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ocean said:
hahaha
"We've done enough for World Peace, for World Happiness, for World...... something......" hhahaha
You are so cute!! I can hardly stand it!

And I just love DFRS laugh. It is super sexy. <3
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We are also the key to world EVERYTHING ';)

N30: it's on DFRS's pag :D
 
purple_cloud said:
- the first vowel in "horrible, orange, forests, Florida" is NOT the same as the first vowel in "whore." It's more like "har".
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I'm in California where people generally pronounce all those things with the "whore" sounding version of those words. However, I was a theatre major in college, and we were taught to say the word "horrible" the way you pronounce it, with the 'har' (I'm not sure about the rest of those words, they never really came up). They had a name for it, some sort of stage lingo, but I dont remember what they called it. Anyway I found it rather interesting, I'm not sure that one is actually any more correct than the other.

I had to take a speech class for theatre. It was pounded into our brains to enunciate everything really well. I loved the class, but it started making me notice every little thing wrong when people spoke. I still notice things now, but I've gotten used to it so it doesnt drive me as crazy anymore, thankfully haha.

The one that really bothers me (and I am entirely guilty of it myself) is when people say "fur" instead of "for" and EVERYONE does it here. Even on tv. I dont know why it bothers me so much, but I dont want to be a hypocrite so I'm really trying to break the habit myself, and not let it bother me so much when others do it. I think it actually bothers me more to hear myself do it than it does when other people do it, now that I think about it.

I use a lot of the same "80s california lingo" that ocean was talking about lol.
 
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It's hard for me to describe how I talk. I grew up in Rochester NY so I still have a weird accent. It's like a cross between a long island accent and a canadian accent (sexy, I know). Lots of haaaard a's with a nasally drone. It's not that bad just certain words sound weird sometimes.

Combined with living in the inner city for a few years and now in the south. I currently have an all fucked up accent. Like Raaaachestar NY accent with a little bit of southern "ya'll" with an underlying 1980's Cali/skater lingo.
 
^Maybe the 80's Cali lingo is just a part of everyone?!?!?! And I didn't notice until now? :)

fizzle- I hate when people say fur instead of for too...........
I also hate pacifically instead of specifically. ugh! or Lie barry instead of LibRARY! Makes me ears scream.
I think I say iron wrong. I say it Eye-ern and my husband says it eye-ron (which I think is right?).

I noticed I did not include that I say Dude too much.....and for various reasons-
if you're being a fool, I'll say Dude.
If I am trying to let you know I am about to say something major, I will say Dude.
If I am really excited about something and I know you will be too, I'll probably start it w/ Dude.

I don't say bro and while I find it fine when a guy says it (though I might chuckle at it 'cause I do find it a little cheesy) when a girl says it it makes me wanna scream. hahah It sounds to me like the girl is trying to be tough and it annoys me- sorta like when a girl says "yo" . Can't handle it. hahaha

Saying Um can mean many things......much like Dude.......or Awesome......or Great.
I say Great a lot too........
Okay- I'm rambling now.
 
ocean said:
I think I say iron wrong. I say it Eye-ern and my husband says it eye-ron (which I think is right?).
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Eye-ron, like how you would pronounce the beginning of the word "ironic"? Hmmm, I've always pronounced it "eye-ern". I've never heard it pronounced another way before, and never considered the idea that people might be pronouncing it wrong, but that does sort of make more sense... *ponders*

Update: I just looked it up, the IPA dictionary has it written out as "ahy-ern" and the regular dictionary has it written as "ī′ərn"

Update to the update: I also just looked up the word "for" in the IPA and this is how they have its pronunciation defined: "fawr; unstressed fer" so I'm not entirely sure I trust their pronunciation, it appears they just have it the way its commonly used, not whats necessarily correct :|
 
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Haha, crazy to see this thread bumped back up:)

Ocean, i say i-urn too, I never say "eye-ron" thats just weird. Ive always pronounced "iron" as "eye-urn", i thought that is how you are suppose to say it honestly.

Ima have to look back and see the ones i already listed so i dont repeat myself twice in here, but then again i guess it would be OK since it been so long to refresh the shit i said last time in case folks aint tryna go back to the first page and look at my answers:)

I dont get when people say a word like "mountain" as mow-n-tain. With the Mow as in "OWWW!! not like "mow the lawn"...a really prounounced T that you can hear, and "tain" like 'rain", or even like "tin" , it still sounds wrong with the T in the middle.

Ive always said it as "mou-in", It kinda sounds like if you said "Mout-in", but the T, you cant hear it. its just like a stop in the throat. Like when somebody says "Di-int" instaed of didnt (which I also do, haha.) It kinda sounds like "Dit'int", but the T aint a hard T, its just a kinda lack of a T, somewhere in the throat.

Government, does ANYBODY say Gov-ern-ment? I never heard that. I always actually thought it was spelled as "gov-er-ment" when i was younger. But the "ment" part sounds like "mint" , tho. Govermint. It would just be weird as hell to hear somebody say "goverNment" with the "ment" part sounding like "meant" or "memento", etc.

Of course im sure its pretty predictable but I am a "shou-int, cou-int, wou-int, and di-int" type of girl.

you can tell if a person is just fuckin around and trying to put on a accent becuz they will only say "Di-int", but when it comes to the other ones they will say "shouLDnt" and "couLDnt" instead of saying the other contractions the same way as di-int.


Also, i forgett who was posting about "horrible", etc, i think mzthizzle, but I never heard somebody say "Whoreibble" before or "Whorerror" (horrible and horror, etc.) It has ALWAYS been "har-rible" and "har-ror" for me and anybody I ever heard talk. That would be really weird to say it like "whore" instead of "har" rhyming with "car."

"mirror" is like...."mee-ur" with that throat thing in the middle. It got more to it than if it was prounounced like "meer", but there aint nothing hard in the middle--not meer-roar or meer-rur or w/ever. Its like mee-(throat stop)-rr."

I KINDA say "draw" for drawer, but the thing is, it aint the same "draw' that you say when you talk about making a sketch or "drawing". Its a different kind of sound.

The way I say "drawer" when i am really pronouncing the word and in offical proper mode watchin my speech, It sounds like "Dgrore." the sound when you say "fridge" or "edge"--that "dg" sound? thats how "drawer" starts. and then the "rore" part is like "roar" like a lion.

When i call it the "draw" , which is how i talk when i aint watching how i sound, is just like a shortened version of "dgrore". its basically the same pronounciation, but without the "r" at the end of the "roar' part. like "djroa" i guess. it just sux becuz lookin at that word probably dont look nothing like it actually sounds when I say it, but its the best i can do to try and explain.

Shit, i dont think im explainig it too good, but i did my best.

its hard to explain the sound at the beginning becuz i never met somebody who actually says "draw" or "drawer" and has it just sound like Duh-roar. Same thin with "truck." You dont say "Tuh-ruck" or "t-ruck", you say "CHruck".

I had this teacher in 2nd grade. And i dont know why, for the life of me she tried to make the class say "truck" but without the "ch" sound at the beginning. And that shits impossible. It turns it into a 2 syllable word. Tuh-ruck. Or Tur-uck. Lord knows why this bitch tried to make abunch of 6 and 7 year olds talk like that. I couldnt do it then and I cant now.

Does anybody NOT say it as "Chruck?" Does anybody say "D-rawer" with just a plain "duh" d-sound at the begining instead of the "dge" sound of edge, fridge, fudge, etc?

I never heard somebody say it like that, but that teacher tryna 'correct' me to say it a different way made me think that maybe there is people who say it different in other places.

For me, i cant imagine it sounding natural or normal, every time i try to say it like that, it sounds british or somethin, I dont even know. it sounds mad stupid tho, and i cant imagine it sounding natural and unforced, but i am really curious if some people DO say it that way naturally becuz i would love to hear how it sounds from somebody who aint gotta MAKE themself say it that way. I just cant imagine it sounding normal but i know it would if it was that persons natural way of talking so i really would like to hear that , if anybody does speak that way.
 
It sounds like what you are talking about the way people say "truck" with the "ch" "chruk" thats using more like the middle of the tongue to enunciate the word. I've heard it both ways, but when people say "truck" with a softer "t" more like you would use with the word "time" its using the tip of the tongue, rather then the middle. I dont know, thats just what it seems to be when I play with the two pronunciations myself. I can say it as "truck" without it being two syllables, but it uses an entirely different part of the tongue.
So:
"chruck" = center of tongue
"truck" = tip of tongue
 
yea, thas true....it just sounds really weird and forced and unnattural to me tho, the way you said (the tip of the tongue to make the "tuh" instead of 'ch" sound)

haha, I just realized, that "true" is also "chrue"....

I gues its "tr" words that I do that for....Trip is "chrip"....train "chrain"....trap is "chrap"....weird
 
lacey k said:
Haha, crazy to see this thread bumped back up:)

Ocean, i say i-urn too, I never say "eye-ron" thats just weird. Ive always pronounced "iron" as "eye-urn", i thought that is how you are suppose to say it honestly.

Ima have to look back and see the ones i already listed so i dont repeat myself twice in here, but then again i guess it would be OK since it been so long to refresh the shit i said last time in case folks aint tryna go back to the first page and look at my answers:)

I dont get when people say a word like "mountain" as mow-n-tain. With the Mow as in "OWWW!! not like "mow the lawn"...a really prounounced T that you can hear, and "tain" like 'rain", or even like "tin" , it still sounds wrong with the T in the middle.

Ive always said it as "mou-in", It kinda sounds like if you said "Mout-in", but the T, you cant hear it. its just like a stop in the throat. Like when somebody says "Di-int" instaed of didnt (which I also do, haha.) It kinda sounds like "Dit'int", but the T aint a hard T, its just a kinda lack of a T, somewhere in the throat.

Government, does ANYBODY say Gov-ern-ment? I never heard that. I always actually thought it was spelled as "gov-er-ment" when i was younger. But the "ment" part sounds like "mint" , tho. Govermint. It would just be weird as hell to hear somebody say "goverNment" with the "ment" part sounding like "meant" or "memento", etc.

Of course im sure its pretty predictable but I am a "shou-int, cou-int, wou-int, and di-int" type of girl.

you can tell if a person is just fuckin around and trying to put on a accent becuz they will only say "Di-int", but when it comes to the other ones they will say "shouLDnt" and "couLDnt" instead of saying the other contractions the same way as di-int.


Also, i forgett who was posting about "horrible", etc, i think mzthizzle, but I never heard somebody say "Whoreibble" before or "Whorerror" (horrible and horror, etc.) It has ALWAYS been "har-rible" and "har-ror" for me and anybody I ever heard talk. That would be really weird to say it like "whore" instead of "har" rhyming with "car."

"mirror" is like...."mee-ur" with that throat thing in the middle. It got more to it than if it was prounounced like "meer", but there aint nothing hard in the middle--not meer-roar or meer-rur or w/ever. Its like mee-(throat stop)-rr."

I KINDA say "draw" for drawer, but the thing is, it aint the same "draw' that you say when you talk about making a sketch or "drawing". Its a different kind of sound.

The way I say "drawer" when i am really pronouncing the word and in offical proper mode watchin my speech, It sounds like "Dgrore." the sound when you say "fridge" or "edge"--that "dg" sound? thats how "drawer" starts. and then the "rore" part is like "roar" like a lion.

When i call it the "draw" , which is how i talk when i aint watching how i sound, is just like a shortened version of "dgrore". its basically the same pronounciation, but without the "r" at the end of the "roar' part. like "djroa" i guess. it just sux becuz lookin at that word probably dont look nothing like it actually sounds when I say it, but its the best i can do to try and explain.

Shit, i dont think im explainig it too good, but i did my best.

its hard to explain the sound at the beginning becuz i never met somebody who actually says "draw" or "drawer" and has it just sound like Duh-roar. Same thin with "truck." You dont say "Tuh-ruck" or "t-ruck", you say "CHruck".

I had this teacher in 2nd grade. And i dont know why, for the life of me she tried to make the class say "truck" but without the "ch" sound at the beginning. And that shits impossible. It turns it into a 2 syllable word. Tuh-ruck. Or Tur-uck. Lord knows why this bitch tried to make abunch of 6 and 7 year olds talk like that. I couldnt do it then and I cant now.

Does anybody NOT say it as "Chruck?" Does anybody say "D-rawer" with just a plain "duh" d-sound at the begining instead of the "dge" sound of edge, fridge, fudge, etc?

I never heard somebody say it like that, but that teacher tryna 'correct' me to say it a different way made me think that maybe there is people who say it different in other places.

For me, i cant imagine it sounding natural or normal, every time i try to say it like that, it sounds british or somethin, I dont even know. it sounds mad stupid tho, and i cant imagine it sounding natural and unforced, but i am really curious if some people DO say it that way naturally becuz i would love to hear how it sounds from somebody who aint gotta MAKE themself say it that way. I just cant imagine it sounding normal but i know it would if it was that persons natural way of talking so i really would like to hear that , if anybody does speak that way.
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Hahah maybe he says it wrong and eye urn is right! :D

The Harrible thing........When I hear an east coast accent like that it touches something in the back of my mind- makes me feel homey :) <3 Jersey accents make me feel comfortable.
Reminds me of when I was little, my family and my mom..........
I def have the West coast pronunciation of that:)

Chrue, chruck, etc. I never really thought about that before.......its funny.

Do you all say Eye ther or EEther for "either"? I say both. Whatever comes out.
Same with Sure- its either SHORE or shh err.......I say which ever comes out:)

Mountain- m OW n Ten

Government- Gov ern ment. I say that like it is spelled but......
environment I say en vy ern ment
 
ocean said:
I think I say iron wrong. I say it Eye-ern and my husband says it eye-ron (which I think is right?).
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Nope, you are correct, he is saying it funny.

Government and environment are weird words haha. The more I'm saying it out loud the weirder they get.

I say "goverment" but I can tell that there's a tiiiiiiny soft (almost undetectable) "n" sound in between the r and the m, if that makes sense? Like, I think if it was actually spelled "goverment" without the n, I would probaby pronounce it "govvament"
But because the n is in there, I pronounce it "goverment"

I say "en-viro-ment" like the n isn't even in there at all.
 
Oh good one, didnt think of that. I say "envyermint". Like dryer.+mint= Envyer-mint. kinda like with the "eyern" thing in "iron"....Eye-urn....En-vyer-mint..no N in there tho!

I usually say "eether" not "eye-ther", "eyether" always sounded mad preppy and kinda snooty to me. But i usually say "neither" instead of "either". Like "I didnt see it neither" or "me neither" . and its "neether"....like rhymes with "beaver". LOL, i thought of that becuz in a old eazy e song, him and i think ice cube was switchin off talkin abotu some skanky broad, and ice cube said some shit about "i aint havin that" and eazys line was "me neither! bitch go home and wash out ya beaver!" haha, thats why it was the first word i thought of that rhymed:D


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i just realized that when we are talkin about "iron" the verb like go iron my shirts, I say it as "eye-urn"...But when its about the metal, sometimes i say "i-ron." but its more like "Eye-RIN", not RON....
 
I pronounce iron as "eye-un"
I've heard a lot of Americans on TV, like documentaries and stuff, pronounce it like "eye-rrrrn" with it really emphasised on the "r" sound. Almost like "arrn"
 
^yeah- thats how I say it eye rrrn :D

I always wonder if people from other countries think Americans have accents- If they all sound the same or if they can tell the difference between East coast, west coast, midwest and southern......?
 
ocean said:
^yeah- thats how I say it eye rrrn :D

I always wonder if people from other countries think Americans have accents- If they all sound the same or if they can tell the difference between East coast, west coast, midwest and southern......?
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Oh god yeah!! We can definitely tell!
I personally know the sound of the major different types of accents e.g. southern, and can often tell which STATE a person is from if it's an obvious one, e.g. Cali, Texas, Louisiana, NJ etc. But I can't tell the intricate ones e.g. if someone is from a certain CITY, e.g. Boston.
Unless it's New York (city), that is pretty darn obvious ;)
 
Hmm, the "harrible" thing isn't an east coast thing...it's moreso NYC and it's outer area, it's had quite a large linguistic influence. I've skimmed around here a bit and I tend to agree moreso with lacey's intuitions as to how I will speak when I'm around home. And, NYC and Boston share the same thing that you Aussies and probably Brits have --- they are/were non-rhotic, meaning that "r's" tend to not go where they should go...it's becoming less prominent in the American English varieties but as far as I know Austrailian/New Zealand/England/etc all generally drop their Rs.

Moreso for someone like lacey, this sentence "Hey Heatha, want some soder?" would probably sound "fine," we clearly know its not standard but its what we hear most of the time in the tri-state area. Also, if you're from that area, trying saying "Law and Order" without it becoming "Lawr.n.order"...that intrusive R gets sneaky.
 
ocean said:
I always wonder if people from other countries think Americans have accents- If they all sound the same or if they can tell the difference between East coast, west coast, midwest and southern......?
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I've always wondered that too... I wish I could hear what my accent sounds like to someone else. I love most european and australian accents, I find them really attractive, but there are some accents that I dont like so much. Obviously everyone has their own preference, but most people I know like and dislike the same accents that I do. So someone from another country, would you say american accents are attractive or unattractive, or do you notice them much? (I'm in california, so I'm referring more the to west coast, but you can answer for anywhere)
 
Born in southwest US, can really only remember living in south Louisiana, which has been from age 8 to 22. White, male. I guess I'll use a few other people's words for comparison. Keep in mind that thanks to the miracle of code-switching, I can speak "perfect" English, much the same way that I can write conversationally and very formally.

-Ire-n, eye-run
-Hawr-ibble NOT harrible
-"Ferreal" has many uses. For example, agreement: "That's a sick smoke, brother." "Ferreal, man." Alternately, to denote integrity: "Yeah, I know Kevin, that dude's ferreal." Also, to denote intensity or potency, it is usually pronounced more correctly, slowly, and with emphasis: "Careful with those deamsters, that stuff is for real.
-"Thasswhassup," and "That's what's up," or for special emphasis, "That IS what's up," which is to say that something is approved-of.
-I personally throw around "Bitchin'" sometimes. I just like it.
-"Sick," as in "That was a sick show"
-As for drug slang, weed is "Nugs," "weed," "bud," and "herb" pretty much; Opiates are "Dope," almost exclusively; Psychedelics are "Trips," and "doses;" Oddly, a lot of my friends refer to pharmaceuticals by their generic names: Xanax is alprazolam, Ritalin is methylphenidate, Opana is oxymorphone. I'd like to think that my friends understand the safety that comes with precision and knowing what's what.
 
inorganic how do you say those things tho, i mean pronounce? This thread aint so much about the slang that you use but how you say certain words. like somebody from cali, when i hear them talk they always say shit like BeerRRRRRRRR, the R sounds suuuuper pronounced and emphasized. CleaRRR, feaRRR, etc. Where in NJ and NY we drop the r sound and it dont come out. (Personally i always think i say my Rs but any time i hear myself on the phone or on a recording i see that i dont and Im like "I sound like THAT!?!" :D )

Some of the words at the beginning of the thread was examples like Mountain.....Interesting, etc. Some people say "Mowt-in" or "mow-tin", some people say the N, and some people say it like "Mou-in" .....Ive heard folks say "inner-resting" or "inter-resting" and for us in NJ its usuall "Inch-risting"....you feel me....So....If you want to post again about that stuff ur welcome to. not that we dont wanna hear the slang u use but this is more about the type of accent u got and the way u say your words, u feel me:)
 
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