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 Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 4:33 am
isso ok ucchan
I have an accent that is in all my family but people in public tell me to write out what i say or talk the way they do. it gets frustrating.
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 5:44 am
But aren't you in Texas? 'Talk like 'they' do?' Cornball accent? That's what I call it xd
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UkyoKuonji2004 Vice Captain
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UkyoKuonji2004 Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 5:55 am
Well I guess that could be worse. As long as you don't sound like you constantly have marbles in your mouth or something. They are impossible to understand on the phone. It's like listening to some western movie or something only there's no subtitles...
Newfoundland accents are horrible for their speed. We talk fast. I never knew that until I started working at the call center. The Southern people especially hated how fast we talk, since it takes them over half a minute to say what would normally take five seconds...I don't know if they were treating me like I'm an idiot or something but they all did it in certain states.
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 6:02 am
And for something completely random:  CAN'T HIT!!!! scream
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Durithill the Black Blade
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 6:20 am
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 8:47 am
One more final and I'm done for the semester...
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 9:49 am
UkyoKuonji2004 I can do better than all of you. I never even been in the US. Niagara Falls was the closest I'll ever want to be to the states. Sorry, I used to call you guys offering s**t and you all knew I hated my life there and you still trampled on me. It was obvious in my voice I didn't want to speak to any of you Americans. Especially down south(sorry Hiraru). You can never understand what anyone says down there. Maybe they think their accents are cool or something. At least mine people can understand and I slowed it down for everyone. My bro says it's something which I'm not going to dare repeat because I know this rant is going to get more than enough hate replies. It's not that I hate Americans. It's just that sometimes you can be the most rudest people on the face of the planet.[/rant] We don't think we have accents... unless you meet someone who talks with a Twang... Sure... We say 'Ya'll' a lot... but too us its not confusing... Of course some of us don't enunciate... (Which annoys the hell out of me) But when you get one of from the more northern cities, we don't sound to weird... We tend to speak pretty good English... sweatdrop
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 11:27 am
I think girls with a tenessee accent or sexualicious just for that.
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 11:32 am
I worked in a call center calling Americans for two full years and I never once had a call from Texas where the person knew proper English. Sorry Hiraru. I'm sure there are exceptions, but they must be very few.
Oh, I better add this. On the occasion that I call a southern state and get someone who can actually speak, they are not from those states. The sales proved it because I had to ask for their city of birth and every time it was someplace like Maine or something. I think Maine would be the only state I can tollerate simply because it's closest to Newfoundland ^_^;
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 12:06 pm
If by "southern" you mean "deep south", then I could possibly see that.
Then again, almost no one anywhere speaks perfectly proper English.
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Durithill the Black Blade
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 12:13 pm
 All Hail the Reign of the Ostriches!Let it hereby be announced that:Fire and cashballs! Eliminate accents in everyone and no one speaks! Blarglefahpoth! ...that is all
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 12:20 pm
If by proper English you refer to olden English then of course it's rare. Although plenty of people speak good english or modern english effectively at least from Colorado they do. confused
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Durithill the Black Blade
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 12:24 pm
I'm not talking about old English, I'm talking about proper English. There's a difference. People speak English well enough that it can be inderstood, and most people think that is proper Enlgish but really it's conversational English.
For instance you'll see me write "ain't" sometimes and you just read it and you just read it without thinking anything of it, but actually "ain't" isn't a real word.
I'm not saying people in Colorado or anywhere else speak poor English, I'm saying they speak conversational English as opposed to proper English.
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 12:25 pm
All Hail the Reign of the Ostriches!Let it hereby be announced that:Fire and cashballs.... ...that is all
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 12:33 pm
hmm I didn't learn to talk "conversational" english untill I joined the marine corps. Now I speak Gheddo, conversational, proper, slanged, or whatever else If I want to. Accented from nearly every country in the Eastern hemisphere... (considering I've almost seen all of them.) Lot's of s**t has happened in 3.5 years.
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