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Miscellaneous => General Chat => Topic started by: Khold on December 20, 2005, 11:27:24 PM
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I'm just curious as to what kind of accent people have. I was born in Scottland so, obviously I have a European accent...
What kind of accent do you have?
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Australian, in a way.
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Good thread! *Remembers MS Paint topic*
Anyways, I can't say I have one, but I can sound like I have an Italian accent.
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I have a bit of a hick accent, being born and raised in the middle of the Hick State.
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I have a long southern drawl or as Watoad put it, a "twang". I'm from Mississippi, but now live in California.
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I have a bit of a hick accent, being born and raised in the middle of the Hick State.
What excactly is a "Hick"?
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I live in Ohio, of course I don't!
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If you're going to ask someone what a hick is, you'd be asking me. They're very... er... simple people. I'm surrounded by them.
As for an accent... I don't. Well, I guess someone British would think I do, but I talk like a regular American-type of person. That's so boring. I wish i had a cool accent. Great jaerb for a topic.
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Koop has a Deezer accent! :D
Accents are all relative; everyone always has an accent to someone else. I have a typical American "non-accent" accent, or something. I've lived in Maryland, Northern Cali, and a very non-Southern-like area of NC where almost no one I know is from originally, if that helps.
According to this test (http://www.blogthings.com/amenglishdialecttest/) I just found thanks to Google...
Your Linguistic Profile:
75% General American English
15% Yankee
5% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern
And according to this (http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/yankeetest.html) test, I'm:
57% (Dixie). Right on the Mason-Dixon Line
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"Deezer accent," ahahaha!
I'm from near Chicago but I don't think I have a full-blown "ChiKAYgo" accent or anything. Although, I would say I have a slight drawl. (Of course, the way YOU talk sounds normal to yourself, so nobody here is going to think of themselves having an accent.)
When my buddy and I met some e-friends from Oklahoma years ago, they claimed we had slight accents, but only in certain words with O's in them or something.
When I met MB, who is from Virginia, I didn't notice any accent.
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I don't have an accent, except maybe the word "sorry".
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I try to conceal my east Texas accent but it sometimes pops out when I'm not listening to myself. I also say "y'all" and "ain't" without realizing it.
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I don't have an accent, except maybe the word "sorry".
What?!! You are totally afflicted with the phenomenon known as Canadian rising, as if you were born in that mysterious land of the north. We discussed this in LA (though I hadn't learned the term "Canadian rising" yet), and most or all of us agreed that you sound like a Canadian. Your /o/ sound (as in Watoad) especially gives away your true identity.
A Malaysian friend of mine who went to elementary school in Oxford, England told me that my English sounds like standard, international English, which apparently means the general lack of an accent. There may have been a Japanese person or two who told me that as well. In any case, it's possible that accents aren't all relative—though I haven't studied the subject myself, and I've no idea what the "officials" would be using as the control against which all other accents are determined.
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So you're saying that my /ai/ and /au/ become /œi/ and /œu/, respectively?
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Here's something from Koopaslaya. Do we still think he sounds like me?
Deez_vs_Koop.mp3 (http://kontek.net/deezer/Deez_vs_Koop.mp3)
Original: deezblitz.mp3 (http://kontek.net/deezer/deezblitz.mp3)
The "Deezer" Accent.
Ah yes, and Sapph's test.
85% General American English
10% Yankee
5% Midwestern
0% Dixie
0% Upper Midwestern
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If some of the stuff I'm saying doesn't make sense, then that's okay; I wouldn't have understood it myself (or even said it in the first place) if not for the Linguistics class I just took.
First of all, I was incorrect; it's actually called Canadian Raising (http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/Canadian/canphon3.html#diphthongs). If you follow that link, then click the links in the table there to get a feel for what Canadian Raising sounds like.
According to that page, only two of the three diphthongs in English are affected by Canadian Raising. Let me attempt to explain this. A diphthong is a vowel sound that actually consists of two different sounds, but we usually think of it as just one. Take a look:
- The underlined sound in bake isn't just a strong a sound, but the e (as in Japanese sensei) and y (as in yes) sounds combined. This diphthong is represented phonetically as [ej]. (The phonetic symbol for the y sound is [j].)
- Likewise, the underlined sound in bite is a combination of a (as in Japanese katana) and y. This diphthong is represented phonetically as [aj].
- Finally, the underlined sound in rope is a combination of o (as in the Japanese pronunciation of Mario) and w (as in will). This diphthong is represented phonetically as [ow].
Supposedly only the first two diphthongs above are susceptible to Canadian Raising, but I notice the difference in you particularly with the third one. Instead of saying [Watowd], you seem to say [Watʊwd] (where [ʊ] is the sound in book). The science of what is happening to the vowel is the same as the real Canadian Raising, but since it isn't officially recognized, I guess that makes you an alien. Good job, Alien Lizard Dude! ::)
As for the difference between the /a/ and /œ/ sounds, the movement of the tongue from the first to the second isn't one of raising but of moving forward a little. Compare how your tongue feels when saying the respective sounds in pot and pat, and you might see what I mean.
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According to Sapph's test:
55% General American English
30% Yankee
15% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
Though, I would say I don't have any thick accent at all. My parents have slight New Yorker accents (my father grew up in Queens, my mother, in New Jersey (NOT Joisey)), but that is nowhere to be found in my brother, my sister and I, though I can "fake" a New Yorker accent pretty well.
For the most part, I speak in a normal (whatever you would call normal) way. Though, at times, my short "a" sounds a bit in between a short and long "a" (think "air", without the r sound). Other than that, I speak like a no-accented person...thing.
Though, here are a few examples of my parents speaking:
"Alissa, do you want a hamburguh, or a cheeseburguh?"
"Remember when Alissa still played with Bawbie dolls?"
"There's the eggzit, over there!"
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I have an alien accent.
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I have an asian-accent, since I was born in the islands of Philipines. Gosh, so hard to type up Philipines.
Whenever I say something with a very big tounge move, like 'lick', big wads of spit go in every direction. Happily, it is rare now a days.
*spits on monitor*
I like this topic.
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A Myrtle Beach man informed me and my father that we have Michigan accents.
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Fellow Ohioans gather! I'm Polish and everyone thinks its weird that I hiss my "S's".
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Ohio COnvention right here. 3 Ohio posts in a row.
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Buckeyes!!!!!!!! (__) A buckeye!
Tony Packo's!!! Gino's Pizza!!! Football!!!!
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I was looking around in the topic: "What does your voice sound like?", and I already heard alot of people's voices. I would like to hear more of you, though.
I would record myself, but I'm nervous. :-[
Watoad's voice sounds EXCACTLY like my friend! And Deezer's voice sounds similar to my brother, except for the accent. I want to hear Mr.Melee, dude677, Vidgmchtr(error in his last link), and Sapphira's voice. I'm just curious because of how they type.
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I have a Philippino accent.
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i have a californian accent
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And Deezer's voice sounds similar to my brother, except for the accent.
What accent do I have?
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What accent do I have?
American accent. We are from Scottland, so...
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Oh, that's right.
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I was born in the "mysterious" land of the north, and have that kind of accent, apparently. I don't ever notice it, but when I went down to Kentucky, everyone seemed to point it out...
EDIT: I live in MN, by the way.
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I would record myself, but I'm nervous. :-[
Watoad's voice sounds EXCACTLY like my friend!
Don't worry; girls tend not to provide samples of their voices around here. Only one ever has (as far as I know). So there's no pressure.
Oh no! Re-attack of the clones!! *yells or screams in fright*
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Since I put up a picture refresher: The Voice of TEM. (http://www.kontek.net/TEM/VoiceClip.wav)
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No, you don't want to hear Vidgmchtr. You don't. He'll... he'll sing... Song of Storms... no.... NOOOOO!
/me falls to his knees, wailing, gnashing his teeth, and beating his breast.
On the plus side, I would like to hear Khold sometime. I sure do enjoy a yarn told me by a wee Scottish lass.
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Last time a made a refrence to that, Vid became enraged in a fury of fire and death.
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The fact that you make it sound like I literally sound horrible (the first one was intended to sound bad, as I've said for the kajillionth time) annoyed me.
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70% General American English
15% Dixie
15% Yankee
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
That's me, I can agree with that even though I live right in the middle of east Texas, I have a friend who moved from Minnesota and I have been afflicted with his accent. There are times when my accent wavers to eastern texan but I really try not to have one b/c I hate being stereotyped as redneck/hick. But yea, I agree with the test.
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I would like to go on the official record with this:
It literally sounds horrible.
Thank you.
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Yes, it does sound horrible, but Koop made it sound like I myself sound horrible, and associated my voice with just that.
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My Linguistic Profile:
75% General American English
20% Upper Midwestern
5% Midwestern
0% Dixie
0% Yankee
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No, I to afraid to show my voice. :'( All I'll do is play my guitar or something. NOT MY VOICE! (Even though it IS a common voice...)
I MIGHT if Sapphira does hers first. ::)
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I don't have a mic, though. ...But you can hear what I sound like on #29 and 30 of Chup's E3 videos. (I'm too lazy to link them, and it's more fun this way. :D) I might link them in the Voice topic eventually.
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I don't have a mic, though. ...But you can hear what I sound like on #29 and 30 of Chup's E3 videos. (I'm too lazy to link them, and it's more fun this way. :D)
Where do I find them? On his website?
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Meh, I'm nice. XP
http://www.chupnet.com/E3/
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Is that you on the phone on #30?
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I'm on the phone in both 29 and 30. I'm in 29 more, I think.
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Kool. ;)
You sound different than what I expected though... I don't know why. I'll get my voice up when I over come my fears. :-[ I'll record you something else in the meantime though! Um... Want to hear my brother? Or, my guitar? ;)
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XD
Well, I don't know how accurate it sounds, considering it's over a cell phone, on speaker-phone, on video tape, and then through your comp's speakers. Not to mention I sound different in my own head. It probably sounds like me, just poor quality.
Those guys crack me up, in those vids. XD
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Yeah.
Somehow Lizard Dude reminds me of my father though... Mabey it's the way he acts and looks like. It's weird. (Wow, how did we get off topic like this?)
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Lizard Dude pronounces "bag" like ... "beaeg".
I totally want to hear Khold's voice.
Ahem:
70% General American English
10% Yankee
5% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern
I can't say this is totally accurate, though, because I say "route" both "root" and "rowt" and also hear "catty-corner" more than I say it, but might occasionally say it. Also, I have no term for an "easy class".
I know a girl from Chicago who is way more Chicagoan than Deezer. She says things like "sammich" and "Chicaggo" and also has the Lizard Dude "o" thing happening.
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I need an MP3 player w/ a voice recorder now! My voice is messed up, though, by microphones. :( Once Christmas comes, and if I get an MP3 player w/ a voice recorder, I'll see if I can post my voice.
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My voice sounds kiddy when I listen to digital versions. (ie. Tapes)
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I need an MP3 player w/ a voice recorder now! My voice is messed up, though, by microphones. :( Once Christmas comes, and if I get an MP3 player w/ a voice recorder, I'll see if I can post my voice.
Microphones show you what your voice really sounds like, you can't hear your voice the exact way it really sounds, so, microphones do that. The reason you don't hear your voice the way it really sounds like is because, your voice echos in your ear that makes it kind of disorted when it comes to your ear.
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wow...no wonder i sound older when im using a mic at graduation. my singing voice sounds different to me than it really iswierd 0_o
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Tapes are not digital.
Microphones can't perfectly duplicate the human ear, so there is a variance there. While it's true that a person's voice sounds different to the person than to other people, it isn't because of microphones. Other people hear something close to the "microphone" sound when you talk to them. Echoing and distortion are not the reasons for hearing your own voice differently.
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Yeah, I forgot that.
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My microphone just ran out of battteries. This really bums me out. I should get a file up soon...
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My microphone just ran out of battteries. This really bums me out. I should get a file up soon...
How can a microphone run out of batteries? I thought they get their power from the computer...
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No, mine runs on batteries. It is a big one, that makes a good sound.
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Oh, I see. I think I already heard your voice, too. You have kind of a southern accent, at least that's what it sounded like the last time.
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The odd thing about tapes is that they can be used to store digital information. I have run into two examples of this so far:
1. Myself and others recently filmed (not quite a digital-sounding term, I know, but I believe it is still used regardless) a little promotional video with a sweet Sony digital, high-definition camera. The recorded information, though digital, was stored on a tape until we ran it through a FireWire cable and into my computer. (Once I complete editing, I may upload and post a link to the video in the LizCam thread.)
2. My older brother works with the world's most powerful supercomputer at a government laboratory in Livermore, CA. That system has I don't know how many terabytes of storage capacity, most or all of which is comprised of tapes that robot arms move back and forth between the supercomputer and places where the tapes are kept when not in use.
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I don't believe I have an accent. Though I have heard outsiders call it "Nasally" for what it's worth.
As for that test, I came up: 38% (Yankee). You are definitely a Yankee.
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I have a slight Texan accent. (It's 'cause I'm from Texas. Duh.)
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I have a slight Texan accent. (It's 'cause I'm from Texas. Duh.)
Really? What city?
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The Colony, Texas. It's a small town close to Plano, Lewisville, Frisco and other towns you've never heard of. In short, it's near Dallas.
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I wish I was allowed to say what city I'm from.
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Oh, I'm from Spring, right on the edge of Houston.
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I'm from Ohio, that city right there. See it?
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Grrrr, I have to come back to Texas! (I'll be going back to Texas next year.)
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That's awesome! I love it when there are members from the same state.
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I've been to South Carolina, and the accents there are very peculiar compared to mine.
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I talk like myself.