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Freya
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Tue, 23 Nov 04 02:39 PM
Does anyone notice that in american tv only people with a news reader accent or those with a cockney accent represent the british public? where are the people with the welsh accents!! the gerodies, liverpudlians, mancunians, and cornish!! it would be a laugh trying to see the american actors understand them! i want to see people from yorkshire!! ey up! its just so dissappointing. plus most americans cant do a standard english accent can you imagine one trying to sound like jethro!
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4 yr 347 days ago
In answer to the original question: LOL I think there are heaps of English bands that don't sound American. All of Britpop for a start!
And I'm a kiwi and I can only sorta tell the difference between some American accents(all though i can pick out the different British ones thanks to watching Coronation Street and a large amount of Biritish rom-coms.). But I can easily differenciate between an Ozzy accent and a New Zeland accent which Americans seem to find hard to to. I think if you live in a place for ages you can pick out different sounds and accents which makes it tricky to do if your an outsider.
Once me and my family were watching a Scottish DVD and we had to turn on the subtitles because we were to retarded to understand the accent.lol.
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Tue, 28 Dec 04 04:44 AM
I am welsh so i live in britain and i do not sound anything like a british. but what is a british accent? english, scotish and welsh are all british and all of the three countries have a totally different accent to each other and then there are regional differences within the three countries. i think the "British" accent you are looking for is a posh, englishman. you usually find them in london. whilst im on the subject, as well as having our own language, us welsh people do have really cool accents. some people don't alwyas understand, especially indian telephone operators. david
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Amelie
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Thu, 06 Jan 05 05:42 PM
You can hear it in my accent when i talk
I'm an English man in New York
Sting
By the way when we listen to different tapes during English lesson, it's quite easy to define who is talking - the English or the American. I know it's just a tape... it's not real...
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ilovemarty
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Tue, 18 Jan 05 07:22 AM
HEY,
IM FROM BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA.
WE DONT SAY COCA COLA, PEPSI, POP, COKE, OR SODA.
WE SAY FIZZY DRINK;)
CAUSE THATS EXACTLY WHAT IT IS!!! :D
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Guest,
4 yr 309 days ago
hey!!! i think your point of view is good, but in South america is the same. For example if you hear a chilean singer or a singer from argentina you cant see the diference, they speak spanish different but when they are singing they sound the same.
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Simply Ed
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Wed, 19 Jan 05 01:46 AM
Well, I have an example of the bands that I listen to which sing with British Accent, Pet Shop Boys.=P Blur also, I'm not sure about Depeche Mode...Tears For Fears tries to sing with an American accent, although what he gets as accent is very nice!
I've heard that Brit singers who sing in American do it to get more audience from American people.
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Guest,
4 yr 308 days ago
I'm british, all the pop groups sing with an american accent, god knows why, but if you listen to the underground r'n'b scene they sing with a britsish accent, and the uk hip hop, from their voices, theres no mistaking the fact that they're british. and, what bugs me the most is americans can only do 2 types of british accents, the posh one, and the cockney. come to the south of englnad, proper down south like fareham and portsmouth and try and speak how we do. no one down here pronounces there h's, its always 'ereford, 'artfordshire and 'ampshire
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ibad ur rehman
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Fri, 28 Jan 05 01:50 AM
how a person learn britsh accent throught internet
is it difficult or not.
this is my id
if some one has a idea so plz tell me
thanks
ibad
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