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Re: Your Accent Abroad

Started by Sandra Craft, February 03, 2014, 03:32:39 PM

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Sandra Craft

Quote from: Crow on February 03, 2014, 11:27:04 AM
Quote from: BooksCatsEtc on February 02, 2014, 11:51:00 PM
I try not to talk at all around non-Americans.


Why is that?

Because their accents are usually very pretty and mine is not.  So I'd rather just listen.
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OldGit

Quote from: DoberI tend to adopt characteristics of the accent of the person I'm speaking to.

Me, too: my speech varies from fairly Herefordshire to immaculately posh, depending on where I am.  In Wales I find myself using a lot of Welsh phrases like 'duw, duw'.

In German I have a strong Schleswig-Holstein accent and sometime use dialect forms. 

Tank

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Speaking of other countries, I recently met up with some Brits that work for our company and were in Denver for a thing.  Do Brits typically kiss each other all of the time?  I got a lot of kisses. 
No we don't. But when abroad we pretend to be more 'European' IE French  ;D

I've never known British people to do that!
Of course not. You're English. It wouldn't work  ;)
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Especially my High German is very influenced by a Swiss - say Allemannic - accent. I could actually talk without it, but that sounds weird to me. So, let's rather sound like some kind of Rambo, who doesn't know proper pronunciation.  :P
In English that accent isn't that strong.
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We need audio on this thread.
If religions were TV channels atheism is turning the TV off.
"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt." ― Richard P. Feynman
'It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.' - Terry Pratchett
Remember, your inability to grasp science is not a valid argument against it.

OldGit

Quote from: BPEspecially my High German is very influenced by a Swiss - say Allemannic - accent. I could actually talk without it, but that sounds weird to me

Swiss people sound bloody weird to me, as a Fischkopf.  ;D

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Quote from: OldGit on October 20, 2015, 09:26:20 AM
Quote from: BPEspecially my High German is very influenced by a Swiss - say Allemannic - accent. I could actually talk without it, but that sounds weird to me

Swiss people sound bloody weird to me, as a Fischkopf.  ;D

That's indeed a common thing... sounding weird when talking High German. I find our dialects quite nice, though. ;)
"An atheist doesn't have to be someone who thinks he has a proof that there can't be a god. He only has to be someone who believes that the evidence on the God question is at a similar level to the evidence on the werewolf question."