Whats your accent?
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The americans think I sound British and the British think I sound American.
What happened is I lived in the US my first 8 years and then my family moved to the UK and I've been here ever since.
And despite being in Britain for something like 9 years now my accent seems to still be stuck in this....inbetween state
What happened is I lived in the US my first 8 years and then my family moved to the UK and I've been here ever since.
And despite being in Britain for something like 9 years now my accent seems to still be stuck in this....inbetween state
Ok so you have a British accent, and i have an American one, do we sound strange and you sound normal to you? Like for us the British accent sounds odd and almost alien (ok alien and odd arent the best words but just bear with me) but to you does British sound normal and American sound odd? Do you notice you have an accent? For me i dont think i have an accent and i think most Americans think the same way because of ignorance but to you do we seem like we have an accent and you dont?BrightDeathFriend said:British accent!
Toodle pip and all that bollocks! haha
When I saw this thread I was think "I don't have one". Damn that would have been funny if I had said that without thinking.
I live in Mid-West USA.
I live in Mid-West USA.
When I'm not tired or have been speaking english for the whole day, I'd say I have somewhat of a north-american accent.
However when I am tired, I usually find myself very much like every other Finnish guy, trying to pronounce every english word with a finnish touch, which sounds horrible.
However when I am tired, I usually find myself very much like every other Finnish guy, trying to pronounce every english word with a finnish touch, which sounds horrible.
Minnesotan, apparently mixed with some weird Scottish inflections I picked up living in Musselburgh.
Irish. It is half Meath, half Dublin.
They are two countys in Ireland for those who don't know. I have a mixed accent.
Or so I have been told anyway.
They are two countys in Ireland for those who don't know. I have a mixed accent.
Or so I have been told anyway.
My accent lies somewhere in between Britain and Scandinavia, so i guess I have an accent of the North Sea?
There are tens of accents in Britain and Ireland, mainly based on geography but also social class. Accents can develop within only a few generations and if people don't move around much they stay. My family are from the north east of England, and i can hardly understand them, when i'm drunk i sound like a Victorian cockney chimney sweep because that's where i grew up in London, but i have been living in the South West where they talk like pirates (or rather pirates talk like them) and so sometimes this slips in... you can tell a hell of a lot by how someone talks in the UK, its a bit weird because you drive 50 miles and everyone is talking differently all of a sudden ...mathias53 said:Ok so you have a British accent, and i have an American one, do we sound strange and you sound normal to you? Like for us the British accent sounds odd and almost alien (ok alien and odd arent the best words but just bear with me) but to you does British sound normal and American sound odd? Do you notice you have an accent? For me i dont think i have an accent and i think most Americans think the same way because of ignorance but to you do we seem like we have an accent and you dont?BrightDeathFriend said:British accent!
Toodle pip and all that bollocks! haha
but thats not what i am talking about, what im saying is does anybody with a british accent think that americans have the accent and british people dont. Most americans will say that they dont have an accent but british people do, thats because most americans are ignorant. Do people with a british accent think the same way, that british people do not have an accent but americans do, or are americans just snobs?faselei said:There are tens of accents in Britain and Ireland, mainly based on geography but also social class. Accents can develop within only a few generations and if people don't move around much they stay. My family are from the north east of England, and i can hardly understand them, when i'm drunk i sound like a Victorian cockney chimney sweep because that's where i grew up in London, but i have been living in the South West where they talk like pirates (or rather pirates talk like them) and so sometimes this slips in... you can tell a hell of a lot by how someone talks in the UK, its a bit weird because you drive 50 miles and everyone is talking differently all of a sudden ...mathias53 said:Ok so you have a British accent, and i have an American one, do we sound strange and you sound normal to you? Like for us the British accent sounds odd and almost alien (ok alien and odd arent the best words but just bear with me) but to you does British sound normal and American sound odd? Do you notice you have an accent? For me i dont think i have an accent and i think most Americans think the same way because of ignorance but to you do we seem like we have an accent and you dont?BrightDeathFriend said:British accent!
Toodle pip and all that bollocks! haha
Oh. Sorry, got the wrong end of the stick.
No, (well imho i don't think so) because we have so many accents, everyone 'has' an accent. Be it northern, southern, posh, chav, cockney, estuary, west country, midlands, birmingham, geordie, cumbrian, scottish, glaswegian, welsh, east anglian, mancurian, liverpudlian, etc etc.
No, (well imho i don't think so) because we have so many accents, everyone 'has' an accent. Be it northern, southern, posh, chav, cockney, estuary, west country, midlands, birmingham, geordie, cumbrian, scottish, glaswegian, welsh, east anglian, mancurian, liverpudlian, etc etc.
I think that to everyone, we all have normal accents, but then there will always be different accents in the same country and to everyone else one's accent will sound odd. But to be honest, the American accent isn't one that is "alien" to me. The languages that i'm most used to are in fact American and Spanish so to me they sound more interesting to me than my british accent...people from my own country think that my accent is weird though :Smathias53 said:Ok so you have a British accent, and i have an American one, do we sound strange and you sound normal to you? Like for us the British accent sounds odd and almost alien (ok alien and odd arent the best words but just bear with me) but to you does British sound normal and American sound odd? Do you notice you have an accent? For me i dont think i have an accent and i think most Americans think the same way because of ignorance but to you do we seem like we have an accent and you dont?BrightDeathFriend said:British accent!
Toodle pip and all that bollocks! haha
I would think that I have a neutral American accent, though I might have an inkling of Southern flavor to it.
Southern england accent...dont actaully know if that differs from other places or not...oh well