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[sanomaton]

lol, England has apparently only got 1 accent.

Wrong. You tend a vary wide variety depending on the location which can range from heavy to light Irish, English, and Scotish accents.

I think that's what Amethyst was trying to point out hence I found his(/her? the profile didn't say) post rather funny.

OT: I speak the dialect that is spoken in here which is way different from other dialects in my country... so whenever I leave my village everyone will always ask about where I'm from and mention something about the way I speak. And I'm not exaggerating, there hasn't been one trip to another city/town where people wouldn't have mentioned about it.

But it's fun to confuse those southern peeps with words they have never heard before and such. However I can't stand it when someone tries to imitate this dialect because it's basically just impossible to do and anyone who tries can only fail miserably.

 

[Lord George]

I use a lot of strange slang terms from various places in my daily speech, like Shiny meaning good, and using words like groovy, iced, lets burn, oh and I occasionally talk in Nadsat. It comes from watching too many (American) movies and spending too much time reading clockwork orange for coursework.

 

[omle]

lol, England has apparently only got 1 accent.

Wrong. You tend a vary wide variety depending on the location which can range from heavy to light Irish, English, and Scotish accents.

Those are the different countries that make up the UK not all English. You're probably thinking of the southern accent but there are many dialects such as Geordie, Scousse Cockney etc. In the same way someone from Boston sounds different to someone from New Jersey in America.

Different accents within one nation.

 

[AvsJoe]

Well I just moved to Saskatchewan from Windsor via Calgary and I gotta say they speak a lot differently here than the other two places. I've been here for a couple of months now and I'm still not up to speed on the lingo and expressions here.

 

[Erja_Perttu]

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lol, England has apparently only got 1 accent.

Wrong. You tend a vary wide variety depending on the location which can range from heavy to light Irish, English, and Scotish accents.

Those are the different countries that make up the UK not all English. You're probably thinking of the southern accent but there are many dialects such as Geordie, Scousse Cockney etc. In the same way someone from Boston sounds different to someone from New Jersey in America.

Different accents within one nation.

Yeah, it seems like barely anyone has the stereotypical upper class british accent anymore...but then again I live in the deepest darkest south west, where there be farmers.

Sadly, the longer I live in my little town, the more I sound Bristolian. To anyone who knows what a Bristolian sounds like, then you know why this is a bad thing.

As for words, I use the word Funky a lot. I've been told by an American friend that it doesn't mean the same thing everywhere. In fact he was fairly insulted the first time I said he was funky. Ah well.

 

[omle]

You can be like an early Bill Bailey before he moved to London and dropped the accent.

OT: I wasn't born in England so I sometimes say trash, garbage, pants and stuff like that. Just little things every so often.

 

[Cowabungaa]

Well I weave phrases and words of English through my Dutch, most of the time without even noticing. Heck sometimes I know the English word, but I can't translate it to Dutch, and that's my mother tongue! Really strange.

 

[Deleted]

Baka instead of idiot
Kawaii instead of cute

But I like to say these ^_______^

 

[Xanadu84]

America is a melting pot. Too many people see only the homogeneous soup on top, and not the many, varied ingredients that go into it.

But seriously, why use the British car expressions? I mean, I don't think either slang is better or worse, but car talk specifically is way worse in British slang. The thing that holds your luggage can be called called either a thing that holds your luggage, or a thing you put your feet into. The engine is covered by a term for something covered, or a piece of clothing a baby wears. And this is coming from a huge Top Gear fan.

 

[hippykiller]

i used to live in a very rural part of Ireland and there just about everybody spoke Galiege on a daily bases, and i know how to speak fluent Irish but in the part of the small town i lived in my neighbors when they talked they butchered the words to create their own sort of language, so that did lead to some misunderstandings between us all.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

lol, England has apparently only got 1 accent.

Wrong. You tend a vary wide variety depending on the location which can range from heavy to light Irish, English, and Scotish accents.

I was being ironic there lass, I live in Cheshire, and am quite aware of the accentual diversity across these isles.

 

[Terramax]

It comes from watching too many (American) movies and spending too much time reading clockwork orange for coursework.

Oh please tell me you quote Clockwork Orange in your daily life (like saying "some of the old in-out in-out", "I was cured alright!" or "Ultraviolence")? You can lie to me if you want. ^^

 

[Woodsey]

Not really, although me and some mates have started using Jamaican words like bumberclut and it's many variations on occasion.

 

[Communist partisan]

i'm lerned too speak australian dialect than i talk english and ppl are finding it funny but i yust tell'em to f**** off or in other cases i'm a "redneck" as many calls me beacose i'm born in the middle of f***ing no where and are talking swedish a lot differnet than the rest in gothenburg where i live now

 

[lwm3398]

Bloody. I say bloody.

Which is how I would describe my basement, I need to clean it. Plus it stinks down there... Damned decomposing bodies...

 

[Soulgaunt]

People look at me funny when I say "Praise Doomfluff!". Although, I think that's a different situation....

After watching too much Monty Python, I tend to use "oh bloody hell" a lot and have gotten various confused looks. People in the midwest just don't know good comedy.

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[2012 Wont Happen]

I use (insert British expression here) instead of (insert equivalent American expression here) quite frequently. Oh, and I prefer hot tea to coffee by far...

 

[Fraught]

It seems like this thread is only meant for native English-speakers, them using words from other English-speaking countries.

Uhh, no, I have no "other country" to be "influenced" with my talk with.

 

[The_Echo]

I say 'bloody' alot, as in 'bloody hell'. people are creeped out by this, as they think I have a fixation with blood. Apparently these bloody blokes are bloody bleeding dense.

oh, by the way, I also use alot of british talk in my everyday life. So you are not alone.

I use "bloody" and "bugger" a lot, along with a few other British terms. I just find them fun to use, and they sound better than most of the American English counterparts. Though my friends get annoyed by it, saying "You're not British!" even though I am, in part. Not that you have to be a certain nationality to use certain words..