Accent question
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I know it isn't. Canadian is just an offshoot of Milwaukeean with the odd 'aboot'.
Ha ha. But seriously, Canadians from Vancouver to Toronto sound alike to me, and mostly indistinguishable from their southern neighbours. My subjective experience of your language isn't silly, thanks very much. Quebecois and Newfies obviously sound different, but there is a general Canadian accent.
Of course you have an accent. Or did God make English to be spoken only and exactly as you speak it, so everyone else has an accent?
Slightly off topic, but people tell me I have a "deaf accent" when I'm not careful to modulate lower with more vocal cords in play.
The accent, I'm told, is a slightly higher, through-the-nose-tonal voice. I'm wondering if oral-tradition deafies from different parts of the U.S. and those from other countries sound much the same or vastly different.
Recently, some Australians I met were kind enough to write out some words and phrases when I couldn't speechread their English very well. They joked they had to do the same for U.S. folks who could hear, ha ha ha.
The accent, I'm told, is a slightly higher, through-the-nose-tonal voice. I'm wondering if oral-tradition deafies from different parts of the U.S. and those from other countries sound much the same or vastly different.
Recently, some Australians I met were kind enough to write out some words and phrases when I couldn't speechread their English very well. They joked they had to do the same for U.S. folks who could hear, ha ha ha.
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Canadians can tell the differences among regional Canadian accents easily. Americans can tell the differences among regional American accents easily. English people can tell the differences among regional English accents easily. Australian people can tell the differences among regional Australian accents easily.
But when you're not part of the core speech-sound community, you may well hear a "Canadian" or an "American" or an "English" or an "Australian" accent. It's just the level of granularity at which people not familiar with the nuances of the speech-sounds interact with them.
I have a Scottish accent and don't take offence at anyone saying that. Hell, even I have trouble distinguishing between certain regions of the country.
Plus, just to make things awkward for people trying to work out where I'm from, I've been told on a number of occasions I'm 'too posh' to be from my home town, and even once, "It's all right for you; your parents obviously brought you up to be middle class." No-one who knows my 'parents' would say that.
Oh, and also apparently I have a 'telephone voice'.
Plus, just to make things awkward for people trying to work out where I'm from, I've been told on a number of occasions I'm 'too posh' to be from my home town, and even once, "It's all right for you; your parents obviously brought you up to be middle class." No-one who knows my 'parents' would say that.
Oh, and also apparently I have a 'telephone voice'.
Whe I lived in Scotland (near Glasgow) we used to think that people only ten miles eastwards (towards Edinburgh) had funny accents. My fave British accent is Scouse (Liverpudlian). My fave foreigner-speaking-English accent is French. Ohh la la - so sexay!
Ugh. I can't stand Scouse accents. They make me want to hurt somebody after only one sentence. And Brummies.
My favourites from the UK are some parts of Essex, and most of Yorkshire.
My favourites from the UK are some parts of Essex, and most of Yorkshire.