AE Accent in Video Presentation??

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Mosca

#506483 Mon, 28 Apr 08 01:02 PM

Here's a native ae speaker - who does a great presentation - however I'd like to know what kind of accent this guy's most probably using as I noticed his accent doesn't sound as thick as usually.

http://www.microsoft.com/emea/msdn/spotlight/sessionh.aspx?videoid=710

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Grammar Geek

#506578 Mon, 28 Apr 08 03:01 PM

I wouldn't be surprised to find out he's Canadian. He's "o" sounds sound north of our border, although also typical of the very northern Midwest.

I'd be interested to hear if Clive agrees.

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Anonymous

#510948 Wed, 07 May 08 08:46 PM

That's kind of is interesting - isn't the distinction between Candian and US english totally clearcut for you people "involved"? No offense, I'm just curious.

R/M

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Clive

#510951 Wed, 07 May 08 08:54 PM

Hi,

I can't play this link.

But generally speaking, I can't listen to someone speaking English and decide clearly that they are Canadian.

Best wishes, Clive

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Grammar Geek

#510957 Wed, 07 May 08 09:24 PM

I can't tell that they are clearly Canadian, but I can tell they are not from the deep South, or New England, or New Jersey, or Brooklyn.

There's a vast "Middle America" in which the accent is not very distinct at all.

Then, in the middle of the country, the further north you go, the more the vowels in words like "out" or "house" change from an "ow" sound to an "oo" sound, and this fellow had just enough "oo" to make me think he was either from the northern part of the Midwest or Canadian.

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Mosca

#511665 Fri, 09 May 08 02:59 PM

Interesting .. really didn't think it worked that way .. thanks for letting me know. Smile

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CalifJim

#512927 Mon, 12 May 08 08:24 PM

[off-topic]

Geez! How many different formats are there for videos?

Every time I turn around these days, it's fifteen more downloads to play anything.

Isn't anyone standardizing this stuff?

(My question may reveal how naive I am about these things.)

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Mosca

#513089 Tue, 13 May 08 12:22 PM

Hi Jim, you're definately NOT naive, on the contrary, we're simply caught in the middle of the different software vendors fighting to promote their format .. standards are merely decided by a survival of the "fattest" process ..

be interested to hear your opinion on the subject though.

Mosca

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Kooyeen

#513300 Tue, 13 May 08 10:41 PM

CalifJim
Isn't anyone standardizing this stuff?

Yes, but everyone wants their new product. Everyone wants their patents and their copyrights. Everyone wants to further complicate badly designed systems instead of simplifying them. Everyone wants to invent something new, no matter how useless, dangerous, meaningless or crappy it is. Everyone wants everything to look good, fashionable and indispensable, no matter whether it works well, no matter how it works, no matter whether there's lots of better options.