CHARLIE!i was looking at this thread last night and was going to bump it haha :) x
There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you.
But there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.
I aint no abacus but you can count on me.
Well I have a British accent, I didn't think that counted until I went to Canada and my cousins took the piss.
I love Irish accents. My music teacher has the coolest accent. It's sing-song Irish, and she always sounds soft and gentle, even when she's angry. I joined Glee Club just for the accent, but now I love it (Glee Club)!
I love how every Irish accent is sort of sing-song... except a Dublin accent. Everything we say sounds like a threat. We sound like a cross between a farmer, a drug addict and a Dalek.
I so love english accents, although I often don't understand half of it... Does anyone know the show "Little Britain"? There is this one character, Vicky Pollard, and her accent is way too bad to be nice, but I tried ages to understand her...
I obviously would have a german accent, but I hope it is getting less and less and I try to get some australian into it.
If anyone is interested in this: There are quite a few different accents in Germany as well and as funny as it sounds, before I left the country I was never really aware of this. But when I met other Germans abroad it was always funny to instantly recognize the area they must come from because of their accents. Also, I noticed that although I thought I wouldn't have a strong accent people would know where I come from, too.
Accents are just really interesting somehow.
Yeah, most of the kids I grew up with speak like Vicky Pollard. They are hard to understand at times even when you're around them every day. Believe it or not, there was a girl who went to my school called Vicky Pollard. I think she's actually had to change her name because nobody would take her seriously. Like, calling up for anything, people hung up the phone on her.
Wake me up before I change again
Remind me the story that I won't get insane
Tell me why it's always the same
Explain me the reason why I'm so much in pain.
I've lived in Birmingham all my life, but apparently I do not have a brummie accent. Thank f**k for that.
According to my college friends I have a 'posh' accent, but I think I've just got a neutral British accent.
The only way I can describe my accent is a Hinckley accent.
It's meant to be a little bit Leicester/Cockney.
We drop letters all over the place. Especially our 'H's and our 'Y's lol
I have a geordie/west country/welsh accent, with sometimes a little australian throw in. Bearing in mind I don't live in any of these places, it's rather odd... :)
There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you.
But there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.
I aint no abacus but you can count on me.
I made a vid last night, but photobucket won't let me upload it. It makes me sad that I don't sound like I thought I did!
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Make us all feel wonderful. We'll never forget."
Whenever I go home, this stupid Wiltshire accent comes back - I sound like a freekin Wurzel! (I know they're Somerset but close enough.)
Then when I'm abroad I tend to get affected (infected) by the people around me.
This is an awesome thread though, I'm so fascinated by phonology (NERD ALERT!) Most low level non-native English speakers (i,e, most of my students) can't hear the difference in accents anyway.
Каждому, каждому в лучшее верится,
Катится, катится голубой вагон!
If I stay somewhere for a while, I pick up the accent ridiculously quickly. When I was 13, I went to Fermanagh for a week. I was surrounded by people with Northern accents the whole time. By the time I got home, I was saying "aye" instead of yes.
