson college. I've lived all over the place -- all over the south, parts of the midwest, practically every state in New England -- but I was born and raised in Honduras, Central America, amidst mayan ruins. |
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Post by strat-0 on Apr 28, 2005 19:13:12 GMT -5
A bit of a road warrior, like me, Thorn. But I've never been to the New England states, nor outside the USA.
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Post by Thorngrub on Apr 28, 2005 20:02:24 GMT -5
Oh yeah, total road warrior.
"Just ... go away"
haha, that's just a quote my budz & I used to say to each other all the time, after the Road Warrior came out.
Man I sure do wish Mel would hurry on up and make FURY ROAD. . . .
...you gotta check out New England (in the Fall...)
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Post by limitdeditionlayla on Apr 5, 2006 20:40:32 GMT -5
interesting thread.
I sound like a refined Australian (well, at least I think I'm refined...). But I do a mean Irish & Scottish accent. I once fooled an Irishman into thinking I was Irish. It helped that he was drunk. And that I was drunk, too.
Its weird when you travel, how other people hear your accent. Most Europeans can't tell between an Aussie & a Kiwi, some thought I was British. In the UK they can spot an Aussie accent a mile away & never make the horrible mistake of asking "so, you're from New Zealand?"
In France someone called me a "dirty American" & an Italian woman thought I was Welsh.
The Australian/NZ accent is the quickest of all to lose. After 6 months in the UK you won't sound like an Aussie anymore. But I know Americans, Irish & Scots who have lived here for decades & retained their accents perfectly.
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Post by phil on Apr 5, 2006 22:04:17 GMT -5
Oh dear ! I remember the first time I heard English spoken with an Australian accent ...
It was in a French Youth Hostel and the lady in charge
who spoke no english what so ever
was having trouble with a bunch of Australian guys
who had showed up drunk the night before...
She asked if somebody could speak English and translate for her ...
I told her I could and talked to the guys about rules
and being thrown out if they didn't abide by them ...
Then they all started to speak at the same time and I listened for a moment
and then I turn to the French lady and said I was sorry
but that was no english and I had not understand a single word
those guys just had said ... !!
I also had some trouble understanding some Scotts
getting drunk on the ferry between France and England
but we had a lot of fun anyway !!
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Post by ScottsyII on Apr 25, 2006 9:26:52 GMT -5
interesting thread. I sound like a refined Australian (well, at least I think I'm refined...). But I do a mean Irish & Scottish accent. I once fooled an Irishman into thinking I was Irish. It helped that he was drunk. And that I was drunk, too. Its weird when you travel, how other people hear your accent. Most Europeans can't tell between an Aussie & a Kiwi, some thought I was British. In the UK they can spot an Aussie accent a mile away & never make the horrible mistake of asking "so, you're from New Zealand?" In France someone called me a "dirty American" & an Italian woman thought I was Welsh. The Australian/NZ accent is the quickest of all to lose. After 6 months in the UK you won't sound like an Aussie anymore. But I know Americans, Irish & Scots who have lived here for decades & retained their accents perfectly. My Aussie accent is holding out well but it's only been a couple of months - and Layla's right - the number of times I've been asked if i was british, irish, whatever - it's alarming! One guy has even asked if i was Russian - Russian! Blah! Where in hell did he get that idea from??! |
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Post by Adam on Apr 25, 2006 9:55:35 GMT -5
I was interviewed on television recently for a local news channel (a female resident was found dead in one of the apartment buildings in the complex; my roommate and I lived next door to her previously before we moved to another section of the complex) so I got to hear my voice as well as see my mug.
I have a slight Southern accent but it feels as though I'm missing the quintessential drawl. There's bass in my voice, too. That freaked me out.
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Post by dolly on Apr 25, 2006 10:40:54 GMT -5
interesting thread. I sound like a refined Australian (well, at least I think I'm refined...). But I do a mean Irish & Scottish accent. I once fooled an Irishman into thinking I was Irish. It helped that he was drunk. And that I was drunk, too. Its weird when you travel, how other people hear your accent. Most Europeans can't tell between an Aussie & a Kiwi, some thought I was British. In the UK they can spot an Aussie accent a mile away & never make the horrible mistake of asking "so, you're from New Zealand?" In France someone called me a "dirty American" & an Italian woman thought I was Welsh. The Australian/NZ accent is the quickest of all to lose. After 6 months in the UK you won't sound like an Aussie anymore. But I know Americans, Irish & Scots who have lived here for decades & retained their accents perfectly. This is indeed an interesting thread. The Aussie accent I like - but I think I can tell the difference between that and a Kiwi accent. They say their 'e's funny - for instance, 'bent' will become 'bint' etc. Sounds most vulgar (though don't tell Angel I said so!). I don't understand how Kiwis can speak without getting severe jaw ache, personally. The Irish never lose their accents - like dirty bloodsucking mites clinging to a diseased hedgehog. The Irish are everywhere in Coventry with their "Top o the'mornan toi ya - moins a Guinness f'r brekkie, sow it is". Why do so many Americans want to be Irish? I've never understood. Bleh. I speak proper, I do. Queen's English English all the way, albeit with an exaggerated Northern lilt when I'm getting nostalgic about home - and when I call JLLM rude names. I like to offend his posh middle-class eardrums with some choice working class expletives as it always throws him off balance. Nobody says the word "twat" like a Northerner. |
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Post by someone on Apr 25, 2006 10:52:58 GMT -5
My stepfather is Irish, and although I could hardly hear his accent after all the years we lived with him, strangers could pick it up a mile off. But when he got really sick and was in the hospital for like a month, for some reason his accent came out like mad and he was suddenly the Lucky Charms guy. It's a cool accent, if you ask me.
Kiwis say sex like six. They're so hot.
I don't have an accent, as far as American accents go. My aunt insists that New England ruined my nondescript California accent, but she's wrong. You're supposed to pronounce horrible like hahribble.
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