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22 Mar 2011, 6:41 pm

jmnixon95 wrote:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dABo_DCIdpM&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

Hmm, interesting.
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1. Parody, and too much like "Mockney" - as used on the UK soap "Eastenders".
2. Seems Ok.
3. No-one pronounces trailing T's like that, otherwise Ok.
4. Poor. A bit of a parody. Best example is Betty herself: QE II.
5. Got the basics, but he still sounds like he's from London.
6. Inconsistent. Derived from TV.
7. Parody, and breaks in to bad Welsh - but the 'ck' sound is good. (more like the 'ch' in 'loch')
8. Seems Ok, but too much like RP with a hint of Welsh.
9. Meh. Got the basics, but again the trailing T's are overstated.
10. Has the annoying nasal whine about right, but there's too much of his real accent.
11. Parody.
12. How most UK actors I've heard do 'American'.
13. Funny, seems good - especially 'do' in "I dunno what to do".
14. Very funny, reminds me of Boomhauer from King of the Hill.
15. Parody. The I's need to be more like E's - he needs to watch more Aussie soaps! "Where the bloody hell are you?" is also a tagline from a UK TV ad for Australian tourism.
16. Parody.
17. Parody. Odd mixture, including Welsh-like again.
18. He's got this accent directly from a UK TV ad for an insurance company featuring a speaking Meerkat.
19. Poor.
20. Just like the owner of my local fish-n-chip shop!
21. Funny, don't know about the accuracy. Bit like Kato from the Pink Panther films.
22. Funny, seems pretty good.
23. Exactly like a guy from SA I worked with.
24. Good.

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22 Mar 2011, 6:52 pm

jmnixon95 wrote:

Despite being raised in the South, I have 'no accent' in America (probably because my family isn't "Southern"; I live in Atlanta) and I sound like this:

Yours is what I call a 'soft' American accent, where the typical American points are softened and muted and it's almost musical. Some aspects of a Boston accent are like this, and neither is as hard on the ears as a more typical 'hard' American accent. The tone and quality of your voice is very pleasant and easy on the ears.
Dunbot's accent is more of the 'hard' type; more 'typical', although it's still pretty soft.

Meh.
I need to find some examples of exactly what I'm rattling on about. :roll:

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22 Mar 2011, 7:25 pm

jmnixon95 wrote:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dABo_DCIdpM&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

Ahh! [Shudders] Makes me hate Britain even more! Couldn't finish the video. Damn I hope I don't sound like any of those....

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22 Mar 2011, 7:38 pm

Okay, I managed to finish the video, and perhaps I can forgive. Some of the accents were alright, but I can't stand English ones.... maybe that's why I sound like a nasally, bad impression of the Joker in drag.

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22 Mar 2011, 7:43 pm

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maybe that's why I sound like a nasally, bad impression of the Joker in drag.

Nothing can be as bad as that "Cor lummee - stroike me pink, Mary Poppins an' no mishtaek" nonsense from Dick Van Dyke. Ever.

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22 Mar 2011, 7:45 pm

When I was a kid I actually thought Dick Van Dyke was English........ I was a silly boy.

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22 Mar 2011, 7:50 pm

Oh dear... :roll:
Well, obviously you'll have to be stripped of your citizenship now.

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22 Mar 2011, 7:52 pm

Okay! Send me off to Canada, or Alaska, maybe even Sweden. Yippee!

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22 Mar 2011, 7:58 pm

hill o beans wrote
There is a classic pop duo called Jedward who do it. :hail:

Totally, there's so much american tv programming on UK tv you cannot help it, holy moley CSI is on again!

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22 Mar 2011, 8:00 pm

I've always liked the look (and outlook) of New Zealand myself. Nice and thinly populated, too.
Or Australia as second choice.
Canada is excellent but I doubt I'd survive the winters, being a pasty UK southerner.

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22 Mar 2011, 8:04 pm

patiz wrote:

hill o beans wrote:

There is a classic pop duo called Jedward who do it. :hail:

Totally, there's so much american tv programming on UK tv you cannot help it, holy moley CSI is on again!

Yep, far too much. Whatever happened to European accents?

(and I hope that use of the word "classic" was intended in the same sense as "tragic" :wink:

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22 Mar 2011, 8:40 pm

Cornflake wrote:

jmnixon95 wrote:

Despite being raised in the South, I have 'no accent' in America (probably because my family isn't "Southern"; I live in Atlanta) and I sound like this:

Hmm.
I sound like the NW if anything, because that's where my family is from.

Well, midwest too, but my mother got rid of her Midwestern accent long before I was born.

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01 Apr 2011, 1:08 am

somebody needs to invent a gray matter plug-in that somebody lacking in mimickry talent [such as myself] could plug into their brains and gain the ability to do fun things like imitating other people's speech.

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01 Apr 2011, 1:38 am

Sometimes. As a wind-up.

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01 Apr 2011, 1:39 am

I fancy Malta.

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01 Apr 2011, 1:57 am

Cornflake wrote:

jmnixon95 wrote:

Despite being raised in the South, I have 'no accent' in America (probably because my family isn't "Southern"; I live in Atlanta) and I sound like this:

Ah! People are talking about me and I didn't even know it. >_>

Yes, I have a General American accent pretty much, which is similar in usage to RP, although I do have a few differences, mainly vowels. You can read about it here if you want. Two warnings though: I don't have the pen-pin merger, and contrary to what it says about Chinook Jargon words, no one ever uses them, except rarely "potlatch", although there is a high school named "Tyee". Many cities and rivers and things have names that are from Salishan languages though.

Also, I love the yooper (UPer, Upper Peninsula, Michigan) accent, and New York, and Boston, those ones rock. I can do a pretty good yooper accent.

I love "You want I should___?" :lol:

I try to use it as much as possible.

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