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Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: TheQuirk on 22 October 2005, 01:04
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Sweet Jesus.
In order to not make this thread completely useless, let's discuss accents.
Personally, I have the usual, rhotic accent found in most American suburbs. Like many American accents, it's also a little nasal.
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I live in Bedford so I have a typical London accent some people say it's middle class but I disagree.
Anyway you yanks all seem to think all us English speak the same, well we don't. Lol a couple of weeks ago I was in Gt Yarmouth and some of the locals have the strangest accent I've ever heard it was hard understand some words. :D
My parents are from Warrington Cheshire which is in between Manchester and Liverpool and is totaly differant, the main differance is there's no differance between deep u sounds so book sounds the same as buck, also putt and put also have the same pronunciation.
There's even a Wikipedia page on British English (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_English)
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lmao.
New Zealanders speak normally. :p
And sound nothing like australians. :mad:
I love british accents they sound cool.
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http://ftp://[email protected]/me.mp3 (no password, if it asks)
;)
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Check out the Please Call Stella database:
http://accent.gmu.edu/
Here's my sample:
http://illhostit.com/files/9813400013366895/stella.mp3
Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids. She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station.
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One thing that (I've recently found out) some people in the US are totally unaware of UK slang. Some words have a totally differant meaning - often it's quite funny. :D
Here in the UK:
Fags are cigarettes.
If you're pissed you're drunk.
If someone takes the piss they're mocking you.
I can't think of anything else at the moment can you?
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knock you up means get you pregnant in america
if i'm not mistaken, it means wake someone up by knocking in the uk
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I do not like accents ...
but they are an integral part
of our life :)
ps:what is my accent ?? how do I sound ?? (i mean from what i write on this forum)
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Accents ... bahhh ... as long as I can understand what you are saying you don't have an accent to me ... the only English speaking accent I cannot understand is an Irish accent ... or it takes me asking them 20 or so times before I figure it out
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One thing that (I've recently found out) some people in the US are totally unaware of UK slang. Some words have a totally differant meaning - often it's quite funny. :D
Here in the UK:
Fags are cigarettes.
If you're pissed you're drunk.
If someone takes the piss they're mocking you.
I can't think of anything else at the moment can you?
Interesting. We have the same slang in Australia.
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Accents ... bahhh ... as long as I can understand what you are saying you don't have an accent to me ... the only English speaking accent I cannot understand is an Irish accent ... or it takes me asking them 20 or so times before I figure it out
Ireland isn't, uh, England.
I was once told that "faggot" is now an offensive word in England (not sure about the rest of the UK). Confirm/deny.
how do I sound ?
Like this.
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I was once told that "faggot" is now an offensive word in England (not sure about the rest of the UK). Confirm/deny.
It is in Ireland anyhow.
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Interesting. We have the same slang in Australia.
That's because Austrailia was under British control far more recently than the US.
Faggot in the UK was originally a meat ball (and still is for the most part) but the homosexual meaning has been imported from the US very recently (I was about 14 when I learnt it meant queer) and isn't used thad much apart from on the Internet.
Fag means a mundane chore/favour for someone or most commonly cigarrette, it's also an imported from the US as an abbreviation for faggot/homosexual.
Another slang word I've never heared on a US film is wicked, if used in the right context it means cool although it's isn't as fashionable as it used to be.
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"Wicked" used to be popular, especially in New England. Some people still use the term.
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Perhaps it's an Americanism too.
the only English speaking accent I cannot understand is an Irish accent ... or it takes me asking them 20 or so times before I figure it out
I think it depends on how strong the accent is some Irish accents are harder to understand than others, I like Terry Wogan's accent for example (although no one has probably heard of him outside of the UK and Ireland).
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Perhaps it's an Americanism too.
I think it depends on how strong the accent is some Irish accents are harder to understand than others, I like Terry Wogan's accent for example (although no one has probably heard of him outside of the UK and Ireland).
of course ... I was just saying in general it is harder to understand ... perhaps because the vowels are pronounced so differently ... I dunno
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i am ok with Irish accents
but when they use it on Discovery
or some other scifi/fantasy channel
that freaks me out !
television(and/or) radio should
aways be spoken in plain English (i mean without accents)
it is a mass media for crying out loud
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i am ok with Irish accents
but when they use it on Discovery
or some other scifi/fantasy channel
that freaks me out !
television(and/or) radio should
aways be spoken in plain English (i mean without accents)
it is a mass media for crying out loud
So people who cannot get rid of their accents shouldn't become a host of a television show?
Fuck that.
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Smoke a fag in England is much different than smoke a fag in the USA.
Someone from england ask me if I had any fags at a gathering that was predomintly gay. I told her that there were plenty in the next room :thumbup:
One thing that (I've recently found out) some people in the US are totally unaware of UK slang. Some words have a totally differant meaning - often it's quite funny. :D
Here in the UK:
Fags are cigarettes.
If you're pissed you're drunk.
If someone takes the piss they're mocking you.
I can't think of anything else at the moment can you?
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Interesting. We have the same slang in Australia.
Except anyone calling a cigarrate a fag warrants a punch in the face from me.
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Except anyone calling a cigarrate a fag warrants a punch in the face from me.
I thought you were IP banned?
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I thought you were IP banned?
I have exceptional skills in the art of bitching.
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Except anyone calling a cigarrate a fag warrants a punch in the face from me.
I would be tempted to do the same to anyone who uses the turm fag for homosexual who isn't American. Fuck these Americanisms I say, a fag is a cigarette for fuck sake.
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I would be tempted to do the same to anyone who uses the turm fag for homosexual who isn't American. Fuck these Americanisms I say, a fag is a cigarette for fuck sake.
a fag is a dirty fagget cunt like me.
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i think it
has adopted that meanung becouse
at some time only girl/gay people
were smockeing cigaretes... men
smocked cigars
here is an extract from a bg/en dictionary:
ЦИГАРА
cigarette;sl. fag;
as you might have already figured it out
ЦИГАРА means cigarette :)
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But what about fagget?
That's a meat ball what's queer about meat balls?
EDIT:
Obviously anyone who eats balls is probably queer.
Either way I'm right fags are cigarettes, and I like your reasoning anyway Jack. kintaro you fucking pansey, quit the fags and smoke cigars like a real man.
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Fags are cigarretes in only one english speaking country I know of (england).
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quit the fags and smoke cigars like a real man.
I smoke cigars.
and these fuckers...
(http://illhostit.com/files/1596397549329284/15-10-05_1443.jpg)
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cigar = big brown dick :D
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Dicks are awesome, especially brown ones, their usually the biggest.
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Fags are cigarretes in only one english speaking country I know of (england).
I'm still right because my country invented English - the language everyone else on this forum speaks. :p
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Your country is wrong because it couldn't stop the Americans from destroying it.
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Detroying things is wrong and so are the Americans for destroying and ruining everything.
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I'm still right because my country invented English - the language everyone else on this forum speaks. :p
Ja, vet ech nie kel, je mot je smoel houwe :)
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Baka. He meant when they actually want replies.
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Here is my wonderful Aussie Accent: http://illhostit.com/files/6905243383237111/crikey.mp3