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Accent Tag! You're It.
RE: Accent Tag! You're It.
I hail from the DC metropolitan area, and we have a very unremarkable accent around here (possibly since we have so many different people here from all sorts of different places), I might do this some later time, but my accent is like vanilla, totally inconspicuous and unremarkable, not the kind where you would be able to tell where I come from (my voice however, is fantastic, or so I've been told).

I do feel the need to point something out that absolutely NOBODY should care about. There are three unrelated species of arthropods that are referred to as "daddy-long legs," a family of cellar spiders, a separate order of arachnids known commonly as harvestmen, and the crane-fly. It doesn't help that the cellar spiders and the harvestmen look very similar.
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(June 21, 2013 at 11:09 pm)Tartarus Sauce Wrote: I do feel the need to point something out that absolutely NOBODY should care about. There are three unrelated species of arthropods that are referred to as "daddy-long legs," a family of cellar spiders, a separate order of arachnids known commonly as harvestmen, and the crane-fly. It doesn't help that the cellar spiders and the harvestmen look very similar.

I've cared about this before. A lot of things called daddy longlegs are really spiders but not the type I've ever seen in Texas.

This is what I've seen here that we call that: A true daddy-long-legs is actually not a spider at all! Unlike other arachnids, which have 2 body segments, a daddy-long-legs just has 1. They not only have no venom, they also have no fangs. They have a tough time killing anything, let alone a human being. They usually feed off of dead plant and animal matter.

Read more: http://healthmad.com/conditions-and-dise...z2WuZAsWFU

On top of that, growing up Cicadas were called Locust by everyone. Locust were just called another type of Grasshopper.

So growing in church hearing about a plague of locust I was picturing huge hordes of Cicadas flying over Egypt.

Let my people go or these fuckers are going to fly around screaming at you.

How weird.
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Here is mine... as an MP3. Apologies for being a bit weird. lol

(If I can embed this thing, I have no clue how... If anyone has he power to do it for me if possible, that would be nice. Smile)

http://chirb.it/22syf2
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You sound young, Nora! May I ask how old you are?

(June 21, 2013 at 11:09 pm)Tartarus Sauce Wrote: I hail from the DC metropolitan area, and we have a very unremarkable accent around here (possibly since we have so many different people here from all sorts of different places), I might do this some later time, but my accent is like vanilla, totally inconspicuous and unremarkable, not the kind where you would be able to tell where I come from (my voice however, is fantastic, or so I've been told).
I don't know about that... I've met some native Washingtonians with very pronounced accents. But I'm from the mid-west (mainly), I think everyone has an accent Tongue
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I'm 26 :D
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(June 21, 2013 at 11:09 pm)Tartarus Sauce Wrote: I hail from the DC metropolitan area,

Whereabouts? We're (bf and I) are 'coming home' to NOVA next weekend so he can see DC for the first time.
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(June 22, 2013 at 11:35 am)NoraBrimstone Wrote: Here is mine... as an MP3. Apologies for being a bit weird. lol

(If I can embed this thing, I have no clue how... If anyone has he power to do it for me if possible, that would be nice. Smile)

http://chirb.it/22syf2

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I wish!
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Very cute voice! <3

This is a fun game. Gives me an excuse to have my voice out there. I need to vlog, but have nothing to vlog about.
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RE: Accent Tag! You're It.
As a native Long Islander, you will hear me pronounce Long Island as "Lawn Guyland" and street as "shreet". I also change the "o" to "aw" and I change "hu" to "you" in most words. No matter how frequently I've lived outside New York, my accent is relentless. I finally began losing it about ten years ago, but then I returned to the island and got it back. Lol.


Also, this video is related to this topic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJzq-QNV690
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