Do you like my accent?

t3hplatyz0rz · 03-12-2010, 07:27 PM

My friend makes fun of my accent.
I say sirrup. My friend says searup.
It's getting to the point where it's ridiculous. It's syrup. How do you pronounce that? Just a hanging Y? Or is it like "door" and "food" where the vowels don't really show any individual way you should pronounce it because there's a billion different ways to pronounce it, which are all correct?

VEGANGELICA · 03-12-2010, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by t3hplatyz0rz

My friend makes fun of my accent.
I say sirrup. My friend says searup.
It's getting to the point where it's ridiculous. It's syrup. How do you pronounce that? Just a hanging Y? Or is it like "door" and "food" where the vowels don't really show any individual way you should pronounce it because there's a billion different ways to pronounce it, which are all correct?

I say "sirrup," too...although maybe every once in a while I say "seer-up" like in the word "seersucker," t3hplatyz0rz.

I feel different accents are lovely (although I don't like "warsh," I admit that). Language and pronunciation evolve. That's the reason English is such a weird, non-sensical language. Spelling and pronunciation frequently don't coordinate and sometimes there are inconsistencies, where words spelled similarly sound different from each other.

We are shaping our thoughts using ancient languages in which words take on new meanings and pronunciations over time...leading to the plethora of different languages and accents in existence today. What is amazing and beautiful is how language/writing in a common language allows people from wildly different backgrounds to communicate, as they do here on MB! I like that a lot.

Revol · 03-17-2010, 12:28 PM

I have a fookin' Norvern accent, kidderrs!

FETCHER. · 03-01-2011, 06:40 PM

the second guy is from somewhere 10mins away. but most of these people are very acurate to me

Dayvan Cowboy · 03-01-2011, 06:48 PM

A while ago I was told by some chick in the US that us new Brunswick-ers talk funny. I'm still trying to figure out what's odd about my speech. I occasionally pronounce something french-ish but no aboots or ehs.

Paedantic Basterd · 03-01-2011, 08:24 PM

This thread is a question I've always wondered about, but in regards to (what I consider) a very plain Canadian accent. When I was visiting Australia, I was often told that I wasn't funny, but that what I said was still so cool because of my accent. I imagine myself sounding goofy internationally, or at the very least quite boring, because American media is projected down everybody's throats and doesn't seem to be a scarcity.

EDIT: I remember, first ever day in Belfast, the old tour guide was asking us where we were from, and we must've epitomized the appearance of retardation, because he said really slowly and loudly for us "YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND ME, DO YOU?". It takes a couple of days to get used to hearing an accent so different.

EDIT: Haha, ****, these videos have me all psyched up for travel.

FETCHER. · 03-02-2011, 11:58 AM

I imagine myself to speak quite politely to other scottish people. Buuut to others I feel like I am speaking a foreign language.

ThePhanastasio · 03-02-2011, 12:53 PM

I have some weird bastardized accent from all of the acting I've done from the time I was a kid to the present. When I travel, people ask me if I'm from Vermont, and I have no idea how I managed to get a Vermont accent, having only been in that state a few times - and I talked like this before I got there. And people around here always ask me where I'm from, because they "can't place my accent".

I guess I'm happy that I somehow dodged the bullet and don't have the dreaded Eastern Kentucky accent. But at the same time, I kind of wish that I didn't sound weird to people who were born and raised for the most part (I did live on a military base in NC for a chunk of my childhood) the same place I was.

**Janszoon** · 03-02-2011, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by ThePhanastasio

I have no idea how I managed to get a Vermont accent

Too much Phish.

Thom Yorke · 03-02-2011, 05:00 PM

It is most definitely pronounced "sir-up" but I pronounce it "sear-up" anyways. I did it for so long before I knew it wasn't correct, and I'm not going to change now.

EDIT: Now I see that that discussion was from a year ago. Oh well. The point still stands.

03-17-2010, 12:28 PM	#343 (permalink)
Revol Clean Shirt Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Yorkshire - Home of the white rose, Emmerdale and the higest teen pregnancy rate. Posts: 68	I have a fookin' Norvern accent, kidderrs! __________________ *Belligerent ghouls run Manchester schools, spineless swines, cemented minds...*

03-01-2011, 08:24 PM	#346 (permalink)
Paedantic Basterd Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 5,184	This thread is a question I've always wondered about, but in regards to (what I consider) a very plain Canadian accent. When I was visiting Australia, I was often told that I wasn't funny, but that what I said was still so cool because of my accent. I imagine myself sounding goofy internationally, or at the very least quite boring, because American media is projected down everybody's throats and doesn't seem to be a scarcity. EDIT: I remember, first ever day in Belfast, the old tour guide was asking us where we were from, and we must've epitomized the appearance of retardation, because he said really slowly and loudly for us "YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND ME, DO YOU?". It takes a couple of days to get used to hearing an accent so different. EDIT: Haha, ***, these videos have me all psyched up for travel. Last edited by Paedantic Basterd; 03-01-2011 at 08:45 PM.*

03-02-2011, 12:53 PM	#348 (permalink)
ThePhanastasio Killed Laura Palmer Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Ashland, KY Posts: 1,679	I have some weird bastardized accent from all of the acting I've done from the time I was a kid to the present. When I travel, people ask me if I'm from Vermont, and I have no idea how I managed to get a Vermont accent, having only been in that state a few times - and I talked like this before I got there. And people around here always ask me where I'm from, because they "can't place my accent". I guess I'm happy that I somehow dodged the bullet and don't have the dreaded Eastern Kentucky accent. But at the same time, I kind of wish that I didn't sound weird to people who were born and raised for the most part (I did live on a military base in NC for a chunk of my childhood) the same place I was. __________________ Phish: Studio Discography Reviewed 100 Albums I Heartily Recommend My last.fm It's a hand-me-down, the thoughts are broken Perhaps they're better left unsung

03-01-2011, 06:48 PM	#345 (permalink)
Dayvan Cowboy Basscadet Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Antarctica Posts: 1,258	A while ago I was told by some chick in the US that us new Brunswick-ers talk funny. I'm still trying to figure out what's odd about my speech. I occasionally pronounce something french-ish but no aboots or ehs.

03-02-2011, 05:00 PM	#350 (permalink)
Thom Yorke Music Addict Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 1,848	It is most definitely pronounced "sir-up" but I pronounce it "sear-up" anyways. I did it for so long before I knew it wasn't correct, and I'm not going to change now. EDIT: Now I see that that discussion was from a year ago. Oh well. The point still stands.