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MovieMogul
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In my experience, pretty good!
I get a lot of 'If only...'s, if you know what I mean.
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| Mich wrote: | | One time, at day camp, I was in this playhouse with a younger boy. We started playing a game where he had to be smart and I had to be stupid. He said, and I quote: "I'm so smart I have an English accent." Then he started talking in his version of one. I joined in and started talking in a hillbilly accent. Laughing After the game was over, we started talking in our normal voices again. |
For a moment there, I though you were going in a whole different direction with that. "And one time, at band camp..." 
I've always had a somewhat different accent from the people around me. My mum was from the western Isles and my dad had some fairly plain sounding blend of Irish and Glasgwegian. They'd both moved around a lot and both had mixed accents, which when combined with me being very soft-spoken and quiet meant that I never sounded quite like the other people I knew. I guess I have a sort of Ayrshire/Glaswegian/Highland/Irish/Asperger blend.
There was a girl I knew at uni who had a really cute Liverpool Geordie accent which I loved the sound of. Russian too can sound really good to me, and French at times. I don't know enough about them though to say which Russian and French accents I like; just that there are ones.
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| PeterMacKenzie wrote: | | There was a girl I knew at uni who had a really cute Liverpool Geordie accent which I loved the sound of. |
Interesting mixture.... or some geographical confusion matey? I either agree, disagree strongly or can't work out what it would sound like depending what you mean. |
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<Looks up geordyland>
<Finds Tyneside on google.maps>
Ah, yeah, geographical confusion, not a mix. Also, when I say she had a geordie accent, I'm not meaning dialect as well, just the accent. She was very well spoken, with a nice touch to her speech and a somewhat soft, quiet voice.
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Geordie/Durham accents on lasses drive me nuts... *pants for a second, then regains control of himself*
Thought that must be what you meant. I really don't like the Scouse accent - it sounds like someone trying to cough something up to me. Sorry to any Scousers here....  |
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renaeden
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I like most accents...
I've noticed since I was really young that Australians find it very hard to keep their accents for long if they go overseas. Yet if people come to Australia from their countries, they'll always keep their accent.
There are also variations in the Australian accent.
We don't all sound like Steve Irwin!  |
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We don't all sound like Steve Irwin? Crikey! That's HUGE!
My accent is actually unusual. A few people say I sound American, but the furtherest I've been from the mainland is Tasmania. Must be all those Hollywood movies I keep watching.
But I think my accent is pretty neutral. I don't seem to over annouciate (if thats the right word) any particular sounds. I'm generically Australian...
Sounds like David Hughes' Le Tan ad from a few years ago... ('Ironically Australian')
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You can tell that Steve Irwin is really Aussie but obviously laying it on thick for the part: 'Croikey!'
CockneyRebel, did somebody professional like a doctor or a speech therapist have to tell your parents that your speech was naturally different and that you weren't faking it?
Part of me would still like to hire some backstreet Henry Higgins to teach me how to talk propah.
But I know that the same thing that makes me want to do it - the AS - is probably part of the same reason I could never pull it off convincingly.
With AS and NT people alike there are changes in the brain with puberty so after that basically you're stuck with the accent you grew up with, with very few exceptions. (The same part of your brain that does your accent handles language in general - it's easier to learn multiple languages before puberty too.) You can change a couple of things and maybe pick up some local colour from your new home but you'll never sound like a local.
Glenn Gould is one of those dead famous people who's thought to have been on the spectrum and I read once that he put on a German accent when he was a teenager because he read Nietzsche and really liked it. |
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| Young_fogey wrote: | You can tell that Steve Irwin is really Aussie but obviously laying it on thick for the part: 'Croikey!'
CockneyRebel, did somebody professional like a doctor or a speech therapist have to tell your parents that your speech was naturally different and that you weren't faking it?
Part of me would still like to hire some backstreet Henry Higgins to teach me how to talk propah.
But I know that the same thing that makes me want to do it - the AS - is probably part of the same reason I could never pull it off convincingly.
With AS and NT people alike there are changes in the brain with puberty so after that basically you're stuck with the accent you grew up with, with very few exceptions. (The same part of your brain that does your accent handles language in general - it's easier to learn multiple languages before puberty too.) You can change a couple of things and maybe pick up some local colour from your new home but you'll never sound like a local.
Glenn Gould is one of those dead famous people who's thought to have been on the spectrum and I read once that he put on a German accent when he was a teenager because he read Nietzsche and really liked it. |
Yes. My Family Doctor exammined my Speech Apperatus, and he told my Parents that's my natural pattern. I remember the look of guilt on my Dad's face through his nervous laughter as he went on about the results to our friends and relatives. |
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| British girls are so damn hot, with their accents. I wanna move to England and pick a girl up there! |
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| Tom_FL_MA wrote: | | I have a Boston or you can say "southern New England accent." The "r" at the end of words isn't prononunced like it really should be it the end of words. |
Ahhh...get in the CA and drive up to BA Haba...it's not that wicked FA.
I love boston accents...espicially in Good Will Hunting |
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| Hotwire wrote: | | British girls are so dam* hot, with their accents. I wanna move to England and pick a girl up there! |
I think the same way about British girls!
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| EvilWalks wrote: | | Hotwire wrote: | | British girls are so dam* hot, with their accents. I wanna move to England and pick a girl up there! |
I think the same way about British girls! |
Agreed! Take 10 or 15 years off Kate Beckinsale, and you got my ultimate girl!
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| MovieMogul wrote: | | EvilWalks wrote: | | Hotwire wrote: | | British girls are so dam* hot, with their accents. I wanna move to England and pick a girl up there! |
I think the same way about British girls! |
Agreed! Take 10 or 15 years off Kate Beckinsale, and you got my ultimate girl! |
Yeah, what a coincidence! Just like hotwire, I too wanna move to England and get a girl there.
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| EvilWalks wrote: | | MovieMogul wrote: | | EvilWalks wrote: | | Hotwire wrote: | | British girls are so dam* hot, with their accents. I wanna move to England and pick a girl up there! |
I think the same way about British girls! |
Agreed! Take 10 or 15 years off Kate Beckinsale, and you got my ultimate girl! |
Yeah, what a coincidence! Just like hotwire, I too wanna move to England and get a girl there. |
It's not always good. I once told a family friend (who knew I was dateless) my requirements for a girl, so that she could set me up. Expecting it to be a joke, I went to my highest standards. Blonde, wavy hair, cute english accent, a little shorter than me, crystal blue eyes, blah blah blah. I even listed a odd personal interests. Basically, it would've been an impossible search.
After a couple months, I asked the family friend about how the search had gone. She said she found the perfect girl, and indeed she listed off every quality I listed. But then she there was a problem. She was in love with her girlfriend....
My bloody luck, huh?
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