Accents

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan

I can just about hear your accent in that post! Very self-deprecatingly British.

i read his post in the voice of Arthur from Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy

[cgy2london]

Originally Posted by @theCBE

Scottish accents are not sexy, if you can understand them.

ahhah i agree. Being Canadian, living in England, trying 2 have a conversation with someone from Scotland or Wales ( not as much as scotland but still bad) is like having a conversation with someone whos speaking a completly diffrent Language. Cant understand a flippin word anyone from Scotland is ever saying 2 me

[vanisleflamesfan]

Originally Posted by cgy2london

ahhah i agree. Being Canadian, living in England, trying 2 have a conversation with someone from Scotland or Wales ( not as much as scotland but still bad) is like having a conversation with someone whos speaking a completly diffrent Language. Cant understand a flippin word anyone from Scotland is ever saying 2 me

Yeah, living here in Newcastle, the Geordie accent is just impossible... think a mix of Scottish, Irish, Cockney rhyming slang and ebonics, put it all in a blender and speed it up to about 300 words per minute: That is the Geordie accent.

[MagicallyAdept]

Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan

I can just about hear your accent in that post! Very self-deprecatingly British.

That is what we do best. We do like to complain, even if it about ourselves. I am hoping they add moaning to the Olympics because we could get a medal. I don't moan too much, i prefer to look on the brighter side of life and just make fun of all instances. I do like being British though.

The geordie accent is hard to understand ey pet.. but not as hard as drunk Irish. I employ the nod and smile policy when i think they are telling me something, plus i mix it up with a few uh huhs and maybe a yeah yeah. If they start to get sad i might change tactics and go with a few sighs but i never know what they actually say and i am a 1/4 Irish myself!
Scottish can be really hard to understand too but somehow i always figure it out, albeit a minute later.

The great thing about having an accent in a different part of the world is that most people think you are slightly cooler than average. Here in London we hear every accent almost daily so nothing is special but when my Fiancee is in Liverpool they treat her like a celebrity because of how she looks and her different accent. She can blag anything because people assume she is something more due to her voice.

When i was in Sask, people either thought i was either really cool and trendy or some stupid tourist in the Paris of the praries - both were correct though.

Its also funny how people treat people differently based on an accent. North American accents get preferential treatment from waiting staff due to the fact you guys are more likely to complain about something where as say the Poles get the slow talk treatment and huge sighs. It always makes me laugh though when someone with a thick accent tries to fit in with modern youth. Best example being Mooj from 40 year old virgin. I cry laughing watching that part every time.

[Nicole]

I don't mind the Geordie accent too much, although it can be a bit hard to understand at times. I've never been referred to as 'Lush' so many times in my life as I was by those Geordie's .. and that term is a good thing there

[kermitology]

Probably the least sexy accent I can recall is the Irish down in Kilkenny.. "Huuur-yaaa" (How are you?) WTF?

One of the girls on my tour got her crotch grabbed by a 50 something drunk Irish farmer.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by MagicallyAdept

I say things like that. I mean i use words that some of my friends don't fully know the meaning of. But the difference is they look at me like i am some kind of ass. I can see what you mean though because when i was there i could say something like that and people reply with "man you are so London". "Then you get i had the Outriders down at Cowboys telling me "you are so cute" - which is officially the best accent ever when you hear stuff like that. Which i must say felt good. We think your accents are charming too. The birds here love it when you say ma'am.

But my accent is not that "jolly hockey sticks chaps, its time for a spot of tea". Its just boring London, not as charming as you think. Not Hugh Grant-esqe at all i'm afraid.

Well, I just find it's a much fuller and meaningful way to express my thoughts when I can really use all of the english language. Of course, I'm Chinese so I look like even more of an awkward out of place idiot but I really do think in complicated vocabulary and I have to dumb myself down when I talk to people in real life or they do look at me like I'm an ass. It's the social acceptance to be able to talk like that that I want. It just doesn't fit with a North American accent unless you are Frasier Crane...even less so from a Chinese guy.

I think that you're fortunate to have the license to speak in that manner and perhaps even have girls think that it's cute on occasion. If I go around talking like that, I just creep people out or look like a pompous baffoon who's a little dodgey.

[Jagger]

Originally Posted by vanisleflamesfan

Yeah, living here in Newcastle, the Geordie accent is just impossible... think a mix of Scottish, Irish, Cockney rhyming slang and ebonics, put it all in a blender and speed it up to about 300 words per minute: That is the Geordie accent.

Why aye man!

I had quite a few Geordie friends and it took a lot of getting used to. Some of their slang is incomprehensible.

I've found that my English accent has helped me tremendously in my job. For some reason it makes people trust me more over here. Silly fools!!!! I have had to slow my speech down a ton though as, when I first moved out here, i received a lot of blank looks at first.

[MagicallyAdept]

Originally Posted by Nicole

I don't mind the Geordie accent too much, although it can be a bit hard to understand at times. I've never been referred to as 'Lush' so many times in my life as I was by those Geordie's .. and that term is a good thing there

Being a lush in Newcastle is more of a requirement

I feel sorry for your liver though, a lush in geordie-land is about 10 steps past alcoholic in Canada. You must be able to knock 'em back with a vengence. Nice one I would be really worrried if you was a lush in Glasgow though. They are the type that add vodka chasers to their dialysis machines.

[Nicole]

Originally Posted by MagicallyAdept

Being a lush in Newcastle is more of a requirement

I feel sorry for your liver though, a lush in geordie-land is about 10 steps past alcoholic in Canada. You must be able to knock 'em back with a vengence. Nice one I would be really worrried if you was a lush in Glasgow though. They are the type that add vodka chasers to their dialysis machines.

Yeah, thaaaat's it!! .. Considering I'm the furthest thing from an alcoholic

BTW .. Love the last line

[MagicallyAdept]

Originally Posted by Nicole

Yeah, thaaaat's it!! .. Considering I'm the furthest thing from an alcoholic

BTW .. Love the last line

furthest thing from an alcoholic, they have a word for that...

something about a big river in Egypt.

hehe :-P :-P

They call me a southern poofter because of the way i dress. and the way i speak, well and the fact that i asked for a French Martini (Chambord Royale) while in a pub up there. I think i also mentioned seeing my stylist, my hairdresser, facial moisturizer and getting waxed . My own fault.