The Seattle Washington one sounded the closest to what I pretend is "no accent". Although the Californian one did remind me of a friend who used to live in California. Neat.
Urgh, that is the one American accent I cannot stand. The rest sound rather nice, but on hearing that I instantly get haughty and that is not very good.
Also. French music -- the weirdest I've ever heard is Gilbert Becaud. He seriously tried every musical style known in the early 60's and made a hopelessly tacky imitation of it.
There is a middle age (i guess) Haitian dude in one of my management classes with the thickest French accent ever. Actually it might be Creole, I don't know Creole well enough to differentiate. When he speaks english we can only make out what he is saying maybe 30% of the time.
The funny thing is, I was a terrible xenophobic bigot when I was a little kid -- I hated all people with accents. I guess because I wasn't good enough with language yet and I couldn't understand them easily. I remember just not being able to like my Chinese babysitter or my British teacher.
that sort of makes sense from a little kid's point of view
kids are self-centered little things, so the thing that's likely to stick in their minds about someone with a heavy accent is "i have to work harder to understand the conversation when this person's around. that sucks and i hate them."
i don't remember being like that myself when i was little, though. and when i can't understand someone easily now i just get kind of embarrassed.
I like African accents, but I probably don't know well enough to say, 'Oh south African accents are nice but western ones aren't.'
A generic "African" accent -- like the baboon in The Lion King -- is from a speaker of a Bantu or Niger-Congo language. So that's all over West Africa and South Africa. I can't tell the finer gradations either. But an Ethiopian accent is completely different.
I'd like to be able to neutralise my accent a bit more, make it closer to RP English and more accepted by more people, and while I've got better I still find myself slipping up and hearing it.
I'd like to be able to neutralise my accent a bit more, make it closer to RP English and more accepted by more people, and while I've got better I still find myself slipping up and hearing it.
I'd like to be able to neutralise my accent a bit more, make it closer to RP English and more accepted by more people, and while I've got better I still find myself slipping up and hearing it.
Some Canadians came into my work a while back, and my boss accidentally asked if they were American, and they were all "That could be insulting!" but my boss wasn't really bothered.
And that American lady who came into my work and was really rude and I didn't like. She has tainted my view.
i'm in fort worth, texas right now visiting family
went to watch my four year old niece play soccer (so cute--whether a team scores a goal depends almost entirely on whether the kids on the field manage to pay attention long enough before they wander off to investigate another field or squat down to examine a particularly fascinating weed) and literally 90% of the cars in the huge, incredibly crowded parking lot surrounding the gigantic series of connected fields were either SUVs or pickups. the few less gigantic cars that actually existed were all stuck together in one part of the lot as if they had circled up for protection from the larger animals. the police were there directing traffic and stuff, a huge stream of cars queuing up to enter or leave. it was so weird and i felt pretty out of place.
also i ordered a burger and it came with a soda in a cup the size of the moon
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yeah, those were pretty cringey
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Urgh, that is the one American accent I cannot stand. The rest sound rather nice, but on hearing that I instantly get haughty and that is not very good.
ladies please, one at a time
serenade me
(actually just read sean connery's lines from hunt for red october)
Serenade me in Russia!
Also. French music -- the weirdest I've ever heard is Gilbert Becaud. He seriously tried every musical style known in the early 60's and made a hopelessly tacky imitation of it.
Nathalie: Soviet Russia Is So Romantic!
Dimanche a Orly: Airplanes Are Swingin'!
Quand il est Mort le Poete: Let's Try Folksinging!
L'Orange: R&B About Shoplifting Fruit!
Desiree: Disco! Making Love ... Mechanically!
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i am also a new yorker ladies
but i watch F1 and that is so much better than baseball
The funny thing is, I was a terrible xenophobic bigot when I was a little kid -- I hated all people with accents. I guess because I wasn't good enough with language yet and I couldn't understand them easily. I remember just not being able to like my Chinese babysitter or my British teacher.
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kids are self-centered little things, so the thing that's likely to stick in their minds about someone with a heavy accent is "i have to work harder to understand the conversation when this person's around. that sucks and i hate them."
i don't remember being like that myself when i was little, though. and when i can't understand someone easily now i just get kind of embarrassed.
A generic "African" accent -- like the baboon in The Lion King -- is from a speaker of a Bantu or Niger-Congo language. So that's all over West Africa and South Africa. I can't tell the finer gradations either. But an Ethiopian accent is completely different.
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never surrender!
For Blighty! Hurrah!
Links! Recht! Achtung!
(Actually I think German is pretty.)
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I agree, it's quite a lovely accent
a bad german accent is like a drill on a chalk board
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px5c8vKXGx8
And that American lady who came into my work and was really rude and I didn't like. She has tainted my view.
went to watch my four year old niece play soccer (so cute--whether a team scores a goal depends almost entirely on whether the kids on the field manage to pay attention long enough before they wander off to investigate another field or squat down to examine a particularly fascinating weed) and literally 90% of the cars in the huge, incredibly crowded parking lot surrounding the gigantic series of connected fields were either SUVs or pickups. the few less gigantic cars that actually existed were all stuck together in one part of the lot as if they had circled up for protection from the larger animals. the police were there directing traffic and stuff, a huge stream of cars queuing up to enter or leave. it was so weird and i felt pretty out of place.
also i ordered a burger and it came with a soda in a cup the size of the moon