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FAO: Lira - 21 Accents (pg. 7)
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| Lews |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Well, if it really means this much to you, fine: your accent is neutral, Seattle should be the capital of the free world and I wish I could listen to Nirvana while sipping coffee in a Starbucks here in my hometown, but alas, I can't. |
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| Joss Weatherby |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Didn't you say your parents came from the Midwest? This is what I'm getting at - they're not Washingtonians. I'm not talking about foreigners here :conf: |
Grand parents, and they came from the part that speaks General American
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Hence why your accent isn't neutral unless you're mute!
You need to speak one way or the other!
Remind me to tell sociolinguists about that. They'll be thrilled to know that some of the most basic premises of their field of study is actually wrong despite the results it's garnered over time, though rather than having a better hypothesis of how different accents and dialects work, we've got to change this definition just so people can feel happy about the way they speak.
Nou, here's the thing: You want me to tell you how special your accent is for not having "the tweaks" other accents have. This is just inaccurate, I've stated you the reasons why it is the case without having to get too much into linguistic theory. However, you don't want to know how accents works, you want me to tell you how awesome the Pacific Northwest is.
Well, if it really means this much to you, fine: your accent is neutral, Seattle should be the capital of the free world and I wish I could listen to Nirvana while sipping coffee in a Starbucks here in my hometown, but alas, I can't. |
No I want to tell you that you have no clue about what a baseline is, or even the concept of it and how to use it as a rule to judge other things by. This is a concept you seem to be unable to grasp, which is disturbing because it extends far beyond language to pretty much anything scientific! :wtf: |
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| srussell0018 |
I don't know if it's the accuracy of it or not, but in that video, her Seattle accent sounds like it has some slight quirks to me. I currently live in upstate NY, and although a large number of people have kind of a Minnesota/Chicago hybrid thing going on, for the most part I don't really notice an accent around here. That doesn't mean there isn't one, it just means that I hear it so much that it seems "neutral" to me.
Maybe you don't notice the quirks because you live there. Either way, you can't really say any accent is neutral or not because it is, in fact, an accent. People just speak differently in different geographic regions, whether it be in America or elsewhere. To me, it seems counter-productive to try and argue that the way you talk is how it should sound. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
No I want to tell you that you have no clue about what a baseline is, or even the concept of it and how to use it as a rule to judge other things by. This is a concept you seem to be unable to grasp, which is disturbing because it extends far beyond language to pretty much anything scientific! :wtf: |
Because that's not how it works in linguistics - has this thought ever crossed your mind?
I can understand bloody well what you're trying to tell me, but I don't agree because this is not how language analysis works! It feels like you're trying to tell a physicist that heavy objects fall faster than light objects because you've never seen them fall at the same speed in a vacuum but a bowling ball once fell on your thumb and it hurt, but you can barely feel marbles when they fall on your feet. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| quote: | Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
Exactly. People never say "are you from seattle" when you speak. We sound very generic. |
Soooo, you sound like a boring dullard? If you were an ice cream flavour you'd be vanilla - but for diabetics? Boiled potatoes? Soggy oatmeal? God you suck. |
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| Meat187 |
ITT: Nou trolling everyone. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| Oh that Nou! Gets us every time! Fooled by his generic, perfect English we was! |
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| Meat187 |
| Seriously, why don't you just ignore him? Is it that important to prove an idiotic statement on the internet wrong? |
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| Silky Johnson |
Yeah?  |
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| RickyM |
| Her Belfast accent is way off, sounds more like someone from Dublin until she says "Belfost"..:D |
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