The american accent

[Gia]

Originally posted by Bruce Lindfield

Friday 21 November - Travels to Tony Blair's Sedgefield constituency to meet members of the public before returning to Washington

HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAHAHAHA!!

I almost feel sorry for him......sedgefield.


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

 

[Blackbird]

Originally posted by Davy0
[...]
Does everyone view their own accent as flat, or is this an anomaly with the midwestern/US accent?

What, are others supposed to say "We speak normal English, but not as normal as DavyO's?"

 

[Bruce Lindfield]

Stop plz.

 

[P. Aaron]

Originally posted by jazzbo
I think it works the other way also. When a British person says something, many Americans will know he/she is English, but won't know which part of England, or which type of accent.

A fine talk show host I listened to had a unique ability to not only tell if some one was from Philly or New York, but he'd get their location down to the city block. And the callers were amazed at his ability to do it.

I've noticed that every state in the U.S. has its own regional accent. Just as the sections of New York, or London and outskirts have many different sounding dialects. It is fun to try and pinpoint the exact(if not near) location.

If I am not sure, I always ask. People are always game to talk about it, and it is fun to be able to guess correctly.

 

[P. Aaron]

Originally posted by BrokenAngel
Oh and Bruce, I cordially invite you to spend the night with us in Green Park keeping Bush awake with shouts of "OI BUSH WAKE UP"

Originally posted by Bruce Lindfield I think you should feel more sorry for the Queen...who knows what she'll be offered at the dinner hosted by GW!!??

If you guys want to rip on my President, think of something substantial and post it in the lounge.

We're talking accents here. Your country has its own problems yet we're not side-swiping you with surly comments.

So cork it already.

 

[Bruce Lindfield]

Apparently GW has had dinner with the Queen before - when he was young and he said to her that he was the black sheep of the family - then asked who was the black sheep in her's!

I think the answer to that now, would be pretty obvious to everyone over here!!

 

[Bruce Lindfield]

WHAT THE HE!! BRUCE. You know the rules, come on!!

 

[NJL]

awesome, Bruce!

 

[Petebass]

I get annoyed with mix-n-match accents. Listen to Elle McPhearson speak, or Kylie Minouge, or even Chad Reed (Motocross champ). It's aussie accent, English accent, American accent all in one sentence.

Oh and, the English do a much better job of impersonating Aussies than the Americans do

 

[P. Aaron]

Originally posted by Petebass
Oh and, the English do a much better job of impersonating Aussies than the Americans do

Speaking of "Aussie" accents. I refuse to eat at an "Outback Steakhouse" just because of the fake sounding attempt at an Australian accent they use in their commercials.


Nothing against Australia and the many fine citizens that inhabit that continent.

 

[Petebass]

Originally posted by P. Aaron
Speaking of "Aussie" accents. I refuse to eat at an "Outback Steakhouse" just because of the fake sounding attempt at an Australian accent they use in their commercials.
.

I can't believe they put on an Aussie Accent. How corny.

They used to do that over here in the Chilli's Texas style restaurants but Australians reacted the same way you did. It was too annoying.

 

[Michael Jewels]

I like Nicole Kidman's accent. It's definitely authentic Aussie, but she either tried to refine it herself, or it just got smoothed out from living in the U.S. so much.

Bring her to me!

Mike

 

[DDXdesign]

Originally posted by P. Aaron
Speaking of "Aussie" accents. I refuse to eat at an "Outback Steakhouse" just because of the fake sounding attempt at an Australian accent they use in their commercials.

LMAO - we got a good laugh taking a friend of my Mom's out to an Outback. He was from Sydney. And we just happened to get the one waiter in the place who thought he could do an aussie accent. (edit: and he did it the entire time we were there) - That was a riot.

I'm fond of various accents, and from *my* flat MidAtlantic US tone I can do a reasonable facsimile of most I've heard (my favorite is Baltimore, hun!) - kind of upset that I can't do an Aussie accent, everything else seems dead easy by comparison. You guys rock.

d

 

[secretdonkey]

Funny to think... I can go eat at an Outback here in Texas, and you can eat at a Chili's in Australia...

Umm, waiter, can I have some more fun fake exotic culture to help compensate for the crappy food?



Well, at least no one ever tried a fake Aussie accent on my couple of forays into the Outback.

Originally posted by Petebass
I can't believe they put on an Aussie Accent. How corny.

They used to do that over here in the Chilli's Texas style restaurants but Australians reacted the same way you did. It was too annoying.

 

[vegaas]

I live in Milwaukee, so we all have Mid-western accents here. It is true that most broadcasters speak with what is a preceived neutral Mid-western accent, however, true Mid-western accents are a bit more nasaly than what broadcasters use. We also tend to rush through pronunciations.

 

[Thor]

I always thought the cheezheads had a funny way of pronouncing their O's, the Wisconsin accent is a little different than the others, it sounds to me.

 

[BassAxe]

Alright, now. Repeat after me.

"The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain."

 

[Osama_Spears]

My Accent:
(I hail from Baltimore,Maryland)

Breakfast= "Br-eh-fix"
Our= "Ayr"
Water= "Waw-dur"

 

[Petebass]

Oh man I can't find it...... it's here somewhere but I can't find it..... there was a thread on here ages ago making fun of one of the American accents that included such jems as :-

Samich - sandwich
duntiddyendedda - "you can ride your bike duntiddyendedda the street but no further".

C'mon silly thread, where ARE you???????

 

[Bard2dbone]

Oh come on guys, you are missing the best accents to laugh at. When someone has an accent in their native language, which is the same as yours and you both learn another language, they will SILL have a different accent in the second language.

If that didn't make sense, I will use an example. The hospital I work at used to have a lovely Aussie nurse in our ER named Jane. We are in north Texas, so spanish is very useful. Jane spoke "North-Texas-acquired-Spanish with an Aussie/North Texas/Northeast Mexico accent" Wow.

I mean. Just...Wow.

And I'm fortunate that the Outback I go to has no waiters doing accents. It's hard to ruin a decent cut of steak.