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 Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 8:12 pm
Yamino Tenshi If I get a southern accent, I'll just die. I know it's really prejudiced and evil, but nearly everyone in my family associates Southern accents with stupidity, especially since the arrival of our lovely President of the USA. There are different kinds of Southern accent's though. I remember the worst I heard was this girl in my art summer course in CA, she was from Alabama. She thought we all lived with movie stars... and actually belive me when I told her I was a close friend of Michael Jackson's. sweatdrop Then there's Susan Sarandon's (fake) accent in Thelma and Luise, which I thought was really great. I guess I'll get used to the accents either way, but I'll still die if I get one myself. Someone shoot me if I start saying "Y'all come back now!" xd Uggggh...I know its mean, but I don't care...Alabama accents are a total turn off for me...its all about that smooth warm soft southern belle accent...just enough to honey the sound of your voice! domokun
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Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 8:24 pm
Ugh. xD Half of my family is in Alabama. They're all rednecks.. o_o and then the other half is Mexican. But anyways, whenever I go to my dad's family's house, Uma and I are surrounded by southern accents. gonk then we come back with a little bit of it on us.
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:24 am
xp bleh. Alabama. I'm not fond of the place too much. As Angel mentioned, we go up there to visit occasionally, and really, I pretty much hide in the room set up for me. ninja
*chuckles* Angel, your wording makes it sound like the accent is a tangible thing
"Gah! aw, man, I just washed this shirt, now there's 'bama accent on it! For cryin' out...." *grumbles and goes to wash the accent off before it stains xd
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:34 am
Well, there's the good southern accent, and the bad southern accent. My aunt's got a southern accent, and I think it sounds lovely. (Carolinas and Georgia accent, I think.) Then there's that horrible, cringeworthy southern accent that people associate with stupidity.
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:51 am
*nods* oh I'll definetly agree with that, Ivy ^^. My dad's fam just happens to speak the bad accent. I find some southern gals awfully cute and charming with certain shades of southern accent.
I have to admit though, I'm a little discriminatory against southern folks. I really never saw that southern hospitality everyone talks about. ^^; then again I live in an awfully small town, so...
I guess I'm really just discriminating against small town, backwoods southern folks, but that still doesn't make it much better ^^;;;;
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:11 am
One of the most awful accents in the world is the Austrian accent in German. I'm surrounded by it here, and I can't stand it. It's nasal, it's noisy, it's lazy... and extremely obnoxious. It's worse the the Roman accent in Italian (which I'm ashamed to say, I used heavily when I still lived in Rome.) sweatdrop
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:42 am
Everyone, I'll be leaving for a week on Sunday to go on that trip with my folks to Key West. During that time I will be unable to post. If anything needs to occur with my RP character, Ivy-chan, please feel free to NPC him. Wish me luck everyone...arrrgh....the lobsters be a-callin' ! heart
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 7:30 am
LadyPrincePyro Everyone, I'll be leaving for a week on Sunday to go on that trip with my folks to Key West. During that time I will be unable to post. If anything needs to occur with my RP character, Ivy-chan, please feel free to NPC him. Wish me luck everyone...arrrgh....the lobsters be a-callin' ! heart Have fun on your trip! Key West is a great place. ^^ And eat a lobster for me heart
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 12:03 pm
Yamino Tenshi Yes, from what I've heard it's a really open-minded college town and I should do well there. However, I'll always be Miss European and I'm sure that no matter how much I prepare myself there will be a huge culture shock. I'm living in Vienna, Austria right now, but I spent the first 6 years of my life in Rome, Italy (my homecity). I then moved to California for 8 years, and then my family moved back here for the last 4 years. All my international friends here say I seem very American, but my American friends insist that my accent sounds foreign. Apparently, I pronounce things much too clearly to be American. sweatdrop It's going to be weird living in a country where people mainly speak English again. I feel like I'm eavesdropping everywhere I go. sweatdrop Yeah, I'm sure there'll be some thing that'll catch you off guard. As long as you don't lecture people on how American pronunciation is an insult to English(a British acquaintance does this all the time and we all want to strangle him) or somesuch, you'll be fine. You may have people asking you to say a particular word over and over again(like how the Brit acquaintance pronounces "Robot" as "Robit". But I'm mean to him because he deserves it blaugh ). Yeah, people who've learned English as a second language in Europe tend to be even better at it. When you've grown up with it, you feel much better bastardizing it. I remember having a German penpal once who would apologize to me for his "poor" English. Never mind the fact that he wrote better than our President can speak. exclaim Don't worry, you probably won't get an accent. The people with the bad southern accents are usually in small, rural towns. Or a few icky states. Georgia is good. Heck, I grew up in Louisiana, and most people say I just sound generic American. Every once in a while I'll say a word that comes out Southern-sounding, but that happens incredibly rarely(I also have the tendency to say "booksack" instead of "bookbag," which everyone makes fun of me for 3nodding ).
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 1:58 pm
English isn't really a second language to me, I learned it at the same time I was learning Italian. It's just that I was learning from my American mother and and English teacher in kindergarten at the same time, so my accent was a little different (not to mention the influence of Italian!) I'm extremely embarassed to watch old home videos of myself, it's humbling to hear myself talking with this hilarious mixed-up accent in English, and a drawling, lazy Roman accent in Italian. I had a tendency to switch back and forth between them in mid-sentence as well, which was very odd to hear.
Fortunately, I had to re-learn most of my Italian, so that accent sounds slightly American if anything. And I don't think I sound British at all when I speak, I just pronounce everything. sweatdrop I'm definately one of the most normal at my International School, though. Our school has it's own language. xd sweatdrop
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:48 pm
Frau_Eva (I also have the tendency to say "booksack" instead of "bookbag," which everyone makes fun of me for 3nodding ). Ha ha haaaaaaa...*pokes you with a pencil* You said boooooksaaaaaack!! xd
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Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 7:38 pm
My little sister has a southern belle accent >.> I apparently, like my friend Lindsay, do not sound Southern. Our history teacher, who had the year before been our geography teacher, could have sworn we were from up North. We don't have a northern accent either actually, it's more neutral, but every once in awhile we do pop up with something genuinely southern. I forget what I said the other day but I stopped and I was like. "Oh wow, that was so rednecky..." And yes, that's the horrible grungy southern accent people associate with stupidity. It didn't sound that bad, but you could tell I was a southerner lol.
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Dreamwhisper Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 8:24 am
If I stay in a different state for more than a week, I start to pick up the local accent. Michiganders don't really have one of their own. smile
I remember trying to figure out what a friend was asking for when she asked me to get the gumbands from her desk.
"Rubber bands!" she said finally. "You know, gumbands!"
She's from Pittsburgh.
And it's pop, not soda!
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Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 12:08 pm
Time Notice!
Once everyone has left the English class and Adrian and Dorian have finished their confrontation, I'm moving the time from morning to afternoon.
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Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 6:42 pm
Ah, sorry everyone for not having Eliza post in this 'time chunk' ... there just... wasn't much for her to do other than nerd it up in physics class. I have been keeping up though! sweatdrop I'm active, even though I'm quiet. But before I post I wanted to know what Ohtori's time schedule was like. How many classes are in a day?
At my academy its four. Two in the morning, two in the afternoon. First period is always two hours long and the schedule rotates throughout the week. (lol but that's complicated.)
But at my friends high school its five courses. three in the morning, two in the afternoon. Or sometimes i've seen it's two in the morning, three in the afternoon. Or it could just be two and two.
@_@
Either way. XD; Ivy? can you help me answer this?
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