...oh for gods sake don't encourage him!...Me too, Kurb! You do great Calla speak, Sai ghost.
Random US accents question......
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Mayhap I'll ask you to get off me lawn cully. I'll set my watch and warrant on it, so I will
Thankee sai. Long days and pleasant nights.
lol, yup, generally speaking, very much like Americans when it comes to assuming that their mother tongue is everyone's mother tongue.I'm prettig good at English now, but that's because of tv and internet. At school I barely scraped a 6 (5 and lower is a fail). As for the other two languages I was taught, I pretty much forgot everything about French and currently I'm struggling with refreshening my German, which takes a lot of looking up in online dictionaries when I need to send an e-mail or while talking on the phone.
About other Europeans being good at foreign languages... Ever met a German or a Frenchman?
Many years ago, I was managing a hotel in Florida and working the front reception desk during the busy tourist season. A car pulled up to the lobby door and a man jumped from the car, opened the lobby door and asked in broken English with a heavy French accent if there were any available rooms.
I responded in my best French that we were completely booked, however, the hotel down the street still had rooms available.
That nice Frenchman corrected my French grammar before thanking me and rushing off to the next hotel down the street.
That always makes me laugh.
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
My son watches "the Incredible Dr. Pol" - he finds it interesting to see what a veterinarian does. I will have to check out the accents next time it is on - I am usually cooking in the kitchen, but due to our 'open concept' floor plan I can hear the TV in the living room.Apart from a day in Gibraltar I've never visited any English-speaking country, so my knowledge of British, Irish, American and Canadian accents is based solely on television shows and movies. But then it depends on how true to their accent people are. You can probably rule out a lot of movies. But still, I can hear Mary Cooper from the Big Bang Theory is from Texas, and sometimes Sheldon as well. On the other hand I don't hear it so much in the people in Fast'n'Loud, they're just "American" to me. I can pick out some Canadian accents (I discovered "The Liquidator" is Canadian because of his accent). I just listened to a Newfoundland accent on youtube but to me it sounds different from Irish (at least different from Eddie Jordan or Michael Gambon).
To me American/Canadian accents differ less than England-English differs from Scotland-English. But maybe that's just me
Even in a small country like the Netherlands there are big differences. I don't know if anyone here is familiar with the show "The Incredible Dr. Pol"? He's Dutch, but lives in Michigan. His son Charles therefore doesn't speak Dutch, but he wanted to learn it when his uncle (Dr. Pol's brother) had planned to visit them in Michigan. At one point during that episode, uncle says something in Dutch, to which Charles (who has by then a basic understanding of the language) comments "yeah... I didn't catch that". Well, me neither... That's because the Pol family is from a different part of the country than I am, and I have a hard time understanding people from that region as well (I have an uncle who lives there, 90% of the time I have no idea what he's saying, and you can only ask one to repeat what he said so many times before they get annoyed, so I just mumble something that could be yes or no at hopefully appropriate moments).
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
The accent I hear the most is the Tagalog accent - I think that is the correct way to put it? We have SO many Filipinos who work at Health Sciences Centre due to the work sponsorship program.
I wonder if I hung around with them long enough, if I could imitate it? I am interested in other languages. If I had lots of money I think I may have gone to University to study linguistics.
I wonder if I hung around with them long enough, if I could imitate it? I am interested in other languages. If I had lots of money I think I may have gone to University to study linguistics.
...remember mister, I deal in lead.....Mayhap I'll ask you to get off me lawn cully. I'll set my watch and warrant on it, so I will
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the one ultra-bizzaro term for a submarine sandwich people in MA use. "Spukie". I mean really, WTF is a spukie?! And why would I want to eat one?!
...is that like some gustatory bastardization of "spew" and "puke"?...either way, I'll just have a pizza.....
I don't know but I made it a point to never eat in a place that called a sub a spukie!
It's starting to breeze up here. I'm not tight, but I can feel a buzz comin' on. I hadda a wicked ham sandwich in me cah.