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Originally posted by MRT144
yeah, its slight, but its there. not " a grip" of differences
yeah, its slight, but its there. not " a grip" of differences
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You're confusing slang with accent again."When you ride alone, you ride with Bin Ladin"-Bill Maher
"All capital is dripping with blood."-Karl Marx
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Surfer is not an accent. Californians don't talk like that. Only surfers talk like that, and we all know that surfers don't only live in California.Originally posted by Jon Miller
surfer is an accent"When you ride alone, you ride with Bin Ladin"-Bill Maher
"All capital is dripping with blood."-Karl Marx
"Of course, my response to your Marx quote is 'So?'"-Imran SiddiquiComment
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well
yah
but it is associted with cali
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If it makes y'all feel better, I read most Poly posts in the same Estuary English-***-RP accent.
Exceptions being prominent UK posters whom I can apply a distinct accent too, such as Provost Harrison.One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.Comment
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*** is censored.
One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.Comment
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californians DEFINITELY have accents..the guys especially..they all have that slightly gay sound to their voice...and say doooood and whatever (just like texans say yall) and "right on" they elongate and kinda morph their o's.
Jon miller: people say the same thing about me. (except i do tend to get one when i become hyper)"Speaking on the subject of conformity: This rotting concept of the unfathomable nostril mystifies the fuming crotch of my being!!! Stop with the mooing you damned chihuahua!!! Ganglia!! Rats eat babies!" ~ happy noodle boyComment
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If northerners and southerners migrated to a new state in comparable numbers, the result would be that the people in that new state would talk the same as Californians.
Bull****! Like said before simply because you live around it, you think they have no accent.
Fine, I'll just go ahead and say South Jersey has no accent
. I don't think I have an accent, but I KNOW I have one. I tend to pronounce syllables in words.
Btw, the surfer thing is a reference to putting more emphasis on the end of the word, after de-emphasizing the middle of the word, more than other English speakers.
Seeing how EVERYONE else says that Californians have an accent, you have to give up your notions that you are unaccented (as if such thing is possible ).
Actually the most 'American' accent is considered the Midwest accent, which is the one you hear on the network news (Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather, and Peter Jennings all have it).“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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But Peter Jennings is Canadian!
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But Peter Jennings is Canadian!
Much of middle Canada also speaks in a Midwestern accent.“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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You're talking about every 'knowitall' here at poly. EVERY Liguist knows that there is no California accent.Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Seeing how EVERYONE else says that Californians have an accent, you have to give up your notions that you are unaccented (as if such thing is possible ).
"When you ride alone, you ride with Bin Ladin"-Bill Maher
"All capital is dripping with blood."-Karl Marx
"Of course, my response to your Marx quote is 'So?'"-Imran SiddiquiComment
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Every linguist worth his weight knows that 'surfer' and 'valley girl' are established accents, and Californians pronounce words in certain ways.
When plenty of people say Californians do not talk like I do, that is evidence of an accent. Maybe their accent is similar to the Midwestern accent, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
And btw, it is STILL impossible to not have an accent, at least in English.“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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No one here is able to describe this so called accent. Doesn't that tell you something. Slang words don't constitute an accent.Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Every linguist worth his weight knows that 'surfer' and 'valley girl' are established accents, and Californians pronounce words in certain ways.
When plenty of people say Californians do not talk like I do, that is evidence of an accent. Maybe their accent is similar to the Midwestern accent, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
And btw, it is STILL impossible to not have an accent, at least in English."When you ride alone, you ride with Bin Ladin"-Bill Maher
"All capital is dripping with blood."-Karl Marx
"Of course, my response to your Marx quote is 'So?'"-Imran SiddiquiComment
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I want people to post sound samples of their accent. Let us be the judges.
One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.Comment
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No one here is able to describe this so called accent.
I went looking and found a Harvard linguistic class:
one cannot really speak of a California dialect (given the definition of dialect presented at the beginning of the term). There are a number of distinctive California accents, however, including "surfer" and "Valley Girl". These accents are characterized most notably by distinctive vowel systems and lexicons
Californians do consistently possess a specific suite of pronunciation features (merger of A and , centralization and unrounding of /o:/ and /u:/), but these are not unique to CA, being found in many other areas of the United States.
The conclusion is that California accents are not much different than Midwest (ie, the American accent), since most Californians have not lived there long, but to say there is NO Californian accent is streaching things.
Btw, can you describe ANY New York accent?“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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Im from houston which is like the least accented of all texas along with dallas but "yall" is extremely common.
i personally dont talk at all like im from texas i talk like im from boston cause i slur and run my words together a bit but im not a common exampleI just don't know anymore.Comment
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