Stymie said:

Oh, stop!

FunkMistress said:

Your filthy cute and baby, you know it. Could you post a pic? I need it for research....

Stymie said:

Anything for you.

FunkMistress said:

TheRealFiness said:

Stymie said:

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No Oprah just does not get on T.V. and sound like Buckwheat from the Little Rascals.

laurarichardson said:

I'm not saying that she should. Only that she has an accent that she didn't use to have.

FunkMistress said:

That's hawt.

One of you now please.

Preferably, one of the ones from your Hawaii trip.

Stymie said:

I like this one. I especially like the sexiness that my left leg is draped over:

FunkMistress said:

It's some very beautiful women in that picture, especially the one who has her leg draped on me.

My general feeling is, who cares how Madonna or Tina talks? They're singers. I care how they sing. And on "American Life," I don't like it so much.
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FunkMistress said:

look folks its: Spice Girls TNG

Madonna's like Keaneau Reeves. There's something weird about changing the way you speak after adulthood.

Watch Desperately Seeking Susan. That's probably how she talks at home.

sosgemini said:

Look, who the hell cares at the end of the day, really? If Madge wants to be English, I'm not gonna try and stop her. This is funny because my friend was complaining about this the other day. She thinks that Madge is fronting too with her faux British accent, when in reality she was just an Italian-American girl from Detroit who moved to New York and hit it big.

The way I see it, her accent came to be because she adapted to her enviornment. She and her family live in England, so of course she's going to adapt to that way of living and culture and dialect and stuff. The same would apply to Tina Turner. If you live in a certain territory long enough, it's going to present itself even in the way you speak. Sure, there are some exceptions (myself included), but in most cases that's how it is. I'm sure they haven't forgotten their roots, but I don't think that they should be representing their back story either. Let's face it, they both had pretty rough upbringings. They felt that they deserved a better life even if it meant moving up in the class system, which is essentially what they did.

And I think judging a person based on the way they speak is stupid and superficial anyway. I think what they say is much more important than how they say it.

I know plenty of people who moved to the U.S. over 20 years ago that never lost their accents.

andyman91 said:

funny you mention that..i was talking to this lady in my building..i was like, "wow...you just move here from englad.." she was like, "umm..no..been here for a few decades".

i felt like an idiot.

FunkMistress said:

its perfect though..the red head, the blonde, the brunette and the wild sista girl.

NWF said:

I think speaking with a fake ass accent is stupid and superficial. It's says that you think you are something that you're not. Pet peev of mine. Not rational maybe but still a pet peeve.

Shapeshifter said:

Actually I am british but was raised in NY them moved back to London, now i'm in Cali so my accent is mixed. I just kind of think her speaking voice is a bit annoying but I always have. The brit thing doesn't bother me the way it does everyone else.

sosgemini said:

Really when? By the way, who is the guy??

andyman91 said:

Why how does Keanu speak??

NWF said:

Right on!

dancerella said:

Starting somewhere around Speed, he adopted this lower more manly way of speaking that sounds totally phony & ridiculous.
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What about the way Tyra Banks speaks? I was watching a shwo where they called her way of speaking a blaccent. Meaning she turns ghetto then white when she talks. I think that is insulting and stupid.

dancerella said:

The label, you mean, right? Cause if so, I agree. People should be able to be fluid and changing in the way they talk. It's not like we're all just ONE THING, and we have to filter everything through that.

MendesCity said:

yes, I was refering to the label. Just seems ignorant to me.

Stymie said:

Although I've only lived overseas for a few years, I have spent half of my adult life around non-English speakers in both work and my domestic environment...my accent is what it is because I am immersed in a certain cadence of speaking for 12 years now as an international citizen of the WORLD....

....the funny thing is that my black accent probably isn't considered so much of a hip or even "ghetto" accent , as opposed to sounding like someone's old ass southern grandma: probably due to having my parent's and grandparent's dialects imprinted on my hardchip...

I swear by God the last time I was in the States I turned on the WB and had trouble catching everything that everyone was saying! All the new slang was just going by me waaaaay too fast and it really took a couple of days to settle into...people don't understand, when you are living in a foreign culture you are totally IMMERSED in that culture with little to no chance to speak your own American dialect...it's pretty easy to lose a lot of the accent(S) of your formative years...

I will say though, that, I have found that people who eventually move to the UK always go a bit more over the top than those in non-English speaking expat situations; to enunciate so that one can be clearly understood by our hosts is one thing... even careful choice of vocabulary words I can understand, but once we get to the "tomae-to, tomaah-to" scenario, it does become (as we say here across the pond) a tad "proveciale"...

Rochester edit.
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