Accents

[bankside]

I prefer the accent of anyone who would be qualified as a TV presenter in his native language.

Some languages have a wider range of register, from educated to bumpkin, while other languages are more uniform. I hate bumpkin, in any language. Strangely, in some languages that would be a point of pride.

My own accent is prairie Canadian in English, and a total mish-mash in French. In French I speak a Parisian-Belgian Colonial-Swiss-Québécois blend that sounds to native speakers of all of those varieties as though I was educated in one of the other places.

 

[bankside]

Is there a COMPLETE transcription of the Newfie speech in that commercial that could be shared with us?

EDIT: ok, is this really TOTALLY ACCURATE? ...How's ya getting on me son? She was born and bred back home eh. Called the Nissan X-trail Bonavista. Take a gander at that Pana Roof budday, if that don't put a gust in your spinnaker i don't know what would. And look at the wheels on 'er, got enough alloy in there to fill a bucket. Ya got the climate control on the inside in case you gots the mudder-in-law with ya...

Well, I think it would be better to transcribe it as "Yeh gots da climate control..."
but that is right for the first half of the commercial.

Umm. No one in Newfoundland usually speaks that way unless they are trying to confuse the mainlanders. Or, if they are drunk and upset, then it starts sounding a bit like that.

 

[gsdx]

Umm. No one in Newfoundland usually speaks that way unless they are trying to confuse the mainlanders. Or, if they are drunk and upset, then it starts sounding a bit like that.

Yeah. Jimmy Flynn can get his tongue going when he puts his mind to it:

 

[bankside]

gsdx, i thought we talked about this. We're marketing the Canadian image of the sexy lumberjacks, not the doughy fishermen.

Hell, I'd be happy with sexy fishermen!

 

[wrestlingobsessed]

Well i was with a canadian man thursday night and he had a hot enough accent.

 

[gsdx]

gsdx, i thought we talked about this. We're marketing the Canadian image of the sexy lumberjacks, not the doughy fishermen.

Oh, yeah. Right. Sorry.

 

[ozguy]

Thanks for that; I uploaded a clip of me speaking years ago and I'd forgotten to remove it ... anyway, it's now successfully deleted.

I've deleted all mine, too. Wasn't comfortable having them out there in cyber space.

 

[Ram]

I think accents from Europe (Russia included), North America and Australia are overrated.

I can't stand accents. I rather hear your content and tone.

 

[The_Reaper]

I've been told I have a 'Canadian' accent, but I just don't hear it...I suppose it doesn't help that I can muster up a few accents at will; namely British, Russian, Southern USA, and a few others to mask my own voice, and do so I think convincingly.

As for which accents I like the most...There is always something sexy about a British accent, or any UK/Commonwealth accent. Spanish comes a pretty close second.

 

[NineOfClubs]

My favorites are Irish, English, and French.

Some Spanish accents are attractive, as are Indian.

 

[shadow-clouds]

I've got a British accent (though, I might add, it sounds NOTHING like Dick van Dyke in Mary Poppins!)

As for which ones I like, I'm particularly partial to the majority of American accents, especially Southern drawls. The one word that always pushes me way over the edge is when "vehicle" is pronounced "vee-hickel" with emphasis on the "H" - no idea why but it really turns me on (which can be a problem mid-way through CSI )

 

[gsdx]

I've got a British accent (though, I might add, it sounds NOTHING like Dick van Dyke in Mary Poppins!)

Nobody sounds like Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins. That's why he didn't even try to fake an accent in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

 

[OnixWish]

I have a southern accent. I didnt even know about it until i went to california and people asked if i was from mississippi or something lol. i love the british and aussie accent!

 

[gsdx]

One accent I find somewhat amusing is a New England accent in which the R's migrate from word to word:

"I sar him down by the hahbah saring a dresser drah in half."

 

[unloadonme]

I've got a British accent (though, I might add, it sounds NOTHING like Dick van Dyke in Mary Poppins!)

There's no such thing as a single British accent, unless you mean BBC English or RP (received pronunciation). There are in fact a wide variety of regional accents and, being Britain, there's usually a social class element rolled in for good measure.

Noboby in Britain sounds like Dick van Dyke in Mary Poppins!

 

[gsdx]

^ really?!

So, Van Dyke just made that up

kewl

Not really. It was just his (pitiful) attempt at a Cockney accent.

Enjoy (or shudder, as the case may be):

 

[Ekim23]

I got a thing for southern accent...