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Anonymous,
2 yr 354 days ago
What makes americans sound stupid when theyre trying to do british accents? what sound do we have a really hard time immatating? that guy on house whose british has a really good american accent, but what do i know, hes the only brit ive heard that trys to sound american!
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Anonymous,
2 yr 340 days ago
Here in the Philippines, we consider the Manila accent as the standard accent in speaking Filipino. People from other regions have their own accents. Singers from other regions in the Philippines, as well as the singers from Manila & those who grew up abroad, sing with the same accent. Their accents can only be noticed when they speak not when they speak
Maybe that's why we can't identify which country is a singer from, when he/she sings an English song.
Anonymous,
2 yr 292 days ago
 Xam0 wrote: | There is definately an upstate NY accent. The vowels in the middle of some words are either changed or pronounced as dipthongs. Ill put the normal spelling of some words followed by the upstate NY pronunciation.. and then the north jersey pronunciation (where im from) which is fairly neutral compared to upstate ny.
Dog -- dwog -- dog
Frog -- frohg --frog
Cat -- keeyat -- kat
Mat -- meeyat -- mat
Walk -- wooawk -- wahk
Map -- meeyap -- map
Hat -- heeyat -- hat
Creek -- crick -- kreek
Water -- wuohdr -- wahdr
Ball -- bowul -- bahl
Fall -- fowul -- fahl
Hair -- hayer -- hare
Fair -- fayer -- fare
Have -- hyav -- hav
Has -- hyaz -- haz
Also, upstate NY, like NJ does not make a distinction in pronunciation between "Mary, marry, and merry"
Its not a very stong accent.. but its noticable.. hope that helps
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------------------------------ whoa. i am from central ny (for those of us who know that upstate is not anything above westchester). we definitely do not have the accent or use any of those pronunciations that you mentioned. i've never heard anyone speak like that, unless they were extremely uneducated people, or old and from the country (and may i remind you that it is not all farm country up here!).
Anonymous,
2 yr 292 days ago
[but no, we don't have a distinction between "mary, marry and merry." what kinds of distinctions do other areas have in these words?
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Marvin A.
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Mon, 05 Feb 07 02:59 AM
>> whoa. i am from central ny (for those of us who know that upstate is not anything above westchester). we definitely do not have the accent or use any of those pronunciations that you mentioned. <<
Haha. I see what's going on. Check this out. Xam0 said:
cat - keeyat
mat - meeyat
There is a sound shift called the Northern cities vowel shift that affects much of New York state. That is exactly how others hear the NCVS accent.
The "a" sound in "hat" is raised to a higher position than in other dialects. Dialects without this feature (such as my own, and obviously Xam0's as well). In fact, in my own dialect, the "a" sound in "hat" is more like the "ah" sound in "father" in other dialects. Thus, to hear a raised "a" sound, sounds quite unusual, and almost like "eeyah" or "ayuh". It's quite noticible. But, since you come from a region that has this shift, your "a" sound is raised, so to say that "a" sounds like "eeyah" to other people. But, of course, you are used to the raised "a" sound, so to transcribe it like "eeyah" doesn't make any sense.
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Anonymous,
2 yr 268 days ago
The feeling are very british sounding.
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MrPedantic
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Thu, 01 Mar 07 10:54 PM
| Anonymous wrote: | The feeling are very british sounding.
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Indeed. Except when they try to sound like CSN&Y.
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Prez1dent
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Fri, 02 Mar 07 11:08 AM
My friend Gogi Shevchebadze (he is Georgian) talks me that he's speaking English as good as American. He is a lamer and he talks me that then he taked gashish. It is not a joke!
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Mike in Japan
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Fri, 02 Mar 07 01:32 PM
Is gashish anything like hashish?
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