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Born in Atlanta and raised in Tennessee and Alabama, surprisingly, I have been told I have hardly a barely perceptible Southern accent. I can thicken or soften it at will depending on my audience as well. For example, I lived in Colorado for a year, and natives couldn't place my accent. My wife, on the other hand, who was born and raised in Alabama...they all thought she was from Texas (with most of them having never heard a Southern regional accent other than someone from Texas...trust me, it is a similar, yet completely different accent).
oh,you know. in a basement...cooking ponies into cupcakes....
almost everyone says i have a British accent.no one else in my family even has an accent. and ive spent my whole life in texas,so i couldnt of just picked it up somewhere else...well,i guess i could of.
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lord commissar klimino wrote:almost everyone says i have a British accent.no one else in my family even has an accent. and ive spent my whole life in texas,so i couldnt of just picked it up somewhere else...well,i guess i could of.
I was born in Columbus Ohio and moved down to Louisiana and before i kinda sounded normal a little bit of some nasal talk but now i sound like Boomhower from King of the Hill with a head cold. and i stutter so i pretty much am a interesting conversation piece haha
Fun Fact: CNN, ABC, Fox News, all them, when they hire a news reporter, they have to be able to speak in the Bread Basket's Accent, because it is the easiest to understand of all American Accents.
Off topic, but I really hope my wife has a British accent. Sounds so sexy.
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Anyway, I never thought I had an accent until I moved to California.
I've been told it's pretty obvious when I speak that I'm from New Hampsha.
..When I moved out to California for a while ..everyone I met would constantly ask me to repeat things and seemed to find my accent amazing ( and hysterical)...
I recall once asking where the mayonnaise was ( which us coonasses call " Mahnez") and had an entire room rolling with laughter...
All I could reply with was " Yeah...if y'all came to New Orleans you'd sound funny to us too."
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
I was mostly raised by my mother and grandmother, who were both born and raised in Maine. (My dad is from Missouri, but he spoke about as often as Clint Eastwood's Man with no name, so that had a negligible influence) When I started elementary school, they immediately decided that I had a dire speech impediment and so I had to stay an hour every day to attend speech therapy. Now, I have a neutral, if very nasal accent, but I can still slip into an authentic 'down east' accent whenever I want. Ayuh!
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
I have to say of all the American accents, I like a nice, light southern drawl the best. Just enough to tell they're from the south. New York/New Jersey accents just sound angry, Boston accents are usually unintelligible, and Mid-Western accents are god-awful and annoying as all get out. (Hellooo, could I get youu a cup a oringe jooose? )
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
Happygrunt wrote:I can safely say I don't have one. Honestly, I don't know what I sound like.
Having an accent is something you don't really know you have until someone tells you you have one...either that or you speak to someone from a region with a distinct accent that is different than yours.
Apparently, I have a thick russian accent, and sound like this(sort of, not really). My fiancé used to write things down for me to say for entertainment, I never understood why.
captain fantastic wrote: Seems like this thread is all that's left of Remilia Scarlet (the poster).
remilia_scarlet wrote:Apparently, I have a thick russian accent, and sound like this(sort of, not really). My fiancé used to write things down for me to say for entertainment, I never understood why.
I will pay you millions of dollars to say things related to the Soviet Union.
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Honestly, no one has mentioned me having any accent, not even when I went to Japan and lived among various foreign students. I recently moved from upstate New York to L.A. and still haven't heard anything.
Obviously I have some form of American accent, and undoubtedly it's an accent appropriate to the region I'm from, I just haven't noticed what sets it apart from other accents, other than the really obvious, stereotypical American accents (Southern, New England, New York, etc)
I skimmed Wikipedia and while there's a lot of information presented in such a way that I'd have to... well, do more than skim to understand it, there is one thing it mentions that I definitely do, and that's pronounce the words "Mary", "marry", and "merry" the same way.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Actually, I talk rather similarly (though not exactly) like the girl in polonius' video. I pronounce some words differently (Like "crayon" is pretty much one syllable for me and closer to "cran" than "cray-on" and soda is soda, not pop), but it's still quite, quite close.
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remilia_scarlet wrote:Apparently, I have a thick russian accent, and sound like this(sort of, not really). My fiancé used to write things down for me to say for entertainment, I never understood why.
I will pay you millions of dollars to say things related to the Soviet Union.
And I would happily read what you write.
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captain fantastic wrote: Seems like this thread is all that's left of Remilia Scarlet (the poster).
I have a curious mish-mash. Part Australian, part SoCal, part Irish, part something else.
Though born in Oz, I don't have the stereotypical Steve Irwin or Paul Hogan "strine" drawl (very few people under the age of 60 do).
I spent 6 months of High school in Southern California as an exchange student and picked up some SoCal phrasing and accent.
I spent 1 month hiking across Ireland and somehow managed to shanghai some of the Irish lilt also.
While our cities are not as large as American ones, they still do have their own accents (Sydney is as different from Adelaide as Boston is from Los Angeles). I don't sound like I'm from Sydney (I am).
I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.
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Slarg232 wrote:
Fun Fact: CNN, ABC, Fox News, all them, when they hire a news reporter, they have to be able to speak in the Bread Basket's Accent, because it is the easiest to understand of all American Accents.
"the Bread Basket's Accent" is called standard american english.
This is how I sound, I sound like a news reporter, no accent to speak of, just standard speech.
So I do not have an accent, I pronounce my words clearly.
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I am from Middlesbrough, the jewel of the United Kingdom. As a result, every word I speak sounds sincere and heartfelt, each syllable like honey and velvet.
Women hang on every word I say, and I exude charisma.
Just like this guy!
He swears slightly less than I do though. Although, in Middlesbrough swear words are known as "sentence enhancers" as they add value and depth to each one you utter.
NSFW obviously...
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remilia_scarlet wrote:Apparently, I have a thick russian accent, and sound like this(sort of, not really). My fiancé used to write things down for me to say for entertainment, I never understood why.
I will pay you millions of dollars to say things related to the Soviet Union.
Yes, while wearing a russian uniform and holding a whip.
Flashman wrote:Southerner born and bred, so no accent whatsoever
Yes, quite. This is what the language sounds like when it is spoken properly. Sad to say, my accent degrades into a terrible London-esque slur when I venture onto certain topics and speak to certain people. This is due to the duality of my heritage, coming from a terribly upper middle class family on one side, and the London poor and gangsters on the other.
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