jasonl
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And you yankees think us Cajuns have funny names, just take a trip to Massachussetts and to Worcester (and it's not pronounced "war-chester" either) LOL.
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Asked my friends here in Munich what sort of accent I had. They said either "horribly, typically US-American, Canadian, Dutch".
And those were my friends.
My US friends all say I sound like a Professor at a German University or a Panzergeneral.
This is, I suppose, not much better.
Which is why I am making no comments on anybody's accents here - not even about the Texans.
Whoops.
Asked my friends here in Munich what sort of accent I had. They said either "horribly, typically US-American, Canadian, Dutch".
And those were my friends.
My US friends all say I sound like a Professor at a German University or a Panzergeneral.
This is, I suppose, not much better.
Which is why I am making no comments on anybody's accents here - not even about the Texans.
Whoops.
I don't really know if us "yankees" even give it a thought at all.
Jason would that be WUSS-ter?
(ducks and runs)
(ducks and runs)
mayken4now
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How about *ALL* bein prounced as *AWU LL*
That is all over Larry King Live!
Steve
That is all over Larry King Live!
Steve
'Fraudgidaire'.....that's a great one, Austin. You need to get that one into the dictionary. If there isn't a dictionary of appliance terms, there should be!
Jason you have a slight accent, Toggle you have an accent, Ross, your accent is calming down since you went west young man, Steve (Mayken4now) I was really surprised you were orignally form LA cuz I didn't detect a cajun nuttin'. I have a somewhat of a Texas accent, but even people in Tucson couldn't believe I am a native cuz I apparently just don't have a really thick one (WATCH IT TOGGLE).
westytoploader
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Steve Toggle and Ross both have New York accents, and Jason does have the Louisiana accent.
Bob, I don't detect an accent in you; same with Steve (Mayken4now). Steve (Gyrafoam) has the Southern accent, and Greg sounds Midwestern. I whole-heartedly believe I could pick out either of them from a huge crowd.
Now y'all can comment on my accent...if there is any LOL.
Bob, I don't detect an accent in you; same with Steve (Mayken4now). Steve (Gyrafoam) has the Southern accent, and Greg sounds Midwestern. I whole-heartedly believe I could pick out either of them from a huge crowd.
Now y'all can comment on my accent...if there is any LOL.
*shrug*
Nah, Bob, you don't have much of an accent, but maybe that means we Arizonans match your accent. Hard to say, isn't it? :-D
It's like when I called my friend in Australia. He said, "You have a most delightful Yank accent." I told him I was about to say the same thing about his Aussie accent
I've lived in Arizona all my life, but it appears I've picked up Will's Massachusetts accent.
Go figure.
--Nate
Nah, Bob, you don't have much of an accent, but maybe that means we Arizonans match your accent. Hard to say, isn't it? :-D
It's like when I called my friend in Australia. He said, "You have a most delightful Yank accent." I told him I was about to say the same thing about his Aussie accent
I've lived in Arizona all my life, but it appears I've picked up Will's Massachusetts accent.
Go figure.
--Nate
irishwashguy
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I think that the New England/Mid Atlantic accient sounds sex
i grew up out here in the Northwest. I have thought for the longest time that the New yorker/New England sounding guys have a great accient.OMG it is so VERY SEXY!!!!!! I never get tired of listeining to someone that talkes like that!!
i grew up out here in the Northwest. I have thought for the longest time that the New yorker/New England sounding guys have a great accient.OMG it is so VERY SEXY!!!!!! I never get tired of listeining to someone that talkes like that!!
There were a few at the latest Mass. wash-in that were typical *Bostonians* with no *Rs* to be heard.
YUM!
P.S,, what do you call an idiot who happens to be from Massachusetts? (Relax does not apply to anyone we know.)
Mass-hole.
YUM!
P.S,, what do you call an idiot who happens to be from Massachusetts? (Relax does not apply to anyone we know.)
Mass-hole.
P.P.S. what do you call an idiot who happens to be from New York?
Toggleswitch.
Toggleswitch.
For the record, I used the term "Fraud-gidaire" on this forum over three years ago (see archives, post 26600).
The worst Fraudgidaires, of course, were those trivialized "1-18s" that came out shortly after WCI took over Frigidaire, which looked like the real GM-made thing from a distance but were Trojan horses with conventional WCI mechanicals in reality.
The worst Fraudgidaires, of course, were those trivialized "1-18s" that came out shortly after WCI took over Frigidaire, which looked like the real GM-made thing from a distance but were Trojan horses with conventional WCI mechanicals in reality.
laundromat
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FRIGI-DARE
FRIGI-----SCARE
FRIGI-----SCARE
My family moved from New Haven to San Francisco when I was 11. We were told we all had New York accents when we got there. I couldn't tell, of course. seven years later I was at a California Aggie school (UC Davis) and immersed in folk music. My brother told me I had developed quite a country twang. I lost it as I moved back to the Bay Area (Berkeley). I visited the old neighborhood in Connecticut some 10 years later, and was shocked at all my neighbors' strong New York accents.
When I visited Ireland on business in the 90's, I recall having a sort of out of body experience, as I was complaining on the phone to a computer tech support line back in the USA. I could hear my own flat California-American accent echoing through the cubicle area, in start contrast to the gentle tones of my Irish co-workers.
Nowadays I don't really notice other Americans' accents that much. They seem much more subtle these days than they did some 30 years ago. I think with TV/Radio/Films people have been gradually losing their regional accents, and it's all becoming more or less one American accent.
It is interesting to hear various Germans speak English. The ones from Frankfurt seem to have an American accent. I guess the Munich crowd sports the ersatz-British accent.
The only time I think I reverted to an East Coast accent was when my jaw was fractured and I started dropping my R's like a Bostonian. Fortunately that healed enough so I could sound like a Californian again.
Like most people, I think, I tend to adopt the accent of the location where I'm staying for a long time. I think when I came back from only about a month in Ireland I had a slight lilt to my cadence. But that also soon passed.
When I visited Ireland on business in the 90's, I recall having a sort of out of body experience, as I was complaining on the phone to a computer tech support line back in the USA. I could hear my own flat California-American accent echoing through the cubicle area, in start contrast to the gentle tones of my Irish co-workers.
Nowadays I don't really notice other Americans' accents that much. They seem much more subtle these days than they did some 30 years ago. I think with TV/Radio/Films people have been gradually losing their regional accents, and it's all becoming more or less one American accent.
It is interesting to hear various Germans speak English. The ones from Frankfurt seem to have an American accent. I guess the Munich crowd sports the ersatz-British accent.
The only time I think I reverted to an East Coast accent was when my jaw was fractured and I started dropping my R's like a Bostonian. Fortunately that healed enough so I could sound like a Californian again.
Like most people, I think, I tend to adopt the accent of the location where I'm staying for a long time. I think when I came back from only about a month in Ireland I had a slight lilt to my cadence. But that also soon passed.
