Are you worried about your accent?
- T_Diamondposted 14 years ago
0 I also used to have a clear strange accent, but the remnants now are very tiny and few........ I'm blending in...
I don't have an accent.
I have an accent for most occasions
I don't care for the most part, as long as I can get the message across. Autoresponders hate me, though
Sure my accent gets in the way.... And I'm sure if you are a JAFA then your accent will be easily identified
Unlike yours I have a Kiwi Accent
Beeched Is , Bro
(Bad Kiwi accent said by an Australian, but typed out)
Never worry about accents as long as I can understand what is being said.
I guess I have an Australian accent, but not to another Australian.So No Rushin about and it slips out huh?
I was born and raised in the Boston area, and being a "verbal person", I think the whole language thing is particularly ingrained (no, embedded) in my brain. It's hopeless. I hate the Boston accent, but it's in every syllable I say. Last month I was talking to a guy from California and he said he was trying to figure out what country my accent was from!
When I knew I had to be the example for my little kids I cleaned up some of the most horrible parts of the Boston accent (and they don't have it the way I do). It's there, though. Fortunately, it isn't the same accent we hear when people are being interviewed on the news about crime incidents. It's "the other" one - slightly modified. I hate it. All my phones have the pre-recorded voicemail lady because of it.
- khmohsinposted 14 years ago0
- ralwusposted 14 years ago0
My former in-laws were from another state, and you'd think, based on their frequent comments, I came from Mars.
You know there's an issue when you speak perfectly distinct English and someone in another state still says he was trying to figure out what country you're from.
I'm from the Boston area too.
My parents have horrible accents but I don't. I pronounce my Rs where they should be. LOL
I think it's from growing up singing. We had to annunciate in chorus and it made it's way in to my every day voice.I used to feel bad when "ridiculed" by people over the "r thing". Then I realized, though, that if you listen to people from the UK they don't do that ridiculous over-sounding of their 'r's" either. A lot of the Boston area accent is either English/Irish based and some is more Italian based (that's not mine). So, I decided I"m not going to feel bad if it happens a lot of Boston people inherited an English that has strong roots in the original language, rather than being some mutated version of English that happened as a result of, say, Swedish people coming here and having different accents.
So, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. (What I hate about my own, and a lot other Boston-area people's) accent is the "short-clipping" of so many syllables.
(If nothing else, this thread will let people with accents from other countries know that a lot of us with no non-English accent squirm about our own accents too. )
I don't have an accent, but I'm from Texas. Whenever I visit Chicago to see my family, they always tell me my "accent" is interesting. lol.
I love hearing different accents!- sord87posted 14 years ago0
- klarawieckposted 14 years ago0
I like to accentuate the positive
What accent? From what I can tell I talk like the majority of people on TV and in movies....You know, the people not from New York or Down South or another country.
Yeah, guess I'd hafta say I'm mainstream American....Hmm .. I was born and raised in Bangkok, but my dad's from Chicago so I think I have a midwestern accent. I've never had any problems with people understanding me (and most people here in Japan say my accent is easy to understand), so I guess my accent's kinda mainstream as well. I love accents, though, especially English and Scottish
Big turn on! 
i bet you must have a very sexy accent though.
lol For some, yes. Especially when I speak French -- all my accents come out in full force and no one can understand me. lol
How are you Steven?I'm sick...dragged myself into work for 6:30 this morning but think I'm going to stay in tomorrow. Glad you're well.
- Stevennix2001posted 14 years ago0
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