what kind of accent do you have

[Angelwulfe]

me i have a boring midwestern accent (i'm from chicago, IL) although people from other places think i have a chicago accent but i don't think such a thing exists!

[UnSolon]

Well EVERYONE has some sort of accent. No matter where it is from.

I'm from Vancouver Island BC, and apparently I have an accent. I'm not really sure what it is, but lots of people think its British, but hey.

Some people have said its the Island Accent (vancouver Island). I know there are a couple other Van Isle'rs here, have you guys ever noticed yourselves having accents, or noticed it on others?

But hey. Once when I was travaling, some guy (a janitor where I was) said to me, "Yeah, my girlfriend is from England too." and started going off about some area in the UK. It was fairly humourous, and I told him I wasnt from Britain. Mabey it has something to do with living in BRITISH Columbia?

peace

[Flaire-FireStar]

Canadian.....eh? <- And yes, I do say the 'eh'.... more often than not, actually..

I also use some French, sometimes Russian (or something like it) and 'hillbilly' ... I do say "y'all" and other sayings like that, just cuz I've grown up around it - both my dad & uncle say things like that.. :)

[Amethyst Rose]

I don't have an accent......do I???

I donno....I think I speak normal :). I speak "news anchor english". I've heard that news anchors in the States get taught how to speak western Canadian English, because it's more clear, and there's more enounciation.

I wouldn't know, really.....

[Pheonix]

accent? Whengoing other places people have told me I have one, but I agree with Amethyst Rose. I sound like a news anchor! nothing special at all about it.:shift:
Brightest Blessing,
Pheonix

[mato]

Depends on my mood, any were from 'normal' to far out donald duckishness to what people swear is demonic (me?! Never! :devil: )... (I swear like an angel! :lol: ) But no one can really tell if they have an accent because nine times out of ten everyone around them has the same one, its normal to them.

[Sequoia]

^^; I have no clue. I probably have a California accent. But something I've noticed, there's a "movie" accent. . . because I never notice people in film or on TV having an accent, no matter where they're from, unless they're "supposed" to have one, such as a character from Great Britain or Russia or Japan or something LOL. I heard there's a school that teaches you a way to talk that sounds "normal" to everyone. . . LOL right.

Sometimes when I get really pissed I start ranting in a British accent for appearantly no reason LOL it's a long story ^^;

-_-; my russian accent is pretty bad.

My japanese is ok! ^^; LOL

Valley Girl isn't hard. Just insert gum in mouth and the word "like" every three words. ex:

"Mom, it says "wash with, like, coulours" but it doesn't say WHAT colours!"

I say "dude" and "whoah" and "like" way too often. . . -_-; stupid California airhead accent LOL

[flar7]

those are made like Glade plug-ins right? LOL

Us Okies dont have axcents, unless we go oudda state. We say
dawg, and thangs such as that

sorta like taxans, except they think we sound weird!!LOL



:boing::smash:-Howdy Y'all

[~**foxglove**~]

Being a New Zealander I suppose I have a New Zealand accent! (Oooh I is a clever cookie! hehe)

My accent would be a more... how could I put it... well-spoken kiwi accent as there are variances, like a Maori take on the accent, a pacific island accent, a westie accent, but I'm probably making no sense to anyone here... :)

Basically a nicer Aussie accent (e.g. not 'Thees ees aye knoife') mixed with an English sort of accent. I suppose. As this is what I've been told we sound like.

[Twig]

I found out early that the girls/women here in Oregon think my S.C. accent is "sooooo cute!" Heheheh, I've used it to an harrumph advantage on occasion. ;)

Peace,
Twig
:elf:

[Faery-Wings]

Originally posted by Twig
I found out early that the girls/women here in Oregon think my S.C. accent is "sooooo cute!" Heheheh, I've used it to an harrumph advantage on occasion. ;)

Peace,
Twig
:elf:

You sly devil, you ;)

Me, I have a NJ accent, but I do *not* say Joisey. And I never knew anyone from Jersey that did. It is kind of a hard edge to all your words. When I am upset it comes out much stronger too. I also talk a mile a minute which is hard for my friends outside of the Metro area to understand. My college roomies from PA, had no clue what I was saying for a looong time. LOL!

You all are lucky to be reading what I say, not listening to me.:eek: :rotfl:

BB

Chris

[Skye]

Well, I suppose I have a Pacific Northwest accent....if there is such a thing......When I moved from Washington State to Kentucky, everyone said I had an accent....no, I think they have an accent.....go figure;)

[MammaStar]

I's got a NEW YAWK accent baby!!!! I think it's softened since I've moved away from Westchester.

I have this weird thing, wherever I go, i pick up the accent if i stay for a long period of time. Like when I visit VA, I always come home with a southern accent. It's weird.

[Starlight]

I've got a screwed up accent! Mine's a cross between Cape Breton(talk really fast and drag words), New Brunswick (replace er's with a's Like yestaday or intanet) and Manitoba!
Yep I'm the Heinz 57 of accents I think!:lol:

[Old Witch]

:D Ya'll, a heavy southern drawl. But I don't have an accent honey chile, Ya'll do.:cool:

[Illuminatus]

I don't have an accent.

It's all of YOU people who talk funny.

[Maggie]

Originally posted by Angelwulfe
me i have a boring midwestern accent (i'm from chicago, IL) although people from other places think i have a chicago accent but i don't think such a thing exists!

Midwest, but Michigan variety--added 'r' in some words, with a pinch of Canada (grew up on the border). Now overlaid with 25 years of living in Virginia, when I go back up north I get told I have a southern accent, although I don't hear it much myself.

Maggie

[Angelwulfe]

Originally posted by SearchingWolf
Well I speak southern talk yall:P Or so im told I think its pretty normal till I go to a diffrent State then they tell me "you sound like your from the deep south". Hell its only Virginia I cant be that bad!
heck my fiancee is from indiana and some of my friends think he's from the deep south. when i first met him my sister was like "he talks like a hick" he used to only live three hours away from us before he moved up here. besides we're right by the indiana and illinois border it's not that far away!
this morning he told me he has a "ghetto cowboy" accent. i'm like ok whatever. thats shadowulfe for ya!

[MidnightSun]

I haven't a clue what kind of accent I have..lol. I am from Michigan, so if any1 knows what kind of accent that means I have..let me know :) Otherwise i wouldn't recognize an accent cuz everyone around me speaks the same. Except for those in Detroit, they have their own language. Ebonics! *gags*

[Ball-Bhreac Ròn]

Granthaminian accent...a delightful mixture of Californian (?), Cockney and Lincolnshire.....go us :)

At least, I think I do...... :huh:

[Twilight Garden]

I don't really pronounce R's. Kinda like Starlight. Some people say it's my American/Italian talk. I don't have a southern accent even though I grew up there. Neither of my parents have one and when I was young I didn't like southern accents and worked to make sure I never adopted it. Now I sort of think it can be really cute. I also do a cutsie baby talk alot, especially when I want something. :bubbles:

[Adam Of Avalon]

I was born in Upstate New York, I was raised in Delaware. That would mean that my long "a"'s are really ugly and I speak extremely fast. Lucky moi!

[SilentWolf]

I got a South Philadelphia accent. Now that I live in New Hampshire, some people can't understand a blind word I say.

Here's an example...

"Hey yo Bobby! Get ovah heya!"

"Yeah wazup?"

"Whutzyer fav'rit football team?"

"Da Fluffya Iggles"

"A'ight."

[SnowStar]

Alright, see if you can follow this one...
I was born and learned to talk in South Dakota. So I start with what other people hear as a relatively heavy Dakota-Minnesota-Wisconsin area northern accent (I suppose that would be northern midwest, wouldn't it?). From there I did a fair amount of moving around. I moved to Georgia where I lived for about 9 months. When I first arrived I practically needed a translator to understand what half the kids were saying. Everyone could understand me just fine, though I was the one who got harassed for "talkin' funny". Go figure. After that I moved to Washington state. I hadn't really lived in the south to pick up much, if any of a southern accent, if anything, it just neutralised my accent into one of those "I went to professional speech school" accents. So I never much had issues with people there over how I talked. In my opinion, people from the Washington/Oregon area probably have the most "normal", or I suppose standard would be a better way of putting it, accent. From Washington, I moved back to Georgia where I have resided for about 7 1/2 years now.

I still have deep-seated traces of a northern midwest accent that I'll never shed...and I don't mind. I have a tinge of what I might call "southern attitude" to my voice, and according to my friends I have hints of British, Scottish, and New England accents in my speech as well. It all evens out, and often its hard to tell where exactly I'm from! Sometimes one aspect is more prominant than another and it cracks some people up. I just think my accent is cool.

[willowfairy]

I think British, Scottish, Irish, or just anything as un-American as you can get are soo sexy.

[Pheonix]

Originally posted by MidnightSun
I haven't a clue what kind of accent I have..lol. I am from Michigan, so if any1 knows what kind of accent that means I have..let me know :) Otherwise i wouldn't recognize an accent cuz everyone around me speaks the same. Except for those in Detroit, they have their own language. Ebonics! *gags*

you have an accent, and yes it's very different those in detroit, I spent alot of time in detroit, and the rest of michigan since I used to live in Windsor and it took me almost 6 mos to be able to understand what everybody was saying! lol course everybody told me I was the one with the accent :)

[bluebear]

There jus aint no mistakin it. Oum frum east Texas!!!!!!!

[Sephiroth]

im capical of speeking 3 languages fluently: German (my birth country 100%, english, and french. i can really mess with ppl wen i start speaking all 3 in the same sentances by scrambling the words.

[Terra]

A lot of people say I have a Yorkshire accent but other people from Yorkshire say I sound quite posh!! So I have a posh Yorkshire accent whatever that sounds like.

[Wildwood]

I'm English so you can kinda guess my accent.

If you have ever seen the BBC news broadcasts
I speak a bit like most of the newsreaders.

Wildwood

[Psyche Ague]

I live near the Mason-Dixon line in Pennsylvania, so (much to my dismay) I have a slight combination of a northern and a southern accent. I hate my accent, but thankfully, I have a strange way of picking up accents from the places I visit for a long enough period of time. My accent gets worse when I'm angry or excited.

[Hedwig]

Well, I'm from West Virginia so I have a southern accent but I don't say "ya'll." For me it is mostly a problem with the way I pronounce my "I's." Also, I've noticed that for some reason, my accent is much stronger than the rest of my family. I can't figure it out.

[Laiste]

Well, I'm from New Yawk...to quote Ldystarlite...but I have been told numerous times that I sound like I'm from the midwest...go figure??!!

[ShadowCat]

I'm English!!! With an essexy-london kinda accent!! I gess im kinda common.. :)

[Rævyn Cigány]

I live in Eastern Ontario and have what they call a Valley accent (Ottawa Valley that is)...it's a combination of french, scottish and Newfoundland accents...weird, at any rate ;) apologies to the french, Scots and Newfoundlanders :T

BB

Rae )0(

[phoenixsong]

Well, being Irish, I guess I have an Irish accent. West of Ireland accent. (Not a Donegal accent, no way!)

[lovepoet]

I have an english accent, you can hear it on my site if you'd like.

Hey Raevyn, that combo sounds very exotic!

BB,

Marc

[bansidhe]

i only realised i had an accent when i moved here, to australia! ppl at high skool couldnt understand me, so i had to modify it. i had probs at work too, cos id say 'cake' and theyd have no idea, i soon learnt to harden up my vowels!!! so, now its a bleand of irish-australian, but when i get angry...well...the aussie all goes!!!
i can speak french and german pretty good too, im trying to teach my two littlie sistas to count and greet in both of those languages, juss easy stuf, and some gaelic too, but thats VERY limited, growing up in belfast in all! so now theres these two little kids running around adelaide going 'dia duit...un deux trois quatre cinq...auf wiedersehen!' :)

[MistOfTheSea86]

From Mexican to British for some strange reason. AND it was SO WEIRD, I had a day where I spoke random french out of NO WHERE!

[Sequoia]

LOL! I've done that kind of thing! speaking in a different language!

[SimplyStrange]

I have no accent...Here I am, sitting in Arizona accentless... Of course, all you would be like "yeah, you're a westerner" but I have no accent.

However, every now and then my southern accent comes back. Yes, I used to have a southern accent...I can fake a good one now...but sometimes it comes back for real... :bug: