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Dalieus Dakarn
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Posted - 2006.04.19 15:47:00 -
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I've had people off the street ask me if I'm Canadian.  I've never even been there before.
My accents come from:
English - Family Friend I grew up around
German- Lived there for 4 years
California/West Coast/Hawaii Dude talk - Lived there
Southern - live there (ugh.. wanna move. )
You wanna talk about "melting pot?" I'm it. 
Thankfully, nobody on TS has ever asked me about it. I'm good at picking out accents though. I tease a Scottish customer I have about being Australian. lol. Poor guy. You can TELL he's from Glasgow, but people ask him where in Australia he's from. Every once in a while, I tease him, asking if he's going back home to New Zealand.
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DirtyHarry
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Posted - 2006.04.19 15:47:00 -
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Scottish? just gets worst an worst
-Havo
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DirtyHarry ~ Havocide - yarr tbh
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Cmdr Patrick
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Posted - 2006.04.19 15:50:00 -
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shin ra sounds like gazmus...i have the deep sexy scottish voice they both wish they had...
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Daegone
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Posted - 2006.04.19 16:00:00 -
[34]
 Originally by: Cmdr Patrick
shin ra sounds like gazmus...i have the deep sexy scottish voice they both wish they had...
You mean you sound like Sean Connery? 
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lofty29
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Posted - 2006.04.19 16:03:00 -
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Edited by: lofty29 on 19/04/2006 16:04:05
Originally by: Laythun
People think im white and live in the suburbs when i speak on ts
You do live in wycombe tho  great place that is 
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Originally by: Oveur
I see boobies! \o/
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Exaali Vendraxxil
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Posted - 2006.04.19 17:38:00 -
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Edited by: Exaali Vendraxxil on 19/04/2006 17:38:27
I guess the important question is how good is your Sean Connery imitation?
And btw.. Haggis.. WTF?!
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Spartan239
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Posted - 2006.04.19 17:42:00 -
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pfft, first time i heard you on ts i knew you were scottish
I post on the forums for MaxSuicide that makes me cool?
Originally by: Dark Shikari
Dragonball Z> all other anime
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Shin Ra
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Posted - 2006.04.19 18:26:00 -
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Originally by: Leilani Solaris
So, if my maths is correct, you lived in america for a year or so and scotland for 90% of your life... that makes you 10 years old? that explains alot..
Just kidding
Edit: Typo
I also lived in London and Rome for several months each.
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Shin Ra
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Posted - 2006.04.19 18:28:00 -
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Originally by: Cmdr Patrick
shin ra sounds like gazmus...i have the deep sexy scottish voice they both wish they had...
I've also been told I sound like a guy called Lollerskates.
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Gazmus
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Posted - 2006.04.20 09:22:00 -
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lol yeah right pat! nah you sound too much like barry white for my liking!
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Leilani Solaris
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Posted - 2006.04.20 11:43:00 -
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Originally by: Shin Ra
Originally by: Leilani Solaris
So, if my maths is correct, you lived in america for a year or so and scotland for 90% of your life... that makes you 10 years old? that explains alot..
Just kidding
Edit: Typo
I also lived in London and Rome for several months each.
Hmm, so that raises the ages to... 10 and a half or so?
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Rulkez
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Posted - 2006.04.20 16:38:00 -
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it took 6 months before my corp mates got what i was saying, im scottish 
during those 6 months i got daily requests to do scotty from star trek quotes
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Drilla
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Posted - 2006.04.20 17:01:00 -
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A college teacher in english, from California but on vacation here in Copenhagen, asked me the other day how long I had lived in the US or Canada.
Never even been there, I just watch alot of TV were my response :)
Last vacation I almost got into trouble because some locals thught I was american :D
Seek not to bar my way, for I shall win through - no matter the cost! |
Beringe
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Posted - 2006.04.20 17:03:00 -
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I'm Icelandic, studying in the US at the moment.
I'm told that I sound English, both by vocabulary and emphasis. In fact, I definitely sound more Scandinavian than English, but my "careful voice" has strong elements of British english in it, because of the way I learned to speak.
Therefore, I have to say that "melting pot" accents = 4tw.
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Indra Sebuchiore
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Posted - 2006.04.20 17:35:00 -
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Geordie FTW - it confuses people from even 10 miles away 
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"In girum imus nocte, et consumimur igni."
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Verizana
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Posted - 2006.04.20 22:04:00 -
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Originally by: Shin Ra
Well, I've been told I sound like I'm:
American
Icelandic
Dutch
Australian
Sweedish
Danish
Canadian
I am in fact from Scotland. I was born here and am living here right now.
What the hell is up with that? How does one pick up an accent? I assumed it was from your parents (both mine are Scottish). Seems a bit odd that so many people think I'm American. I did live there for a year or so, but I would have thought that living in Scotland 90% of my life would have given me a Scottish accent, at least a little. It doesn't matter where its on TS, on the phone or face to face. Nobody thinks I sound Scottish, or even English.
So the real question is:
What is more sexy, a Scottish accent or my current "melting pot" accent?
who the **** said you sounded Icelandic? shame on him
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Galaxion
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Posted - 2006.04.20 22:06:00 -
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meh, you all need to bow down to the b*****d child of the greatest accent in the world (the greatest being the irish accent) - the Northern Irish accent. It's a curse
WHY CAN'T I SOUND NORMAL!!!
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Ebedar
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Posted - 2006.04.20 22:12:00 -
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Heh, I remember being repeatedly asked to repeat what I had said on Vent for a while.
Still happens sometimes; I have a tendency to slip into my Leeds accent which not a lot of people get (especially non-native speakers, which is understandable). According to some of my mates from my time at Uni, they couldn't understand what I was saying for the first 3 months we were studying together :P
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The Dominix: A Documentary
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Verone
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Posted - 2006.04.21 06:38:00 -
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Originally by: sheppeh
Well no one can understand what I say
ps; Im scottish.
Geordie - I have the same problem mate. 
VETO MEMBER MOVIES
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Spartan239
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Posted - 2006.04.21 11:57:00 -
[50]
Originally by: Verone
Originally by: sheppeh
Well no one can understand what I say
ps; Im scottish.
Geordie - I have the same problem mate.
hehe gedie
for the record, London>rest of uk
I post on the forums for MaxSuicide that makes me cool?
Originally by: Dark Shikari
Dragonball Z> all other anime
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Chrisb6122
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Posted - 2006.04.21 13:57:00 -
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Originally by: Spartan239
Originally by: Verone
Originally by: sheppeh
Well no one can understand what I say
ps; Im scottish.
Geordie - I have the same problem mate.
hehe gedie
for the record, London>rest of uk
Manchester > london easily,
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Drizit
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Posted - 2006.04.21 23:12:00 -
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Originally by: Galaxion
meh, you all need to bow down to the b*****d child of the greatest accent in the world (the greatest being the irish accent) - the Northern Irish accent. It's a curse
WHY CAN'T I SOUND NORMAL!!!
The problem I have with the Irish is that they talk at 90 miles an hour. I always thought the saying was that the Scottish were penny pinchers but I think the Irish learned to talk like that to keep phone call costs low.
It would be easier to understand an Irishman if they slowed it down a bit.
Personally, I like the Welsh accent, a sing-song accent I could listen to all day. Failing that, my ex-wife is from Dundee and I went up there to visit her relatives, it's a nice smooth accent not like the stoccato Glasgow accent.
The trouble I had with Scottish is not the accent, which I could understand easily, it was the way they said things. Like "going for the messages" = Going shopping. It's really confusing 
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Constantine Arcanum
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Posted - 2006.04.21 23:27:00 -
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Originally by: Haxar
Originally by: Nafri
german accent 4tw
What are you sinking about?
Zis is der german coast guard...
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Constantine Arcanum
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Posted - 2006.04.21 23:29:00 -
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1bill ISK for whoever can guess where Brinscall is...
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Chrisb6122
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Posted - 2006.04.21 23:37:00 -
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Originally by: Constantine Arcanum
1bill ISK for whoever can guess where Brinscall is...
erm
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Shin Ra
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Posted - 2006.04.21 23:51:00 -
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Originally by: Constantine Arcanum
Originally by: Haxar
Originally by: Nafri
german accent 4tw
What are you sinking about?
Zis is der german coast guard...
LOL. What are u sinking about?
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Constantine Arcanum
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Posted - 2006.04.21 23:57:00 -
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Originally by: Chrisb6122
Originally by: Constantine Arcanum
1bill ISK for whoever can guess where Brinscall is...
erm
I said guess, not cheat by using the bragternet.
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Soulis
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Posted - 2006.04.22 09:15:00 -
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i've lived in scotland all my life, i dont think my accent is that strong. infact i don't think in general people from edinburgh have strong accents prob to do with the bloody tourists
Shinra - The Good Guys
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Ocid
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Posted - 2006.04.22 09:31:00 -
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Originally by: HippoKing
depends what kind of scottish
glasgow 4tl
edinborough 4tw
blasphemy
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M3ta7h3ad
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Posted - 2006.04.22 11:04:00 -
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Welshman here, South Wales Valleys.
Regularly get called scottish (I say "aye" a lot... which apparantly is scottish), or australian when im in work on the phone to students.
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