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Re: My accent sample - guess where I'm from

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:29:20 GMT

Hmm... Devon or somewhere in Ireland.

Re: Curious about Comtemporary RP Accent**

Tam Sadek — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 02:50:13 GMT

According to John Wells at University College London:

"I do not understand the proposed distinction between Mainstream RP and Contemporary RP (unless the writer thinks, wrongly, that âcontemporaryâ means âyoungâ)."

You can read more of what he says about it at: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/blog0707a.htm

Whereas according to the British Library's Accents and Dialects of the UK website in their section on London RP, the commentary says:

"Michelle speaks with an accent most of us would immediately associate with a middle-class background. Many of the vowel sounds she uses have a traditional RP ring, but she also uses a number of pronunciations characteristic of contemporary RP. In other words she uses certain features we only encounter among younger speakers."

You can read more about this as well as hear a sample of this accent at: http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/text-only/received-pronunciation/london/

Make of this juxtaposition what you will...

Hope that helps

Re: Accent of an English child with American parents

Siggy — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:01:33 GMT

Typically a child picks up the accent of his/her peers and culture, not his/her parents.

Based on a sample size of two (my daughters) I can attest to their both speaking with wonderful northern English accents at the ages of four and nine, just prior to our moving to the US. Now, at 16 and 21, they are never mistaken for being English and have to actually work hard to mimic an English accent!

I should point out that northern English words such as "fettler" or "daft" are, in fact, pronounced much closer to the real thing because these are words they have picked up from their parents and have no US equivalent. But to all intents and purposes, their accent is pure Ohioan!

Siggy

Re: Do I need a comma before all quotes?

GL2 — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:27:06 GMT

Anonymous wrote:

Hello,

I am just trying to find out if you put a comma before all quotes????

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The following text is from Simon & Schuster Handbook for Writers (Second Edition):

Use a comma to set off quoted words from short explanations in the same sentence. This rule holds whether the explanatory words come before, between, or after the quoted words. Examples:

"My love is a fever," said William Shakespeare about love's passion.

"I love no love," procalimed poet Mary Coleridge, "but thee."

This use of commas is especially important in communicating conversations or other direct discourse. Explanatory words like she said, they replied, and he answered are called speaker tags, and they are always set off from immediately following words of direct discourse...

When explanatory words have that just before the quoted words, however, do no use a comma after that. Example:

Shakespeare also wrote that "Love's not Time's fool."

Shaw quipped that "Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else."

Sometimes conversation is conveyed through indirect discourse. The writer does not use direct quotation but instead paraphrases material. Do not use a comma after that in indirect discourse. Example:

Shakespeare also wrote that people should be true to themselves.

Exceptions...

If you have made quoted words part of the structure of your own sentence, do not capitalize the first quoted word, and do not set them off with a comma. Example:

Mrs. Saintonge says that when students visit a country whose language they are trying to learn, they "absorb a good accent with the food."

Winking, she encouraged me to try "very speedy persistence."

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Applying these rules to your sample paragraph above, I would not use the two commas that I've highlighted in red above.

Trying to sound like a native Canadian English speaker

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 01:46:02 GMT

I've lived in Canada for years but I'm not a native speaker. I'm trying to eliminate my foreign accent. Here's my accent sample.

http://media.putfile.com/Rainbow-96

I don't really care to sound 100% Canadian. If someone mistakes me for being from Florida, I wouldn't mind. I just want to pass off as someone who's lived in North America all his life. How much more work until I achive my goal? Also, can someone guess as to which country I was originally from by the sound file I provided?

I know a lot of you just think that being understood is good enough. I'm sure that's great for a lot of people. I'm just the type that likes to blend in with the crowd so please don't tell me to not attempt this. Thanks.

Re: My accent sample - guess where I'm from

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:48:20 GMT

Well, you sound Irish to me - don't ask me what part though!

Re: My accent sample - guess where I'm from

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 09:13:59 GMT

If you want to see his (Victor's) videos doing different accents online, check out, http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=victorlinguist

Re: My accent sample - guess where I'm from

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:21:19 GMT

What's amusing is that the story you recount through your different accented characters appears to be self-revealing. The main protagonist, Victor, speaks a version of 'American English' that has been hued by his constant movings around the world.

Re: My accent sample - guess where I'm from

Kooyeen — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:13:38 GMT

I see you've taken away the other samples. There was an Indian accent, a British accent, a redneck accent, a Cockney accent and an American accent. There was also an introduction...Where's that stuff now? You are cheating!

So maybe it's time to tell us the truth and what that accent is supposed to be, since if you don't tell us, this thread will have no purpose.

See you

Re: My accent sample - guess where I'm from

Clint — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 18:34:01 GMT

I'm NOT Victor and you're all wrong.