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Reply #30 posted 04/11/12 2:15pm

JoeTyler

don't they have their own flag too, ? lol

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Reply #31 posted 04/11/12 2:18pm

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I think Southern Californians do indeed have an accent. Since so many movies and TV shows, etc are produced in SoCal, the accent is predominant in American media. Because of that I think some regard the SoCal accent as the standard American accent, and not a distinctive one like say, a New Yorker, Minnesotan or Texan accent.

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Reply #32 posted 04/11/12 2:32pm

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I'm from cali(born&raised) but currently live in Louisiana. I've been to new York, Boston, Texas, Florida, Canada, Mexico. I've workday in call centers that made calls all over the country. Speaking objectivly, California is almost devoid if an accent. When I hear people try to eliminate their accent, they end up sounding like a californian. It might be because I'm from California, but I argue that I have had a lot of experience with accents, as well as imitating accents(to sound friendly to people I'm callg for collections purposes).

I also try to judge by local news anchors. It's not foolproof, but news anchors usually tidy up their speech, and they always end up sounding californian. Take your typical new yorker vs. A new York news anchor...that mess be cleaned up...same in Louisiana. However...the typical news anchor in cali, sounds exacly like the typical californian(black-speak/ebonics and Hispanic accents aside...is there a betterbword for ebonics than ebonics...I really don't like "urban"). Actually the Hispanic accent brings a whole new aspect to it....some of these Hispanic anchors speak so "west coastian?" that when they say something like "enchiladas" it actually does sound like an SNL skit
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Reply #33 posted 04/11/12 2:33pm

Terrib3Towel

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vainandy said:



Shyra said:




vainandy said:




I've noticed that too. With the exception of The South and New York, the rest of the country sounds like a bunch of English teachers and you can hear all the "ing"s at the end of the words. It just don't sound natural. We don't be talking down here, we be talkin'. lol





Depends on the vernacular. hmmm Some "American" folk sound like they're speaking a different language entirely depending on what region of the United States the person hails. For instance, try talking to someone from the marshes of South Carolina, whom some folk call "Geechie" (sp) or Gullah, or some folk from the swamps of Louisiana, called Cajuns or Creole. Hell, even folk from Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia can sound like they're speaking a different language. Don't get me wrong, I am not trying to be uppity, insulting or mean-spirited here. I find language and diction fascinating. At one time, I wanted to be an English teacher because I love words, written and spoken.




It's definitely regional and each Southern state has it's own accent. I'm in Mississippi and right next to us is Louisiana and a lot of them sound completely different than us. I've also noticed that when a movie or television show is made about Mississippi, they never have actors with true Mississippi accents. They end up sounding Georgian like "Designing Women". lol



Accents also vary from generation to generation. For instance, the word "aunt". I pronounce it as "ant" like the bug and a lot of people from my mother's generation pronounce it as "ain't" like "I ain't got no more money". Perfect example is listen to Opie on the Andy Griffith Show saying "Ain't Bee". lol



OMG ME TOO! Most Texas say "Ant" but I say "Ain't" I have this one friend who says "Auntie" but she's originally from Arkansas. I only say "Aunt" when I'm trying to talk proper. lol
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Reply #34 posted 04/11/12 6:31pm

Shyra

Terrib3Towel said:

vainandy said:

It's definitely regional and each Southern state has it's own accent. I'm in Mississippi and right next to us is Louisiana and a lot of them sound completely different than us. I've also noticed that when a movie or television show is made about Mississippi, they never have actors with true Mississippi accents. They end up sounding Georgian like "Designing Women". lol

Accents also vary from generation to generation. For instance, the word "aunt". I pronounce it as "ant" like the bug and a lot of people from my mother's generation pronounce it as "ain't" like "I ain't got no more money". Perfect example is listen to Opie on the Andy Griffith Show saying "Ain't Bee". lol

OMG ME TOO! Most Texas say "Ant" but I say "Ain't" I have this one friend who says "Auntie" but she's originally from Arkansas. I only say "Aunt" when I'm trying to talk proper. lol

lol Well, I guess I'm proper all the time because I pronouce it "Ont." Both my parents were from the South; Daddy was from Atlanta, GA and Mom was from Tuskegee, AL. Both of them pronounced it "ont," too. That's where I got it from.

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Reply #35 posted 04/11/12 6:38pm

Shyra

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Timmy84 said:

This is why the United States of America has often been seen as the ultimate "melting pot". The South, we have our own language: the Upper South (which is where I'm from) have their own language, the Deep South have their own language, the Gulf region that has some Southern states also have their own language. Then you go up Northeast and it's like you're in a different country. Same with Midwest, Middle Plains, Southwest, the full West Coast, Alaska, Hawaii, it's all a melting pot and we're struggling how to deal with each other because we all decipher ourselves as "aliens". lol

so so true. i was born in jersey, raised in oklahoma and am currently living in s carolina for grad school. lol my dad's dad was a creole from New orleans/baton rogue. his first language was that pidgeon they speak there and when he got upset noone could understand a damn thing he said. living here in the deep south most people consider me a northerner and think i sound like thye do. lol not hardly is all i can tell them.

Re Geechie/gullah: thats usually spoken toawrd the coast georgetown, myrtle beach etc. they're accent sounds,in my ears, very much like a light island accent. more trinidad than jamaica or st kits.

Me, too! Hey, homey! lol

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Reply #36 posted 04/12/12 3:07pm

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This thread is a joke. There was no office argument. I made it up because I loved Purplejedi's British thread. heart Please don't post here anymore.

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Reply #37 posted 04/12/12 3:21pm

angel345

sextonseven said:

This thread is a joke. There was no office argument. I made it up because I loved Purplejedi's British thread. heart Please don't post here anymore.

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I was going to say something about Obama, but ok lol

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Reply #38 posted 04/12/12 3:44pm

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angel345 said:

sextonseven said:

This thread is a joke. There was no office argument. I made it up because I loved Purplejedi's British thread. heart Please don't post here anymore.

lock

I was going to say something about Obama, but ok lol

People can still post in this thread if they want. smile Just know the original anecdote was a farce. lol

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Reply #39 posted 04/12/12 3:53pm

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The best American accent:

lol

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Reply #40 posted 04/12/12 4:04pm

angel345

sextonseven said:

angel345 said:

I was going to say something about Obama, but ok lol

People can still post in this thread if they want. smile Just know the original anecdote was a farce. lol

Ok, Obama is as American as apple pie. Aloha wink

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Reply #41 posted 04/12/12 8:40pm

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tinaz said:

Adorecream said:

I know accents are diverse there, but here in NZ, we usually mean American to describe anyone from the 49 States, Alaska or Hawaii, even though America really extends from the Arctic wastes of North Canada to Cape Horn.

To us American accents are seen as very nasal, like the Australian and Mancunian/Cockney Accents of UK we see the American accents as annoying on lower ranking on the evolutionary scale (Along with our own working class/Maori Vernacular accent worlds like sweet as and churr), whereas we find the proper BBC English accent preferable.

We are not snobs here, but whereas Australia was mostly settled by English and Irish convicts, New Zealand was settled mostly by skilled English tradespeople and Middle class English and Scottish migrants, who came from prim and proper 1840s/1850s Victorian England and that has held to this day.

To me it sounds like Heeyy, thaats some cheeesebergers from Mrs Chester Bergersteen.

You may not be a snob, but you sure are [Name calling snip - luv4u] ... Not the first post of yours that has been degrading to other people... Ive just kept my mouth shut until now...

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[Edited 4/10/12 18:38pm]

I've noticed that their posts are hateful as well and this most certainly not is the first time they've come in here slinging insults against entire groups of people. Seems to be sport for them show up on prince.org specifically for the purpose of baiting & taunting with their obsessive anti-American tirades. I would be tempted to say Fuck-a-New-Zealand-and go suck-a-kiwi if it weren't for the fact that even I understand you can't judge a whole barrel apples simply by one rotten one. It must be either a newbie or a troll, otherwise they'd know to take their rabid discourses on nationalism, world history, and foreign policy disguised as GD topics to the P&R forum where that shit belongs bored2 troll bored2

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Reply #42 posted 04/13/12 2:43am

nd33

Adorecream said:

I know accents are diverse there, but here in NZ, we usually mean American to describe anyone from the 49 States, Alaska or Hawaii, even though America really extends from the Arctic wastes of North Canada to Cape Horn.

To us American accents are seen as very nasal, like the Australian and Mancunian/Cockney Accents of UK we see the American accents as annoying on lower ranking on the evolutionary scale (Along with our own working class/Maori Vernacular accent worlds like sweet as and churr), whereas we find the proper BBC English accent preferable.

We are not snobs here, but whereas Australia was mostly settled by English and Irish convicts, New Zealand was settled mostly by skilled English tradespeople and Middle class English and Scottish migrants, who came from prim and proper 1840s/1850s Victorian England and that has held to this day.

To me it sounds like Heeyy, thaats some cheeesebergers from Mrs Chester Bergersteen.

Speak for yourself LOL.

Us kiwis plus ESPECIALLY Aussies have far more nasally voices by nature than Americans do.

And I've experimented quite a bit with voices, being a voice over audio engineer.

All you have to do is try different accents while blocking your nose and you can tell which ones use alot of nasal character and which don't.

Americans and Italians naturally have very non-nasally tones which make them naturally better singers because part of the technique is ingrained.

And "annoying on lower ranking of the evolutionary scale"??? WTF. That's just a straight weird thing to say, bro! Although the USA may be far behind most of the world as a progressive nation when it comes to things like abortion, capital punishment and gun proliferation, judging an accent in the same way is a real strange thing to do LOL!

Chur!

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Reply #43 posted 04/13/12 2:45am

nd33

Ottensen said:

tinaz said:

You may not be a snob, but you sure are [Name calling snip - luv4u] ... Not the first post of yours that has been degrading to other people... Ive just kept my mouth shut until now...

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[Edited 4/10/12 16:54pm]

[Edited 4/10/12 18:38pm]

I've noticed that their posts are hateful as well and this most certainly not is the first time they've come in here slinging insults against entire groups of people. Seems to be sport for them show up on prince.org specifically for the purpose of baiting & taunting with their obsessive anti-American tirades. I would be tempted to say Fuck-a-New-Zealand-and go suck-a-kiwi if it weren't for the fact that even I understand you can't judge a whole barrel apples simply by one rotten one. It must be either a newbie or a troll, otherwise they'd know to take their rabid discourses on nationalism, world history, and foreign policy disguised as GD topics to the P&R forum where that shit belongs bored2 troll bored2

'Chu talkin' 'bout Willis??!

Music, sweet music, I wish I could caress and...kiss, kiss...
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Reply #44 posted 04/13/12 6:56am

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sextonseven said:

The best American accent:

lol

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Reply #45 posted 04/13/12 11:22am

Ottensen

nd33 said:

Ottensen said:

I've noticed that their posts are hateful as well and this most certainly not is the first time they've come in here slinging insults against entire groups of people. Seems to be sport for them show up on prince.org specifically for the purpose of baiting & taunting with their obsessive anti-American tirades. I would be tempted to say Fuck-a-New-Zealand-and go suck-a-kiwi if it weren't for the fact that even I understand you can't judge a whole barrel apples simply by one rotten one. It must be either a newbie or a troll, otherwise they'd know to take their rabid discourses on nationalism, world history, and foreign policy disguised as GD topics to the P&R forum where that shit belongs bored2 troll bored2

'Chu talkin' 'bout Willis??!

Damn, you got me! Not bad. not bad at all. But you know I'm not talkin' 'bout 'chu wink

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Reply #46 posted 04/13/12 12:17pm

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nd33 said:

Ottensen said:

I've noticed that their posts are hateful as well and this most certainly not is the first time they've come in here slinging insults against entire groups of people. Seems to be sport for them show up on prince.org specifically for the purpose of baiting & taunting with their obsessive anti-American tirades. I would be tempted to say Fuck-a-New-Zealand-and go suck-a-kiwi if it weren't for the fact that even I understand you can't judge a whole barrel apples simply by one rotten one. It must be either a newbie or a troll, otherwise they'd know to take their rabid discourses on nationalism, world history, and foreign policy disguised as GD topics to the P&R forum where that shit belongs bored2 troll bored2

'Chu talkin' 'bout Willis??!

Oops she answered already! lol

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Reply #47 posted 04/13/12 12:32pm

nd33

Ottensen said:

nd33 said:

'Chu talkin' 'bout Willis??!

Damn, you got me! Not bad. not bad at all. But you know I'm not talkin' 'bout 'chu wink

Just keepin' you in check, youngster!

lol

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Reply #48 posted 04/13/12 6:32pm

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JoeTyler said:

don't they have their own flag too, ? lol

All states in the U.S. have their own flag, Joe. lol

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Reply #49 posted 04/13/12 6:33pm

Timmy84

sextonseven said:

angel345 said:

I was going to say something about Obama, but ok lol

People can still post in this thread if they want. smile Just know the original anecdote was a farce. lol

And keep it non-political. no no no!

lol

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Reply #50 posted 04/13/12 7:22pm

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Interesting....Anyway if you do come to Hawaii stop stealing Coral from the ocean floor, your destroying the enviroment. Also Stop stealing sand. When your at the beach and you see sea turtles don't go over to them and start touching them, it's against the law. Lastly do not take Lava rocks out of Hawaii, they are cursed (you be surprised how many tourist over the years have mailed back lava rocks).

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