EDIT: In as little as 5 miles!
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EDIT: In as little as 5 miles!
Well I honestly don't know what kind of accent I have now.
It's a combination of living in these places and being with people who speak these accents:
South East London -7 years
South Wales/Swansea - 14 years
Reading/Berkshire - 9 years
and also a bit of Befordshire. Also my mum has/had a strong Derbyshire accent.
Maybe this is why people can't understand anything I'm saying.
Basically I probably talk a bit like Jenson Button at times, though I spend much of my time at work talking in an imitation of my colleagues voices, since I just loooove my impressions. I can do some F1 impressions too (extremely badly). :p
Pardon?Quote:
Originally Posted by rjbetty
My accent is central Canadian , whatever that means .
But , I mock accents from all over .
My best story about that is from an encounter in El Paso , Texas .
My 1974 Ford Econoline had just decided to have more of a rest than I was prepared for(new timing chain required) , and I was wandering the rest stop , looking for someone who could fix the issue , or , at least diagnose it , and , as I waited for the tow truck , a man walked up to the door as I walked out .
Not really thinking about what I was saying , or the way I was saying it , I piped up with "Y'all know anythin' about old vans ?" in a "Jawja" drawl .
He asked where we were from , and I answered with "Up in Caynuduh , in Ontarriow , not the Ontarriow in Californyuh ya unnerstan , but up in Caynuduh ."
We must have talked for about twenty minutes or so , until the tow truck arrived , and I managed to keep the accent flowing for the whole conversation .
"Oop , thars muh tow truck . Gotta go . Nace towking to ya ." I said .
And , he asked "Where y'awl from agin ? "
To which I replied "Up in Caynuduh , in Ontarriow ." .
He shook his head and said "Wow , Y'all don't have much accent !" .
I managed a straight face until out of sight .
You don't have an accent my left bumcheek!Quote:
Originally Posted by J4MIE
You are the only person I know who really doesn't have an accent ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
I have been told I have a fairly neutral accent, but I can't hide that fact that I am not an English speaker.
My Spanish accent is also quite neutral with the odd drop of cazurro accent when making questions or the use of some localisms.
In English I have a fairly neutral accent. The more important bit there is the complete absence of any German accent when speaking English. Since I mainly work for large international corporations, I do a lot of telco's and it's always funny when the English or the Americans realize that I'm German. They all expect us teutons to drool all over ourselves trying to pronounce 'th' :p
In my native German I've got the thickest Berlin accent you've ever heard.
In Russian I speak with a southern siberian accent, as I spent a lot of time in Omsk.
I don't even remember how exactly I was chosen, but a few years ago, I went down to Ardent Studios here in Memphis and was told my accent was classified "Mountain Southern" even though I have lived here my whole life, and Memphis is nowhere near the mountains.
Regardless, they took me in and recorded my voice saying various words and phrases for two hours as part of Onstar's voice recognition system. They were trying to upgrade their systems to respond correctly to different accents and such. It must have gone ok, they paid me $200 for two hours. :D
I was born and brought up in Stratford Upon Avon and then lived in Banbury for a few years after that. I've lived in Wales for the past decade though, but thankfully haven't picked up any kind of accent along the way. My accent I would say has a slight Midlands twang although I have been told I sound posh many times. :)