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Anji Basket Case Age: 34 Gender: Female Posts: 15914 | Also, studying old dictionaries gives us a lot of information about the previous pronounciations of words. |
Anji Basket Case Age: 34 Gender: Female Posts: 15914 | Bloodraine:Not all Devoners are farmers. Infact almost all of them are retirees like m Grandad. Seriously like Southern Devon around Exeter has sooooo many old people. |
Anji Basket Case Age: 34 Gender: Female Posts: 15914 | Bloodraine:I have family from all over the UK. I suppose I've learned to understand them over time. It does have something to do with settlers but the language itself adopts things from the place it's moved to, as well. That's how Welsh, Irish, Cockney, Durham, Devon, Glasgow, Manchester, etc. all speak differently in the first place. |
Matt Smith Admin Age: 32 Gender: Female Posts: 31134 | Anji: I know...its a personal joke Steph and I like to mock eachother. 'cause I'm a weird northern type and she's a pasty eating southerner. We don't mean anything by it, honest, we're just playing up to the 'north-south divide' thing. |
Anji Basket Case Age: 34 Gender: Female Posts: 15914 | Bloodraine:I understand. It's just I'm really missing Devon. We just sold my Grandad's house and I'll never be able to visit it again. |
NeoSteph Basket Case Age: 36 Gender: Female Posts: 16494 | Bloodraine: GO PUT A BLACKBIRD IN A PIE YOU NORTHERN BRUTE |
Kurtni Admin Age: 32 Gender: Female Posts: 34289 | lyrical_mess: I talk all Southerny, and I assure you I'm no redneck. |
Mycophobia Basket Case Age: 29 Gender: Female Posts: 15581 | Kurtni: Kurtnis to awesome to be a redneck plus there are plenty of rednecks who dont talk southerny |
. King For A Couple Of Days Age: 32 Gender: Female Posts: 3707 | lyrical_mess: Well, I live in New England (where people aren't supposed to pronounce their 'r's), but no one that I know of actually has that accent... |
Kurtni Admin Age: 32 Gender: Female Posts: 34289 | .:New England has all kinds of different accents. When I was in South Carolina almost nobody the entire time I was there pronounced there R's. I love that accent though alot. In the 1940's though it was seriously hated in the film industry. Ava Gardner had an accent like that, and the studio she was signed with made her take voice lessons and all kindsof stuff to get rid of it before they'd let her speak in movies. |
lyrical_mess Falling In Love With The Board Age: 32 Gender: Female Posts: 5278 | What about mobster accents? Kind of like "Mai associates will be hehppy ta teah yous from limb, capiche?" Where on earth did that come from? |
worn-out astronaut. Had A Life Before GSB Age: 31 Gender: Female Posts: 28177 | lyrical_mess:Italy? |
Meski Addict Age: 31 Gender: Male Posts: 14856 | Ivana Amoeba:That's like an English mixed with Italian |
lyrical_mess Falling In Love With The Board Age: 32 Gender: Female Posts: 5278 | But Italian accents don't sound anything like gangsters from old movies. |
worn-out astronaut. Had A Life Before GSB Age: 31 Gender: Female Posts: 28177 | lyrical_mess:I think that the Italian accents morphed with English and when you add a bit of bad boy language and Hollywood gangsta cheesiness... idk |
Cecilia Had A Life Before GSB Age: 38 Gender: Female Posts: 26847 | lyrical_mess: There are accents everywhere. In any country. Come here, I don't think you'll understand my French (from Northern France) mixed with patois. Even people from South don't understand us. As I have problems understanding people from East (with German border) if they start combining their accent with their patois. |
lyrical_mess Falling In Love With The Board Age: 32 Gender: Female Posts: 5278 | I know that accents exist everywhere. But I was asking about the origin of a certain accent. |
Anji Basket Case Age: 34 Gender: Female Posts: 15914 | Considering that the vast majority of Italian Americans immigrated to New York in the early 20th centuary, it's not so much Italian-American accent as an Italian-New York accent. Listening to obvious stereotypes like 'Fat Tony' from The Simpsons helps to clearly detect the New York accent with a pinch of Italian pronounciation. |
PaNcAkEs Jackass Age: 32 Gender: Female Posts: 1808 | i can speak fluent english and german...and would like to learn some french since i have no intention of learning russian. It doesnt have anything to do with what has been going on lately, i just find french more beautiful and russian. My mothertongue is Estonian. Its the 8'th hardest language on this planet...and our teacher thinks i'm pretty good. Well, its easy being good if you pay even the slightest bit of attention. I like to talk |
Kristmas_Tsanne Great Success! Age: 31 Gender: Male Posts: 59161 | Tasteful and Sublime:They made a list of languages that are hard to learn? |
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