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 Alfndrate wrote:
I talk with MrDWhitey, purplefood, and Avatar 720 pretty regularly. I can understand them without issue even though they hail from three different parts of the UK.

I know I have an accent which I actively try and correct as I speak. People from Northeast Ohio pronounce words differently than what some might expect. It's easiest to detect when saying words like cat, (key-at), milk (melk), and pillow (pellow). It's not as pronounced as like the Wisconsin or the Chicago accent (both derivatives of the Northern Cities Vowel Shift), it's still noticeable to some people.


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 Cheesecat wrote:
Take German instead it's easier because English is a Germanic language (that being said English does have some similarities to french but not as much as German). Dutch, Norwegian, Icelandic, Swedish and Danish are some other Germanic languages you might want to look into.

Agreed, though for a few hundred years, French was the language spoken in the English royal courts and amongst nobles. Something about some bastard conquering them in 1066.

What about me Alf :(

 Corpsesarefun wrote:
What about me Alf :(

I said regularly, whenever you're on, all I hear is "witch, I'm lugubrious" but with that being said, your voice is distinctive enough to tell the difference from everyone else.

 Alfndrate wrote:
I talk with MrDWhitey, purplefood, and Avatar 720 pretty regularly. I can understand them without issue even though they hail from three different parts of the UK.

I know I have an accent which I actively try and correct as I speak. People from Northeast Ohio pronounce words differently than what some might expect. It's easiest to detect when saying words like cat, (key-at), milk (melk), and pillow (pellow). It's not as pronounced as like the Wisconsin or the Chicago accent (both derivatives of the Northern Cities Vowel Shift), it's still noticeable to some people.


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 Cheesecat wrote:
Take German instead it's easier because English is a Germanic language (that being said English does have some similarities to french but not as much as German). Dutch, Norwegian, Icelandic, Swedish and Danish are some other Germanic languages you might want to look into.

Agreed, though for a few hundred years, French was the language spoken in the English royal courts and amongst nobles. Something about some bastard conquering them in 1066.

I dunno how you understand Purple with all that drunkenness

 KingCracker wrote:

 Alfndrate wrote:
I talk with MrDWhitey, purplefood, and Avatar 720 pretty regularly. I can understand them without issue even though they hail from three different parts of the UK.

I know I have an accent which I actively try and correct as I speak. People from Northeast Ohio pronounce words differently than what some might expect. It's easiest to detect when saying words like cat, (key-at), milk (melk), and pillow (pellow). It's not as pronounced as like the Wisconsin or the Chicago accent (both derivatives of the Northern Cities Vowel Shift), it's still noticeable to some people.


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 Cheesecat wrote:
Take German instead it's easier because English is a Germanic language (that being said English does have some similarities to french but not as much as German). Dutch, Norwegian, Icelandic, Swedish and Danish are some other Germanic languages you might want to look into.

Agreed, though for a few hundred years, French was the language spoken in the English royal courts and amongst nobles. Something about some bastard conquering them in 1066.

I dunno how you understand Purple with all that drunkenness

We never said we did.

the other interesting thing about accents in north america is the instant assumption that because you have a foreign accent, it makes you either slowed or uneducated. My parents got handled like crap again, this time by a cableguy who earns less than either of my parents independently. I also don't see the wisdom of telling a hardware designer how the wiring could have gone to hell, randomly without anyone touching it, when the only possible problem is a piece of hardware with sensitive electronics inside the box, which said cable guy didn't even look at (if I was him, I would have noticed two furnaces in a closed poorly ventilated space, and noticed that the box was reasonably warm to touch, and thought to myself, "ah, maybe something fried in this box due to heat"). Especially when that hardware designer has been at it for 30 years and earns in excess of $100K annually, when this cable guy is about 30 years old and earns something near $40K a year.... last summer some moron who spent 20 years doing landscaping exhibited an inability to comprehend that mixing up the soil that had weeds in it, and burying it liberally over the yard was going to be a disservice. He tried to tell my mother, who has a bachelors in horticulture, and worked directly under the minister of agriculture of slovakia back in the day, that he's been at it for 20 years, all the while ignoring the fact that the entire back yard was overgrowing with plants and flowers of every stripe from the front of the house, all the way around both sides, and to the back of the property (that is to say, not one blade of grass. There's a deck, a stone tiled area, and the rest is growing something or other edible, or decoration...) And this supposed land scaper is the head of his company.... well.... sorry frank, small bloody wonder you've been at it 20 years, and you're still on a work crew. It's because you're incompetent.....

anyway, for some reason there seems to be an assumption that people out of eastern Europe are troglodytes. Some are, but it's like assuming everyone with a southern drawl is a troglodyte. You're welcome to make the assumption, and you're also welcome to get a boot up the ass while you're at it.....

I hate my accent when I'm talking in english. People I usually game with online tell me I have somewhat of a Brittish accent. I don't hear it myself and I think my accent sounds like nails to a chalkboard.