Do you lack a "regional accent" because of A.S

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25 Oct 2013, 9:46 am

i do not have an accent. as far as i am concerned, i am the only one in the world who speaks without an accent.

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25 Oct 2013, 10:34 am

b9 wrote:

i do not have an accent. as far as i am concerned, i am the only one in the world who speaks without an accent.

Funny. I thought *I* was the only one...

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25 Oct 2013, 12:24 pm

Forevernuts wrote:

I suppose this mainly applies to people in the U.S (and Canada I guess) as not many countries have as many dramatically different regional accents as the United States.

I've always thought that for a small country, the UK has some very different sounding regional accents although international media doesn't really seem to portray those all that frequentely.

How I speak depends on who I am speaking to and if I'm in a conversation with someone who speaks in a standard English/Recieved Pronounciation manner then I will pick up on that and speak without my own regional accent. Althjernatively, if I'm speaking to someone with any kind of regional accent I tend to find that my own accent will be more obvious even though it may not be the same as the person I'm talking to.

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26 Oct 2013, 2:02 pm

Asperger96 wrote:

Hmm... I how can you not have any accent? Like whom would you sound?

I do pronounce Water as 'Wooder' like all the Baltimorians, but is that an accent or a dialect?

They mean your accent is 'neutral' or 'standardized'

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26 Oct 2013, 2:30 pm

Dutchy wrote:

I don't see the connection between accents and ass, actually. The way you speak is more of an cultural thing i think. And you don't only get the influence on the people who raise you. So i don't think that when you don't speak with the same accent as your household/village/city/family or whatever, that it's ass related. I think it's more individual and sometimes based on experience. Like in the case of when you got speak-lessons as a child. My husband did when he was young (he's NT), and he speaks a little bit different than his parents. But i don't know its because he got those lessons, or because his parents came from the north of the country (The Netherlands) were they speak totally different than here in the south, but they moved before he was born, so he got the influences of the south and of his parents. I think he created his own kind of accent, because people of the south, consider him as a 'northie' because he speaks very general civilized Dutch. But people in the north mostly think he's speaking with a really south accent. You really can hear the difference when several people with all the accents that are here in our country speak. It depends on the place he is, and which people are surrounding him.

What i do think is maybe more ass related, is the fact that i think people with ass are maybe al little bit better and faster in copying different accents. Because copying people is what we mostly do, and we become good at it i guess. Maybe not for all the aspies out here, but if i look to myself, i sure do!

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26 Oct 2013, 2:31 pm

^^ :lol: I love your avatar^^

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26 Oct 2013, 2:41 pm

People have accused me of having an accent a few times.

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26 Oct 2013, 2:58 pm

oddly enough, someone who speaks very flatly (in Western Canada) thought I had an accent. (Well, other than the on that's pervasive in Western Canada). I've been known to unconsciously mimic some accents, but this wasn't one of those times.

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28 Oct 2013, 2:19 am

SparklyJacket wrote:

I've always thought that for a small country, the UK has some very different sounding regional accents although international media doesn't really seem to portray those all that frequentely.

correct. We actually have lots of different accents, some very extreme and hard to understand by others here too.

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28 Oct 2013, 3:04 am

Salkin wrote:

Forevernuts wrote:

I suppose this mainly applies to people in the U.S (and Canada I guess) as not many countries have as many dramatically different regional accents as the United States.

Disagreed. Lots of countries, my own included, have vastly different regional accents that go well beyond mutual comprehension if they're broad, even when these countries are much smaller geographically (and usually in population too) than the US.

Old countries where the population has mostly stuck around in the same area have tended to develop this way. Rapid travel and communications have caused a trend of accents and dialects gradually converging towards the most influential standard (often the capital city region), but this is a comparatively recent event. Before that there was lots of time for accents to develop while travel and communication were slow and expensive. The US is different as it was settled by umpteen different ethnic groups that have been mixed up most everywhere, if differently, and the country as we know it hasn't been around for all that long. Some degree of convergence was necessary from the start, and the advent of rapid travel, communications, and expectations that people move long distances as needed for employment, came comparatively soon.

I fully agree with Salkin.
Great explenation.

I just have a veeeery slight regional accent.
Sometimes ppl also ask me: "where are you from" and are suprised when I answer that I grew up just a fiew kilometers from were I live now.

... but it just happens very rarely that ppl think, that I'm from another country, usually they just think that I'm from another area (witch I'm not).

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28 Oct 2013, 6:56 pm

I tend to unconsciously pick of the accent of whoever I am speaking with. Some people have thought I was mocking their accent and became angry.

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30 Oct 2013, 4:54 pm

I have a typical Southern Home Counties (the UK southern counties of Surrey, Sussex and Kent) accent-I often get called "posh" but I don't think I sound that posh but then I grew up listening to family friends who speak in a ridiculously posh manner! I can also mimic brilliantly the South Wales Valleys accent-people seem to think of it as my party trick! I think this is because I used to go to Wales a lot as a child and the accent stuck with me and I can now slip into it at will. I also unconsciously mimic my boyfriend's Ugandan accent at times which really confuses people!

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30 Oct 2013, 9:35 pm

I don't have the regional accent of my local area. I wasn't aware of this until people pointed it out. Multiple people have made that observation. I have even had someone think I wasn't from this area... though I have lived here my entire life!

I tend to speak formally(not perfectly, but significantly more formal than average) and precisely(especially with pronunciation). Though there are times I can't think of the words to express what I am thinking... this results in lots of unnecessary pausing.

Also, there is some formal speech that irritates me... usually business formal... because the words used are not precise or are excessive because a simpler word can convey the same meaning. I avoid those words. Ex advise to mean inform.

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11 Nov 2013, 1:35 pm

I'm so proud of myself - I was just served lunch by a woman with a New Zealand accent, and didn't end up talking like her by the time I left the restaurant!

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12 Nov 2013, 3:05 pm

Falloy wrote:

I've been told that I use received pronounciation, or that I have a "cut glass" or "BBC English" accent, rather than speaking with a regional accent. This isn't something I've deliberately cultivated (although people have accused me of trying to sound posh).

I find it very hard to vary my voice, in order to "put on" an accent or do an impression.

I have the same thing - a very RP accent despite having lived most of my life in Scotland. I occasionally slip into a Fife accent when I'm drunk but otherwise I have analmost estuary English accent with pretensions to aristocracy (I sound a lot like Prince William which is weird).

To put that in perspective, I was born in Hampshire where I first learnt to talk, moved to Germany where I really began to talk fluently in both German and English, moved to Colchester, then Wiltshire then East Yorkshire before moving permanently to Scotland at the age of ten although I attended a boarding school in Somerset.

My accent is even more bizarre when I speak a foreign language - I speak French with an almost perfect Parisien middle class accent and German with a Hamburg accent.

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12 Nov 2013, 3:08 pm

I am like Sona 21. I pick up whatever accent of the region I am in or of whom I am speaking to or whatever movie or tv show I am watching. I can usually start to get it in a matter of minutes.

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