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Here is my 'accent'.
Since the USA is a sort of melting pot, there are all sorts of accents here. It is really hard to describe something that varies by person. 

ITS NOT FUNNY. alright so maybe it is alittle

As said before, there is not just a universal "American accent". People in the northern half and people in the southern (like me) don't sound alike at all. Same is true (though not to the same extent) between neighboring states, and even sections of states.

Too lazy to record myself (and the only recordings I have laying around are all at least a year old, and I sound like a little kid in  )

I'll record something later i suppose

@skyline: I do Australian accents sometimes, so I hope we're cool as a dingo riding a crocodile on the barbie, mate

Last edited by soupoftomato (2012-09-19 18:50:51)

jji7skyline wrote:

soupoftomato wrote:

I'll record something later i suppose

@skyline: I do Australian accents sometimes, so I hope we're cool as a dingo riding a crocodile on the barbie, mate

Sure folks. Whaaateverr yer say. Man! Accents arrre cool.

Plus, as a saaide paaaoint, let's naawwt turrrn this in da nationalistic argerment da other tawwwpic became 

No one I know talks like that and I don't believe I do
Unless of course I just can't hear it in my own voice, American voices sound like
Unaccented to me!

jji7skyline wrote:

soupoftomato wrote:

I'll record something later i suppose

@skyline: I do Australian accents sometimes, so I hope we're cool as a dingo riding a crocodile on the barbie, mate

Sure folks. Whaaateverr yer say. Man! Accents arrre cool.

Plus, as a saaide paaaoint, let's naawwt turrrn this in da nationalistic argerment da other tawwwpic became 

It's called a rhotic accent while yours is non-rhotic.

I do the r thing but I don't think I distort vowels or make t's sound like d's quite as much

Let me add a bit onto my American accent identification guide:

This one is used by pretty much all Americans no matter which part they come from...

They pronounced the 'you' U sound as 'oo' in many words, for example, consumerism becomes consoomerism.

Listening to your podcast thing, Wicki, reminded me xD

jji7skyline wrote:

It's more subtle than what I wrote there, but basically to identify an American accent there are three things.

1) R's. British and british-derived accents such as south african and australian don't pronounce R's when they come after a vowel, for example, after become aftah without the R sound. In American, it's more Aftur. With the u making a very (hard to describe) sound.

2) Vowels are more stressed, and often distorted: Dog becomes Dawg for example (stereotypical example  ), you might not believe you talk like that, but I can still hear it. It's just a little subtle in some American accents (west coast?), whereas more pronounced in others.

3) T sounds are slurred in a way they sound like D's. For example Dental become Dendal or even Dennal. In some American accents other strong consonant sounds are slurred in this way as well.

So that's a simple overview of the American accent from personal experience 

Do you pronounce dog as with an O as in the way the letter's name is pronounced or something?

Those are american websites xD

And yes, I pronounce it: cons(you)merism.

Well, I wanted to highlight that the vowel, as well as the R makes a different sound 

jji7skyline wrote:

Well, I wanted to highlight that the vowel, as well as the R makes a different sound 

Did you see the Wikipedia link I put?