People from England

[Homicidalheathen]

Example:

RE: RE: MORNINNNNNN ALLLLLLLLL

Body: hehehe, cigarette (fag).

----------------- Original Message -----------------

From: Fairy Goth Mutha

Date: May 4, 2006 2:45 PM

Huh? Roll on a fag? sounds kinky

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From: Lord Swampy of the shire

Date: May 4, 2006 3:45 AM

good day to u all. tis a lovely day, sunshine, cuppa coffee, bacon roll an a fag. ahhhhhhhh. perfect

[phee]

Actually... England was around long before the U.S. so we kinda talk funny... (and have you heard Southern Accents or British Accents.... sheesh)

[Head Wreck]

all you american women sound the same except for one i have spoken to.

thats my vastly overated generalisation.

anyhow there are many differant british accents, and twice as many welsh accents (comes from living in a country with a population less than birmingham, there 70% of residents speak welsh, of which there are 11 dialects still about today)

[kellygrrrrrl]

I had an English customer of mine yell at me and swear at me with his stupid accent one day. (Generally, I like the brit/english accent, but in this case it was a stupid accent)

WHY you ask?

Because his son let his insurance policy lapse more than 30 days. Which means I cannot reinstate it.

So he got mad at me and swore at me up and down that it was MY Fault his son had no insurance.

I love it when I am right, and they are wrong.

he threatened to cancel his insurance about 3 months ago. It is still active, and I'm still getting paid.

Yeah that's right asshole. Go find better insurance. Thats right, you can't.

Because you want to drive fast and have accidents and make tons of claims.

[Dollardave]

I almost fucked a british girl b4. She had a british flag tatooed on her ass cheek. Sweet looking bitch too. Oh the ones who got away.

[kellygrrrrrl]

I almost fucked a british girl b4.  She had a british flag tatooed on her ass cheek.  Sweet looking bitch too.  Oh the ones who got away.

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What I like about you Dave, is that you don't hide anything.

I get a kick out of reading into your adventures because you are so fucking funny about it. Brutally honest and never leave out the details without regard to what anybody thinks.

Me thinks you's funny. No I will not fuck you. :laughing :laughing :laughing

Please do not be offended if you are.....

[n0Mad]

anyhow there are many differant british accents, and twice as many welsh accents (comes from living in a country with a population less than birmingham, there 70% of residents speak welsh, of which there are 11 dialects still about today)

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The UK has more accents than the entirety of North America. I know Ireland has about seven distinct accents with many regional dialects as variations of those. I think Scotland has about three or four main ones, England has somewhere around twenty, and I know nothing of Welsh.

I'm fairly fluent in Cockney though my fluency does wane and wax from time to time. It really comes out when I'm driving and someone in front of me is acting like an ass. I spout a round of Cockney insults and vulgarities and anyone in the car with me looks at me oddly and asks, "Where the hell did that come from?" Which, I don't really know because I've never even been to England. But, as an actor I did study the accent extensively.

[kellygrrrrrl]

my husband does the best "yugo" accent ever......

it is so funny to hear him talk about his conversations at work because he goes into character regarding what his work mates say....

[Head Wreck]

the most annoying accent has to be the lilupudian.

the most amusing is brum trying to pronounce welsh place names.

2002 national game there were a few brummies in my section. they nearly missed the base entrance.

driver: look out for a sign saying Llywel.

Brum2: well we just passed a sign saing liwel bout 3 miles back

sitting in a house full of brummies and taffies absolutely saturating the surounding area with AEG and GBB fire shouting the "118" every time they hit someone was an experience i had to smirk at

[n0Mad]

I have no idea what you just said. :confused

[Homicidalheathen]

Last night I hung out with an Aussie and an english guy and they sounded exactly the same.

[torn asunder]

Last night I hung out with an Aussie and an english guy and they sounded exactly the same.

really? i'm surprised - to me, the difference between them is like night & day... of course, slang helps a lot with that, too, aside from the actual accent.

and, hw... brummies & taffies? would you be so kind as to refresh my memory!? =)

[LuluVox]

Brummies are from Birmingham, UK...Taffies are...Welsh, perhaps? HeadWreck, can you enlighten us, please?

[phee]

I like accents

[Head Wreck]

taffies. cardiff. sits over the river taff.

its a very differant accent from mine, its almost the welsh equivelant of a cambridge accent

[LuluVox]

taffies.  cardiff. sits over the river taff.

its a very differant accent from mine, its almost the welsh equivelant of a cambridge accent

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What's a Cambridge accent like? I'd imagine it'd be very...er, proper?

[Head Wreck]

it is. a friend had one even before he went to cambridge (and we live in the welshiest sounding area of wales) it survived japan intact when he went to teach english there and he's now working for the welsh assembly in cardiff, i belive with the accent intact.

[n0Mad]

I like accents

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I had an accent once ... it was great.

My final semester of college I took an independent study in stage dialects. It's my second favorite thing about theatre next to stage combat.

[LuluVox]

it is. a friend had one even before he went to cambridge (and we live in the welshiest sounding area of wales) it survived japan intact when he went to teach english there and he's now working for the welsh assembly in cardiff, i belive with the accent intact.

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Heh, well at least now he fits in. I wonder if all of his Japanese English students speak English with his accent.

[bean]

I love accents (with a few exceptions...very few)....

[n0Mad]

Heh, well at least now he fits in. I wonder if all of his Japanese English students speak English with his accent.

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Very possible. In my dialects course, my teacher mentioned how deaf people can learn to talk by imitating the shape of their teacher's mouth and tongue and such. The people that learned English from a British person had a British accent, and those that learned from a German person had a German accent. It wasn't perfect because these people were deaf and couldn't hear a lot of the changes, but it's amazing how much of how we talk comes from the shape of our mouths.

[Homicidalheathen]

I think French and spanish accents are sexy, but german just sounds ugly. Japanese too.

[Head Wreck]

indeed.

in the case of the german and welsh accents its all about the alphabet similarities, the D the T etc. in german. the F the R and the Y in welsh (pronc V rolling R and "ur" respectively in the welsh alphabet.)

the base of learning languages and indeed mimicing accents has allways been best started by a total familurisation with the alphabet. regional mutations can come after

[n0Mad]

regional mutations can come after

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Heh heh ... mutations. I suppose that's a really good word for it. It's definitely an accurate word, though it sounds ... uh, something.

As a note, the difference between an accent and a dialect is such:

Accent - A foreign person speaking your language does so with their accent. For example, a German speaking English does so with a German accent.

Dialect - A native person speaking your shared language but in a different manner such as the difference between American Southern, Brooklyn, British RP, Cockney, etc. It's all English (/American) but with different dialects.

[pharoh]

The English.....they freak me out.....lol j/k headwreck