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Minneapolis is full of fine honeys. I was up there and Dzam it's California with out the tan. Of course, it does have it's share of chunkers.
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Albert Speer
It's "greasy", no Z.
Imran Siddiqu
Closer than Albert. South, yes, rural, almost. I've never lived outside city limits, but it's hardly a thriving metropolis. Just click the link I have fer Sprayber.meet the new boss, same as the old bossComment
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You'd be surprised, there are literally thousands accents and sub-accents here in North America, you probably just don't hear them... just like most North Americans don't hear all yours aside from the obvious ones (Cockney vs. Liverpool, etc...)When you say English English you realise that Great Britain has more dialects and accents than all of North America, right? I've recently moved from Suffolk to Norfolk, a hour long car drive, and the people speak funny up here!Comment
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I'd like to here a country accent from Minnesota crossed with a southy Boston accent with a little bronx added in just for flava...Comment
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Starchild is Canadian. Well he's not but he is, but not, well he is, but not. That is, he speaks from experience of both sides of the Atlantic and has the accent to prove it. I think I summed that up nicely.Originally posted by JimmyCracksCorn
You'd be surprised, there are literally thousands accents and sub-accents here in North America, you probably just don't hear them... just like most North Americans don't hear all yours aside from the obvious ones (Cockney vs. Liverpool, etc...)One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.Comment
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That you did, but Canadians are strange and speak funny. I agree with Jimmy though.Comment
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The Canadians think I'm English and the English think I'm Canadian. And when I drink coffee I sound like I'm from New York.Originally posted by Dauphin
Starchild is Canadian. Well he's not but he is, but not, well he is, but not. That is, he speaks from experience of both sides of the Atlantic and has the accent to prove it. I think I summed that up nicely.Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
-Richard DawkinsComment
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here's more to go on for me.
foods in the family: fiskegrateng, krossmakronur, yoktetakk, aebleskiver, riskrem ( I know the spellings aren't right)
I say abowt, not aboot, Eether not Ither, Tomayto not Tomahto
A relative of mine says "Buddins" for Buttons"
A completely different relative says "Here we is"
any constructive/ fair questions?Comment
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Yes, but as I take it (I could be wrong) he is basically a Brit who lived in Toronto for a while. I suspect thats not really enough to make him enough of an "insider" to be able to distinguish between an Ontarian and, say, a southern Californian accent.Originally posted by Dauphin
Starchild is Canadian. Well he's not but he is, but not, well he is, but not. That is, he speaks from experience of both sides of the Atlantic and has the accent to prove it. I think I summed that up nicely.
Another problem with North America is that its huge, so you really have to travel around quite a distance if you want to hear the range in accents we have here, unlike the UK where you can just walk up the road. If you just stay in one place (here) its easy to assume that everyone speaks just like you do, which alot of people do. Plus, we have Brits shoving down our throats that they have all the accents and we have none... an idea which alot of North Americans ignorantly buy into.
North America actually has a very rich and diverse lingustic history. All of the major identifiable accent groups here (New England, Mid Atlantic, Midwestern, Southern, Ozarks, Appalachia, Western, Canadian, Maritime Canadian, Newfoundland, etc, etc...) can be easily traced back to different linguistic groups in Britain who emigrated to those respective areas of the US and Canada. There's alot of literature on this available. Its really very interesting.
Anyone interested in this I would recommend pick up the book "Albions Seed" by David Fischer. Its quite exhaustive and very informative, although it deals mainly with the US.Comment
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UFFDA!!!Originally posted by Dauphin
Minnesota is full of Nordics
Everybody who comes to the upper Midwest say we talk funny, ya betcha.
Southerner-talk drives me insane trying to understand it. 
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Brent:
Wherever your from I've never spent much time there. No aboot, does that rule out Montana? It definitly rules out Canada
I knew a guy from Montana spoke like a Canadian don't think he said aboot tho. Here we is, makes it anywhere uneducated which hurts the west. Given the fact that you mentioned aboot. I'll go with
Montana or the Dakotas.
No idea about the foods. They sound german which would make you more likely east coast.Last edited by Moral Hazard; October 1, 2004, 22:49.Accidently left my signature in this post.Comment
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Could be any scandinavian country.Originally posted by Brent fiskegrateng
krossmakronur, yoktetakk
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aebleskiver
Danish. I always buy them at the Roskilde festival.
riskrem
Again, could be any scandinavian country.
So you've got swedish words for your grandparents (not bestemor, bestefar), a danish-sounding surname and danish-appearing foodstuffs. Hmm....Världsstad - Dom lokala genrenas vän
Mick102, 102,3 Umeå, Måndagar 20-21Comment
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Wait a second, I've just googled the grandparent words and the "bestemor"-type ones are norwegian, not danish. So I change my mind, you're definately of danish descent.Världsstad - Dom lokala genrenas vän
Mick102, 102,3 Umeå, Måndagar 20-21Comment
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Group home for the developmentally disabled?How about this: "Dere are tree tings you godda know about da bus." Spoken by my bus driver back in high school. Guess my location."Spirit merges with matter to sanctify the universe. Matter transcends to return to spirit. The interchangeability of matter and spirit means the starlit magic of the outermost life of our universe becomes the soul-light magic of the innermost life of our self." - Dennis Kucinich, candidate for the U. S. presidency
"That’s the future of the Democratic Party: providing Republicans with a number of cute (but not that bright) comfort women." - Adam Yoshida, Canada's gift to the worldComment
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I think my ten years spent in the States plus my four years in Canada plus my four years in the UK gives me some insider brownie points.Originally posted by JimmyCracksCorn
Yes, but as I take it (I could be wrong) he is basically a Brit who lived in Toronto for a while. I suspect thats not really enough to make him enough of an "insider" to be able to distinguish between an Ontarian and, say, a southern Californian accent.Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
-Richard DawkinsComment
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