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#51 2012-09-20 15:13:54

jukyter
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Re: American accent

Yes, and I bet yew don't beleeve that all British peeple sound like thiss all the time. You're so weird.
In reality it's exaggerated, like all accents tend to be when presented in accents-well apart from the American one  tongue


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#52 2012-09-20 15:24:43

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Re: American accent

pkolbe wrote:

hello im a student studying accents. as a native american i have yet to hear what an american accent sounds like. so please could you all please describe it to me. thanks.

Heh heh, I wonder that all the time. Then I wonder wether Brits ask themselves that question.  tongue

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#53 2012-09-20 15:28:56

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Re: American accent

Wonder if Brits ask themselves what an American accent sounds like? No I watch the news


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#54 2012-09-20 15:31:59

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Re: American accent

jukyter wrote:

A British one? How is that possible!! :0

It's called 'living in Britain and sounding posh'.

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#55 2012-09-20 16:42:53

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Re: American accent

scimonster wrote:

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  tongue

Americans don't actually sound like that. Right?  hmm

I think we do in some parts; I'm pretty sure it's more of a southern thing.  Yeah, pretty sure.

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#56 2012-09-20 17:02:17

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Re: American accent

If you're a Native American, why haven't you heard them?  Did you move from America?

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#57 2012-09-20 17:11:04

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Re: American accent

NeilWest wrote:

jukyter wrote:

A British one? How is that possible!! :0

It's called 'living in Britain and sounding posh'.

That's the Queen's English silly
There's so much variation in accents in Britain due to the cultural hodge podge and the different countries
It's impossible to have a'British accent'  smile ))
(I actually have that accent too)


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#58 2012-09-20 17:44:21

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Re: American accent

I curious of what non Americans think of Larry the Cable Guy's accent. :p


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#59 2012-09-20 18:07:24

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Re: American accent

ProgrammingFreak wrote:

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.  hmm

http://i.imgur.com/N3yKx.jpg

Sorry. Just HAD to post that  tongue


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#60 2012-09-20 18:17:09

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Re: American accent

funelephant wrote:

ProgrammingFreak wrote:

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.  hmm

http://i.imgur.com/N3yKx.jpg

Sorry. Just HAD to post that  tongue

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#61 2012-09-20 18:36:50

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Re: American accent

scimonster wrote:

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  tongue

Americans don't actually sound like that. Right?  hmm

Not all of them, but most American accents have the same features, just some more obvious than others  smile


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#62 2012-09-20 18:58:23

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Re: American accent

Agg725 wrote:

funelephant wrote:

ProgrammingFreak wrote:

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.  hmm

http://i.imgur.com/N3yKx.jpg

Sorry. Just HAD to post that  tongue

Xd School house rock ROCKS!

http://i.imgur.com/cxPkH.jpg

jji7skyline wrote:

scimonster wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:


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  tongue

Americans don't actually sound like that. Right?  hmm

Not all of them, but most American accents have the same features, just some more obvious than others  smile

Er, not really. There's definitely a very large variety.


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#63 2012-09-20 19:29:00

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Re: American accent

Yes, they all sound different (especially to Americans, as they would be most sensitive to differences in their accents), however they all share characteristics such as pronouncing R's after vowels, pronouncing 'you' sounds as 'oo' and slurring hard consonants. Some accents more so than others, but you'll find these features in almost all American accents.


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#64 2012-09-20 19:45:02

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Re: American accent

Accents in the northeast are non-rhotic, though


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#65 2012-09-20 19:49:50

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Re: American accent

Not as non-rhotic as a british accent though.


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#66 2012-09-20 21:28:15

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Re: American accent

jji7skyline wrote:

Not as non-rhotic as a british accent though.

Try listening to a New Jersey accent

New JOYsey I mean


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#67 2012-09-20 21:33:02

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Re: American accent

Link me?


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#68 2012-09-20 21:43:59

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Re: American accent

jji7skyline wrote:

Link me?

Well, it seems to be more Brooklyn, but here is a stereotypical display of each accent in New York.
In Brooklyn the stereotype is to stress that the r is unpronounced and becomes "Yowah dog" for "Your dog" (horrible way to put the pronunciation into writing but it's as close as I could figure out.


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#69 2012-09-20 21:46:44

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Re: American accent

THere is no american accent.

There is no european accent.


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#70 2012-09-20 21:53:34

veggieman001
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Re: American accent

soupoftomato wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

Link me?

Well, it seems to be more Brooklyn, but here is a stereotypical display of each accent in New York.
In Brooklyn the stereotype is to stress that the r is unpronounced and becomes "Yowah dog" for "Your dog" (horrible way to put the pronunciation into writing but it's as close as I could figure out.

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#71 2012-09-20 21:56:15

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Re: American accent

soupoftomato wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

Link me?

Well, it seems to be more Brooklyn, but here is a stereotypical display of each accent in New York.
In Brooklyn the stereotype is to stress that the r is unpronounced and becomes "Yowah dog" for "Your dog" (horrible way to put the pronunciation into writing but it's as close as I could figure out.

I see... but you still get the other American accent features, and like I said, not all American accents have all of the features, but they all have at least one of those features  tongue


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#72 2012-09-20 22:41:11

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Re: American accent

1. I don't know what slurring hard consonants is.
2. To us, you say the 'oo' in a lot of words as 'you'. That's all subjective.


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#73 2012-09-21 23:51:25

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Re: American accent

jukyter wrote:

jackrulez wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:


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  tongue

What American accent are you even imitating? There's like 50 of them.

Only like 11  tongue
And most non-Americans need a trained ear to tell the difference between two of them  tongue

Before I first heard a person from the Midwest (actually it was on Youtube :\), I just assumed Coach Z's orccaint was completely made up or something.


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#74 2012-09-22 00:29:11

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Re: American accent

I have a british accent. There are many, but I have one of them. It is instantly recognizable as british, and most people comment on it, as I live in Canada. Would you like a clip of a british accent?


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#75 2012-09-22 01:23:08

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Re: American accent

veggieman001 wrote:

1. I don't know what slurring hard consonants is.
2. To us, you say the 'oo' in a lot of words as 'you'. That's all subjective.

1. As in instead of saying be(tt)er, you say be(dd)er. Not all Americans maybe, but most.
2. Exactly, it's all about how you look at it, but I'm just saying that Americans say 'oo' instead of 'you', it's just how I said it from my point of view  tongue


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