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[Stryyp]

This has probably been asked on Codex before.

I live in Florida, and this morning one of my teachers asked if I was from up North, saying I sounded like I could be from like, New England or something. Then other students agreed, saying that since I speak articulately, one wouldn't guess I am from the South =P

But something interesting... I was in Chicago several months ago, and someone asked me if I was from the South.

So in the South, I sound like from up North, and in the North, I sound like I am from down South. I just don't fit in anywhere =(

What 'bout you folks, boy howdy?

Edited by HydroLink64, 12 March 2008 - 06:58 AM.

[Jakerz]

I sound Canadian I think, people always make fun of me on the phone though... I swear it's the phone company playing a trick on me cause I don't sound like that in real life I love the U.K. accent, as well as Australian <3 They are so awesome lol

[Waser Lave]

I sound Canadian I think, people always make fun of me on the phone though... I swear it's the phone company playing a trick on me cause I don't sound like that in real life I love the U.K. accent, as well as Australian <3 They are so awesome lol

There's no such thing as a UK accent...There are lots of different accents even in just England let alone the rest of the UK.

[Cyo]

Your generic baltic accent.


I can also make a southern, british, russian and german accent.
Bet I could make an aussie accent too but I haven't really heard any aussies talk

[Jakerz]

Oh I think I meant northern England in that case

[Waser Lave]

Oh I think I meant northern England in that case

There's not even a northern England accent. Our accents change even by the city we live in, that's how localised it is...

[Jakerz]

Alright I meant your accent >< lol
All I know is I got a friend named Salty and Phil from England and he speaks awesome language

[Cyo]

There's not even a northern England accent. Our accents change even by the city we live in, that's how localised it is...

To the untrained ear* most of you sound the same.

Edited by Cyo, 12 March 2008 - 07:10 AM.

[Waser Lave]

Alright I meant your accent >< lol
All I know is I got a friend named Salty and Phil from England and he speaks awesome language

Which city are they from? Maybe then we can work out what actual accent they have.

To the untrained eye most of you sound the same.

You can listen with your eyes? How wonderfully talented you are.

Edited by Laser Wave, 12 March 2008 - 07:10 AM.

[Sweeney]

To the untrained ear* most of you sound the same.

That's still rubbish

[113]

My (English) accent is horrible. Pure and simple. I blame my Slavic ancestry.

[adonis]

I would have to say my own accent is fairly unique. Factors such as immediate family being from So Cal and then living in the not so deep south for about 20years. I tend to speak fairly clearly for someone who has spent the majority of thier life in my area, but still tend to roll my "r"'s

[Tetiel]

I think all he meant was the stereotypical posh accent. Supposedly when I try to have what is the stereotypical posh accent I sound Irish. As in city Irish rather than the thick stuff. Odd.

I have a generic American accent but mixed in with what Calum calls a posh american accent. I think they call it midwestern?

[Dan]

*Hugattacks*

Supposedly I have about as stereotypical an English accent as you can get. Spending most of your life living right on the south coast does that. At heart I'm Scottish though and the more tired I get the more I revert to the Edinburgh accent I had as a kid.

Down girl. He's mine.

I used to have a full-on scouser accent, used to live on the wirral. Moved down to surrey tho, and now I have a weird kinda-normal accent.

[113]

*Hugattacks*

Supposedly I have about as stereotypical an English accent as you can get. Spending most of your life living right on the south coast does that. At heart I'm Scottish though and the more tired I get the more I revert to the Edinburgh accent I had as a kid.

*Hugattacks back at ya*

Silly girl! English accent is great, although Scottish is also nice.

[The Avon Lady#2]

I have the same issue. I live up by Chicago. When I visit my relatives in Canada they giggle at my words like braaaatwurst, Chicaaaaago, and pop. When I get back from Canada, people think I am from there?!?!

I suppose we all pick up a little regional dialect when we travel in a subconsious attempt to fit in.

[Neo]

I was going to post this topic after spending the majority of last night laughing at people failing different accents on YouTube

Yer I is frum Bristol so like I speaks all Vicky Pollard Like!

Actually no. I speak 'Received Pronunciation' (Posh English Stereotype hah), I can only actually do a Bristolian accent up to about 10 seconds. After which I start going posh again hah.

[Sunset]

I'm from canada but the thing is I am from eastern canada (Newfoundland) so my accent is super heavy and its like a mixture of irish and canadian so its a little messed up sometimes

Edited by Sunset, 12 March 2008 - 09:04 AM.

[Eeyore]

Supposedly for a northerner I speak posh, any other northern person thinks I do, southern people think I'm just the same as every other northerner though . I'm on the very west of Lancashire though and it's only as you go inland that Lancashire starts getting common .

[phalkon]

i speak with a non-regional dialect perfect for a tv anchor.


actually, everywhere i've gone in the US, no one has been able to figure out where i'm originally from, i've been north, south, east, and west here... and no one can tell where i was born XD

[redlion]

I wish I had an Irish country accent All I have now is a generic American one. They've tried very hard to convert me to Texan; I've fought back with a vengeance.

[Tailwind]

I have a very slight southern accent because of where I live, but I'm trying to break free of it since I don't want to be looked at oddly when I move to New York in a few months. Didn't even get it by choice, I was born here. D:

[Frizzle]

Y'allright guvner? Ow's da dog and bone been whilst I went for a tommy tank down at work whilst I got me tools from tom dick and harry with a horse race like broken glass and afterwards I went for a spotted dick and got a call on the blower from me bird and she told me to keep all schtum about getting munted this weekend on the pub crawl.

No lie, that's an actual conversion I've heard in England. Try dechipering that.

(Yes, I can't speel very well.)


(Yes, that's spelt wrong on purpose.)

[adonis]

Y'allright guvner? Ow's da dog and bone been whilst I went for a tommy tank down at work whilst I got me tools from tom dick and harry with a horse race like broken glass and afterwards I went for a spotted dick and got a call on the blower from me bird and she told me to keep all schtum about getting munted this weekend on the pub crawl.

No lie, that's an actual conversion I've heard in England. Try dechipering that.

(Yes, I can't speel very well.)


(Yes, that's spelt wrong on purpose.)

looks like a passage from "A Clockwork Orange"