Accents and Dialects.

[ecco]

...wow i appear to be outnumbered by non-drinkers haha.
tho i must say drinking has lost it's appeal comparable to what it was at say, 15/16. the summer when i was 16 was beautiful tho, the most fun parties, totally drunk and no hangovers. how i miss the days of no consequences XD



haha, anyway~

hmm freshie i dunno, i'm almost certain i keep my accent when speaking in french - like, not entirely, but i think to native french speakers it'd probably be dead obvious i'm a brit XD and japanese... hmmm well i try to take a lot of care with my speech, and last time i was in japan the locals managed to understand the few small things i could manage to say, haha. so i know i'm at least... understandable, though again almost certainly obvious as to where i've come from XD

[Freshie]

I'm too much of a good girl. ;-;
And I lack a social life anyway.

I bet you have your own drunken language. xD

[ecco]

well, more or less XD
tho saying that, the girl i have the most bizarre drunken times with is also the girl i speak with in half english, half expressive noises and arm-flailings, so i'm not sure there's much different except we start slurring and flailing more dramatically XD

i ate cake out of a kitty bowl last night.

[Pikmin]

Anyone else feel really embarrassed when they meet someone with an accent they can't for the life of themselves understand?... ._.

Was talking to someone from Birmingham earlier, and I'm just not good at understanding accents... I felt like I would end up saying "Pardon?" all the time x-x ...
No offence meant to someone with said accent, all offence on me for failing.

[ecco]

haha, i totally understand. i used to end up just blankly staring at customers at work and going "im... sorry? o.o" it's so embarassing ;_;

[Sly]

This happens to me all the time at work, when this bus of Mexicans comes in every night. ._.;; 'Course they speak in Spanglish and I've only ever taken one year of Spanish waaaay back in high school...so I'll be like "I'm sorry...what do you need?"

[Freshie]

Omg I was A+++++ in Spanish in my two years of taking it in high school. It was fun and I was awesome at it. After that..it all kinda went down hill..since I never really used it again. xD
Buuut, I cant roll my rs. :/

[Sly]

Hahaha...I think I made a "B" in Spanish; probably would have been an "A" if I hadn't been busy passing notes with dirty words from the Spanish-English dictionary to my friend who was in the same class and sat right behind me. Oh, and I can totally roll my "rrrr-R's." Still whenever the Mexicans come in, I'm like "HALP! NO HABLO ESPANOL!!" XDD

[Pikmin]

I'm gonna bump this 'cos I have a question...
Apparently (I don't notice it myself) I pronounce TH sounds wrong, I use an F sound instead, so thing becomes fing...

I can't even tell the difference, most likely because it's my own voice, but mum constantly picks up on it and says I need to speak properly (she's only joking about it though, mainly because I get on her nerves pointing out double negatives)

Anyone else do this or is my voice just broken? o.o

[ecco]

LOL no i do this too i think. it's like the dropping "t"s like in water, th sounds can end up coming out as something entirely different too XD like "something" is "sumfhin" (i put an h after the f because its sorta a soft "f" sound, if that makes sense) or sometimes, it becomes a v sound, like "with" ends up as "wiv"

but it really depends who i'm talking to, what mood i'm in etc XD me and a rather mad friend of mine are the only people i know who actually talk "posher" the drunker we get XD

[Pikmin]

I'm glad lol, mum's been having another nag at me about it today.
Said she was gonna get me into speech therapy then laughed at how I said therapy...

So I turned her TV off and took the remote <_<

[Freshie]

We're watching a British movie. o3o [One about a schoolgirl in the 60s.]
Mother asked me why it was raining one minute and stopped the next. xD

[Jezzen]

I've never been able to say the "TH" sound. Even "the" comes out more like "vuh." Luckily I have a higher pitched voice though, so I don't sound like a troll. XD

Still, a lot of times it bothers and confuses older people I work with. Younger people actually not so much. My good friend Emily never questioned it, and neither did most of the other kids that hang out around the college/library.

As for meeting other people with different accents, I don't mind it unless they're faking it. I grew up around a lot of different cultural families. Not only Spanish, but Chinese and Russian speaking families. I love Russian accents the most. I don't go crazy over it, of course, but it's still very pretty to me.

[Soleil]

Hmm, I'm totally gonna be shot in this thread for this but...
Everything that lady said, except for "coffee", sounded fine to me. >>;;
I don't imagine, though, that many Brits talk like that.
That to me is more of a proper accent that I've seen in movies set in older times...
But damn, her "coffee" just sounds stupid. xDD
The "eh" on the end.
Pahahaha!

And I like listening to accents, even if I can't understand what someone is saying, hehe.
It's fun...

I also think Russian accents are very pretty. -nodnod-
And portuguese, which strangely, sounds kind of russian. o__o
I didn't realize that until recently when I went to the hair salon and listened to a hairdresser (a different one than was doing my hair) speaking in portuguese to someone the whole time.
Sounds like a mix between spanish and russian. oO

[Sly]

Ha...to me, Japanese and Spanish have some similar sounds...not that the two languages actually sound much alike when spoken...if that makes any sense at all....>.>; Maybe that's just because I've had classes in both...? I dunno. I'll...shut up now. xD;