25-07-2003 23:13									#61
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quote: (it's because r and l are not distinct sounds in korean or japanese: if it's the final consonantal sound, it takes the l, but if it's the initial, it takes the r.)

That must only apply for Korean (although I really wouldn't know). Japanese doesn't have final consonantal sounds, excepting "n".

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quote: Originally posted by Albert Speer as for the funniest sounding... it's obvious yall are forgeting our asian brothers, especially the japanese... come on... they mix up L's and R's

That's because the Japanese don't have a letter L, or an L sound in their language.

Strangest (maybe not funniest) accent I heard was Queens English Cambridge overlaid on a guy born in Wolverhampton. Mixture of "one does this" with a Brummie nasal sound - very odd.

	25-07-2003 23:15									#63
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mine is different than anyone elses I beleive

it comes from livining in the south, northwest and midwest

Jon Miller

	25-07-2003 23:16									#64
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quote: Originally posted by MikeH YEAH! I have no accent, I rule.

That's what I like about living in California. We produce most of the movies and TV shows seen in North American and a large number which are seen over seas so our accent, or lack there of, is fast becoming the nonaccented English.

I guess we're coca-colonizing everyone else.

	25-07-2003 23:20									#65
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quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison but surely nothing can top the Brummie accent (the accent of Birmingham)

As an undergrad I knew a girl with that accent. I knew that she was from England, but I didn't recognize her accent so I asked where she was from in England. "I'm from Buhmingum!" Best accent ever.

	25-07-2003 23:23									#66
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for some reason I dig chicks who have a south African accent. I've never even dated a girl from South Africa so I don't know quite what's going on but I just love the sound of it when I meet a SA girl or when I hear them speak on TV.

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quote: Originally posted by loinburger As an undergrad I knew a girl with that accent. I knew that she was from England, but I didn't recognize her accent so I asked where she was from in England. "I'm from Buhmingum!" Best accent ever.

Yeah, that's the one!

	26-07-2003 00:39									#68
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i like the ones from leaverpuel

edit: hmm its quite hard to type and accent. how would you spell the way liverpudlians say liverpool?

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quote: edit: hmm its quite hard to type and accent. how would you spell the way liverpudlians say liverpool?

[beatles mode] Liverpool [/beatles mode]

	26-07-2003 01:43									#70
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Where is Birmingham, England? Like in the north, south, what?

everytime i see Birmingham i keep on thinking you're talking about Birmingham, Alabama.

	26-07-2003 01:52									#71
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most people in American cities share the same 'accent'. Most people i meet from other cities around the country, from east coast to west coast, sound like me, tho their are definately exceptions with in the cities (new york/new jersey, boston, etc). But really, is their any accent that is tougher sounding than the New Yourka?

"you talkin ta me? Are YOU, talkin ta me!? Huh!? You wanna piece of me? Hey Franky, this wise guy wantsa piece of me..."

	26-07-2003 01:54									#72
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A peurto rican girl from brooklyn... Now that's a funny accident...

Ya, right!

	26-07-2003 08:03									#73
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Kramerman:

nah... i think the south philly italian accent made famous by Sylvester Stallone in Rocky got the new yorker accent beat... they are kind of similiar though...

and the female americanized puerto rican accent (how most puerto ricans speak) is one of the best sounding accents... i dont see how it's funny, japher...

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I had a revelation tonight while i was eating.

Did you ever notice how singers always sound 'different' when they sing, but not nomally?

Salene Dion has a thick French canadian accent when she talks normally, but i dont even notice it when she sings... the beatles and other english musicians had/have brittish accents, yet when they sing, i cant tell. Shoot, when i was a little kid, i didint even know they were foreigners.

Is it like this for other people too?

If so, the singers sound exactly like how typical Americans sound... so, perhaps that is the standard 'non-accented' english?

	26-07-2003 08:56									#75
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Kramerman:

i realized that and my guess is they copy styles... most singers in the entire RnB genre sound the same when they sing. only differences are in the genders and in pitch...

for example, Justin Timberlake now sounds exactly like Michael jackson when he sings... does that mean that singing accent and pitch is a standard? no... jackson started it and justin copied. same goes with every other pop/rnb singer

	26-07-2003 09:03									#76
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maybe

	26-07-2003 09:04									#77
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it's only logical...

	26-07-2003 10:10									#78
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South Louisiana Cajun ( Not talking about what U hear on TV)

	26-07-2003 11:09									#79
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Swiss German is terribly hard to understand for any German speakers.

My German has a strong southern accent, especially from the Stuttugart region.

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Most funny thing was when I was waiting for a bus at the bus stop in Windermere (now, where's that? "mere" obviously was related to the size ...). I heard one word "Längkäschter" (to be pronounced roughly German) and I could locate the speaker to ~70 km ... (Bit south of Stuttgart).

Other thing was someone speaking French with an accent more Swiss German than anyone in Basel could produce.

Btw, Lord Merciless, there is a Swiss German accent and a Swiss German dialect. It's the dialect which is hard to understand (or better, it's a whole bunch of dialects, because in Switzerland, language changes from one valley to the next...). The accent is certainly funny but reasonably well to understand. It is the result of a Swiss trying to speak standard German. Same holds for (most) other German-speaking regions.

	26-07-2003 14:04									#81
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quote: Originally posted by Albert Speer Where is Birmingham, England? Like in the north, south, what? everytime i see Birmingham i keep on thinking you're talking about Birmingham, Alabama.

No we're talking about the proper Birmingham. It's slap bang in the middle...

	26-07-2003 14:11									#82
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quote: Originally posted by Victor Galis Funny accent: Bavarian accent. Can't understand a word of it, they might as well be speaking Dutch.

That's a language, not an accent.

	26-07-2003 14:55									#83
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Ah've been a Canadian all my life yet no one heya cahn place my ahcent.

Ah used to werk with a gahl from South Ahfricah, and everay time I speak with her I lahpse bahk into the wahy she tahlks.

	27-07-2003 04:07									#84
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quote: A peurto rican girl from brooklyn... Now that's a funny accident...

BRRRR!!! That's a scary thought. I can't even begin to IMAGINE what her singing would be like - probably like silverware on ceramic or chalk wielded by a sadistic a55hole on a chalkboard. No, wait! It'd be like Yoko Ono on EVERY RECORDING SHE'S EVER MADE!!

'John Lennon takes 6 bullets in the chest; Yoko's standing right next to him - not ONE FVCKING BULLET!!! Explain it to me, God, explain it to me, I want it explained to me, JESUS!!!'

	27-07-2003 10:36									#85
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St:

isn't jennifer lopez from brooklyn? or was it the bronx?

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No idea, but her singing reminds me of chewing on tinfoil.

	27-07-2003 10:44									#87
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ha ha ha

on the subject of accents

I find exotic accents sexy

Jon Miller

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exotic accents? yeah that sure as hell aint vague at all...

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I like foreign girls

Jon Miller

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A-gain a-nar-ther ak-sent thread whiv no sound fi-als of pee-pols' voy-sez a-tached fer pub-lique con-sum-shun.