Accents

Damn, I was just going to edit mine and say you sound like Dale Winton!

No, you must be joking about my West Country lilt! Only been here 12 years.

Demelza wrote:Damn, I was just going to edit mine and say you sound like Dale Winton!

No, you must be joking about my West Country lilt! Only been here 12 years.

You can go off some people!

Greg Chappell, Ian Healy

OP Tipping wrote:Greg Chappell, Ian Healy

Nice

Horrie -----> Bogan

Demelza wrote:TO, as an Indian, and PP, as a PAK, can you pick up our regional English accents, or do we all just sound 'English' to you? I've often wondered.

some of them sound different, but i wouldnt be able to tell you which one is from where or whether its a regional thing or just a personal oddity. and this despite living in london for 3 years

Dem in sounding as stoopid as a Yank when they say 'OMG you have an accent' shocker....

I don't have an accent. I'm just normal.

You freaks.

i guess most indians couldnt tell an english accent from an american one. but they can tell a punjabi from a gujarati

Dello wrote:I don't have an accent. I'm just normal.

You live in Hampshire don't you? Bet you've got a bit of a farmer accent they sometimes have down there too... Either that or 'Sailor Boy'

That's just for the local chavs. Everyone who isn't basically subhuman speaks with no accent.

Craig David is from Southampton. No accent. Although he tries to add a bit of "street" to "da way he speak" sometimes, so that's probably a terrible example to cite.

That and the fact that it's Craig David.

JKLever wrote:Dem in sounding as stoopid as a Yank when they say 'OMG you have an accent' shocker....

Yanks love British accents...

you(not you as in you) can easily get a hot chick even if you look and act like a Chulupa

Suppose I used to be a bit Naz; that hint of estuary being Sarf Lundun born and bred.

Now it is Ladies and Genklemen, we is 'aving a likle bit of crikit for dem pickneys dung 'ere in de Carib-beaan in de 'ope dat we will fin' a new generation of fas' bowlers...Mikey 'olding type dialec'.

always good to refer to "dem fellas an' ting" as well when you can, just to make yourself sung really ort'entic. Actually you should add "an' ting" whenever possible. It covers anyting an' everyting and will make you and your point immediately understood of any merit it may or may not have.

In trut an' fac' de accen's dung here are very different from island to island, Trinidad is pretty different to Tobago even and the different regions in Trinidad have as great a variation as half of Britain. Jamaica is something else.

"Craig David is from Southampton. No accent."



Possibly this is just my daily dose of NSR, but it is not possible to speak English without an accent. Craig David, like everyone, has an accent.

Ranjit Fernando. Not.
I don't wish even my enemies to have his accent.

I probably sound a bit like Dravid.