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halogamer1989 on 11 February 2010

Like a foreign Yank accent.



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Seece on 11 February 2010
NJ5 said:

Wow, she's awesome!



 

damkira on 11 February 2010
SuperAdrianK said:
I live in Florida so go figure....
but when I went to orlando there were some people that did Kind of talk like the southerns you guys are talking about.

They were likely transplants from the rest of the South.. Orlando is very diverse and has people from all over the world living here. The most common accent I hear is British but they are not all tourists.. half of my neighborhood is British people.

 



sc94597 on 11 February 2010

General American

http://web.ku.edu/~idea/special/genam/genam.htm



KingFate on 12 February 2010

It really all depends I mean even New Jersey has a decent amount of accents and we are small as hell.



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trashleg on 13 February 2010
NJ5 said:
The strong Southern US accent sounds pretty bad (as in cowboy movies but not limited to those)... but it can be funny too. Other American accents sound much better, and are the easiest form of English to understand IMO.

The standard British accent sounds pretentious and it's not as easy to understand as most American accents. Some other British accents are almost impenetrable, such as the Sccotish accent.

what do you mean by impenetrable?

o.0



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trashleg on 13 February 2010
CommonMan said:
The average American accent would be the "Accent Neutral" dialect that is taught to newscasters I guess, the closest it comes is to a California accent. Here in lovely Minnesota, we've got a pretty pronounced accent (think the movie Fargo but tone it down a few notches), it is what it is. Texans make fun of me, but I can always be secure in knowing that none of my relatives are married to their sisters/brothers/cattle.

For the record, the sexiest accents are: British, Scottish and French. For women that is. American, not so hot.

woohoo! i've never understood how mine could be considered sexy.

 

Even within Scotland (and Scotland has less than 6million people) there are at least 4 major distinct accents according to region, and several more within each of those regions. :)



Highwaystar101 said: trashleg said that if I didn't pay back the money she leant me, she would come round and break my legs... That's why people call her trashleg, because she trashes the legs of the people she loan sharks money to.
leo-j on 13 February 2010

I went to central florida, and I couldn't understand a word they spoke..

I live in south florida.. the most multi cultural place you could live in.



 

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NJ5 on 13 February 2010
trashleg said:
NJ5 said:
The strong Southern US accent sounds pretty bad (as in cowboy movies but not limited to those)... but it can be funny too. Other American accents sound much better, and are the easiest form of English to understand IMO.

The standard British accent sounds pretentious and it's not as easy to understand as most American accents. Some other British accents are almost impenetrable, such as the Sccotish accent.

what do you mean by impenetrable?

o.0

Like... very hard to understand. It was a while ago, but I once met a guy who (I think) was Scottish and I could barely understand a word, even though I'm pretty fluent in English and could even understand fairly well an Australian guy who mumbled a lot.

 



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trashleg on 13 February 2010
NJ5 said:
trashleg said:
NJ5 said:
The strong Southern US accent sounds pretty bad (as in cowboy movies but not limited to those)... but it can be funny too. Other American accents sound much better, and are the easiest form of English to understand IMO.

The standard British accent sounds pretentious and it's not as easy to understand as most American accents. Some other British accents are almost impenetrable, such as the Sccotish accent.

what do you mean by impenetrable?

o.0

Like... very hard to understand. It was a while ago, but I once met a guy who (I think) was Scottish and I could barely understand a word, even though I'm pretty fluent in English and could even understand fairly well an Australian guy who mumbled a lot.

 

*checks NJ5's profile*

aha, you're portuguese?

have you listened to the podcast i guested? :) i think im easy enough to unnerstaun



Highwaystar101 said: trashleg said that if I didn't pay back the money she leant me, she would come round and break my legs... That's why people call her trashleg, because she trashes the legs of the people she loan sharks money to.