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  • #16
    Originally posted by Provost Harrison
    Italians always sound furious

    HOW DARE YOU


    it's true. we are always pissed off
    I will never understand why some people on Apolyton find you so clever. You're predictable, mundane, and a google-whore and the most observant of us all know this. Your battles of "wits" rely on obscurity and whenever you fail to find something sufficiently obscure, like this, you just act like a 5 year old. Congratulations, molly.

    Asher on molly bloom

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    • #17
      Originally posted by Japher


      Certain dialects though sound weird. The southern draw, Texan, midwestern slant, Bostonians inability to pronounce the letter R...

      Japanesse is militant with an edge of too much caffine.
      ...except for when a woman speaking over the announcement says it, as the idealized voice is a sort of airy, delicate type thing?

      Again, you're forgetting dialects. You're also forgetting context, and who's doing the talking...
      B♭3

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      • #18
        Originally posted by Asher
        Israelis are flemmy
        phlegmy?
        B♭3

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        • #19
          Originally posted by Q Cubed

          phlegmy?
          no hes saying Israelis are too Belgian.
          "A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin Buber

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          • #20
            Yes, but definitely not phlegmatic
            "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
            Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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            • #21
              Do all of the various north american english accents sound more like each other than they sound like any accents elsewhere to those of you not from north america? I'm surprised by how often those accents seem to get lumped together.

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              • #22
                The issue with Portuguese and Spanish, and both languages are very similar, but pronounced very differently, If I watch portuguese tv, I understand 10% of what they say, if I read a portuguese newspaper, I understand 90%

                Brazilians have a more open pronounciation than portuguese, so udnerstanding them is easier.

                If a portuguese speaker speaks to a spanish speaker, they rarely switch to another langauge (like english), but speak their own languages, just more slowly, and the portuguese with more open and less nasal vowels, and generally they understand each other.
                I need a foot massage

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                • #23
                  Biharis sound Spiritual, Organised.

                  Hindi-speakers sound Spritual, Industrious.
                  THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
                  AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
                  AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
                  DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTF

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by Asher
                    Israelis are flemmy
                    BLGHGLBHLBHL!!!

                    GHRKHKHKHWLGH GHLGBGKHKHL GLHEHLB!!!

                    GHKHKHRRRWWRWR

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                    • #25
                      One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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                      • #26
                        Even worse, German sounds tutoring. Viennese Austrian, on the other hand, sounds kind of sleazy and Styrian Austrian has an outspoken and sometimes brutal tone.
                        "The world is too small in Vorarlberg". Austrian ex-vice-chancellor Hubert Gorbach in a letter to Alistar [sic] Darling, looking for a job...
                        "Let me break this down for you, fresh from algebra II. A 95% chance to win 5 times means a (95*5) chance to win = 475% chance to win." Wiglaf, Court jester or hayseed, you judge.

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                        • #27
                          US southern, and especially Texan, accents sounds like the speaker has an IQ of about 20. Which I guess is about right.
                          "The French caused the war [Persian Gulf war, 1991]" - Ned
                          "you people who bash Bush have no appreciation for one of the great presidents in our history." - Ned
                          "I wish I had gay sex in the boy scouts" - Dissident

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                          • #28
                            Canadians sound like their heads are stuck up their arses.

                            (* not all of them, of course)

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                            • #29
                              Czech language is a laughstock, and so are Czechs

                              German language sounds either as a beer-burping (southern version, especially what I've heard in western parts of Austria), sometimes demonic beer-burping

                              French sounds elegant, attempting to be subtle to the point of being gayish

                              British English sounds untidy and rude

                              Italian sounds nice, but what was said about French applies to it to a lesser extent

                              Arabic sounds different depending on where from is the one speaking and is he a boy or a girl. Lebanese dialect spoken by a girl sounds very nice.
                              "I realise I hold the key to freedom,
                              I cannot let my life be ruled by threads" The Web Frogs
                              Middle East!

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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by LordShiva
                                Biharis sound Spiritual, Organised.

                                Hindi-speakers sound Spritual, Industrious.

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