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TheLoveBandit said:
I <3 listening to chrissie talk....butterman's godam axent (But her man's got a damn accent) ;)

The one that really grates me is NJ people who were born without the letter 'T':
Mountain - mou'en
Eaten - e'en
and so on....my wife does this, someone named Flower did this (and she did the wudder), and so on....my lord, was New Jersey to poor to afford the letter 'T' for their public school system at that time? W'f?

I know what it is, they traded their 'T' for an extra 'R' to be thrown in when they feel like it.
Coffee - corfee
Brenda - brender
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I have never heard of this.

Is this a south Jersey thing? or a white trash thing? or a little bit o' both?
 
I pronounce eggs with a long "a" like ay-gs. Some things I pronounce with a southern accent I picked up from my grandma, who I lived with for a really long time.
 
mariacallas said:
Someone answer me about the "clothes" pronounced as "close" thingy please.
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IDK wat you mean, answer that? wat is there to answer about it? Its how the word actually is pronounced.

Iunno, If u want a explanation, "clodes" is like a Engrish pronounciation of the word, trust me, it really aint supposed to be said clodes lol. n dont get me wrong, i say alot of shit the way that i am sure aint proper technically according to someone who talks in "perfect" pronounciation, watever the hell that is, I talk jersey style, i aint sayin theres nothing wrong with havin a accent. My point was just that your version is the accented one, not the one u ask about.

I dont think nobody in the US or anybody whose a native english speaker would ever say it that way, i think yall just have a accent. Like some shit, I could say, I guess it is a jersey accent, or watever, i aint somebody that thinks my way of talkin is the only way to say it but on somethin like this, its like you had said, " Why do you ppl say broccoli? It always makes me laugh, broccoli. Its Broccri, duh! ;) <--horrible asian stereotyping, but u get my point? If it was suppose to get said as clodes, then thats how it would get spelled. IDK why there is a th in there, but I dont know how a person would say that word other than as "close". not the same as close, like, dont sit too close to me cuz you stank. but like close, as in close the door, the store is closed, etc. IDK, maybe yall say close (close to me) and close (close the door) with the same pronouncation, maybe thats why it seems weird to u? I really dont know....., but C, lo as in LOW, se as in Zzzzz. clothes=close=clowzz in when said out loud
 
My accent is extremely odd.
Grew up in Aus, but with European (Greek, Italian/German) parents, plus went to Greek school & had lots of European descent friends, with also influenced my accent.
Some words I say are 100% Aussie sounding, others have a huge European twang.
My S's sound like Z's
 
jam uh weezy said:
LOL you say clodes? How cute. I always said "close". I remember asking my teacher in grade school, why wasn't it pronounced "cloths".
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Hahaha thanks for thinking so ;) Yeah everybody here pronounces it that way (grew up hearing it pronounced that way and also whenever I travelled to other Asian countries..) Funny thing is, my relatives who grew up ABROAD pronounce it as "close"...

I dont think nobody in the US or anybody whose a native english speaker would ever say it that way, i think yall just have a accent.
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Maybe...I've never heard it pronounced any other way than "close" by Americans and was just extremely curious. I'll have to do more research and see how Canadians, Australians, and the British say it or if its just an Asian thing =D
 
Despite my best efforts, my mom's Buffalo / Upper Midwest accent creeps in when I'm not paying attention, especially for the short 'a' as in 'bat', which becomes very closed, almost like 'bee-at' (except not quite that drastic).

As an avid foreign language learner and human parrot, I've picked up speech habits from all the groups of people I've spent time around. Off the top of my head:

* 'nnn' instead of 'uh huh', from the Japanese.
* 'aiyo!' instead of 'd'oh!', from the Chinese, or 'Ayayay' (sp?), from New York Jews.
* 'no?', at the end of a sentence, and 'adios amigo', from Latinos.
* 'Ain't that some shit', and 'that shit don't fly', from Black Americans
* 'How you doin?' from New York Italians. (This is the ethnic group most people mistakenly think I belong to, when they hear me speak. I talk with my hands a lot too.)
* 'He / She / It don't...' often slips out when I've spent time with small town blue collar white Americans.

It's struck me that some of these groups of people might not appreciate me using these speech habits if I'm not one of them. But like I said in the 'dude/man/bro' thread, they just come out naturally -- it's not like I'm affecting them to try to pass myself off as an insider, so if anybody minds, fuhgeddaboutit.
 
I talk like I have a speech impediment. I slur my speech mostly because i cant be fucked talking properly. if its something important I talk normal,but I say mate and aye and all that.
 
We have a weird accent in our area where we don't like to pronounce T's.

Mountain: We would just elongate the N sound. So like Mow-nnnn
Scranton: Again elongating the N sound. Sra-nnnnnn
 
MyDoorsAreOpen said:
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* 'aiyo!' instead of 'd'oh!', from the Chinese, or 'Ayayay' (sp?), from New York Jews.
* 'no?', at the end of a sentence, and 'adios amigo', from Latinos.
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This is sooo true. Well, my Chinese relatives say "aiyaaaa" instead of "aiyo" and Filipinos say "ayayay" sometimes too. We often say "no" at the end of a sentence as well , I just realized this now after reading your post hehehe. Like for example : "Shes so pretty noh?"

Very interesting indeed.
 
stardust.hero said:
We have a weird accent in our area where we don't like to pronounce T's.

Mountain: We would just elongate the N sound. So like Mow-nnnn
Scranton: Again elongating the N sound. Sra-nnnnnn
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Haha yeah, I grew up in a part of New York State not far from you, and I say 'winner' and 'winter' more or less the same. 'Interested' sounds like 'in arrested'.

I'll bet you don't pronounce the 'l' in 'wolf', either, right?

We should go to the plane_arium sometime.
 
MyDoorsAreOpen said:
Haha yeah, I grew up in a part of New York State not far from you, and I say 'winner' and 'winter' more or less the same. 'Interested' sounds like 'in arrested'.

I'll bet you don't pronounce the 'l' in 'wolf', either, right?

We should go to the plane_arium sometime.
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hahaha yeahh
 
My accent is very, very difficult for people to place, and I often get questioned about it. I grew up in Africa and attended an international school, so it's a bit of a melange. Still, having lived in London for the past four years, it's gotten more British. The weird thing is that a lot of people here in London think I sound American, whereas my old school friends think i sound like a Brit. My accent is far from American though, the only thing I pronounce in a slightly American way is my 'r's. But I say tomahto not tomayto ;) A few people have thought my accent is Swedish, after learning that I am half Swedish, but that's just bollocks because Swedish has had no influence on my English accent whatsoever. Personally I think my accent is very neutral.

When I'm with my friends from back home it changes very noticeably though. Not a black African accent, more localised to the way people talked at my school, with influences from how coloured people speak in my country (coloureds = mixed race, not first generation though so technically I am not 'coloured', these people have been coloured for generations and are of a completely different culture). Also the slang we use is pretty extensive and mostly influenced by Afrikaans words, but also other languages eg. Gujarati (lots of Indians at my school). Impossible to describe the accent though, as I doubt many people from these boards have been exposed to anything like it...
 
In the west of Ireland, about six miles off the Atlantic coast, where I was raised, the accent is very thick and undecipherable to many people from other English speaking countries. Also, we swear a lot over there.

"the English language is a wall, and fuck is my chisel - some Irish guy". . .

I lived in a different part of the country for four years after that, working with people from all over and spent a few months in England and my accent got softer, more stereotypical Irish and I spoke slower.

Since then I have lived in Spain and London and lived and worked and communicated with hundreds of different nationalities and very few Irish folk by comparison, and a lot of my work was in service industries or involved telephones so I have changed my enunciation somewhat.

Apparently I sound like somebody from N.Ireland at times, or Dublin - but I can't hear that at all. Hope not;)

Although, when I do visit home, it takes about two weeks afterward before my speech slows down again without me even noticing I had reverted to type from contact.
 
i talk like a smooth lover to be honest, kinda like barry white.

ha ha no only joking, like jude101 i am also irish but im from dublin so ive got a dublin accent, its not your stereotypical irish accent (i dont think)
 
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