...I've heard you speak. You sound like a real radio guy. Think it was the Nugent interview.
grr. Nugent.
thank ye!....
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...I've heard you speak. You sound like a real radio guy. Think it was the Nugent interview.
grr. Nugent.
...meh.....
Oops, forgot a smiley to show I was kidding. I would never do anything to be unkind to the GNT!
Has anyone ever parked in your dooryard?
Hihihi, my Utrecht friends tell me the same thing! They also giggle incessantly when I say "druilerig" in my heavy American accent.Yes he does, he lives in the province of Drenthe, just south of Groningen. The Pol family is also from Drenthe, although a different part, but for the speech it doesn't make much difference I think. Drenthe isn't THAT big Also interesting: as you may know it's usually possible to detect where someone is from when his native language isn't English. A Frenchman, an Italian, a Spaniard, a Dutchman, you name them, they all have a distinctive and very recognizable accent when they English. But I find it hard to detect a Dutch accent in Dr. Pol. He does have a strong accent, don't get me wrong there, but it's not that quintessential Dutch accent. Whether it's because of the region where he's originally from or because he lived in the USA for such a long time (about 40 years, if I'm not mistaken), I don't know.
If you would hear me speaking (I'm from West-Friesland) you would find I sound more like your friends from Utrecht. Maybe you wouldn't even be able to tell the difference, but it is there.
Dutch can't be that difficult by the way, I speak it fluently ever since I was a little kid...
I may have posted this before, one thing that has always befuddled my wife. She's from Indiana via Maryland via Germany via Illinois....anyway, back when we first started going out, I'd ask her if she wanted a "coke"...coke being the working term for ANY kind soda type beverage here in the great state of Arkansas..lol. My wife would look at me and ask if I minded ordering her a Dr. Pepper or something like that. The first time she asked me what kind of "pop" I wanted, I looked at her like she'd grown a third eye..."Pop"? I asked, what the hell is a "POP"?...lol, I get it now, but back then it was pretty amusing..lol
All I know is that a British accent is soooo sexy.
And Spanish too.
Anything different than vanilla American.
Ahhh, her taste can't be that good, she married me....lolAhhh, Dr. Pepper. A lady with good taste.
That makes me not like her one little bit. Who could be rude to our Neesy?A woman on the ferry (going from the Isle of Arran to the mainland of Scotland) was quite snobby to me when I spoke to her. I said to her "I love your accent" and she replied:
"I do not have an accent. I speak the Queen's English" (I wish there was some way I could convey the icicles that were dripping from her words).
biggest snob I ever ran into
I was speechless that anyone could have such a dismissive attitude - not a very friendly person.
Like Antonio! Yes.All I know is that a British accent is soooo sexy.
And Spanish too.
Anything different than vanilla American.
Wonder what you would say about my accent.......??That makes me not like her one little bit. Who could be rude to our Neesy?
Like Antonio! Yes.
I love a Nordic accent - those soft "Y"s that they can't say so they sounds like "J"s. Like "Jes" instead of "Yes". OH.MY. And those long eyeteeth. :swoon:
I want to hear GNT yell "GET OFF MY LAWN" in his best old grouchy guy fist shaking voice...lol...meh.....
Kurb, I'm guessing it would make me weak in the knees. See, there once was this Swedish tennis player college boyfriend....Wonder what you would say about my accent.......??
We gotta put it to the test sometime... All in the name of science of course.......Kurb, I'm guessing it would make me weak in the knees. See, there once was this Swedish tennis player college boyfriend....
Kurb, I'm guessing it would make me weak in the knees. See, there once was this Swedish tennis player college boyfriend....
I was expecting you to end that story with ......................in band camp.
Oh, that would be lovely....could you youtube one of your talks? Like a TED talk, but a KURBEN talk. You'd need to speak English though, with your Scandinavian accent, of course.We gotta put it to the test sometime... All in the name of science of course.......
I was expecting you to end that story with ......................in band camp.
Yeah, some people with THAT accent can be that way, but most aren't. I have no problem imagining the icicles.A woman on the ferry (going from the Isle of Arran to the mainland of Scotland) was quite snobby to me when I spoke to her. I said to her "I love your accent" and she replied:
"I do not have an accent. I speak the Queen's English" (I wish there was some way I could convey the icicles that were dripping from her words).
biggest snob I ever ran into
I was speechless that anyone could have such a dismissive attitude - not a very friendly person.
I am American. I've lived here for 25 years, though. I've been told everything from 'you never lost your accent' to 'you have a weird combination accent'. One thing for sure, no one ever forgets me on the phone.You are American, right? You have to have the most best one ever to them.