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I gues this is for english speakers.........since iaint know shit about the other languages execept some espanol and french.....
ever stop and realize how youre talking? Like when you chill with someone who aint from areound the same area as you, or shit like that. that you sound different. you dont really notice until you hav someone contrasted against you i think.

What are some words that you realized you have a accent when you say?
How do you say it? do you say "ing"s at the end of words or just "in's", etc. shit like that.

INTERESTED - inch-ristid or inner-ristid
PAINTING - paining
INTERNET - innernet
STUPID - stupit
RETARTED - retardit
DIDNT - dit-int
MIRROR - kind of sounds like "meer" with a almost-silent "a" at the end. its hard to write down its like "meea" "meaw" and "meer" in one
DRAWER - draw

iunow. thats just some shit how we say it here. but i thought about it the other day when i was watching a commercial for internet service. and they said. INTER-NET. inTERRnet. they pronounced it so HARD. i realized that with me or anyone i know, words with a "nt" in them most of the times the T dont get said. (fainted = fain-id, tainted = tain-id, plaintiff = plain-iff etc).

Anyways how do ppl talk where you live? where you live at?

I known a kid from the midwest that when he said, TEN, it sounded like "TIN" like tinfoil.
he also said "truck" like trruck. liek the "t" sound "tuh", and "ruck" added onto it. no "ch". we say it like "chruck." he said it all british sounding, Truck.

what would it sound like if you said this: I was out yesterday around 10 in the parking lot and some dude asked me where a water fountain was at.

"ah was out yestaday around ten in the parkin lot and some du asked me where a wudder fowtin was at."

A lot of people say "I" like "eye" but it sounds more on the "ah" side here. it aint exactly Mammy from Gone with the wind but its closer to that than "Eye"

I always liek listening to how other people talk for some reason its just interetesting to hear all the differences.
 
well, being truly southern...all my words kinda run together. ever see "blue collar comedy tour" when jeff foxworthy does the word of the day or the new words thing?

INITIATE - "and then she ate..."
MAYONNAISE - "man, there is..."
WITCHADIDYA - "with you did you..."

although you can understand what i'm saying (i don't have that "twang" accent either), there clearly needs to be a little separation in my words. :)

it was funny going to school/college in the NC mountains. there's some way different accents up there. "ice" is commonly pronounced "ahss", "oil" is "ohl", not "oyl"....and "flower" is "flare" or "flayer".
 
apparently i still say wudder. i thought that bit of my philly accent had died since i've been living in ct and nyc, but to others (TLB) they can still hear it.
 
I don't think I pronounce the g at the end of words that end in ing, atleast not a lot of them. I tend to slur a lot of small commonly used words very bad.
Like instead of "didn't" it's more like "di'en"
Instead of "what are you doing?" its more like "whad'ya doin?"

How many people say "fixin" instead of about?
"I'm fixin' to" opposed to "i'm about to".
A friend from up north pointed out to me that some people don't understand "fixin" in that context. Since then i've been so concious of it I don't know if I would use it like that.
 
^^ you can hear it in some words you say. (edit: for chrissie)

I used to be pinpointed as being from the bronx everytime i opened my mouth. But since getting my degree in educating the handicapped i've learned to enunciate everything.. and i tend to do that all the time now. I kinda liked my accent.. i miss it.

some of the words i used to say (and still do sometimes when im talking fast or not paying attention) are

Orange - Ahrange
Quarter- Kohwta
Ask - Ax (my stepfather gets upset everytime i say ask now.. but a few years ago... i really just COULD NOT say the s and k sounds together.
Laundry - Lawndree
Four - fawah
Dog - Dawg
Coffee - Cawfee
wawk, tawk.. all that..

i say nah and yo a lot.

and of course i dont say the "g" at the end of most "ing" words
 
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'm from new york, and until i started hanging out w/ people from other areas, i had no idea how much of an accent i have. i DEFINITELY have a serious new york accent. all my words have extra W's in them. but whatever. i like being a new yawkah. ;)
 
Ahahahahahaa, so tru about us NJ peeps.

Bi Kande, i feel you on almost everythign you say.

Lawndree, tawk, wawk, cawt, thawt, awt (ought) etc. LOL. how else coudl yo possibly say them. talk, come on. Tolk? Tock? Tawlk? i dont know man.

oh and maybe we dont say T's here, but we do say things that got D's in them, with T's instead. like "couldnt" is coult'int" (the "oo" sound of wood, good, etc, but insteadof couldnt its like, coult'nt) i cant type it, you gotta hear it to know what i mean. same with shouldnt, wouldnt, etc.

Lots of fast talkin too. LOL, "did you eat" is "jooweet?". one word. If u heard me say "i dont undersatnd that" it would sound like "Iownunnerstannat" LOL.
always say "nat's another thing" (and that's another thing) nat's another story, nat's somethin else, etc.

I say wudder, but my pops is from (well along with a couple other places) Long Islan so he kinda says "warter" and sometimes i say like "warder" if i been aruond him all day. Oh yea and "warsh" for wash. I never really said the extra R's, i always thought that was a NY thing. i guess NJ/NY is split between WUDDAH and WARTER. BUt one thing i know bout all that is my girls mom was from queens, she ALWAYS used to say "i got some soder and bretzels" "you mean SODA and PRETZELS ma?" she would always bust her for it. *shrugs*

County is "cow-knee", Bounty (the quicker picker upper) = boun-ee....LOL...youd hate me Love Bandit

far as what you said,sometimes i say the T in mountain, but, its at the cost of losing another letter lol. Mountain is either Mou'in like TLB said, or Mout-in. same for counting - cowt-in.

i told you the N's and T's dont go together. i said Ax when i was a little kid but i mastered that now LOL. i still say ax if im really fucked up doe, its just easier, similar to that doe which is still impossible is Text messages. (texts). texts=textses. i dont know how the fuck anyone can say "texts" the closest i can get is "texas"
 
lacey k said:
i said Ax when i was a little kid but i mastered that now LOL.
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i still say AX (ask? i sound like a jackass whenever i try to say that one!) and get ragged on whenever i do.
 
This thread needs a Newfy desperately.

As far as I go, can't say I really mispronounce anything. But then again the Canadian prairies don't really have any discernible accent.
 
how do you say water not sounding like a "doofus"

If its supposed to be some shit like What-her thats doofus if you ask me. just talk how you naturally talk. it aint some my fair lady shit. i could see someone turning you down at a job if you talk like "I got this goodass resume and shit" but if you said "wheres the water" and it wasnt how they pronounce water i dont think it woudl affect you...
 
Not only do Americans mispronounce everything, they misspell everything too! ;)
 
Deepsea said:
I'm from the mid-west. I speak like the people on the News.
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for the most part, i don't think i have an accent. my roommate (he is from denmark) said i was easy to understand because i spoke like the people on the news.

tho i just use steroetypical midwest words like pop instead of soda.
 
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