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Post by OnLineGenie on Oct 26, 2008 10:15:14 GMT
And we are lazy so we combine our words such as "J'eat yet" instead of saying did you eat yet. lol i guess we americans do have accents In England we say "Have you eaten yet?". |
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Post by The Animal on Oct 26, 2008 13:50:14 GMT
You only notice you have an accent when you step outside of your own country. Here, I talk like everyone else. But if I was to fly to, say, Ireland, then my "accent" would be noticable because I wouldn't sound like everyone else.
Or even just go outside of your own region. I'm from the South. If I go to up North to Philadelphia to see my friend, I have an accent. Because even though we're both from America, we have two distinct dialects.
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Post by Little Miss on Oct 27, 2008 21:59:57 GMT
My gf says I have a very sexy American accent
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Post by slowcheetah9 on Oct 28, 2008 23:02:05 GMT
It's soda.  my accent is muddled... there's not really one standard accent in Vegas because nobody is from there... most people are from the midwest, and my California accent is fading a little bit. Most people here are from New York, and I actually said "wutter" just like my instead of "water" the other day (normally I would pronounce it "wadder"- some people in the northeast say "worder") I also realized that when I say "I'll" and "all", it sounds like the same thing. I have a question Ashley... do you pronounce "wash" like "warsh"? |
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Post by Robin Morbid on Oct 29, 2008 1:00:21 GMT
Philly accents are fun...the greatest thing is the word "water"
wuder,WAH-ter,wader...I pronounce it "wuder" and I know it doesn't sound right,but thats ok...because it works for me :-D
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Post by slowcheetah9 on Oct 29, 2008 20:42:32 GMT
I don't like my accent lol.
btw, this isn't an accent thing, more of a dialect thing, but I was told that only Americans say "bunches" or "a bunch" as in "I'm so stressed out. I have a bunch of things to do."
Is this true?
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Post by Ashley on Oct 30, 2008 20:11:36 GMT
my dad is a tru city boy and he says "warsh" and it drives me crazy! what do you guys call soda or pop over there in in england?
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Post by OnLineGenie on Oct 30, 2008 20:35:42 GMT
my dad is a tru city boy and he says "warsh" and it drives me crazy! what do you guys call soda or pop over there in in england? Pop. |
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Post by slowcheetah9 on Oct 30, 2008 23:33:30 GMT
ARE YOU SERIOUS!?  no. I'm not actually upset about it haha. ^^and my piano teacher used to say warsh. I hated it haha! and she pronounced measure like "MAY-zhure" so I thought for a year that when you're speaking about measures in musical terms, that's how it was pronounced, until I was corrected by someone else. |
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Post by Meli on Nov 1, 2008 4:44:37 GMT
but I was told that only Americans say "bunches" or "a bunch" as in "I'm so stressed out. I have a bunch of things to do." Is this true? I've heard a bunch of people say it here, so I guess it's not that true... And I did not intend to use the word "bunch" there, it just happened. |
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Post by slowcheetah9 on Nov 2, 2008 1:16:15 GMT
haha! I was gonna say...
maybe just Australians and Americans?
dunno, I heard that from someone who lives in England.
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Post by slowcheetah9 on Nov 9, 2008 3:15:44 GMT
Question for anyone who happens to read this:
For "roof"
do you say "rough" or "roof"? (I don't really know how to spell that sort of pronunciation... sorry.)
and for "semi-"
do you say "SEM-ee" or "Sem-EYE"?
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Post by OnLineGenie on Nov 9, 2008 16:24:04 GMT
Question for anyone who happens to read this: For "roof" do you say "rough" or "roof"? (I don't really know how to spell that sort of pronunciation... sorry.) and for "semi-" do you say "SEM-ee" or "Sem-EYE"? Roof (with an "oo" sound) and semee. |
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Post by Ashley on Nov 9, 2008 18:05:46 GMT
emi-eye loland roof i say with the "oo" sound to lol
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Post by The Animal on Nov 10, 2008 3:51:14 GMT
Here in the South, we say "fixin'", meaning "about to", or "in the process of". As in, I'm fixin' to head to the bar."
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