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Perfect spy?
I have a friend from Masterton (NZ) - small rural town for those of you not from NZ who can perfectly mimic a South African accent for as long as he wants - so well that South Africans cannot tell the difference. This is more funny because he is a 6ft tall Chinese guy and I understand they are not common in SA.
Certainly makes it easier to listen to her talk about whatever it is she's talking about.
That's a fair point. I suppose if anything it's commendable she put in the effort to be able to construct sentences, as opposed to just picking up random bits of vocabulary.
She was talking?
The worst is when they get the vocabulary but use it in places that would be grammatically incorrect in both languages, like using a noun as an adjective.
Or append when it's unnecessary, as in affixing desu after an English sentence.
Depends how you define "regional".
It's perfectly possible for teenagers to have spent massive amounts of time communicating primarily with a social group that is not necessarily nearby in the geographical sense, and consuming media that doesn't necessarily reflect the accents and modes of speech of people in their immediate geographical area.
An actual accent would not.
clearly you've never been to Weeaboo Dhabi
so wrong so wrong
like
Afterglow is the best album ever
so wronggggg
That would be the most glorious overreaction ever. I'd probably be unable to stop laughing.
The way those kids talk isn't anything more linguistically noteworthy than the way sports fans communicate with one another.
Fo sure, bro.
I was responding to the first post but I was too lazy to remove the other posts
and then kiss alistair everywhere
If you say so. I'm just pointing out that there are influences on accent and mode of speech that can be just as, if not more significant than location.
goddamn internet
Also - in that video are her eyes naturally like that or is it editing?
Can you cite some of them?
Because the anime-fan subculture example is a pretty bad one, and as DK noted: It's forced, not genuine.
so gay
And I'm playing as a dwarf. Morrigan does not mind.
I don't. But then again, if you take me, my girlfriend, and my three best friends, my girlfriend's the only one who hasn't actually studied Japanese. And two of my best friends and I have studied for years. We all (except girlfriend) grew up on the California coast. So I'm probably not a representative sample of the US.
That's not gay at all.
Now when my tall, rangy, scruff-bearded warrior kisses Alistair everywhere that is in fact pretty gay.
her damage output was always pitiful, I could never get it above single digit percents
Actually, I just watched that video and I have no idea what she's talking about. Anyone care to elaborate, because I think I understand hipsters more than I understand her.
I have known a lot of people a few years younger than me who grew up with cartoons from the US who use US words for things quite naturally, phrase sentences in ways that seem familiar from US TV shows and suchlike. The big example is a friend of mine who has always used sidewalk instead of pavement.
It baffles me that people never seem to get the "Applicable, Applicable, WTF" thing.
"I don't believe in magic. Not Dragons, not Unicorns, not Medicine."
If you start harping on me about not believing in Medicine. QQ
Get the equal love mod and Alistair will love your penis.
Well, that is no bad thing I guess. I'm not sure how I'd cope with such friends, if I had them. Although I guess I was able to hang out with a few Goths for a couple of years without catching it, or freaking out - so maybe it would be ok
I stopped trying to figure ity out
turn the sound off
Honestly it's far worse if you actually speak Japanese. If you don't, you can dismiss it as "Oh, that's kinda weird."
If you do it often feels like you're listening to text speak. Except instead of misspelling everything, it's grammatically nonsensical.