Manu and I were briefly discussing Accents this morning.

Do you think you have an accent ? Are do you think the way you talk is natural?

I honestly don't feel I do. It isn't a typical accent. It isn't NY, Southern, British, European. I guess it is 'California.' But looking at TV, the media, etc I am bread into thinking this is the normal...

So no, I don't have one.

you know, it's funny though, because even though WE may not think we have an accent, EVERYONE has an accent, as compared with another culture. like if i went to australia, the people tehre may not think they have an accent because everyone there talks like that, but they'd tell me, "you talk funny."

I have a bit of one . . . Southern.

haha at least i don't have a beach bum "accent":

"like, i love watching hot surfers, like, riding the gnarly waves, and like, when guys tell me, like, i have nice boobs, i like it! *giggle"

**** all that. i just have ...... i regular californian accent i suppose. and that rude los angelian attitude to go with it :p harharhar

Wha no, ah don think I gotan axcent....

When I go back down to Florida....I get "I love your accent"....

I don't think I have one....but every once in a while I hear that slight souther twang and just cringe....I hate when I sound like that.....YEEHAAAW!

I never thought I did....but there is apparently a Pennsylvania accent. It's really, really hard to explain, but all my California friends notice it and make me say 'adobe' and 'Cody' and 'Pomona' a million times.....

I think everybody here sounds like the TV, except apparently the rest of the U.S. doesn't recognize that the second letter of Wisconsin is an I and not an e. I remember one of my high school English book talking about this and saying we chant "U Rah Rah Wiz-gon-sun!" And I thought "What else are we supposed to say?" We can make fun of the meenahsohtun's with the best of them, though.

I am embarrassed to admit this, but when I first went to college, my best friend kept telling me that I had a valley-girl accent! ACK! I worked hard to banish it, but try as I might, I can't seem to rid myself of "Dude."

Chircargo . . . one of my favorites from around here.

Mizzippi . . . 'nother great.

Well being an Aussie, mate, I have an accent.....I can even hear it sometimes and think sheesh Bogan much? I think I notice my own so much because my parents havent lost their accents in the 20 years they have lived in Oz (they are Scottish), so they tend to correct what I say anyway....

Rayne (Thats not a knife....this is a knife!!)

Originally posted by Princess
Manu and I were briefly discussing Accents this morning.

Do you think you have an accent ? Are do you think the way you talk is natural?
I am from the Chicago region and no one has an accent here. Just those mexicans and other foreigners and all the people from the south and new york. But everyone here talks normal.:D

Originally posted by Raynewitch
Well being an Aussie, mate, I have an accent


Really, I've never noticed it here... :D :D :D

Time to lay down my ingenious language study on y'all's asses...

If its the same language...its not an accent... its a dialect...

You speak in a souther dialect, I speak in a valley girl dialect...
er

Yeah

Or a Cockney Dialect, but... if a Japanese person was speaking english, they would be speaking with a Japanese Accent

That is all,
Consider yourself needlessly tipped

ac·cent (ksnt)
n.
The relative prominence of a particular syllable of a word by greater intensity or by variation or modulation of pitch or tone.
Vocal prominence or emphasis given to a particular syllable, word, or phrase.
A characteristic pronunciation, especially:
One determined by the regional or social background of the speaker.
One determined by the phonetic habits of the speaker's native language carried over to his or her use of another language.
A mark or symbol used in the printing and writing of certain languages to indicate the vocal quality to be given to a particular letter: an acute accent.
A mark or symbol used in printing and writing to indicate the stressed syllables of a spoken word.
Rhythmically significant stress in a line of verse.
Music.
Emphasis or prominence given to a note or chord, as by an increase in volume or extended duration.
A mark representing this.
Mathematics.
A mark used as a superscript to distinguish among variables represented by the same symbol.
A mark used as a superscript to indicate the first derivative of a variable.
A mark or one of several marks used as a superscript to indicate a unit, such as feet () and inches () in linear measurement.

A distinctive feature or quality, such as a feature that accentuates, contrasts with, or complements a decorative style.
Something that accentuates or contrasts something else, as a touch of color that makes the features of an image stand out.

Only partially right nate. Accent is used to describe the carry over of a different language, but it is also used as a regional/background descriptor...

Main Entry: di·a·lect
Pronunciation: 'dI-&-"lekt
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle French dialecte, from Latin dialectus, from Greek dialektos conversation, dialect, from dialegesthai to converse -- more at DIALOGUE
Date: 1577
1 a : a regional variety of language distinguished by features of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation from other regional varieties and constituting together with them a single language <the Doric dialect of ancient Greek> b : one of two or more cognate languages <French and Italian are Romance dialects> c : a variety of a language used by the members of a group <such dialects as politics and advertising -- Philip Howard> d : a variety of language whose identity is fixed by a factor other than geography (as social class) <spoke a rough peasant dialect> e : REGISTER 4c f : a version of a computer programming language
2 : manner or means of expressing oneself : PHRASEOLOGY
- di·a·lec·tal /"dI-&-'lek-t&l/ adjective
- di·a·lec·tal·ly /-t&l-E/ adverb

Thats what I got... anyways we all know Im smarter than the dictionary anyways

Originally posted by Aphasia
I never thought I did....but there is apparently a Pennsylvania accent. It's really, really hard to explain, but all my California friends notice it and make me say 'adobe' and 'Cody' and 'Pomona' a million times.....

OF COURSE THERE IS A PENN ACCENT!...


my whole family is from Pittsburgh

my grandma is pretty bad sometime

Foller....as in you are going to "follow"

Foller meh Dantan....as in..are you gonna follow me downtown?


it's pretty bad sometimes....and when i mention it to her..she gets pissed off ! :)

I have a Kiwi accent, oddly enough.

I was in a class, were this was discussed. If you live among a group that all talks the same, there is no notice, but if someone from elsewhere shows up, he has the accent, and vise versa.

In america, the extremes to the east are north and south. New york has a fast, nostraly sound. And southern has a slower, relaxed sound.

As you move west, it becomes less noticeable. That is why many broadcasters that serve nationwide are from the west.

I have no type of accent, unless Im stoned.:D

Is anyone else picking up accents from those around them? My roomates are from boston, conn, and atlanta, and I find myself saying yall and haaavaaad, and i try to kill myself - but the knives arent sharp enough....

Originally posted by Brian



Really, I've never noticed it here... :D :D :D


*Tosses Hair*

Well I AM a brilliant actress.... :Dlol...

Rayne

Most of the people around here don't speak English so I don't know if they have an accent or not.

In the UK people told me I had an american accent. In america people also told me I sounded either american or british, but I am dutch...

since the dutch-english accent is quite horrible, I'm glad I sound pretty american.... altho Heather can maybe tell you more about it since I spoke to her on the phone a couple times.

I know SHE sounds like she could be on the Jerry Springer show tho :D

Bah to you Tam.. I am NOT a Jerry Springer Breed..

Ppl are suprised I dont have a more twanged accent.

Originally posted by Raynewitch



*Tosses Hair*

Well I AM a brilliant actress.... :Dlol...

Rayne


A witch and an actress... sounds like a knockout combo...:D :D :D

i was taking a class this semester that had a bit to do with this and my prof said that on american tv the accent that people are looking for that sounds the best as an american accent is Canadian people. ugh go figure that out

i dont think i have an accent though i do tend to say stuff like dude and stoked.the only time ive ever been told i had an accent was when i was in canada.i was talking to this guy who wasnt a canadian native and i guess he thought i sounded a bit odd.sometimes when im hanging out with people i start talking like them for example when i hang out with my friends that talk a bit on the ghetto side,i tend to start talking like them too.
i love australian accents.I want to go there just so i could get one.:)

i love australian accents.I want to go there just so i could get one.:) [/B][/QUOTE]

i love them too! i had a friend from new zealand, which don't tell them they sound like australian people, but he did sound like it to me. i use to talk to him for hours about nothing just so i could hear his voice. woo i miss him...lol

ARGH!!! No kidding don't tell them they have ANYTHING in common with Aussies! My wicked step mother is a Kiwi & the biggest bitch you would EVER, (and the 'hawk means EEEEEEVVVEERR!) want to meet. You should have seen the tantrum she threw when my dad & I got to talking pro wrestling one day and The Bushwackers came up! Bloody hell, you'd think WW3 had broken out.

Anyway, don't bring up kiwis to Rayne either people. THe feeling seems to be more than mutual with her when I've talked to her, LOL!

Originally posted by Contraband
Is anyone else picking up accents from those around them? My roomates are from boston, conn, and atlanta, and I find myself saying yall and haaavaaad, and i try to kill myself - but the knives arent sharp enough....

Ugh, yes. Everywhere I go, everyone I talk to. I was gabbin' about this to DaOgre just yesterday. I was calling around some places in North Carolina, and I found myself slipping into this half-lidded Southern drawl. Drove me nuts to speak like that, but whatever. Xochitl's from Southern Texas, and her accent is almost perfectly Cali(Avi :D ), except when she says "dude" or "yo", and then it's so thoroughly Texan I can't help but laugh.

Of course there is a Pa accent. And I know exactly how you sound when you say those words Aphasia. However, it may be a little different in Central Pa vs Westen Pa.

I realized that when I moved to Pa from Canada, with my Canadian accent, and all.

Now, I have a combination of both, eh? ;)

My favorite is the Tv Texan accent that sounds more like it came from the backwoods of Georgia. There are people from East Texas with some pretty thick accents, but they don't sound like that.
Is anyone else picking up accents from those around them? My roomates are from boston, conn, and atlanta, and I find myself saying yall and haaavaaad, and i try to kill myself - but the knives arent sharp enough... Yeah, I find myself doing that all the time.

Up until I moved here, I had a nice southern accent and said ya'll alot. I think my accent has started to disappear, and I say my words more like they say them here.. instead of "quarter" they say "qwartah" etc.. The typical New Olreanian accent.

I knew it was bad the first time I went back to Monroe after moving here, and thinking, damn, these people sure have HEAVY accents. I assume I was the same way.

My bud here has a nice coonass accent. Those are hard to impossible to immitate... just ask Adam Sandler. That was in NO WAY CLOSE to cajun. It was just BAD. (yet a funny ass movie)


I went up the the FAA Tower cab one afternoon to talk to the controllers (bored). I said to one guy "you should know when I am out on the runway, I am the only guy in the office with a country accent" So, I go out and do my airfield inspection later that day, and he said my accent wasn't even noticeable on the radio. :)

I persnally thank I ain't gots no axcient. But mah wife says I does. An she mus know wot she's atalkin' 'bout cuz I hardlynever talks ta anybody else. If'n I diud, maybes I'd know if'n I had one.

But I thank wimminfolks wif'n Suthin axcients are saxy. Damn saxy. :D

Either Southern Accents or those cute little midwest accents Dontchaknow!

accents? i have accents. it just depends which day of the week it is. irish, scottish, english, german, russian, jamacian, southern, northern, you name it.
accents give people an idea of who you are, because they can relate you to a region.