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The English Language
Becster:
Yeah, I hate it when Americans try and fake an English accent. I thought Renee didn't do a too bad job with it, but it was a little overdone.
I think, if you wanna have a British accent in an anime, or a film...use a British actor, m'kay?
monkey:
I have a friend who lives just on the outskirts of London and she is has the most Upper Case english Accent I've evere heard. She says she is near the Essex part of the UK and they have a very low-level dialect (they are not very good at speaking properly, like they have no idea what T's are). I also have a kid in my class who has a very Bristolian accent (Bristol being the town where I'm from) It's thick and is very unpleasent to listen to, It's such a bad vocabulary I really can't stand listening to it.
I only see these as being different really.
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Trunk and Boot
Potato Chips and Crisps
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--- Quote from: Becster on February 25 2006, 04:56 am ---Oh, I see.
It's a bit like something I read in a book once (one of those funny Georgia Nicholson books...'Knocked out by my Nunga-Nungas' and such...) is that 'fag' is a word only used to (...cruelly, in my opinion. >_< Let people love who they want!) describe a gay person...whereas in Britain it's also used as a word for 'cigarette'.
...I still wonder about Roundabouts and...is it rotaries? Hmmm.
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We still use Fag in england to describe gay people.
Never heard anybody call a Roundabout a Rotary.
--- Quote from: Becster on February 25 2006, 05:21 am ---Actually, I don't prounounce neither "needer" or "nyder" ...I prounounce it "nee-ther"
...I think people pronounce things differently in different parts of the UK as well...like scone...'scon' or 'scown'.
...And Bath. 'Bath' or 'Barth'.
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We use both Scon and Scown, Just depending on the situation it's in.
and we call the town Bath 'Barth' and the actuall washing bath just 'Bath'
--- Quote from: moezy-chan on February 25 2006, 05:31 am ---Also, I've traveled down to the southern part of the country and they have words differently than ours. I'll say "Are you going to get that," while a person from the south will say "Are ya'll fixin' to buy that?"
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The southern accent is my fav accent in the entire World, For me it is anyway.
I love talking to a girl I know who lives in Alabama on the phone, she has a really good accent.
--- Quote from: Becster on February 25 2006, 06:01 am ---Yeah, I hate it when Americans try and fake an English accent. I thought Renee didn't do a too bad job with it, but it was a little overdone.
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I really Liked how she pulled it off, simply because I've heard people more british than that so it didn't sound wierd at all to me, So I think your just exaggerating that...
Becster:
Mmm, mm. Actually, some of my friends say Bath, whilst I say Barth. (I'm English myself.) And I can never remember what the other word for roundabout is...but rotary just leapt to mind. Haha.
...I hate using the word fag. I don't think it's bad for describing a cigarette, but I personally think cigarettes are disgusting, so maybe it's a subscious link in that I find the word 'fag' when used to describe someone who's gay disgusting.
Let them love who they want to love.
I say 'scown' ...and then all my friends call me posh. Okay, my accent is a little more upper class sounding than their's...but still.
I forget, is it Southerners like myself who are supposed to have slightly less upper class accents? I live in the south, but my parents were born in Manchester and Liverpool...so...
Strawberry:
Well, I live in England and yeah I'm British and I have got relatives living in America.
There are more differences in the lanuage, such as Sneakers and Trainers
Also the british always spell things with a "u", such as neighbour, colour, flavour, favour where as Americans don't use the "u" in those words.
Another interesting fact is that the word "snogging" is a british word, also "pear-shaped" and "bangers & mash" and I guess "eggit" is kinda british too lol
Time-Machine:
Maybe it's just my particular brand of American upbringing, but I see words like "row" and "sweets" and think "I say that all the time."
But then, my friends often quirk their heads at my words choice, and I do tend to spell things with a "u"
...I've only ever heard the word "scone" pronounced with a hard "o"...I wasn't aware there were other ways to say it...o.0...I'm learning all sorts of things here.
I can tell some of the different UK accents apart...but not all of them. And whever I try to do Scottish, it always turns more Irish, and still doesn't sound good. ^_^;;
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