MSM 126 Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 A large part of that is due to the stupid rules and exceptions of the English language, though.Hahahahaha...If you only knew, boy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delorean90 42 Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 A large part of that is due to the stupid rules and exceptions of the English language, though.Why can't the English learn to speak?Quickly, before this thread veers back on topic: Does anyone know why in an English accent, most R's after vowels are not pronounced? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Barnsbury 8 Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Because it sounds classier/snootier. Speaking of accents, I think my favorite would have to be Australian. Like Olivia Newton-John's in Grease... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Scottish people have awesome accents.Australian and British are sweet, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmo Lewis 6 Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 A large part of that is due to the stupid rules and exceptions of the English language, though.Why can't the English learn to speak?Quickly, before this thread veers back on topic: Does anyone know why in an English accent, most R's after vowels are not pronounced?And why do their voices lower an octave when pronuncing a syllable with an R? See the opening of Queen's Flash Gordon soundtrack: "I'm boooohhd" (for "I'm bored") as an extreme example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delorean90 42 Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Yeah. It's not that it's not cool (I actually have a lot of fun imitating different accents--Irish is one favorite of mine), it just seems a bit hypocritical for Henry Higgins to speak of people butchering the English language when he doesn't even use his bloody R's! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry B 50 Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Ian McKellen has an awesome accent. It's British, but not too British. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Barnsbury 8 Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Also, I find it interesting that the British sometimes add the letter R to the end of a word that ends with a vowel, when it's followed by a word that begins with the vowel. Like instead of "Anna and me" it'll sound like "Annar and me." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Penna 3,696 Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Yeah we do that a lot.My accent has been slightly odd since I was in 6th form (16 yrs +). It's a mix of straight English/ slightly posh, and a bit of south London. Tends to change a bit depending on who I'm around.And like you, I'm very, very impressed at how fluent a lot of people here are. I'm sure some might have foreign accents, but it doesn't show at all in posts. Heck, when I talk to Incanus on MSN, he often writes better than I do when I type too fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 It can be quite interesting to meet some members who write excellent English, but turn out to have an accent when they speak. It's something you don't really think about when you read posts here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Barnsbury 8 Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Do you have an accent when you speak English? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 I don't have the slightest trace of an accent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Barnsbury 8 Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Yes, you do.Ray Barnsbury - who doesn't Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Skywalker 1,796 Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 Ray Barnsbury - who doesn't Really?Without having heard you, i think i can swear you have 100% an American English accent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pieter Boelen 740 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 I love British accents. And Scottish and Irish and Australian. American not so much (sorry people). I'm not sure if I have an accent myself; I prefer to think that I have no accent over me having a Dutch accent. I would very much like to talk with a decidedly British accent. That would be cool. I never really manage to do it properly though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus 390 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 It is amazing how far away from a topic one can navigate in the course of some pages!Marcus (who has an American accent, and is typically "placed" somewhere in New England, although his native tongue is Norwegian, and who would love nothing better than to have a tuneful mid-atlantic accent, ca.1948!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 I think it is important to stress at this point that Pennsylvania-Dutch actually sounds nothing like Dutch at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisAfonso 186 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Which might come from the fact that it's a mangled version of German and English, not Dutch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Yes it is called Pennsylvania-Dutch. So I guess our two great nations were confused with each other once again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 For all those British folks out there:Do you imitate American accents sometimes (not to make fun or anything, but as a joke)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Yes they do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Barnsbury 8 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Do American accents sound stupid to other cultures, just like British accents sound sophisticated to us? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Yes they do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Do American accents sound dry and boring like they do to us? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Yes they do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 All accents sound ridiculous upon hearing them for the first time, no matter where you live.I would say I still find some foreign accents to be silly after all these years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 What dialect do they have on olé Mount Crumpet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 One of grumpiness. Kinda sounds like Boris Karloff...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Even some of the more mangled English of Deep Southern accents sound silly to us Texans, who have a much different dialect.Personally I like British, Scottish and Aussie accents, but not so much Irish or New Zealand. In particular I really like a British northern accent (Christopher Eccleston) or what I guess is extreme Welsh or "Scouse" I think is the term (thinking of Craig Charles, Lister in Red Dwarf, and Jeff from Coupling). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkgyver 1,646 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Do American accents sound stupid to other cultures, just like British accents sound sophisticated to us?Vice versa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 75 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Why do English people seem to be better than Americans at accents (fake ones, that is). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Do you mean British actors playing American roles or just british people? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 75 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 British actors playing American roles. Like Christian Bale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Well by and large the British are just plain better actors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmo Lewis 6 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Do you mean British actors playing American roles?Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson are two very good examples of how good the British are at that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 I am still not completely used to Laurie in his grumpy American mode.Your accent is funny btw.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delorean90 42 Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 What about his happy American mode (Stuart Little)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Never saw that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 He was in Stuart Little? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Even i know that, dude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Shows you how much that film means to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Michael J. Fox plays a rodent, which sounds just right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 I must say that after living in the UK, the american accent does sound a bit silly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Well,logically english was invented in England,so the english accent should be the true reference accent,therefore it is not an accent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Except words like "garbage" and "gasoline." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Or truckK.M.Who was rooting for Amanda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 K.M.Who was rooting for AmandaI was only half paying attention. It started out good, but went downhill quickly after it was obvious the whole game was full of strategic dunces. I miss Yul. And Hatch, when he gets out of jail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Or truckK.M.Who was rooting for AmandaWhat do the British call a truck? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 A lorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Haha!Lorry, Rubbish, Petrol, what else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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