What do you talk like?

[Bod]

Here's a typical local accent where I come from:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/realmedia.../alanpovey.ram

You need realplayer. It's a tale of Owd Grandad Piggott.

[Terra]

I love that accent. I don't have an accent. Used to have a drawl but that's all done now.

[liquidstatik]

My voice is kind of low, but I don't have an accent. So they say.

[GADZOOKS]

God dammit yes you do. Everyone has an accent but they are just use to people talking like everyone in their community so they think they speak normal.

So what you think it normal speak is an accent to someone else, I thought this was obvious.

[Bod]

I agree with ya Gadzooks, my sister claims she doesn't have an accent as did my ex. Was pure crap, they both talked like toff southerners.

btw, I don't sound like the geezer on that link.
Anyone understand it?

[Schimid]

Before I hit puberty my voice was really high and had a Southern twang.

Now it's sorta in the middle. I don't know if anything's considerably distinguishable about it, but.

I expected Chojin's voice to be almost falsetto. I was WRONG

YOU'LL ALL HEAR IT SOON WHEN THE ZACK, ZAK AND FRANKIE POWER HOUR HITS YOUR EARDRUMS COMING SOON

[ItalianStereotype]

I have a very stereotypically Italian accent.

schimid, chojin, mle, liquid, and anyone else I've talked to can tell you :<

[Guitar Woman]

stereotypical as in you put -a at the end of every word, like Mario?

[bigtimecow]

people say i sound 30

[Terra]

No. Don't anybody ressurect the phone line thread.

[executioneer]

the what now

[Terra]

The post your phone number thread that Blue Oatmeal started. Long ago.

[liquidstatik]

Originally Posted by ItalianStereotype

I have a very stereotypically Italian accent.

schimid, chojin, mle, liquid, and anyone else I've talked to can tell you :<

You sounded like an angry black man. :o


I understand the I wouldn't think I had an accent, cause I've heard it for so long blahblah.. But, I have talked to people from all different parts of the world, and they all say I have no accent. That is why I added the "So they say." at the end. I'm sure it's there, it's just not very strong.

Except MLE, who thinks I sound real country.

[ziggytrix]

One time there was this guy from Israel visiting a class I was in and he asked me if I was from England, which was really damn odd, since I have a fairly noticable southern US accent.

[liquidstatik]

buuut you come from the water. :o

[ItalianStereotype]

black?

[ziggytrix]

But I was born fivezeroone. Then I went all foursevennine for a few years, and now I'm twoonefour. But I'll always have a bit of fivezeroone in my soul.

[liquidstatik]

It happens, man.

[Rongi]

i probably have a long island rich jew voice, dispite not being rich or jewish

[sadie]

i have a southern accent, according to non-southerners. people from around here think i'm from new york or something.

[AChimp]

I don't have an accent.

[Sethomas]

I've been told that I don't have an accent by people the world over. I was speaking French with some exchange student lovelies, and I apologized for my poor accent and they told me I had no accent at all. I think they were making fun of me in that regard.

I think what it is, is that the American midwest is such a hodgepodge of different cultures wherein, unlike the East Coast, they had to assimilate into a normal mode of speech because there aren't really ethnic communities where they can isolate themselves. So, midwesterners have a total blank slate of accents, unless you're in the redneck belt (Martinsville, IN to Tallahassee, FL).

Where I grew up, none of my classmates had any accent at all growing up but come high school many decided that they wanted a redneck twang so they forced it on themselves.

I dunno. Those of you who have talked to me on the phone, what do you think of my voice? I was always very monotone after puberty, but I think I've beat myself out of it.

[ziggytrix]

Seth, if you think someone sounds like they grew up in the midwest based on their speech patterns, how is that NOT an accent?

[Sethomas]

Well, like I said, it depends entirely on where in the midwest they're from. If you consider that a lack of an accent is an accent in itself, then sure. But I've seen it pointed out that things like news programs on the East Coast, Southern States, the far north, et cetera almost always hire people who don't sound like they're from the area because it's "standard American". I think that the accent-less accent grew up in the Midwest, but it's also the most prevalent on the West Coast. I can tell if someone is from Northern Michigan, for example, but I can't really tell someone from Indianapolis from someone who grew up in California or central Florida or whatever else.

[Sethomas]

For that matter, I've heard people from Northern Europe who speak English, and most of them don't have much of an accent. Some of them have a British accent because that's how they learned the language.