British vs. American accents

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Like any accent, American accents very widely. I think some American accents sound cool, while others annoy me greatly.

LOL

Fit yi spikin like at for?

You should see this Translator:
http://www.whoohoo.co.uk/scottish-translator.asp

Comes with Glaswegian and all sorts of other dialects.

There was a girl yesterday at the counter in Robert Dyas, she had a strong US accent though she has lived in Uk for 20+ years. I had no idea because I can't fathom accents much anyway she is from LA, I recently spoke with someone in San Francisco and they sound similar.

I like both accents, but both Texan accent and dialect annoy me. Which is ironic because first I live in Texas and, second I don't have an Texan accent at all. I even had relatives up in Ohio tell me that I don't have an Texan accent. Which is fine by me, because why would I want to say, "Get R dun Ya'll! " * I blame Larry the cable guy for making that statement popular *

Pawss the wee Buckie!

I view American accents as more proper .. They taken something, and perfected it.

For medicinal purposes only of course .
Buckfast Tonic Wine is the preferred tipple in an area called Monklands.By a curious coincidence,the wine is made by monks hundreds of miles away in Devon.

Anyone fancy a nice glass of wine?

I can proudly say that I enjoy drinking buckfast It is horrible in a glass but nice out the bottle.

I limit it to special occasions because a bottle of buckie on top of many beers can be a messy combination.

I love Buckfast. My mum will not allow me to drink it though. She will tolerate whisky (just about) but not that stuff.

It's a bit like drinking espresso and strong ale all at once. But not.

And, yes, I don't ever bother drinking it out the glass either.

Rule No. 1 of Modern Life: "Never drink Buckfast Tonic Wine out of a gay wine glass."

The End.

Im curious now

Very true.

Rule No. 2, don't get into a habit of drinking cheap onion cider.

I think that American and Canadian accents are better at displaying emotion, but impede one's ability to speak fast. They're more expressive. British accents are the exact opposite. Most British accents have setences with one underlying sound to carry emotion. This makes them capable of speaking faster, but the ability to portray multiple emotions is lost. Puerto Rican Spanish(my maternal family is Puerto Rican) is just like that.

Scottish, Welsh, and Irish do a better job of portraying emotion and Australian too. However, New Zealand's accents and some Canadian accents are quick yet emotionless.

Chinese people speaking English sound different depending on what part of China and what "dialect" (Chinese "dialects" are comparable to interelated languages with a universal writing system) they speak. Most that I know speak(Mandarin speakers) in a really gentle but at the same time robotic tone. The closest group of people that aren't Chinese but speak English in a similar fashion are the North Vietnamese. North Vietnamese people are quite similar to the Chinese, so they likewise have a very similar accent. Central and South Vietnamese people have a completely different accent, so much so that many Northerners have trouble understanding them. They tend to exaggerate consonants that make great use of the lips and/or tongue particularly b and d.

I'm an American, and I speak with a West Coast accent, which I picked up from my parents, who're both from there originally. About the only American accent that bugs me is the Midwest, which is, ironically, where I live. That and maybe some odd regional dialects up in Maine and the Northeast. I'm alright with British accents, a few of which I can relatively easily differentiate between, but can't identify regionally. Irish, Scottish and Welsh accents are easily identifiable to me. Australian and New Zealand accents are sometimes a bit harder to differentiate between, though.

I wonder how accents develop.

You can tell an Australian but you can't easily tell where he came from by his accent.

Yet New Zealanders have a noticeable accent where "fish and chips" comes out as "fush and chups" and "six" becomes "sex".

So how did such a young country settled mostly by English and Scots develop a noticeable accent in only 200 years?