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Posted by nekholm on Aug-05-2002 15:03:

The Brittish accent rocks!

Cheers mates


Posted by PatMcGroin on Aug-05-2002 15:25:

HAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAH

oh my god this is the best thread ever. let me just say, i am such a wannabe british person. seriously, not in a bad way or anything, but i've always loved your accent. i can do most accents, irish, scotish, indian, latin, chinese....i can all of those, but i can't do a british accent, which really sucks

anyway, i really do love all you brits! i don't think its funny, i just love it! my g/f is actually british, and oh my lord, her accent drives me CRAZY!!

but hopefully i will be transfering to an english school sometime soon!

btw, one question i do have. lets say you're hanging out with all your mates, and you're all british, but there is this one american guy. and he's perfectly alright, except for this american accent. what do you think about him? because i know some (ignorant) americans would just be like "fucking british" if it was the other way around.


Posted by innominate on Aug-05-2002 15:34:

you check out australian... pretty unique and recognisable then you go to pretty much any western suburb along the east coast and you enter the real aussie accent. g'day mate become ay moite! our language australian - english is very entertaining and has elements of english, german, greek, italian, chinese, korean, japanese, malaysian ect ect ect. rhyming slang is also big here which can make it hard if yoove got no eye deer... like to hit the frog and toad, i.e. make loiyka shepherd an git ve flock ouda hie-ah, dog and bone -> to chat to a moite, ridgy didge is where the bieear lives,

thank god youre not trying to talk new zealand though... thets ruly hard to doow.


Posted by Renegade on Aug-05-2002 16:24:

quote:
aye, these brits make me head hurt with their bloody talk.


Ech. Take a butchers at these septics me bloody chinas.

Both my parents are English and I used to live there when I was younger (which I'm sure I've mentioned before) so it's all second nature to me. The only accent I can't understand all the time is Glaswegian, but let's face it, we all have trouble with that one (eh Jimmeh!). I can even do a fairly shitty Stoke accent (which is where my parents are from btw) when called upon:

Cost kicka bow again a wow yed it back an bost it? Costner? Oooo, ay oop, dook!

Or summat like that.

quote:
thank god youre not trying to talk new zealand though... thets ruly hard to doow.


Yuss ut uz, uzn't ut.


Posted by whiskers on Aug-05-2002 16:47:

quote:
Originally posted by Renegade

Cost kicka bow again a wow yed it back an bost it? Costner? Oooo, ay oop, dook!

Yuss ut uz, uzn't ut.


what in the bloody hell is that, a bunch of mumbling or what? me no understand. me like simple say.


Posted by Ian on Aug-05-2002 18:25:

where I am theres a lot of brummies invading, and then the native Derbyshire guys, which the further north in the county u go the more u sound like a yorkshireman, so jeff & nita would more than I do, but I know a lot of gals from the uk & america who dig my accent so I don't really give a crap

btw ste, my mate in US didn't know what an arse was lol


Posted by .montecarlo. on Aug-05-2002 19:28:

my favoutite variation of the english language/accent is english-speaking south-africans (someone mentioned this earlier). its just so awsome!


Posted by dj_mdma on Aug-05-2002 19:53:

hehe my chance to shine

To cut it short, most Foreigners can't understand a bloody word you Northerners are saying

I find this is the case EVERYWHERE I GO!

e.g at Love Parade, If alex (Evil_Bastard) spoke normally, i.e with his Geordie accent and slang, most of the Germans and Dutch couldn't really understand him. Only when he spoke really slowly and clearly could they vaguely interpret what he was on about.

At Dancevalley, me and Nat met up with these 3 peeps from Middlesbrough, and she constantly agreed with everything they said etc, but when she had a spare mo, she siad, I can't understand half of what they are saying! LOL CAn't blame her tho! hehe

It was even pointed out in Germany by these blokes that they could easily understand me, but were having difficulty understanding alex.

Basically a clean London accent is what most Europeans/Americans study/understand/listen too in everyday media. By clean I don't mean people who are fucking pikeys who live on rundown estates, eating hard drugs for breakfast and running around in loincloths. (j/k with last comment lol)

I have a clean Lonodn accent and eveybody understands me perfectly, until I mumble, or come out with "ARSE, I LOST MY SODDING KEYS AT HOME, YA FUCKIN BUGGER, INNIT"




And on the subkject of accents, the worst accent to constantly listen to is the sorority/LA accent on women. ITS SOO BLOODY WHINEY!

And the best accent is most definately english with a Dutch accent, as Josta will tell you

And Ian (Redeye) has the best English accent ever, trust me!


Posted by PatMcGroin on Aug-05-2002 20:01:

HAHAHAHHAHAH!!! thats too great!!!

i had trouble understanding alex sometimes too, but its wasn't bad at all...you i understood no problem, but you guys didn't understand me sometimes too....damn me and my fast slured type speech


Posted by Xavier on Aug-05-2002 20:08:

quote:
Originally posted by innominate
you check out australian... pretty unique and recognisable then you go to pretty much any western suburb along the east coast and you enter the real aussie accent. g'day mate become ay moite! our language australian - english is very entertaining and has elements of english, german, greek, italian, chinese, korean, japanese, malaysian ect ect ect. rhyming slang is also big here which can make it hard if yoove got no eye deer... like to hit the frog and toad, i.e. make loiyka shepherd an git ve flock ouda hie-ah, dog and bone -> to chat to a moite, ridgy didge is where the bieear lives,

thank god youre not trying to talk new zealand though... thets ruly hard to doow.


The worst Aussie accent is from that hole in Westie Sydney Mount Druitt, I cant stand that accent, my bro just married one of em. its the worsed!
I have a teacher from Greystanes, his got nice colloquialism
"In the hurly burly of the H.S.C"
"Now lets kill the birds with just the one stone"
"In the midst of things..."
"absolute ludicrous"


Posted by trance_babe on Aug-05-2002 20:21:

quote:
Originally posted by kr00t0n
I'll take a british accent over a southern US one any day.
I still reckon english speaking South Africans have got it the clearest
.

I know im British n everything, but i know what you mean, my friend Roxy is from South Africa and her accent is really cool!
xxxx
trance_babe


Posted by dj_mdma on Aug-05-2002 20:34:

The south African accent is cool, cos its a mix of Dutch and Australian (I find)

As u can tell, I like the Dutch!


Posted by jp on Aug-05-2002 20:42:

quote:
Originally posted by dj_mdma
hehe my chance to shine

To cut it short, most Foreigners can't understand a bloody word you Northerners are saying

I find this is the case EVERYWHERE I GO!

e.g at Love Parade, If alex (Evil_Bastard) spoke normally, i.e with his Geordie accent and slang, most of the Germans and Dutch couldn't really understand him. Only when he spoke really slowly and clearly could they vaguely interpret what he was on about.

At Dancevalley, me and Nat met up with these 3 peeps from Middlesbrough, and she constantly agreed with everything they said etc, but when she had a spare mo, she siad, I can't understand half of what they are saying! LOL CAn't blame her tho! hehe

It was even pointed out in Germany by these blokes that they could easily understand me, but were having difficulty understanding alex.

Basically a clean London accent is what most Europeans/Americans study/understand/listen too in everyday media. By clean I don't mean people who are fucking pikeys who live on rundown estates, eating hard drugs for breakfast and running around in loincloths. (j/k with last comment lol)

I have a clean Lonodn accent and eveybody understands me perfectly, until I mumble, or come out with "ARSE, I LOST MY SODDING KEYS AT HOME, YA FUCKIN BUGGER, INNIT"




And on the subkject of accents, the worst accent to constantly listen to is the sorority/LA accent on women. ITS SOO BLOODY WHINEY!

And the best accent is most definately english with a Dutch accent, as Josta will tell you

And Ian (Redeye) has the best English accent ever, trust me!



You're right about evil bastard, but once I got the hang of his special language it wasnt any problem understanding him.


Posted by jp on Aug-05-2002 20:43:

quote:
As u can tell, I like the Dutch!


we rule!



party!


Posted by S-Type on Aug-05-2002 20:56:

didn't read any of the posts in this thread, but i'd just like to say i think the british accents are sexy as hell


Posted by Dj O'Callaghan on Aug-05-2002 21:05:

quote:
Can someone please give a list of all the British accents there is.


I will think of the ones I know

Cockney - London

Brummie - Birmingham

Manc - Manchester

Geordie - Newcastle

West Country - Cornwall way all the way to Bristol (farmer accent).

Black Country - Thicker stronger Brummie accent areas beyond Brum.

Glasweigen - Glasgow very rough and gruff sounding Scottish accent

Scouser - Liverpool

South Coast - Hampshire way

Eastern - Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridge, farmer accent with cockney sound.

Essex - Essex Very Very Very broad accent simular to Cockney.

Yorkshire - Very broad and Northern

Smoggie - Middlesborough teeside accent like geordie mixed with yorkshire. (Stes accent)

Edingborough - posh sounding Scottish accent to me.

Nottinghamshire - Nottinghamshire, Midlands accent with a Northern hint.

Northern Irish - I don't count it as British but most linguists will, theres many different accents, they sound like very broad and stressed Irish accents.

Northamptonian - A mix of just about every accent, mainly cockney and midlands crossed togther.

theres so many more accents some other British person can probably get the rest.


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