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ZephyrZodiac:
I generally intend to type them but often I hit the ctrl key instead of the shift! Bugs me, though, so I usually go back and put it right if I spot it!
ElviraGoth:
I was amused by your little discussion of what part of England you were from and accents, since I moved to the southeastern part of the US from the midwest. Midwesterners are notorious for having little or no accent. However, where I moved to, the Southern dialect is so strong I had a hard time getting an "ear" for the accent. I can remember going to a Hardees drive-up window and having a hard time understanding what the person taking my order was saying.
It took me months to catch on to what some of the people at work were saying. And, not to be sterotyping or anything, some of the black people here have a terrible slur added to the accent. I remember walking past a room at work where a meeting was going on, and heard a black woman talk and I couldn't understand a word she said! And I had been here about three or four years and was not having any trouble understanding most people.
Those of us who moved here from the midwest have made an extra effort NOT to pick up the accent. But there are expressions here which amuse us, like "next Tuesday week" which means a week from next Tuesday. Or "cut on" the lights. Cut off, maybe, but how do you cut something on?
So I sympathize with anyone trying to learn American English. Learn it correctly, first and foremost. Unfortunately, too many Americans don't.
One thing that's big in this area is "boiled peanuts". Disgusting stuff, but I suppose if you grew up with it... Anyway, I see signs at roadside stands advertising "boled" peanuts, or "bowled", "bold", you get the idea. That's how they pronounce it, so they think that's how it's spelled. "Oil" is "ole" (like old without the d, not o-lay!), four is foe. And I actually saw a commercial on TV for a "Wharhouse Sale" (warehouse). Pathetic. We have a game at work of finding bad spellings or grammer and reporting them to each other.
Just my 2 cents worth.
reggikko:
Quote from: ElviraGoth on 2005 August 18, 01:03:29
I was amused by your little discussion of what part of England you were from and accents, since I moved to the southeastern part of the US from the midwest. Midwesterners are notorious for having little or no accent. However, where I moved to, the Southern dialect is so strong I had a hard time getting an "ear" for the accent. I can remember going to a Hardees drive-up window and having a hard time understanding what the person taking my order was saying.
My in-laws are Midwesterners and they have some speech "idiosyncracies". They pronounce Missouri Missour-uh, and an ice cream sundae is a sun-duh. They're from Illinois, just across from St Louis. Trust me, you have as much of an accent to those Southerners as they have to you. ;)
Kitiara:
Quote from: ElviraGoth on 2005 August 18, 01:03:29
I was amused by your little discussion of what part of England you were from and accents, since I moved to the southeastern part of the US from the midwest. Midwesterners are notorious for having little or no accent. However, where I moved to, the Southern dialect is so strong I had a hard time getting an "ear" for the accent. I can remember going to a Hardees drive-up window and having a hard time understanding what the person taking my order was saying.
It took me months to catch on to what some of the people at work were saying. And, not to be sterotyping or anything, some of the black people here have a terrible slur added to the accent. I remember walking past a room at work where a meeting was going on, and heard a black woman talk and I couldn't understand a word she said! And I had been here about three or four years and was not having any trouble understanding most people.
Those of us who moved here from the midwest have made an extra effort NOT to pick up the accent. But there are expressions here which amuse us, like "next Tuesday week" which means a week from next Tuesday. Or "cut on" the lights. Cut off, maybe, but how do you cut something on?
So I sympathize with anyone trying to learn American English. Learn it correctly, first and foremost. Unfortunately, too many Americans don't.
One thing that's big in this area is "boiled peanuts". Disgusting stuff, but I suppose if you grew up with it... Anyway, I see signs at roadside stands advertising "boled" peanuts, or "bowled", "bold", you get the idea. That's how they pronounce it, so they think that's how it's spelled. "Oil" is "ole" (like old without the d, not o-lay!), four is foe. And I actually saw a commercial on TV for a "Wharhouse Sale" (warehouse). Pathetic. We have a game at work of finding bad spellings or grammer and reporting them to each other.
Just my 2 cents worth.
Midwesterners do have an accent, you just don't hear it if you are from there. That is how accents work.
Oh, and where I am it's not so much 'bold' peanuts as 'boyld' (phonetically). You have to put the twang in. By the way, I agree. They are disgusting.
Reggikko - Did you have a problem with the previous post too?
Spartan:
well im form CA so yeah
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