Some of that makes me wonder how you can tell it all apart - yet after living down here for 5 years, I can tell a Charlotte native from a mountain yokel, and NC accents are slightly different from So VA accents, and so on. It's very very strange.
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 RE: 'ow I spake
February 24, 2012 at 12:08 am
(This post was last modified: February 24, 2012 at 12:09 am by Cyberman.)
It's interesting what you accept as ordinary or even instinctive when you're brought up with it. As a nominally-relevant example, I have two aunts who are identical twins. Everyone I know outside the family cannot tell them apart when they're together, yet I have never had any trouble - I can tell at a glance. I suppose it's similar to distinguishing between all these accents and dialects. Conversely, other than certain distinctive accents, I find it hard to tell American accents apart; at least to the extent that a native speaker would be able to.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
Born of Mancunian parents, and lived most of my life just outside Liverpool... I have now lived in leafy Surrey for 8 years - my accent would probably sound scouse to most, but I wont rob your wheels and leave your car on bricks.
 
I have an accent that is between Brabants (where I was born) and Rotterdams (where I now live) and a good deal of Flemish in between. I tend to cut back on the Flemish when I'm not in Belgium, but whenever I'm in Rotterdam people thing I'm from Brabant, and when in Roosendaal people think I am a Rotterdammer. I just can't win.
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Leo van Miert Horsepower is how hard you hit the wall --Torque is how far you take the wall with you 
Now I just want all you boys on a AF Google+ Hang-out so I can drink in your accents.
(February 24, 2012 at 10:01 am)Chuff Wrote: Born of Mancunian parents, and lived most of my life just outside Liverpool... I have now lived in leafy Surrey for 8 years - my accent would probably sound scouse to most, but I wont rob your wheels and leave your car on bricks. Me neither, I'd just rob the wheels and not bother with the bricks.
Best regards,
Leo van Miert Horsepower is how hard you hit the wall --Torque is how far you take the wall with you
(February 24, 2012 at 10:21 am)leo-rcc Wrote:(February 24, 2012 at 10:01 am)Chuff Wrote: Born of Mancunian parents, and lived most of my life just outside Liverpool... I have now lived in leafy Surrey for 8 years - my accent would probably sound scouse to most, but I wont rob your wheels and leave your car on bricks. This is why i don't go North. Southern softy's don't belong there.
I'm bridging the north south divide and educating everyone down here to talk proper
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