Do american accents sound weird to non americans?
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se ollen como boludos, noClashero said:
haha i have a few friends from argentina that say mys spanish is wrong
YES. Jolly good day mate, would you prefer me to grab the sniper rifle mister.Aloran said:Yes, but there's nothing wrong with it
Question to the americans: Do British accents sound odd to you?
I don't know, would you like me to talk in a really annoying high pitched voice, too.
Message to all British People: Please refrain from using the words chap, mate, jolly, bloody, crumpets, or and other british specific words or insults.
In return, all american will try to refrain from using the wors homie, dog, dogg, bud, yonder, yall', essay(Like I CUT YOU UP ESE!), 'merican, tight, sick, and the phrase "WE ARE THE FUCKING BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD(this may cause controversy among some people).
It's really just the underdeveloped high pitched 6-years olds that piss me off. Otherwise its not annoying, just different, and you try to keep them talking.
Let's make the world a better place. FUCK YOU ENVIROMENT!
I've said it before somewhere on these 'rums, but here goes again.
I don't mind, even expect, the typical American accents on TV. By 'typical' accents on TV, I mean the ones you usually hear on the telly and at the movies - what I assume is Californian, Washingtonian (apparently the radio/TV presenter standard?) and possibly eastern non-Bostonian/heavy New Yorker/etc. But when I hear those particular accents in real life I silently RAGE. No good reason for it, it's just nails-on-a-chalkboard grating in real life. I put it down to the fact that Americans are actually fairly thin on the ground here in Western Oz.
What I don't understand is why I have no problem with Southern, Bostonian, that stereotypical New York drawl, or that cute mid-western one with "thang" and those adorable little "oo's" (if you know what I'm talking about).
I don't mind, even expect, the typical American accents on TV. By 'typical' accents on TV, I mean the ones you usually hear on the telly and at the movies - what I assume is Californian, Washingtonian (apparently the radio/TV presenter standard?) and possibly eastern non-Bostonian/heavy New Yorker/etc. But when I hear those particular accents in real life I silently RAGE. No good reason for it, it's just nails-on-a-chalkboard grating in real life. I put it down to the fact that Americans are actually fairly thin on the ground here in Western Oz.
What I don't understand is why I have no problem with Southern, Bostonian, that stereotypical New York drawl, or that cute mid-western one with "thang" and those adorable little "oo's" (if you know what I'm talking about).
Think about it man. When someone from another country moves to the Americas they are bound to sound odd to some people. It's only logical to say that when we move over there we will sound kind of weird to some.
and there's nothing wrong with that.george144 said:
Whoa there, I live half an hour from "The Valley" (yes, there is actually a specific valley the horrible lingo is referenced to) and WE can't even stand those people. We're South Orange County, they're South(ish) LA County (we're more south than they are). Massive, massive difference. PLEASE never group us with people ever again. It's like saying all Brits have never owned a toothbrush. Some have horrible teeth, but it's a bad (read: false) stereotype. Bad teeth are everywhere in the world, and so are bad accents. For example, a normal British accent sounds fine, but "English English" is beyond annoying to me.BudZer said:
Please believe me! We're not like that down here!
I hate this notion that there are intelligent accents and unintelligent accents. You don't choose your first accent, and anyone who does spend a long time learning to use a different accent intentionally rather than learning something to actually SAY sounds pretty dumb to me.Silva said:
I actually respect someone of great intelligence who has one of the less respected accents like a deep Nebraska twang or a Southern American English accent/dialect a little more because that person has usually made a conscious choice to keep it. I'm American originally from the South but after traveling around the US and elsewhere I have more of a neutral accent, something between Dan Rather and Mid-Atlantic. I wish I had the self-confidence to still sound like I did when I was 16 hanging out at my neighbor's tobacco farm.
You're trying to defend people who have an accent that conveys little understanding of English itself. But I never made an attack on such people, nor did I make a suggestion that they learn a "better" accent (there is no such thing, just accents that more people will understand, and accents that people find aesthetically appealing for subjective reasons) so all you need to defend is the accent itself, thank you.Lord Monocle Von Banworthy said:
Good for you. I never said I didn't respect people with yokel accents. I just don't enjoy listening to the accent.
I'd tolerate such an accent out of politeness and the respect I expect for myself, but I'm not about to find it attractive, so I'm very sorry my biological urges do not follow your logic. Yes, that's all I was talking about, nothing more general or larger than that. I was being very specific.
