Accents

Im English...

um i can't say bag i say beg and for milk i say melk thats more just cuz im weird though.

I tawwwk (talk) about cawwwwfee (coffee).
&I always get mocked for that haha but I don't understand how else you can say those words lol.

i seriously don't think i have an accent...except for words I stumble across because of braces

I asked my German friend if I had an accent..she said no?? But then again she thought that she sounded just like us when in reality she has a really bad accent. hah

But in America like rws said somewhere.. only wi/nd/mn area, boston/ny/nj area, southerners have accents. West coast people pretty much sound normal, except Cali they just sound stupid. haha

I think aussie people have the best accent, french is a close second.

BA_Sadie. wrote:um i can't say bag i say beg and for milk i say melk thats more just cuz im weird though.

a bunch of girls i know talk like that

ha maybe its an ohio thing?
idk no one i know says it like that besides me but hmm..alright lol.

yeah i pronounce our and are the same but i pronounce hour different.

you say zee, we say zed

We had a girl move here from wyoming and she pronounces a lot of things different than us. Like she says skull and it sounds like skol.

ATCG wrote:Do you guys pronounce our and hour the same?

Unless I'm really thinking about it and trying to be clear, I pronounce our as are.

same. Only when I'm trying to get the point across, then I use my hands and make a big circle. haha

I use my hands alot

Cheers Greg. Well in NZ our accent is kind of similar to the Australian one, to someone not from NZ/Aus.

Most NZers say 'i' and 'e' the same (well it's we say e's as i's). Like pen and pin sound kind of the same. Economics is said like iconomics, entertainment as intertainment... That's the typical thing most say about our accent. Also, our whole country pretty much has the same accent, seeing as we're only 4 million people.

Oh, and no matter where you are in America, you have an accent. They are actually very strong haha. I don't think there is a 'normal'.

ATCG wrote:Do you guys pronounce our and hour the same?

Unless I'm really thinking about it and trying to be clear, I pronounce our as are.

I say are and our the same.

i dunno if i have an accent or not. no ones ever really commented on it so im guessing i dont.

I don't have an accent really.

i dont have an accent. you can say either two different ways and i say it the way nobody that i know does.

ATCG wrote:^Do you have an NYC accent?

No lol

^^FK you're from upstate right... then you probably do have a little bit of an accent

The point of having an accent is that you dont know you have one. Does that make sense?

Likee you cant really "diagnose" yourself.. hah yeaah

baby got track wrote:^^FK you're from upstate right... then you probably do have a little bit of an accent

Define "upstate," it's bigger than you think.

i say melk, ba (instead of bye, but not baa like a sheep) and leaughing (laughing)

I have a little bit of a mix of accents. A fair bit of Croat and a lot of Boston.

I don't like it. I've been working forever to get rid of it but it still comes out a lot when I'm not paying attention. I don't like when people can't understand me.

Edit: Like, I say "cah" instead of "car" and my o's come out more like aw (it's a longer, deeper type of sound). When I do say r's I roll them just a tiny bit. But only when I'm not paying attention. Mostly I feel like it isn't so bad unless people point it out!

FinishingKick wrote:

baby got track wrote:^^FK you're from upstate right... then you probably do have a little bit of an accent

Define "upstate," it's bigger than you think.

upstate= all of new york except for manhattan, etc.

baby got track wrote:

FinishingKick wrote:

baby got track wrote:^^FK you're from upstate right... then you probably do have a little bit of an accent

Define "upstate," it's bigger than you think.

upstate= all of new york except for manhattan, etc.

I know that, I thought you didn't know that because there's no way everyone in New York state besides NYC has the same accent, it just doesn't work out geographically.

thelagwagon wrote:Cheers Greg. Well in NZ our accent is kind of similar to the Australian one, to someone not from NZ/Aus.

Most NZers say 'i' and 'e' the same (well it's we say e's as i's). Like pen and pin sound kind of the same. Economics is said like iconomics, entertainment as intertainment... That's the typical thing most say about our accent. Also, our whole country pretty much has the same accent, seeing as we're only 4 million people.

Oh, and no matter where you are in America, you have an accent. They are actually very strong haha. I don't think there is a 'normal'.

Austrailian accents are flippin amazing
I Australian accents!