WTF accent do you have?

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Originally Posted by Big Ben

And here we have dear gadjo, who's in love with that awesome place, calling the most civilized part of this savage country peasants because she doesn't like the way we talk. And the whole country is run from there. big wonder why we are the losers of Europe.

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Dear Benny, I hope you calmed down. I love the way you talk and what more proof you want than the fact that now I'm talking like you?
I agree with you that the country is run from here but if you look carefully you'd see that our leaders aren't exactly from Bucharest. And the worst and most corrupted came from.........?
I know you're one of those who prefer Budapest to Bucharest but if you look on TV right now you may see what your civilised Hungarian friends are doing in my city. So please stop hating us, you simply have no reason why....

Why is it necessary to include "WTF" in the thread title? :mark:

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Originally Posted by 555-04Q2

I have a Seth Efrican accent, but whenever I am overseas people mistake me for an Australian or New Zealander. Honestly, do I sound that stupid :p :

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Say ice cream for us in Seth Efrican so we can all have a chuckle?

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Originally Posted by schmenke

Why is it necessary to include "WTF" in the thread title? :mark:

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Maybe the thread title is trying to be scouse?

Wow, I didn't realize the lands of the Crown of St. Stephen were still in such dispute!

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Originally Posted by J4MIE

I don't have an accent :s

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Yeah you do, Few days with you and Puddlejumper in the Finnish woods few years ago and my English turned into what it sounds if Tommi Mäkinen was living in Scotland, or what ever the hell it is where you live. ;)

I grew up in (colonial) Kenya so my accent is basically 'posh' or 'received pronunciation'. I think I have lost my 'Kenya settler' accent (a mild South African accent) but it comes back if I'm talking about Kenya or on the odd occasion I meet up with a Kenyan school friend or a South African. Having been taught at school by Irishmen, I also find myself adopting an Irish turn of phrase (I'm just after.... sort of thing) if talking to an Irishman.
My vowels are south of England - castle like 'car' not like 'cash', 'wun' not woon', 'foot' rhyming with 'put' not 'boot' etc.
I think I pronounce my 'h's

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Originally Posted by D-Type

I grew up in (colonial) Kenya so my accent is basically 'posh' or 'received pronunciation'. I think I have lost my 'Kenya settler' accent (a mild South African accent) but it comes back if I'm talking about Kenya or on the odd occasion I meet up with a Kenyan school friend or a South African. Having been taught at school by Irishmen, I also find myself adopting an Irish turn of phrase (I'm just after.... sort of thing) if talking to an Irishman.
My vowels are south of England - castle like 'car' not like 'cash', 'wun' not woon', 'foot' rhyming with 'put' not 'boot' etc.
I think I pronounce my 'h's

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Bravo sir. In my very humble opinion Hadrian's big mistake was building the wall 175 miles too far north!
In infant's school in the late 50s I was a master aitch dropper. I also did the cockney thing of pronouncing th as v. Fortunately I had an old school scots headmistress who shook it out of me (often literally!) as she felt it would limit my horizons. No one had told her that regional accents were going to be the big social change of the 60s. Currently there is no celeb I think sounds like me -possibly Johnny Rotten in his intellectual moments

A genuine Italian accent me :p :

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Originally Posted by pino

A genuine Italian accent me :p :

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Genuine Piedmont or genuine Calabrian?
sorry just realised it's almost a French accent given your location ;)

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Originally Posted by J4MIE

I don't have an accent :s

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Where are you from? I'm from Glasgow, but two people have told me recently that I sound like I'm from Edinburgh (or thereabouts). I think my accent must have "softened" over years of working abroad.
(for those not familiar with Scottish geography, Glasgow and Edinburgh are about 85km apart)