How do you talk?

[wizekrak]

Watt (like the light bulb rating) er. Simple

 

[jaymie]

i say wahder.

 

[JeffreyDahmer]

it sounds stupid like how can you physically not be able to say somethin, but i really cant say it.

It's not stupid at all. English speakers on both sides of the Atlantic can say the "th" sound naturally. Have you ever heard a French person trying to make a "th" sound? It's regional.

English people drop the T. buzzy says wa-er.

Ah, the glorious sound of the Glottal Stop.

 

[masaz]

I do that a lot.

I've always wondered what it's called.

It seems to be quite prevalent here in Yorkshire.

Sometimes I can't even understand myself.

 

[faris]

regarding the "th" sound....i LOVE love love to hear europeans (i suppose mostly brits?) talk and pronounce the "th" as an "f".

thanks=fanks (dr. seuss actually wrote that in a post recently! )
three=free

 

[Belisarius]

I just got back from spending a few months in the Northeast, and I was constantly amused by how many people were surprised when I told them I was from Texas, because I didn't have an accent. Like we all talk like Larry the Cable guy. I think I ran into more people with a New England accent in the Tri-State area than I'd ever run into people in SA with the expected Texas accent.

Anyways, I don't have much of an accent (or so I hear), but I do pronounce a few words in a Southern fashion (like pajamas), and I've caught myself saying the infamous "fixing" ("I'm fixing to go the store.", etc.). I also shamelessly use the article "y'all." A habit I got out of only recently was saying "I seen" versus "I've seen" ("I seen that movie."), though I don't know if that's a Southern speech thing or a black one.

 

[paradoxcycle]

Philadelphia

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.

Same here. I don't even think I could force myself to say "waaaater"

 

[Khadijah]

^^dont know but i say that alot, i seen that, i been there, i done that.

what does it sound like when you say "cant you" or "wont you"?

Canch-u drive yet? woan-chu shut the fuck up?

 

[Belisarius]

<<Canch-u drive yet? woan-chu shut the fuck up?>>

That's about right for me.

 

[paradoxcycle]

^Yeah, same thing here. Also, how about "ask" or "ass", etc? It's "ayysk", not "ask" with a short a.

Edit: for Lacey

 

[Khadijah]

^^yeaa lol. like....Ox...Ocks...that is not the a sound like when you say Ox or Block or whatever. not Osk. Aaaaysk. the same A sound as Cat...


Aight, what about, how do you say "something"

Its hard to type how i say it....sounds kinda like 'suttin" but not quite...like "sut-um" but its hard to explain cuz that aint even exactly how it sounds....thinkin only my jersey area peoples is gonna undestand what i mean by that but maybe not, i dont know if its just how people here say it or what

What about nothin...."nuttin"

 

[Khadijah]

Damn it wont let me edit. meant to add if im real fucked up "nothin" usualy sounds like "nu'uun"

 

[faris]

i pronounce the word 'something' as, sumpfin, or sumppin...sometimes the 'th' will be in there, and then it's sum-thin.

'nothing' is usually just, nuthin', or nuttin'.

 

[goatofthenever]

I remember back in middle school everyone laughed at me because I pronounced nothing as nu-in'
So fucking tramatic.

 

[Khadijah]

^^yea exactly. nu'in.

same for aint...."that ain'cool" "I ain'tryina do that"

sometimes i use the wrong letters when i type cuz im thinking in my head of how i say shit like upparently or appose, done instead of don't (not done like done with that, done like methadone....'i done like that shit')

i hit backspace liek 500 times everytime i make a post here

(oh btw anyone whose inclined to talk shit about my typing, you can fill in a joke here about how even with that backspcing i still cant type "right")

Drunk talking is lazy as hell to me i get all slurry with that shit and shit gets ebonical...likely to hear me say "asposed" instead of "supposed"

''Daaaayyymmm man, comeawwwn'Ahdon'wangetchu no cigarettes yo, YUU walk to the gas station. howww'
immasposed to getchu that shit man ah'don'neven need my own pack! damn you want me to do eeeer'thing for you!

 

[faris]

LOL, see the last bit of your post is what i meant by talking that way because you can't help it or because you choose to. not trying to offend, i don't mind how anybody talks unless they're a clear poser 100% of the time...but i say "errrrthing" on purpose with friends and my husband, because i like it and i choose to. normally i wouldn't say that out shopping or in front of my boss or GM or whatever.

 

[_a_A_C_c_]

Anyways, I don't have much of an accent (or so I hear), but I do pronounce a few words in a Southern fashion (like pajamas), and I've caught myself saying the infamous "fixing" ("I'm fixing to go the store.", etc.). I also shamelessly use the article "y'all." A habit I got out of only recently was saying "I seen" versus "I've seen" ("I seen that movie."), though I don't know if that's a Southern speech thing or a black one.

i almost always say "i seen", it drives my friend's crazy. my whole family does it too...

and i say wah-ter. the T is very distinct.

 

[Khadijah]

Faris yea i try but shits just like that when i get drunk you know how people revert to spanish when they get mad i guess its like that. =P aint like noone cares when theyre crunked anyways.

there is a difference between ERRATHANG and E'ERYTHING doe. ones like some ghetto ass chickenhead snappin her fingers and chicken-neckin like "Boyyyy, you best do ERRATHANG I tells you to do or you aint gettin NO pussay!" and e'erything is just that your V's is soft

 

[faris]

lol

 

[xena]

ok, random poll=

where are you from and how do you pronounce 'interesting' ?

i'm in NY... i say "in-ter-es-ting"

i have a friend from PA who says "inner-es-ting". and that's always bothered me when i talk to him.

how do you pronounce it?