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04-05-2006, 08:52 PM
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Accents............
I'm guessing you all have accents. I myself don't have an accent I speak normally 
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04-05-2006, 11:26 PM
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new hampshire people have an accent, a fairly normal new englanders one. I have a slight upstate accent, but for the most part, i speak nuetral because mym parents are from ceentral new jersey which doesnt have an accent.
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04-05-2006, 11:41 PM
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I don't think I have an accent. I live in the South so when I go home to South Dakota or visit other places sometimes people say I have a bit of a southern accent. My boss at work thinks I have a midwestern accent, kind of like that of someone from Minnesota.
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04-06-2006, 03:39 AM
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I have an accent but I'm working on it. East European Accents are quite distinct, unfortunately.
I can almost pass for an Italian, with my accent, both French and English LOL!!
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04-06-2006, 03:43 AM
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It's not me, it's everyone else! Honest!
I have a Canadian accent, whatever the heck that is.
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04-06-2006, 09:20 AM
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It's not me, it's everyone else! Honest!
I have a Canadian accent, whatever the heck that is.
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I KNOW what a Canadian accent sounds like....everything is a OU sound!
I bet I could pick out BA in a crowd too with that upstate yankee talk...everything is a ARR sound!
Where I live....we just leave off the last consonant off of most words. LOL!
Now, when I talked to Luba...she sounded like she was from Finland to me. |
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04-06-2006, 10:47 AM
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Accents? When speaking Dutch, I sound like Frisian (due to the difference in pronouncing 'r's mostly).
When speaking English, it is even more weird. I guess it adds to the cuteness-factor (if I believe my gf).
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04-06-2006, 12:29 PM
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ok, so what accent do you liike the best?
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04-06-2006, 01:13 PM
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I have a yankee accent with just a sprinkling of a southern accent, having spent some time there, spiced up with a spanish accent. When I was in Europe vacationing Americans thought I was european because of my accent. The Dutch thought I was German and always spoke to me in German. The French, well they were just rude, they hate everyone.
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04-06-2006, 01:26 PM
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The Dutch thought I was German and always spoke to me in German.
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They barely are able to speak the language these days.
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The French, well they were just rude, they hate everyone.
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Were they rude in French? Finally a Balzac-enthuasist in the country, and they maltreat him :evil:.
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04-06-2006, 02:03 PM
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The Dutch thought I was German and always spoke to me in German. The French, well they were just rude, they hate everyone.
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Everyone who isn't French, that is, hahaha . |
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04-06-2006, 03:54 PM
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and most people hate the french too.
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04-06-2006, 04:02 PM
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Hum... one should not generalize... but it is true that most French people I've met don't make special efforts to be liked. If they do, they have foreign origins, LOL.
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04-06-2006, 04:48 PM
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there were a bunch of french foreign exchange students at my school, 2 were cool the rest were arrogant frenchmen.
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04-06-2006, 04:54 PM
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the rest were arrogant frenchmen.
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Even the women?
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