Cheesecat wrote:Do any of you Dakkanauts find the Canadian accent that much different from American accents? To me they sound identical with the exception of Newfie, Quebecer, New Yorker and Southener accents.

Asherian Command wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:Do any of you Dakkanauts find the Canadian accent that much different from American accents? To me they sound identical with the exception of Newfie, Quebecer, New Yorker and Southener accents.

I don't know eh? It must be the eh? Eh? or am I stereotyping eh you to much eh?

Cheesecat wrote:

Asherian Command wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:Do any of you Dakkanauts find the Canadian accent that much different from American accents? To me they sound identical with the exception of Newfie, Quebecer, New Yorker and Southener accents.

I don't know eh? It must be the eh? Eh? or am I stereotyping eh you to much eh?

Blacksails wrote:As a Canadian, I find a number of American accents to be quite different. Plus, Canadian maritime accents are more distinctive...particularly the Newfs.

Apparently we say 'ruff' instead of 'roof', though I find it the other way around.

Also, I do say 'eh' more than I should...I am the stereotype...

halonachos wrote:If you want Canadian accents, go to Wisconsin or Minnesota.

Khornholio wrote:@MattyRM

This is off topic, but when you fire that machine gun off in battle, do you ever get the urge to say "Get some! Get some!"?

dogma wrote:

halonachos wrote:If you want Canadian accents, go to Wisconsin or Minnesota.

Not even close to the same.

halonachos wrote:
I've heard both, and they sound awfully close. My family in Wisconsin sounds a lot like Canadians in most cases.

mattyrm wrote: I can ping a Canadian accent pretty easy, they sound like a mixture of American/British. You can hear the difference pretty easily though.

Thaanos wrote:Saying the Canadian Accent is a little misleading, as there are multiple Dialects here in Canada, Newfie, Maritimes(PEI, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick), English Speaking Quebec, and then from Ontario to BC most of us sound the same. They are just not as noticeable as someone from Texas as opposed to someone from New York.

SilverMK2 wrote:I generally tell by looking at their passport while going through their stuff after sneaking in through the window.

If they have one they are probably Canadian.

Cheesecat wrote:You don't have to go through the window, none of us keep the door locked anyway.

SilverMK2 wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:You don't have to go through the window, none of us keep the door locked anyway.

You do have lots of guns however, so it is better to be safe and sound. Also why I carry round a few bottles of chloroform.

Cheesecat wrote:This is Canada were to polite and friendly to use

dogma wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:This is Canada were to polite and friendly to use

Cheesecat wrote:
I can't stand South Park.

dogma wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:This is Canada were to polite and friendly to use

dogma wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:
I can't stand South Park.

Because they portray Canadians as subhuman monsters? Which, given the libertarian leanings of the creators is likely intentional.

Cheesecat wrote:
It's more the annoying voices and low-brow humor that does it for me.

dogma wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:
It's more the annoying voices and low-brow humor that does it for me.

You aren't allowed to be effete and Canadian.

generalgrog wrote:Canadians don't pronounce about the same as Mericans.

generalgrog wrote:they also phrase there sentences like questions? instead of statements.

mattyboy22 wrote:I though all Canadians sounded like this.......

SilverMK2 wrote:

generalgrog wrote:they also phrase there sentences like questions? instead of statements.

To be entirely fair, I see this perpetrated quite heavily in American TV/radio/etc.

Jefffar wrote:I am Canadian.

I work telephone customer service for one of Americas largest Television and Internet providers.

In a given week I speak to about 150 customers from locations as scattered as California, Florida, Maine, Oregon, Michigan, Georgia, New Jersey, Virginia and Indianapolis.

Lest than 1% of customers ever notice I don't sound local.

Jefffar wrote:I am Canadian.

I work telephone customer service for one of Americas largest Television and Internet providers.

In a given week I speak to about 150 customers from locations as scattered as California, Florida, Maine, Oregon, Michigan, Georgia, New Jersey, Virginia and Indianapolis.

Lest than 1% of customers ever notice I don't sound local.

feeder wrote:

Jefffar wrote:I am Canadian.

I work telephone customer service for one of Americas largest Television and Internet providers.

In a given week I speak to about 150 customers from locations as scattered as California, Florida, Maine, Oregon, Michigan, Georgia, New Jersey, Virginia and Indianapolis.

Lest than 1% of customers ever notice I don't sound local.

They are probably just happy you don't sound foreign.

On a more related note, during my visit to California, people I met would use the word 'huh' in the same manner as us Canucks say 'eh'.

feeder wrote:

Jefffar wrote:I am Canadian.

I work telephone customer service for one of Americas largest Television and Internet providers.

In a given week I speak to about 150 customers from locations as scattered as California, Florida, Maine, Oregon, Michigan, Georgia, New Jersey, Virginia and Indianapolis.

Lest than 1% of customers ever notice I don't sound local.

They are probably just happy you don't sound foreign.

On a more related note, during my visit to California, people I met would use the word 'huh' in the same manner as us Canucks say 'eh'.

Jefffar wrote:I am Canadian.

I work telephone customer service for one of Americas largest Television and Internet providers.

In a given week I speak to about 150 customers from locations as scattered as California, Florida, Maine, Oregon, Michigan, Georgia, New Jersey, Virginia and Indianapolis.

Lest than 1% of customers ever notice I don't sound local.

dogma wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:
It's more the annoying voices and low-brow humor that does it for me.

You aren't allowed to be effete and Canadian.

murdog wrote:

Jefffar wrote:I am Canadian.

I work telephone customer service for one of Americas largest Television and Internet providers.

In a given week I speak to about 150 customers from locations as scattered as California, Florida, Maine, Oregon, Michigan, Georgia, New Jersey, Virginia and Indianapolis.

Lest than 1% of customers ever notice I don't sound local.

I too worked phones, doing 411 for an Alberta phone company who contracted their operators out to various american phone companies for 411 services. I would talk to people (hundreds/day in short 411 calls) all over the continent, and had the same experience of people usually not noticing. Having americans think I was australian was fairly frequent, when they did detect an accent, which was kinda weird.

biccat wrote:

Chowderhead wrote:Can we all agree that Family Guy is funny?

No, because a lot of Family Guy is stupid.

rubiksnoob wrote:

biccat wrote:

Chowderhead wrote:Can we all agree that Family Guy is funny?

No, because a lot of Family Guy is stupid.

Yeah, I'm with biccat on this one, Family Guy is terrible.

biccat wrote:
Isn't Canada virtually the definition of effete?

biccat wrote:
Isn't Canada virtually the definition of effete?

feeder wrote:

biccat wrote:
Isn't Canada virtually the definition of effete?

Not by any definition of effete that I can find.

Cheesecat wrote:

feeder wrote:
On a more related note, during my visit to California, people I met would use the word 'huh' in the same manner as us Canucks say 'eh'.

So they speak like Tommy Wiseau?

biccat wrote:
2. Dogma apparently doesn't know what effete means. Admittedly, a lot of people use it inappropriately to appear smarter than they are.

mattyrm wrote:

Khornholio wrote:@MattyRM

This is off topic, but when you fire that machine gun off in battle, do you ever get the urge to say "Get some! Get some!"?

That's one of the rules. Its as important as checking it's loaded!

dogma wrote:

biccat wrote:
2. Dogma apparently doesn't know what effete means. Admittedly, a lot of people use it inappropriately to appear smarter than they are.

Canada is fairly fertile, strong, and not pampered.

What was that about not knowing what effete means?

biccat wrote:
The context you used it in indicated either that you didn't know what it meant, or that you were intentionally using it incorrectly.

dogma wrote:By conservatives that think Canada and effete belong in the same sentence.

biccat wrote:
Indeed.

Although I might note that it was the non-conservative in this thread who threw them together not once, but twice.

dogma wrote:

biccat wrote:
Indeed.

Although I might note that it was the non-conservative in this thread who threw them together not once, but twice.

I'm not conservative?

biccat wrote:
If you're a conservative, then you've admitted that you used the word incorrectly.

dogma wrote:

biccat wrote:
If you're a conservative, then you've admitted that you used the word incorrectly.

If that's the case, then we both did.

biccat wrote:
I actually didn't use the word incorrectly. I simply intended the use to be sarcastic.

dogma wrote:

biccat wrote:
I actually didn't use the word incorrectly. I simply intended the use to be sarcastic.

If we're operating on the premise that you can either be conservative, or use the word effete correctly you couldn't have.

biccat wrote:
Ah, that's where you're wrong.

The only people who use it incorrectly (at least for purposes of this exchange) are "conservatives that think Canada and effete belong in the same sentence."

dogma wrote:

biccat wrote:Ah, that's where you're wrong.

The only people who use it incorrectly (at least for purposes of this exchange) are "conservatives that think Canada and effete belong in the same sentence."

You seem to have placed both words in the same sentence, whether for the purpose of sarcasm or not this seems to indicate belonging.

biccat wrote:
Having a rough day? You seem to be off your game.

Regardless, this is getting a little silly

dogma wrote:When you have to grade 153 papers you would be off your game too.

biccat wrote:
Ah, but they're from undergraduate college students. Among the best and brightest that high schools have to offer. They've already got excellent writing, college is just a stepping stone to something else.

...and I'd take it over reading 300 pages of scientific literature on an obscure physics topic that no one really understands.

dogma wrote:The Québécois accent is hilarious.

Melissia wrote:

dogma wrote:The Québécois accent is hilarious.

Sounds like a British person who's been in the US too logn and is trying to sound French.

CoI wrote:I'm originally from about as far west in canada as you can get (I'm from Nanaimo BC....

KamikazeCanuck wrote:I don't think Ontarians have an accent. I didn't think anyone had that stereotypical Canadian accent you see on TV but then I visited some family in Nova Scotia and realized some people actually do...It's like someone from Hollywood went to NS one time and that's it and based everything he knows about about Canada just on them.

Cheesecat wrote:
I can't stand South Park.

DickBandit wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:
I can't stand South Park.

You mean y'all don't have beady eyes and flappy heads?
The more ya know.

I'm not sure what a canadian accent is, and there might be different ones just like there is no such thing as a "southern accent".

Skarwael wrote:I personally can't tell the difference between American and Canadian accents most of the time. I make an effort to listen out for if they say "eh" or "aboot"... that's pretty much the only thing that makes it obvious, though they probably wouldn't say those in all parts of Canada, right?

I have no way of telling Australians and New Zealanders apart... which is bad.

Cheesecat wrote:

DickBandit wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:
I can't stand South Park.

You mean y'all don't have beady eyes and flappy heads?
The more ya know.

I'm not sure what a canadian accent is, and there might be different ones just like there is no such thing as a "southern accent".

Oh, there definitely is a southern accent for Americans at least.

KingCracker wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:

DickBandit wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:
I can't stand South Park.

You mean y'all don't have beady eyes and flappy heads?
The more ya know.

I'm not sure what a canadian accent is, and there might be different ones just like there is no such thing as a "southern accent".

Oh, there definitely is a southern accent for Americans at least.

Yea America is a giant blob of weird fethed up accents

metallifan wrote:You've got to love the Canadian Forces. When you're in training, especially during BMQ when you do a tonne of theory, they make a point to speak with a subtle but pronounced 'Canadian' accent and frequently make use of "Eh", "Lads", "Buddy", and "Boys". Active reinforcement of stereotypes FTW.

KamikazeCanuck wrote:I barely use "eh". Honestly.

Trondheim wrote:Not to come accros as a iggnorat European but they do seen quite similar, except for those from Quebec

metallifan wrote:

Trondheim wrote:Not to come accros as a iggnorat European but they do seen quite similar, except for those from Quebec

Yea, the accent itself isn't as common out west. Here in Kamloops, we get a lot of New Zealanders and Aussies up at the Sun Peaks Resort during the winter season, and they say that Western Canadians tend to sound very similar to most of the people in the Northern US. Seems that the difference in accent, the whole "Aboot" deal, is more of an Eastern Canada thing.

We do all still frequently say "Buddy", "Guy", "Boys", "Lads", and "Eh" on a roughly equal basis, save Newfies. But we have a saying for Newfies. "Everytime we Canadians begin to take ourselves too seriously, a Newfie comes along and says something that makes us all laugh, intended or not."

Albatross wrote:So do I. And 'lads'.



Holy gak! I'M CANADIAN!

feeder wrote:What is your opinion on the sport of hockey?

Albatross wrote:

feeder wrote:What is your opinion on the sport of hockey?

Who? Me? I think it's for girls.


ICE hockey, on the other hand....? Well, that's for Canadians, i.e. lunatics.

Coolyo294 wrote:

Albatross wrote:

feeder wrote:What is your opinion on the sport of hockey?

Who? Me? I think it's for girls.


ICE hockey, on the other hand....? Well, that's for Canadians, i.e. lunatics.

And Minnicanadians.

metallifan wrote:

Coolyo294 wrote:

Albatross wrote:

feeder wrote:What is your opinion on the sport of hockey?

Who? Me? I think it's for girls.


ICE hockey, on the other hand....? Well, that's for Canadians, i.e. lunatics.

And Minnicanadians.

Fix'd, Eh?

dogma wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:This is Canada were to polite and friendly to use

Coolyo294 wrote:

metallifan wrote:

Coolyo294 wrote:

Albatross wrote:

feeder wrote:What is your opinion on the sport of hockey?

Who? Me? I think it's for girls.


ICE hockey, on the other hand....? Well, that's for Canadians, i.e. lunatics.

And Minnicanadians.

Fix'd, Eh?

Didn't the very top part of Minnesota try to secede to Canada?

metallifan wrote:

Coolyo294 wrote:

metallifan wrote:

Coolyo294 wrote:

Albatross wrote:

feeder wrote:What is your opinion on the sport of hockey?

Who? Me? I think it's for girls.


ICE hockey, on the other hand....? Well, that's for Canadians, i.e. lunatics.

And Minnicanadians.

Fix'd, Eh?

Didn't the very top part of Minnesota try to secede to Canada?

Probably.

TBH, we'd gladly trade the US Quebec for Minnesota.

metallifan wrote:It's just a ploy so they can keep getting tax handouts from the rest of Canada

Once we cut them off, they'll leave for the States. You'll see.

Albatross wrote:

feeder wrote:What is your opinion on the sport of hockey?

Who? Me? I think it's for girls.


ICE hockey, on the other hand....? Well, that's for Canadians, i.e. lunatics.


Interesting fact: 'Canada' is an old Anglo-Saxon word, which literally translates as 'Terrible and Injurious Cranial Damage, Forsooth.'

murdog wrote:Ever see two Canadians fight over a parking stall?

-You go ahead, buddy, take it

-No, you take it, you were here first

-No, seriously, I don't mind, you take it

-No, really eh, you take it

-No, I insist, you take it

etc.

Cheesecat wrote:

metallifan wrote:

Coolyo294 wrote:

metallifan wrote:

Coolyo294 wrote:

Albatross wrote:

feeder wrote:What is your opinion on the sport of hockey?

Who? Me? I think it's for girls.


ICE hockey, on the other hand....? Well, that's for Canadians, i.e. lunatics.

And Minnicanadians.

Fix'd, Eh?

Didn't the very top part of Minnesota try to secede to Canada?

Probably.

TBH, we'd gladly trade the US Quebec for Minnesota.

Hey, Quebec's starting to realize it's part of Canada.

KamikazeCanuck wrote:I don't think Ontarians have an accent.

KingCracker wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:

metallifan wrote:

Coolyo294 wrote:

metallifan wrote:

Coolyo294 wrote:

Albatross wrote:

feeder wrote:What is your opinion on the sport of hockey?

Who? Me? I think it's for girls.


ICE hockey, on the other hand....? Well, that's for Canadians, i.e. lunatics.

And Minnicanadians.

Fix'd, Eh?

Didn't the very top part of Minnesota try to secede to Canada?

Probably.

TBH, we'd gladly trade the US Quebec for Minnesota.

Hey, Quebec's starting to realize it's part of Canada.

metallifan wrote:It's just a ploy so they can keep getting tax handouts from the rest of Canada

Once we cut them off, they'll leave for the States. You'll see.

Whoa whoa whoa....who said America wants some Frenchified version of us...or you guys, its hard to tell sometimes. Either way, we dont like the French

mega_bassist wrote:

KamikazeCanuck wrote:I don't think Ontarians have an accent.

I'd have to disagree...I know several people from Ontario, and they have an accent for sure...it's just less prominent that accents from other providences


Ever see a Newfie Jigsaw puzzle?

KamikazeCanuck wrote:You're telling me you can tell the difference between someone from Toronto and someone from Calgary just by listening to them?

Lord of battles wrote:No one wants quebec period.

mega_bassist wrote:

KamikazeCanuck wrote:You're telling me you can tell the difference between someone from Toronto and someone from Calgary just by listening to them?

Welp, got me there. I personally cannot, but I'm stating they have a different accent compared to someone from Quebec or Newfoundland.

KamikazeCanuck wrote:

mega_bassist wrote:

KamikazeCanuck wrote:You're telling me you can tell the difference between someone from Toronto and someone from Calgary just by listening to them?

Welp, got me there. I personally cannot, but I'm stating they have a different accent compared to someone from Quebec or Newfoundland.

Yes of course. The east coast has a few accents because accents develope with the age of a region. That's why every town in England seems to have it's own accent. Toronto and westward all sound the same.

metallifan wrote:

KingCracker wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:

metallifan wrote:

Coolyo294 wrote:

metallifan wrote:

Coolyo294 wrote:

Albatross wrote:

feeder wrote:What is your opinion on the sport of hockey?

Who? Me? I think it's for girls.


ICE hockey, on the other hand....? Well, that's for Canadians, i.e. lunatics.

And Minnicanadians.

Fix'd, Eh?

Didn't the very top part of Minnesota try to secede to Canada?

Probably.

TBH, we'd gladly trade the US Quebec for Minnesota.

Hey, Quebec's starting to realize it's part of Canada.

metallifan wrote:It's just a ploy so they can keep getting tax handouts from the rest of Canada

Once we cut them off, they'll leave for the States. You'll see.

Whoa whoa whoa....who said America wants some Frenchified version of us...or you guys, its hard to tell sometimes. Either way, we dont like the French

It's too late. They'll be YOUR problem soon