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Just post like you usually would, but in your ACCENT

I don't get it. Besides, the way I write is the way I speak ! ! (except with audio and no captions)

uuoo do yui woont me tou saaaay?

or even more blurred:

uoyuwomet'say?

Well, you're English, I know that English people have a special accent

ooooooohhhhhhhh, what kind of accent is that?

Y'aright dudes? I've gotta go now, left dinner in t'oven...

My northen 'twang'.

bdhkhsfgk you are a crazy man with crazy thread ideas, but I really like your entertaining style!

Now your turn, speak up your accent!

hehehehe, lets see if anyone else can figure that out!

An interesting thing I discovered is that accents don't sound the same to people from different parts of the world. Most people don't notice their own accent or the accent of those people with the same accent. I had a conversation with an American woman (I'm English) who swore that Americans don't have an accent. She was surprised that not only do Americans have a strong accent (some stronger than others) but the accent is still audible when they speak a foreign language such as French. Easy to spot an American speaking French even if they have a good French accent.

No American accent?

Heh... there are scores and scores of regional accents in America!! !

Growing up mostly in the south, I have a typical slow Texas drawl, but I have cousins from Mississippi who speak so quickly I can't hear as fast as they talk!! !

.... and when I moved to coastal Georgia it took 6 months of ear calibration to understand anything the 'hoi toiders' said to me.

That is what I'd assume, much the same in England. Geordies (in England) have a very strong accent. Almost like a foreign language. The first time someone spoke to me in that accent I hardly understood a word.

What does seem to be constant is that people can't hear their own accent - their own voice sounds "normal". The strength and nature of the sound of accents seem to be relative to differences in the dialect of the speaker and the listener.

Thank you for complimenting, but I still can't figure out your accent

I REALLY hope Henriksson shows up with his svensk-talanda accent before I speak mine, mine isn't that awesome

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udBbFWoiH-A[/youtube]

Actually, I sound a lot like this... a Scottish dude doing a impression of a crocodile from Louisiana.

@ TallyMan,

Yeah, I guess for folks who aren't interested in that sort of thing, they most likely wouldn't recognize their own accent.

Growing up in the south, its been my experience that most Americans think there are two types of accents--Normal and southern.

Oh, there are WAY more than two accents in America. : )

I spent my teen years in Texas, and I could identify at least four distinct regional accents in just that state! I once went on a trip to the deep south, Appalachia, and ran into people who I thought were speaking Elizabethan English - which wasn't all that far off as they'd come in from a very, very, VERY rural area that had been settled back at the beginning and had not had a lot of intermingling with "outsiders." New Jersey has three very distinct accents that I can recognize. New York City used to have several, although I haven't been there in years and so can't say if it's remained that way. Cable TV has damaged the "purity" of a lot of the more rural/regional accents, bringing in outside influences.

We took a trip to England last year, and had a layover at an airport in Minnesota on the way. The local accent there was staggering - in California there is a series of TV commercials put on by the dairy board, and they feature "happy cows" with a very intense Minnesota accent. Every time someone at the airport opened their mouth all I could think of was "happy cow!" though, thankfully, I didn't burst out laughing.

Then there's all the New England ones - Maine, Bahston, etc. And here in California there's Northern California, Valley, Southern California (with various sub-varieties), and "LA" - which is kind of effeminate - that I have heard (so far). This doesn't include the ethnic-influenced ones. (California has a LOT of immigrants from other countries.)

I get some enjoyment out of listening to overseas broadcasters (DW, Radio Moscow, etc.) who are speaking in "standard" American and trying to see if I can identify if they are native speakers or not. Hearing someone speak "American Standard" is pretty much a tip-off that they are very likely NOT a native of the USA, as - aside from a small pocket in the upper mid-west, towards the east a bit, if it's still there - I don't think anyone has actually spoken American Standard English in years. If they don't throw in the correct idioms and slang terms, it's a clincher that they are foreign, although very well-schooled. (Though I could be wrong.)

When I was in London we had a great time with the accents. It seemed that everyone we met in the underground (who worked there) or a bus station sounded like Stan Shunpike from Harry Potter. (The night bus? The one we were on drove just like the one from Harry Potter, and "Ern" could have been modeled on the driver!). In the shops, depending on where we were, we heard many different accents. We took a car trip up to the north west, and when we checked into our Inn I had to have my daughter decipher what the clerk told us - he spoke with such a thick accent and spoke so quickly that between each of us understanding about half of what he said we were able to put the whole thing together.

We're taking a trip soon that will have us in Scotland and Ireland (both of them) for a bit. I'm wondering how that will go, auditorially. : )

But in the meantime, from SoCal beach community, for your original request -

"Duuuuude, way, bro!"

What part of Texas did you live in?

BTW, I have no accent.

Hey, y'all! A big howdy from East Texas! (Actually, I don't say "howdy", but a lot of us do!)