Accents

[Elvellyn]

I don't really know. I can tell that there is a difference, but I wouldn't be able to pinpoint which is which.

[TheCheat]

I have that good ol' Chicago accent lol. the is da, for is fur and, well at least in my family, we speak fast. But nowadays many countries, states, whatever speak fast its just the generation in my opinion. I'm not too fond of accents, because I can never understand someone with a different accent. No matter how close it is to my own! lol But I have always found the Irish accent to be somewhat interesting, its also the hardest one for me to mimick. I could never be in a movie where I had to do an Irish accent!

[Linaewen]

Originally Posted by Last Child of Ungoliant

i often can not understand americans, it's all the words they use for things that mean something completely different over here, things like: pants, chips, cell and good ness knows what else, not to mention the spellings

'Pants' as in the noun? What else does it mean besides the item of clothing you wear on your legs?
I can understand Americans fine because we get so much of their TV. The converse is not necessarily true.

Originally Posted by Andúril

]I'll see what I can do this weekend. No promises though, but I'll see if I can grab some sound from the video clips I shot over the last year...

Ta muchly. Would be great to hear it.

[The Gaffer]

Originally Posted by Linaewen

the item of clothing you wear on your legs?

That would be trousers.

Pants are the undergarments worn around the nether regions to keep your turkey giblets under control.

[Last Child of Ungoliant]

Originally Posted by linaewen

'Pants' as in the noun? What else does it mean besides the item of clothing you wear on your legs?

like the gaffer says, the clothes you wear on yer legs are trousers, pants are undergarments

[Linaewen]

Hahah, really? We refer to trousers as pants. Undergarments are..undergarments. Or underwear/undies/jocks/knickers, that kinda thing.

So if I said 'I like your pants' you'd be like o.O

[Andúril]

Originally Posted by Last Child of Ungoliant

like the gaffer says, the clothes you wear on yer legs are trousers, pants are undergarments

We use pants and trousers interchangeably. Underpants/briefs/jocks or boxers are your pants, I suppose.

[The Gaffer]

Pants: knacks, keks, trolleys, undercrackers, Ys (from Y-fronts), fairy hammock, scanties (my favourite)

Trousers: troos, strides, breeks (my favourite)

e.g. "Ma breeks are hummin' coz ah dinnae wear ony scanties."

:P

[Khamûl]

Gives new meaning to No Pants Day, doesn't it?

http://www.nopantsday.com/

[Andúril]

ftp://ftp.uunet.co.za/pub/incoming/A.../Paragraph.wav (anonymous login; 28KB)

The opening paragraph of the most depressing email I've ever written, written 29 April, read this morning. More available on request.

[Telcontar_Dunedain]

Originally Posted by Linaewen

.../jocks/...

Here jocks are people who do sport all the time!

[Linaewen]

Originally Posted by Andúril

ftp://ftp.uunet.co.za/pub/incoming/A.../Paragraph.wav (anonymous login; 28KB)

The opening paragraph of the most depressing email I've ever written, written 29 April, read this morning. More available on request.

Oh I like your accent! It sounds very British to me, apart from a few sounds (but I could just be making them up in an effort to find some differences between your accent and a British one :P). Thank you for that. More please, if you don't mind.

Does anyone else have a mic? I think it'd be fun if we could perhaps record the same passage in our different accents, and post them here. I'll record something, just tell me what. I know a site where you can store large files (and download them rapidly) but the file is only stored for 7 days. Anyone else know a place that would host the files if we recorded some?

[Lenya]

Originally Posted by Last Child of Ungoliant

at least i, as an englishman, can remember when to put a 'u' in a word!

Hahahaha! I back you in that.

And Linaewen, how could I get a recording on the Moot?

[Andúril]

Originally Posted by Linaewen

Oh I like your accent! It sounds very British to me, apart from a few sounds (but I could just be making them up in an effort to find some differences between your accent and a British one :P). Thank you for that. More please, if you don't mind. [/qb]

Thanks. I'm not sure how you can see similarities between mine and British accents, as I can spot a brit a mile a way from his/her accent, and I honestly don't think I sound like them!

What I'll do is record a blog entry that I posted last night. I will only be able to put it up on the net tomorrow some time, since my phone syncstation is at home (and I use my phone to record my voice).

I know a site where you can store large files (and download them rapidly) but the file is only stored for 7 days. Anyone else know a place that would host the files if we recorded some?

You can try: ftp://ftp.uunet.co.za/pub/incoming/ . It helps to have an FTP application through which you'd login anonymously, create folders and paste whatever you'd want to. There is also a 7-day "time-to-live" at that site. As you can see, that's where I uploaded my clip. I've uploaded files there, close on 100MB before; the host is stable, but will never serve as more than temporary storage.

[Andúril]

ftp://ftp.uunet.co.za/pub/incoming/A...Blog260605.wav (324KB)

This one is my blog entry from Sunday. Yay!

[BeardofPants]

*twitch* All this talk of pants is making me my ears burn.

[Linaewen]

Originally Posted by Andúril

ftp://ftp.uunet.co.za/pub/incoming/A...Blog260605.wav (324KB)

This one is my blog entry from Sunday. Yay!

Thank you, it's great!

Ok, in that one you sounded more like the teacher from SA that I was talking about before. Though it still sounds largely British.

PS: Kudos to you, Andúril! What a horrible time you're going through. I hope things get better soon

Lenya, that's what I was talking about before. I think I'll upload a recording once I make one and provide the link from www.yousendit.com.

Anyone else willing to do a recording?

[Lenya]

Originally Posted by BeardofPants

*twitch* All this talk of pants is making me my ears burn.

Hi! Where have you been hiding? Haven't seen you around in ages.

[Fenir_LacDanan]

Originally Posted by TheCheat

I have always found the Irish accent to be somewhat interesting, its also the hardest one for me to mimick.

Well well. It seems that the ole local accent is a popular one!

Just to throw it out there, I'm not an un attractive fellow, to be sure, but neither am I Colin Farrel, all dashing and swearing my arse off. But, to credit, my esteemed countryman and myself do indeed share one sure fire way to get the fair ladies swooning...

THE ACCENT BABY!

All you gotta do in the US or Australia is just speal of a few choice phrases or words and you'll be the belle of the ball...er..bar.

And if you particularly hamm it up, and use old phrases like "top o the mornin' ta ya", or "May the road rise to meet you...", which we Irish very seldom use, by the by, your in for a good night.

Come on now ladies, admit it. you all think us natives of Eire are charming and funny, (though however, we are neither, but rather drunk and annoying, Ireland's best kept secret...) and who wouldn't have a crack at Ole Col Farrel should the opportunity arise?

Oh, and top o the mornin' ta ya all.

[The Gaffer]

Originally Posted by Fenir_LacDanan

(though however, we are neither, but rather drunk and annoying, Ireland's best kept secret...)

"best"???? Surely "worst"?