abierman said:

agree!

abierman sounds like a kakker

kakker means someone that grew up in higher society

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=744955 This is interesting. Apparently since the colonization and American and subsequent extermination of its native peoples (a subject for a whole OTHER thread), it appears that the British accent ALSO differs from its original state.

Did our founding fathers speak with "American" accents or British ones?

Ok people here's the deal before you make my athlete's foot act up!

Bermudians (Dan - spelling) do have a creole that over the many years has been blanded out. I suppose this is due to the fact that many people go overseas for their tertiary education and return to a business world where it is unacceptable to talk in a Bermudian accent.
The Bermudian accent was once described to me by an American as a mix of Scottish, Jamaican, and American. That's prolly a pretty good description.
Along with that accent comes a real language that a lot of people dont realize. Slang or colluquiliasms have formed a unique dialect here.
So for instance...when you say "oh Missus So and So, did you hear about her? She's gone back" - that means she is sick. or if you say to your wife who is talking to her girlfriend on the phone "vooman!, stop chopsin'! you're running up my phone bill!"

there's so much more to it as well. I love the Bermudian accent. I've been in major American cities minding my own business and all of a sudden I hear the accent and I turn around and I see people I recognize. It's true.

We'll have to have a Yahoo session one day.
[Edited 2/24/07 6:19am]

Though your accent doesn't sound like it has any of the mentioned "Creole" or Jamaican in it. The only distinct thing to your cute little voice I can pick up is that cute little lisp.




You have athelete's foot? You nasty bitch!

Imago said:

hahahah i got it from you, Stella!

chocolate1 said:

Are you sure it's not Barbuda?

AndGodCreatedMe said:

that was the last time I call you on your B-day!!!
[Edited 2/24/07 3:46am]

Imago said:

British ones of course. But I bet people would be outraged if they made a movie about the founding fathers where they would speak with British accents.

Protege said:

x 100000


I have always been fascinated by why Australia and America changed our accents from the Brits so dramatically. The AUstralian (to the untrained American ear) seems to sound more British than our accents do.

Of course I am sure that the Brits probably think both accents are vulgar sounding.

Imago said:

Not both, no.

Fauxie said:

evenstar3 said:

Fauxie said:

so which one IS vulgar, pray tell?

evenstar3 said:

Was Welsh an option?

Fauxie said:

it's alright, bash on american accents all you like. it's practically a DOOM precedent by now.

Fauxie said:

it's alright, bash on american accents all you like. it's practically a DOOM precedent by now.

evenstar3 said:

I could definitely bash one off on your accent.

Fauxie said:

oh my

evenstar3 said:

Do you know how I can be so sure in saying 'definitely'?

Fauxie said:

not exactly

evenstar3 said:

wait, gimme 5 mins...

Fauxie said:

and this was an imago thread, doomed from the start. silly fauxie.

evenstar3 said:

True. We never should've invested our time in it. Still, live and learn.