i heard english,like every language,has its own dialects.ex:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geordie
so tell everything u know about your local dialect or accent(people from texas can recognize people from minnesota, and viceversa?)
and nativespeakers of other languages,what about u?(ex brazilian portoguese from portugal portoguese)
in italy dialects and accents are so different from area to area,and some old people in the south is not even able to speak italian
The big dialects thread
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I'm from german and we have a few dialects here, some are funny and some are really weird. I'm from the north a so called "fish head" and during my whole live i was confronted with the dialect "platt". I guess there are others here that have the same experience as i do, i mean my grandparents are using this dialect really often and i understand nearly nothing.
There is another dialect in germany spoken by a certain mountain people from the south, everytime i hear it i'm laughing.
Naruto is so cool it has 600 billion naked Zetsus with armadillo penises dancing under a rainbow.
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Yes, English has many dialects.
For eample (just a clear example off my head) - David Tennant's fake English voice is called "Received Pronounciation",
his Dialect would be Estuary English. Then you've got what we call "Scouse" for people from liverpool or Manchester, prompting the term "Scouser"Or we've got the very obvious Cockney, or infact mackem (which i only just found out about) for Sunderland.
The term derives from the fact that Sunderland used to be a very industrial place, and had the motto "We Make 'Em"
so the locals are still in fact sometimes today called "Mackems"I probably have a dialect, but I've got no cue what it's called and have no intention of finding out.
Here's a list of them all :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dialects_of_the_English_language
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Indonesian has many local language.
And in a one local language have many different dialect and accent.
I usually speak Javanese language with Surabaya's dialect.
The most harsh and vulgar Javanese dialect.
That you can call a person with "dog" or "shit" and that person only laugh at you.Edit:
If you call a person from outside Javanese like that. (mostly Borneo's or Celebes)
You can get a flying scythe or blade towards you. Unless the person is currently from that place but live in Java.
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New York has it's accents depending on where you are. Us Long Islanders, for example, have a really nasal voice, especially in Manorville and farther east (It's hard to tell if I have one because my voice dropped like a lead weight with my boys on my twelfth birthday). Generally, the closer to the city you are, the thicker the accents get.
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Well, I live in Kentucky, so I'm used to hearing what is most often referred to as a "Southern" accent. People tend to speak more slowly here, and words get shortened and combined a lot; some examples are "y'all" instead of "you all," "gone" instead of "going to," "young'ins" instead of "young ones," ect. Others are just mispronounced entirely; for example: "thar" instead of "there," "fer" instead of "for," and so on. I suppose the correct term for this dialect is Appalachian English, but I'd say the vast majority of Americans simply refer to it as "Southern." In Appalachia, the more rural the area, the more pronounced the accent is, in my experience.
I personally don't find it difficult to recognize the various regional accents from around the US: a Brooklyn accent is very different from, say, a Minnesotan accent. Even though I currently live in Kentucky, I am originally from Chicago, so the locals can immediately tell that I'm not from here based on my accent and how I enunciate my words. I get asked "Where are you from?" very regularly, even though I've lived here for 17 years. XD
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I spead a mix of many dialects, 'cause I've moved a lot in my short life
Some people need to ask me a lot of times what did I just say if I get too fired up, so outside my home, I usually tone down my dialect. And because I'm Finnish it is kinda hard to explain how my way of speaking differs from other finnish people. But I can try, this requires you to understand something about Finnish pronouncing; they say: en mää tiiä/ I don't know and I say: Emmietierä. And then they are like what the hell is she talking XD -
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New York has it's accents depending on where you are. Us Long Islanders, for example, have a really nasal voice, especially in Manorville and farther east (It's hard to tell if I have one because my voice dropped like a lead weight with my boys on my twelfth birthday). Generally, the closer to the city you are, the thicker the accents get.
Ah, a fellow up-islander.
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I'm from german and we have a few dialects here, some are funny and some are really weird. I'm from the north a so called "fish head" and during my whole live i was confronted with the dialect "platt". I guess there are others here that have the same experience as i do, i mean my grandparents are using this dialect really often and i understand nearly nothing.
There is another dialect in germany spoken by a certain mountain people from the south, everytime i hear it i'm laughing.
Exactly. And platt rules even if i understand near to nothing
Seriously when someone tells you "die frau die wo da wohnt" won't you facepalm like crazy?
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Others are just mispronounced entirely; for example: "thar" instead of "there," "fer" instead of "for," and so on.
I think "mispronounced" is the wrong word- they're just pronounced differently
I'm from the american south but my accent is more generic american
friends on skype laugh when i say "y'all" but it's natural to me
(and my southern family laughs at me when I say "you guys")
if I get angry or am around family my southern accent becomes more pronounced, too
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I have a generic english accent that quickly devolves into a manc accent whenever I get angry.
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Or we've got the very obvious Cockney, or infact mackem (which i only just found out about) for Sunderland.
The term derives from the fact that Sunderland used to be a very industrial place, and had the motto "We Make 'Em"
so the locals are still in fact sometimes today called "Mackems"I probably have a dialect, but I've got no cue what it's called and have no intention of finding out.
I'm a Mackem!
Although nobody in Sunderland pronounces 'Make them.' like that. AT ALL XD
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@Airflow, don't call it a devolution - I'd call it an evolution.
OK maybe I am biased, because my english teacher hated English english or American english, he was more an Irish or Scottish english guy. He even encouraged us to search for the dialect that suited us best. -
his Dialect would be Estuary English. Then you've got what we call "Scouse" for people from liverpool or Manchester, prompting the term "Scouser"
lol, be glad you said that here and not in some manchester bar. There are people who'd gladly beat the shit out of you over an error like that.
Liverpool's scouse
Manchesters's mancand in our swell northern communities there's a massive difference
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coming up in here with a north midlands english dialect
although I was born in Minnesota so I tend to say things like Boat and Home with emphasis on the "O" in the word, kinda making it sound like "Oh"
it's tough to explain.
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My brother has an posh accent and he usually covers it up, until he's around his best friends.
I sign in a Mary Hare dialect (That's right, even sign language has its own dialects!).
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@Cyan:
New York has it's accents depending on where you are. Us Long Islanders, for example, have a really nasal voice, especially in Manorville and farther east (It's hard to tell if I have one because my voice dropped like a lead weight with my boys on my twelfth birthday). Generally, the closer to the city you are, the thicker the accents get.
I can't really hear my dialect just by listening to myself, but it's there. People around me tell me I have a New York (brooklyn, i guess?) accent (dialect).
When I get really mad, though, it comes out in full form. That's when I hear it.
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I think "mispronounced" is the wrong word- they're just pronounced differently
Fair enough.
if I get angry or am around family my southern accent becomes more pronounced, too
That's interesting, I've noticed that in myself as well. Despite living here for 17 years I still do not have a southern accent–except when I'm upset. Then it's like it sneaks into my voice or something–just a little bit. ^^
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hahaha, yeah
I don't even realize I'm controlling it or suppressing whatever then I get really tired or really mad and suddenly it's there
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I don't know if my side of the country's known for accents or not. Any Americans know if West Coast Washington have any specific sound?
I sound normal to me.
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a little "experiment "
check the 2 videos and tell me if u get the difference of these 2 dialects
what is so natural to me maybe is not natural for people out of italy
barese:
veneto:
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I'm from the Caribbean, so I sometimes have an accent, though it's not really heavy since I was raised by television. As for America… Almost everyone sound the same too me. Except that country accent or Texan... The kids I knew from New York had this annoying drawn out whine though... Can't really describe it... Then there's the ghetto and wannabe-ghetto(Florida) dialect... I guess there's some differences.
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a little "experiment "
check the 2 videos and tell me if u get the difference of these 2 dialects
what is so natural to me maybe is not natural for people out of italy
barese:
veneto:
First one sounds more … crisp? Not sure how to explain it. Second one sounded more mumbly.
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I'm from Ohio, though I don't really hear me or anyone around me talk strangely. I do have some quirks in my talking, though. I do tend to talk fast sometimes, even to the point that others can't understand me. My family also says that I tend to drop t's when I talk, obviously not when they're the first letter in the word, though I don't hear it all that often. For example, I might pronounce "can" and "can't" similarly, or say "don" instead of "don't". I also frequently say "inenit" instead of "isn't it"
. There are some other things but I can't think of them right now.
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I'm from the Caribbean, so I sometimes have an accent, though it's not really heavy since I was raised by television. As for America… Almost everyone sound the same too me. Except that country accent or Texan... The kids I knew from New York had this annoying drawn out whine though... Can't really describe it... Then there's the ghetto and wannabe-ghetto(Florida) dialect... I guess there's some differences.
Hey mon, whey you from? I from Barbados. LOL
I've lost most of my caribbean accent having spent the last 12 years living in the US, but people can still tell I have an accent.
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I'd like learn how to speak with different accents, mostly a New York/Jersey accent, southern accent, British accent, and maybe some foreign ones too.
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Hey mon, whey you from? I from Barbados. LOL
I've lost most of my caribbean accent having spent the last 12 years living in the US, but people can still tell I have an accent.
I'm from Trinidad and Tobago(Port of Spain). Got some family in Barbados too.
And yeah, I get that too. Even though I don't notice myself.
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I had a really good long post about New England accents but suffice to say I am no longer going to be using Google Chrome for anything other then for times when I want something to crash on me every 20 minutes.
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Us Texans are portrayed to have a really ridiculous accent. No one here talks like that in movies. In fact, generally when I travel out of state people are shocked when they hear I'm from TX, and I get a lot of "Why don't you talk like they do on TV) >.<
It sorta sucks.Also, "y'all" doesn't make you texan. I'm actually from good ol' Laurel, Maryland, and I was saying yall before I ever moved to texas. It really is a lot easier than constantly saying you all.
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That's weird, I went to Dallas last summer and I was surprised at how stereotypical everyone sounded.
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Really??
I have never met anyone here walking around goin "Howdy Yall. G'Evnin ma'am"Do you listen to the Podcast? Funkatron leaves in the same city I do. Does he sound stereotypical texan to you? And we live in Plano, which is 10 minutes north of dallas.
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I wonder how the "Texan" accent is so distinguishable from other southern drawls. When I start talking to foreigners, and especailly with people from opposite ends of the country (California and NE), they always go "DAAAAW YOU SOUND SO TEXAN~"
Also knew some people who went to NYC recently, said a couple of words and everyone immediately knew they were from Texas XD
That's weird, I went to Dallas last summer and I was surprised at how stereotypical everyone sounded.
That's unsurprising in the least bit XD
Most people native to Texas have some sort of twang/drawl in their voice.
But go out west or east (I'm from east texas) and its like whoa. You thought Dallas was bad XDDD And the east and west texan drawl sound different too XD
In the suburbs there a lot of people from different parts of the country, so I don't really hear too many accents, but for some reason when you're in the city, it's a lot more locals with the twang in their voice.. makes no sense, but whatever XD
I had it EXTREMELY BAD when I was small, but moving to the suburbs of Dallas helped tone it out a bit. Also I took drama classes and the teacher (from New York) wouldn't let me advance if I didn't stop talking with an accent… which I never did, because at that age I had no real concept of how different my voice was.
I still have it, it comes out depending on how I say certain words. If I'm talking in a higher voice, or angry, it's more prominent. People start laughing everytime I'm angry or crying, because it apparently sounds super bad XD
I say yall but I'm not sure what other words I pronounce differently. Except for washed. Instead of "washed" I will sometimes say "worshed". My mom would always yell at me for that.
I'm sure I say other things weird too but I'm so used to it I really don't notice XD
Whats REALLY funny is people from other parts of the US coming to Texas. I have a friend from Pittsburgh who has been asked multiple times if she's from Europe.... >_>
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Just curious, does this sound stereotypical to you?
If so then I guess we do talk stereotypically.
My high school band just went on a trip to Disneyworld recently though, and when we got to Orlando we went to a mall for a bit. I was talking to some guy at a bose store and eventually he asked were I was from (he noticed I had a band shirt on) I said Texas and he proceeded to ask me why I don't sound like TV.
Granted, as you go west it sounds apparent, but pretty much if you go too far west or south of houston you start to hear more spansih dialect than anything….
As someone who isn't native texan, I also thought everyone talked with that accent, but then I moved down here, and I didn't hear the accents depicted in the movies.
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Speaking of accents…
When I went to Spain with my school we had a group from Canada come with us. I was expecting the full blown Canadian accent thing with "eh?" and everything, but none of them had it. The only weird speech thing that they had was that they pronounced the letter combination "ag" as "eg". So every time they said bag it sounded like beg, and this happened in every word that had that specific letter combination. And while they didn't say "eh?" they did sometimes say "hey" after they finished a sentence. It was really strange.
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Just curious, does this sound stereotypical to you?
Depends. The reporter's voice and the young mans were not at all. In fact, if I didn't know better I would think the reporter was from Canada.
But the politicians accent was very, very stereotypical. It's not a bad thing, mind.
Not all the people I met in Dallas fit the stereotype, but there were enough to fuel my comment. Lots of people going around around saying 'sarry' and 'arange'.
Not to the extent of old movies though…@Kairouseki:
Speaking of accents…
When I went to Spain with my school we had a group from Canada come with us. I was expecting the full blown Canadian accent thing with "eh?" and everything, but none of them had it. The only weird speech thing that they had was that they pronounced the letter combination "ag" as "eg". So every time they said bag it sounded like beg, and this happened in every word that had that specific letter combination. And while they didn't say "eh?" they did sometimes say "hey" after they finished a sentence. It was really strange.
Huh, I've always thought the "eh" thing was one of the only accurate stereotypes of Canada. I notice it in usage alot where I live in any case. Although I suppose its not a strictly Canadian thing.
One thing that's completely wrong (and I'm sure you've heard this before) is the 'aboot' thing. The only place I've heard that was in Iowa.
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Everyone in sweden speaks fairly normal, except down south were those half-dane fuckers reside.
Seriously they sound like they're eating porridge while burping and swallowing all vowels.
Seriously just listen in at 55 secs in.
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Did I hear her say Alabasta in the beginning? And why was "No Offense" randomly thrown in as english.
I've always loved listening to different laguages…especially because I can't understand them. They all just sound so cool....
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And I wish I had a British accent…..
Care to trade?
I'd love to
But it'd be a bit of a con really, I've not got a British accent per se, as in how you'd imagine it. Mines is a more sort of diluted mixed accent.
But my friend moved to America and apparently everyone thinks the accent is great over there, so who knowsIn terms of British accents, I love Emma Watson's !
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Did I hear her say Alabasta in the beginning?
It's supposed to be "Allra bästa", but since people down south are trapped somewhere betwenn a real language and Danish they usualy just end up chewing the words up and spitting out something that sounds remotley similar.
And why was "No OFfense" randomly thrown in as english.
Because we are ridicolously americanized, due to watching nothing but subbed american shows for 20 years.
So we pretty much just alternate betwenn the two languages in our daily speech.
I wonder what english sounds like to those who don't speak it…..prolly something like that^^ sounded to me....
Sounds kinda stiff and hard, a good language for oneliners:ninja:
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The people I've met from Texas have all sorts of different accents, some sound reeeaally stereotypical, some a little bit, and some didn't have any accent at all.
The heaviest "texan" accents I've heard came from people I knew from Louisiana, namely two of my older roommates.I've known two people from North Carolina, from the same city and one has a heavy accent and can understand Boomhauer from King of the Hill, the other had none at all.
New Jersey has a funny accent. I know a guy from there who doesn't even really talk with any particular sound, but the WAY he talks is extremely punchy.
Connecticut is kind of like Texas for New England accents because depending where you go you can hear heavy Boston/New York accents, and also plain vanilla American accents, as well as mixtures. Mostly we talk pretty vanilla, entirely in regards to the sound of it, but some pronounciations are slurred in NY style. Like we'll say "whaddya" or "Moun-in" in basic casual conversation and rarely pronounce our "ing"s, and all minus any real distinct accent sound to them.
But if you find an Italian enough area you'll hear something more NYC, the town of East Haven is known as "Staven" for that reason.I'm no expert on East CT but I'm willing to bet you can find Bostonian accents over there, as you can in Rhode Island.
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I'd love to
But it'd be a bit of a con really, I've not got a British accent per se, as in how you'd imagine it. Mines is a more sort of diluted mixed accent.
But my friend moved to America and apparently everyone thinks the accent is great over there, so who knowsDude over here, it doesn't matter if you're the ugliest mug around, if you have a british accent, you are the sexiest creature alive. That goes for both guys and gals!
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I wonder how the "Texan" accent is so distinguishable from other southern drawls. When I start talking to foreigners, and especailly with people from opposite ends of the country (California and NE), they always go "DAAAAW YOU SOUND SO TEXAN~"
Also knew some people who went to NYC recently, said a couple of words and everyone immediately knew they were from Texas XD
I hate it when that happens. I was in Pennsylvania last Summer, and a lady that worked at the hotel asked me where I'm from. So I told her, "I'm from New York."
Then she said "Ooooh, I love the way you guys say 'New York'"
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Gambit from the X-men talks with a Cajun accent right?
If so that's the coolest american dialect.
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Gambit from the X-men talks with a Cajun accent right?
If so that's the coolest american dialect.
That would be correct.
In New Mexico, I've heard we talk like a mix of Southern California and Texas accents, but I really don't hear it.
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Cajun is cool because it shows how much of the American southern accent is French influenced.
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West Coast must be pretty typical American since no one answered me.
I have heard Canadians say the aboot thing. It's not like abOOt though. Much softer vowel.
And yes, Wolfwood, that guy does sound like he's gagging on a hand towel set.
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Isnt west coast the dialect you'd most likely hear in a movie or tv show?
That should make it the most typicaly american one to most people no?
Anybody know where Toby Keiths dialect is from, that's some sweet sounding cowboy talk right there.
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The "Canadian" accent is pretty much the same as the Minnesotan accent. Which coincedentally Wolfwood I'm pretty sure is Scandinavian in origin.
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