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Yes NSG, what brand of English do you speak?

I, and those who have spoken with me, agree that I speak with American undertones when I speak English.

shyte mostly.

American, the only English there is. Everything else is just an imitation.

I have a pretty clear Californian accent.

American English with a combination of Western and Eastern (specifically, Bostonian) New England accents.

English English.

Portuguese - see Hamurabs thread on the evolution of God.

Texan.

I speak with da Minn-e-sodan accent hey.

I don't even know.:$

Middle-class Glaswegian Scottish.

I've recently followed my own advice and sold the naming rights to my language. I now speak "Starburst Fruit Flavor Explosion English."
It's a lot like normal English, but I have to constantly compare things to Starbursts. For instance, my daily conversations are almost as filled with references to the juicy flavor of Starburst as actual cherry-flavored Starbursts are filled with AIDS infected blood.

I speak with da Minn-e-sodan accent hey.

don'cha know?

Portuguese - see Hamurabs thread on the evolution of God.

Would you be interested in work as a translator?

don'cha know?

eh der... don't make fun!

:tongue:

I've recently followed my own advice and sold the naming rights to my language. I now speak "Starburst Fruit Flavor Explosion English."
It's a lot like normal English, but I have to constantly compare things to Starbursts. For instance, my speech daily conversations are almost as filled with references to the juicy flavor of Starburst as actual cherry-flavored Starbursts are filled with AIDS infected blood.

I am compelled by regulation to provide the necessary materials to you in your primary language.

Therefore, the following homosexual overture is going to be far less dignified then if I could use Portuguese or Esperanto.

Wow, your asscrack is like the tart lemon of a Starburst candy!

I talk Hillbilly. If I were to name my own language or accent I guess I would call it flatuance of the face english. `

as actual cherry-flavored Starbursts are filled with AIDS infected blood.

Hmm... I'd better cut back then, I suppose?

Would you be interested in work as a translator?

Pode ser, depende em parte em quanto paga e em parte no tamanho da obra!

http://www.boomspeed.com/looonatic/english.wav

:)

http://www.boomspeed.com/looonatic/english.wav

:)

So your dialect is Samuel L. Jackson then ?

Pode ser, depende em parte em quanto paga e em parte no tamanho da obra!

Vamos, pero si el portuguesillo me ha salido algo holgazan y tal. Si la paga es buena, curratelo!

I speak a special "Low-IQ English." It allows me to avoid using all the extraneously elongated terminology that NSG utilizes in habitual discourse.

I speak a special "Low-IQ English." It allows me to avoid using all the extraneously elongated terminology that NSG utilizes in habitual discourse.

:eek2:

Pode ser, depende em parte em quanto paga e em parte no tamanho da obra!

I shall use my tremendous powers of deduction to determine what this means...

"I must make potty, Sir, which depends in part on how many pre-christian spiritual beliefs can celebrate with a large red fruit in women's lingerie."

I speak a special "Low-IQ English." It allows me to avoid using all the extraneously elongated terminology that NSG utilizes in habitual discourse.

*defenestrates you*

I speak a special "Low-IQ English." It allows me to avoid using all the extraneously elongated terminology that NSG utilizes in habitual discourse.

I see what you did there. -.-

*defenestrates you*

I learned a new word!

So your dialect is Samuel L. Jackson then ?

My dialect is the one that says, "Bad Motherfucker". :cool:

eh der... don't make fun!

:tongue:
Sorry...my 8th grade history teacher was from Minnesota.
"You tell that Tess that Mrs. Hallbach is on a war path. That was unacceptable behavior, don'cha know?"

I speak a special "Low-IQ English." It allows me to avoid using all the extraneously elongated terminology that NSG utilizes in habitual discourse.

"And you, sir, are a festizio"

I speak whi' cheh Good Ol' Southern Accent.

Heh you go dow to the store eh?

I shall use my tremendous powers of deduction to determine what this means...

"I must make potty, Sir, which depends in part on how many pre-christian spiritual beliefs can celebrate with a large red fruit in women's lingerie."

OK - In English - 'Could be - it depends partly on how much it pays and partly on the amount of work"

However, as my native language is English (of Her Majesties variety), if you want English translated to Portuguese, H2 - being Brazilian - would be better at it than I would.

Oklahoman, we say things like "y'all" and "yonder" and we call everything by brand names even if we don't have that brand.......the couch is a "davenport" the ice box is a "fridgidaire" the tub with the bubbles is a "whirlpool", when you get hurt you get a "bandaid" when you sneeze you get a "kleenex" and when you're thirsty you get a "coke" even if it is a Dr. Pepper. Also, Spanglish.

I learned a new word!

I entertain and inform. :cool:

Overly americanised British English.

Yes NSG, what brand of English do you speak?

I, and those who have spoken with me, agree that I speak with American undertones when I speak English.

I speak the American dialect of English with a blended accent that mixes Southern Appalachia and Brooklyn, NY. It could be because I've lived in the southern parts of the US, as well as Brooklyn, the NJ Shore, and now the northern NJ suburbs. I say both Y'all (although I try not to) and dog (pronounced dawg). That work for you Nanatsu?

I speak the American dialect of English with a blended accent that mixes Southern Appalachia and Brooklyn, NY. It could be because I've lived in the southern parts of the US, as well as Brooklyn, the NJ Shore, and now the northern NJ suburbs. I say both Y'all (although I try not to) and dog (pronounced dawg). That work for you Nanatsu?

Gracious of you, darling. :)

Texan

Eclectic.

Gracious of you, darling. :)

It is wise to defer to those who are more elegant and beautiful than yourself. Tis why I bow to you out of honor and respect. On a side note, Barney Frank (Who I always wish to call Fife) calling Justice Scalia a homophobe is the giggliest I've been in quite some time.

I shall use my tremendous powers of deduction to determine what this means...

"I must make potty, Sir, which depends in part on how many pre-christian spiritual beliefs can celebrate with a large red fruit in women's lingerie."

Stop trying to kill me! I just about choked to death with laughter, damn you!

To answer the actual question, I speak pretty much standard, newscasterish American English. The only trace of a non-standard accent I have that I'm aware of is a tendency to pronounce the word "for" as "fər" or "f'r".

Stop trying to kill me! I just about choked to death with laughter, damn you!

To answer the actual question, I speak pretty much standard, newscasterish American English. The only trace of a non-standard accent I have that I'm aware of is a tendency to pronounce the word "for" as "fər" or "f'r".

Yeah, apparently my OK accent comes out when I say lawyer, because it sounds like LA/yər.

mid-western american if I hide my obvious accent. I can sound like a Brit at times, too.

Standard American accent which means I do not have an accent. Same as the common tv accent. Here is a test I found. In this test they call it the Midland accent.

http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_american_accent_do_you_have

I am compelled by regulation to provide the necessary materials to you in your primary language.

Therefore, the following homosexual overture is going to be far less dignified then if I could use Portuguese or Esperanto.

Wow, your asscrack is like the tart lemon of a Starburst candy!
Are you saying you'd like to share something juicy with me?
Because, unfortunately, Fiddlebottoms' homosexual phase has gone the way of the Lime Starburst. That is to say, it was wildly unpopular with the purchasing public, and not even moving to Baja, California (for a limited time only!) helped increase demand.

I speak a very Southern-American English dialect, however, I have almost no accent, so the main thing is just the slang of the area...

i speak UK English and im well spoken but not posh accent wise

Standard American accent which means I do not have an accent. Same as the common tv accent. Here is a test I found. In this test they call it the Midland accent.

http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_american_accent_do_you_have

I ranked highest for midland and northeast...not a bad test, but misses out on certain aspects of my accent (I drop T's, have started to drop R's, etc)

Depends. Now-a-days I find myself speaking ALT English which is very slow with great emphasis on sounds and avoids any long or complicated words.

When I get annoyed or excited I slip back into my native Nevadan accent and modes of speach.

Canadian with a touch of Bad.

American English with a slight Southern accent.

My english is the bastard hybrid of an american boy who grew up in a former British colony.

My english is the bastard hybrid of an american boy who grew up in a former British colony.

Which Colony?

While my accent has shifted a bit, I speak the Texas variant of Gulf Southern American, with some local Houston variations.

American English with a slight Texan accent.

Somewhere between "broad" and "general" Australian; not as clichéd as Steve Irwin but broader than Cate Blanchett.

Which Colony?

Grenada

I would say australian English but then there are different accents to it. So mine is much more East coast which means 'a' is much more pronounced in words such as dance, graph and plant rather than a pommy accent which has speak those words with a plum in their mouth. Other parts of this accent will also say words such as school as skwel.

...Other parts of this accent will also say words such as school as skwel.

skwel?

You mean skewel?

skwel?

You mean skewel?

Yes that is much closer.

I have a pretty clear Californian accent.

Dude - no way! That's, like, totally what I've been told too! I was like: dude, what? I'm not even, like, from California, but he was all like: yeah, but you totally sound like it, for reals. I was hella confused.

Grenada

Were you there when Clint Eastwood invaded and killed all those Cubans? That looked pretty cool.

Actually speaking Australian english I will also say the "yeah nah" bit, and having grown up in the 90's also saying "but" as the end of some sentances but that has stopped and only occasianly siad.

Mid-Atlantic English.

Mid-Atlantic English.

Are you a mer-man/maid? If so, cool! :)

Although I don't typically have much of a noticeable accent, in Maine we pronounce "car" as "cah" and my dad says "wicked" like "wicket".

There is brands of English? I just buy the cheap stuff...

northern california amerenglish mostly, though my mother, who is now 90, happy birthday to mom, her birthday was yesterday, well as i was saying, much of my life growing up, she still spoke broklinese, her having groan up on what was then the lower east side of that big place on the other coast, called nyny, in the 1920s. me though, we was in cali from the time i was 3. i've been a couple of places since then, but 40 of my 60 years at least, right here in placer county.

Ulster Culchie probably sums it up best. I tend to overly use words like "th'onder", "th'onyin", etc and instead of "cat, car, cow" I end up saying "kyat, kyar, kyow". It does drop off a lot however when i'm not at home.

Very powahful singlish lah!

Ulster Culchie probably sums it up best. I tend to overly use words like "th'onder", "th'onyin", etc and instead of "cat, car, cow" I end up saying "kyat, kyar, kyow". It does drop off a lot however when i'm not at home.

What do those mean? I'm guessing the second isn't a contraction of "the onion." :tongue:

Standard so-called-"Middle-Class" Scottleburgish (I resent the indignation; I'm scum and probably speak with more clarity than most of these posh-speaking silver-tongue psychos). I use, to a fleeting degree, various artifacts of working class slang too; without pronouncing them properly and possibly coming off as some kind of 'faggoty weirdo' to others. Most often, I forget apologetics and pronounce the hard sounds, as one example of many many mistakes in adopting slang.

I would like to speak RP.
Two days ago I sustained an oral entry test for a course of English (First/Proficiency and TOEFL) and I was placed into the "upper-intermediate" class. The teacher (an American I'd guess from the accent) told me that my pronounciation is foreign, yet quite understandable.

Overall, I've been told by many English-speaking people that my attempts at British English have a German sound. Must be the 8 years of German at school.

People say I speak totally generic english :S

People say I speak totally generic english :S

Microsoft Sam synthesizer style then?

That'd be hilarious. "OW-OW-OW-OW-OW-OW-OW-OW-OW-OW". Have you ever seen the Speakonia videos on YouTube?

Lower North Island Pakeha English.

i speak jibberish

Middle-class southern England received pronunciation with a touch of midlands regional accent from living here so long, filtered through a vaguely hippy drawl.

The Queen's English of course. Actually not quite that posh, Received Pronounciation is probably a better descriptor (aka BBC english) with the occasional hint of franglais in there.

New England English, with undertones of British English.

Ulster Culchie probably sums it up best. I tend to overly use words like "th'onder", "th'onyin", etc and instead of "cat, car, cow" I end up saying "kyat, kyar, kyow". It does drop off a lot however when i'm not at home.

I love the bolded pronunciations.

I'm a mix of Belfast, Portadown accents with a slight hint of Dubs. Its an intresting combination.

The correct (suburban new york) form. :D

...and occasionally the Alexander Yalt (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6D1YI-41ao) version :p

Home Counties, dear.

Some kind of hybrid Canadian English, since I do have a valley twang mixed with the local dialect.

I speak american english with a very midwestern/ohio accent.

What do those mean? I'm guessing the second isn't a contraction of "the onion." :tongue:

Th'onder = Over there

Th'onyin = That one over there

Edit :

e.g.

"Th'onders a qwer big kyow"

"Which one?"

"Th'onyin"

I've been told I have a very odd speech pattern. I grew up in Minnesota but apparently don't have the "Minnesotan" accent because everyone tells me I sound like I'm from New York state. I lived in Boston for many years and have adopted some Bostonisms (I use "wicked" far more than is strictly necessary). And for absolutely no reason that I can think of, I've always used "bloody" as a curse word, which makes people ask me if I've spent time in England. I've spent a grand total of maybe 6 days in London, and I was saying "bloody" long before that trip.

I live in the South Suburbs of Chicago, and I speak American English with a distinct Chicagoan Accent. I don't say soda, I say pop, I don't say ATM, I say Cash station, and I prounounce Chicago "Shi-Caw-Go" over "Shi-Cah-Go."

Microsoft Sam synthesizer style then?

That'd be hilarious. "OW-OW-OW-OW-OW-OW-OW-OW-OW-OW". Have you ever seen the Speakonia videos on YouTube?

No I said generic, as in really no accent or strange way of speaking. Not like a computer, that'd be weird.

No I said generic, as in really no accent or strange way of speaking. Not like a computer, that'd be weird.

Here comes the "there's no such thing as no accent" discussion

Here comes the "there's no such thing as no accent" discussion

I agree, but people continue to insist I don't have one.

I agree, but people continue to insist I don't have one.

Post a sound clip

Post a sound clip

Buy me a microphone.

Buy me a microphone.

Give me the cash

I pahk mah cah in Hahvahd Yahd, I think a drink from the bubblah is wicked awesome, I use my blinker before I bang a yooey when I go to the packie, I put jimmies on my Hoodsie cups, and I use elastics to hold the batteries in the clicker for the TV.

edit: Oh, and the thing you put your food in when you're shopping at the supermarket? A carriage. I didn't even know that was a local term.

Give me the cash

Get a job, hippy. :)

I pahk mah cah in Hahvahd Yahd, I think a drink from the bubblah is wicked awesome, I use my blinker before I bang a yooey when I go to the packie, I put jimmies on my Hoodsie cups, and I use elastics to hold the batteries in the clicker for the TV.

edit: Oh, and the thing you put your food in when you're shopping at the supermarket? A carriage. I didn't even know that was a local term.

That's English?

edit: Oh, and the thing you put your food in when you're shopping at the supermarket? A carriage. I didn't even know that was a local term.

A carriage? They must be massive shopping trolley's to be called a carriage.

I speak English English, my dialect is mainly standard crossed with South-West, plus a little bit of Midlands.

I've got a bad chest cold coming on anyway.

That's English?

A carriage? They must be massive shopping trolley's to be called a carriage.

I suddenly recall why I don't participate in threads about accents. Assholes who think that their way is the only right way of speaking the language, and act as if they don't have certain colloquialisms that people outside their region would find totally retAHded.

I suddenly recall why I don't participate in threads about accents. Assholes who think that their way is the only right way of speaking the language, and act as if they don't have certain colloquialisms that people outside their region would find totally retAHded.

I suddenly remembered why I don't post replies intended with harmless fun to you because any thing said in jest is taken far to serisouly.

edit: Oh, and the thing you put your food in when you're shopping at the supermarket? A carriage. I didn't even know that was a local term.

That's occasionally used by older middle class people over here.

I suddenly recall why I don't participate in threads about accents. Assholes who think that their way is the only right way of speaking the language, and act as if they don't have certain colloquialisms that people outside their region would find totally retAHded.

You need to chill out and cultivate a sense of humor.

American English with a bit of British English.

Ich sprache DeutsheEnglisch y Espaningles and West Virginia English.

American English, with a mix of midwestern and southern accents. Born and raised in the midwest, descended from southerners. I sound just different enough to either group that they think I`m from the other.

I suddenly recall why I don't participate in threads about accents. Assholes who think that their way is the only right way of speaking the language, and act as if they don't have certain colloquialisms that people outside their region would find totally retAHded.

Well, well, well... looks I get someone different to discipline today. ;)

Now then...There is no reason for calling people assholes. In fact, that whole comment was really not necessary. At least in the way you phrased it. Warned for flaming.

American English with a bit of British English.

What no Finnish accent behind it?

What no Finnish accent behind it?

Finns all speak perfect American English out of high school. Signs of their superior education system.

Finns all speak perfect American English out of high school. Signs of their superior education system.

Yeah, except for those Finns which don't.

BBC English. With a hint of ITV, Channel 4 and Orchard FM.

Yeah, except for those Finns which don't.

its the law. If a fin doesn't speak perfect English he loses citizenship and is kicked out of the country.

its the law. If a fin doesn't speak perfect English he loses citizenship and is kicked out of the country.

haha then he is sent to the UK where they can't collect benefits because they didnt bother to learn the damn langauge.

haha then he is sent to the UK where they can't collect benefits because they didnt bother to learn the damn langauge.

And they are officially called Polish.

American English, Midwestern accent, note the location line....

I speak Oirish.

Midwest/News Anchor/Non-Accented American English

What no Finnish accent behind it?

Well, yeah. A bit.

northen english english

Northantonian flows through my lungs meh' duck

*makes some shoes*

Finns all speak perfect American English out of high school. Signs of their superior education system.

or rather that they watch allot of television

northen english english

ooo white fuckin' northern mon-ey :p

Well, yeah. A bit.

Yeah, mate that's what I thought. :p

I have a pretty clear Californian accent.

This. My accent stays pretty consistent, although the slang I use changes sometimes depending on who I'm talking to, but it's all NorCal slang (just different regions). Although sometimes I say certain words with a bit of a Chicago/Upstate NY accent that I picked up from my mom. This usually comes out in words like "box" and "card".

American Standard. My accent has been muddled up so much, no one can tell my origins (Northern California).

Very powahful singlish lah!

Dat one dun even count real language meh?

"American Inland North"- In other words, great lakes region, NYS

I rather like the quiz someone posted before, as I find the Boston accent to be a bit annoying and unfamiliar- it got rated second lowest :)

And yes, it is "Pop".

I pahk mah cah in Hahvahd Yahd, I think a drink from the bubblah is wicked awesome, I use my blinker before I bang a yooey when I go to the packie, I put jimmies on my Hoodsie cups, and I use elastics to hold the batteries in the clicker for the TV.

edit: Oh, and the thing you put your food in when you're shopping at the supermarket? A carriage. I didn't even know that was a local term.

Ah.. in Maine, its this, except the really old guys that sound like this plus "hick". They are so hard to understand when they're on the news...

Although I've always said shopping cart.

Midwestern/Californian?

I've been nick named Gnarly Charlie once..

I don't know, you.. evaluate it.

Of course, then, I'd have to provide a clip.

However, if you're referring to text/typing then I'll say a combination of 'American' English and 'English' English.

I much prefer my u's behind my o's if you catch what I mean.

Of course, then, I'd have to provide a clip.

Em... I refuse, now and ever again, to provide clips of my voice, either in Spanish or in English. I did once, enough is enough. <_<

American English, Pacific Northwest accent. I can also speak Britlish.

I speak in a very mild "New Yahk" accent with a smattering of british terms and slang.

Real English.

I have a mixture of my Mothers south London accent, which I picked up from her and from where we lived in the early years, crossed with the mid/west Kent accent from my current location.

Its not pretty. And its a shame my Dad's middle/upper class Kentish accent didn't wash on me

Oirish, for obvious reasons.