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
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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.
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jukyter wrote:
A British one? How is that possible!! :0
It's called 'living in Britain and sounding posh'.
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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, mateSure 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 becameAmericans don't actually sound like that. Right?
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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If you're a Native American, why haven't you heard them? Did you move from America?
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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' ))
(I actually have that accent too)
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I curious of what non Americans think of Larry the Cable Guy's accent. :p
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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.
Sorry. Just HAD to post that
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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.http://i.imgur.com/N3yKx.jpg
Sorry. Just HAD to post that
XD School house rock ROCKS!
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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, mateSure 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 becameAmericans don't actually sound like that. Right?
Not all of them, but most American accents have the same features, just some more obvious than others
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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.http://i.imgur.com/N3yKx.jpg
Sorry. Just HAD to post thatXd School house rock ROCKS!
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 becameAmericans don't actually sound like that. Right?
Not all of them, but most American accents have the same features, just some more obvious than others
Er, not really. There's definitely a very large variety.
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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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Not as non-rhotic as a british accent though.
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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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Link me?
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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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THere is no american accent.
There is no european accent.
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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.
oh look that's "Energy" in the beginning
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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
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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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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 becameWhat American accent are you even imitating? There's like 50 of them.
Only like 11
And most non-Americans need a trained ear to tell the difference between two of them
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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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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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
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