Accents.

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I started this first, you jerkwads! (;))

Slight Californian accent, just in the way some vowels are stressed (some of you would keel over in laughter if you heard me say "Yeah").

I've also always wondered what an "American" accent sounds like to non-Americans…?
 
Come to think of it, on The Amazing Race last week I couldn't stop laughing at the South African accent, it's so...um, weird!
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Well there are 3 South African Accents:

a) Black South African accent. Words you would hear include "bent", "beds", "lent" and "allegated"*
b) Afrikaaner South African accents. Words you would hear include "frow", "wif", "free"**
c) A more normal accent, like me that stems from the fact that English is my first language.


*Translation: "burnt", "birds", "learnt", "alleged"
**Translation: "throw", "with", "three"
 
Wow, I'm suprised how many GTPers call each other....especially internationally.

I've only spoke to two GTPers (one of whom I knew long before they joined GTP)...

I dunno what my accent is like, I used to be told that I slur my words together a fair bit, but I haven't got that in ages.

Meh.

Blake
 
I've also always wondered what an "American" accent sounds like to non-Americans…?
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Loud!

Jack, do you really want me to put your numbe rup :D. POerhaps I'll save them the cash and put your house number up :p

Gotta find a phone box and phone mistaX.
 
People at school told me I have a strong Southern accent. :odd: It's weird because I was only down in SC for a little over 3 months and now I'm back in Hell. Final determination: I have a mixed NJ/SC accent. :cool:
 
I was born and spent a few years of my life in Pakistan. I spent close to 12 years living in Texas, and the past 5 in Canada.

What do YOU think I sound like?
 
emad
I was born and spent a few years of my life in Pakistan. I spent close to 12 years living in Texas, and the past 5 in Canada.

What do YOU think I sound like?
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A Canadian Pakistani Texan?
 
TVRKing
A Canadian Pakistani Texan?
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Arrey, Yes! That's what I be soundin' like, eh?

Seriously though, I don't really have much of an accent. I have a very deep voice, but no accent. I just sounded like a "normal" Canadian when I moved here and I've sounded like that since...
 
I spoke to small_fryz last night. He sounded............. Australian!

If anyone has a microphone, look me up on msn.
 
im pole living in ireland. have strong south-east polish accent [anyway, everyone thinks im russian] but when i get drunk my irish friends say that i speak like a scumbag [knacker if you are familiar with irish culture :)]
 
Ok, I'm gonna add a new tiwst to this.

As some of you may know there is a voice recorder on Windows (Those that have it) and I thought it would be a good idea to use it to record your voice. Sadly my (new) PC's mic jack seems to be buggered, or my mic is just crap more likely, and I can't start off.

Location= Start>Programs>accessories>entertainment>sound recorder

Dunc recomended www.ripway.com as a host. 👍
 
I talk a lot and I talk fast, like Mid-Westerner's, but not as fast as New Englander's. I also have kind of a low voice. I don't really know how to explain how I talk, I talk like a Wisconsinite. My mother sounds like she is from England because almost everybody she works with is from a foreign country. She works with only two Americans, everybody else is from the UK, Australia, New Zeland, South Africa, Germany, France, India, China, Japan, and a few other places. Everybody else in my family sounds like they are from the Midwest.
 
if you want to have a group chat use some software like ventrilo, you can probably find a gaming network somewhere that has a server set up.

I once played a quake game with a motley assortment of north Americans (including a big texan bloke with a classic long deep drawl), half of them though I was english and keep asking me if I'd like another cuppa tea :D

yet when I was in britian a few years ago I stopped by the newsagent at upton park station to buy a packet of chips (sorry I mean crisps) and barely had I uttered a thing when the woman screeched out "Ohh you're from Neighbours Land, innit you?" Oh how I cringed...
 
Concept

What would it depend on? I wouldn't insult homosexuals if that's what you're inferring.
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Oh no, please dont bring that topic into this thread :scared: .
 
VIPERGTSR01
Oh no, please dont bring that topic into this thread :scared: .
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Haha, I'm done with that topic. I've caused to much chaos and I feel bad about it. I won't bring that in here, or onto the phone.
 
Concept

What would it depend on? I wouldn't insult homosexuals if that's what you're inferring.
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Not even close! :dopey: Nothing to do with that. :D It's late now, though, and I don't feel like talking on the phone. :indiff:

Besides, I sound like Colin Powell -- listen to him speak and you'll know what I sound like.
 
Those of you who are curious about hearing each other should try skype... as direct as a phone without the costs, and you can be up to 4 in a conference call. 👍

As for me, I have an awful accent, since my first language is french and I don't use english on a regular basis (well, verbally). :guilty: Our accent is very different than the one in France though, both in french and english. When I went there, if I were not careful when speaking to them, some would start speaking to me in english. :p
 

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