Thread: Post Your Accent

Every American I speak to on Xbox live goes "Hey! You're British!" as if Britain was just a myth.

And all the Americans here who like Brit accents, you'll change your mind once you go to Yorkshire.

Originally Posted by NeAvO

Good thing I'm going to New York next year
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Every girl will hear your voice and want to hang out with you. Seriously. It's just that awesome.

hia

By special request, a second one:

I love you in a plutonic way.

Tell me if this works.

Do I sound Canadian to you?

Yeah, that worked. (Fun to hear your voice.)

Do I sound Canadian to you?[/b]

You sounded kind of....well...American (except for that last bit, of course ). I'll have to listen again to see if I notice any differences.


"Honed"....

Yeah, that worked. (Fun to hear your voice.)[/b]

I thought it was time to put a voice to my text!

I'll have to listen again to see if I notice any differences[/b]

Baha, American. That's funny, cause everyone I know talks like I do. No eh's, aboots, or beavers. Do your worst.

"Honed"....[/b]

I've heard so many variations it's wild!

Oh, and please note that I'm attempting the sly, fake drama voice - I don't actually talk like someone from South Park.

Oh, and please note that I'm attempting the sly, fake drama voice - I don't actually talk like someone from South Park[/b]

Yeah, I just figured you were having fun. You did a great job.

I read it through a couple of times to see how I might sound if I decided to post my voice. I sounded like I was reading to preschoolers (which I have had a lot of practice with over the years...lol).

Baha, American. That's funny, cause everyone I know talks like I do. No eh's, aboots, or beavers. Do your worst[/b]

To be honest I haven't known too many Canadians. Not enough to really pick up on the differences. The one I was really good friends with in college was from Montreal--and he had a completely different accent altogether.

Well, here's what I sound like. I chose to read an excerpt from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel, Mort, instead of the Harry Potter excerpt, for my own reasons. You should be able to detect a slight Southern accent.

Excerpt I used:

The only thing known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Weedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles -- kingons, or possibly queons -- that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expanded because, at that point, the bar closed. -- Terry Pratchett (Mort)

My sound clip: Man of Steel's accent

Here's my 1:30am voice.

Woot! Terry pratchett! Not uploading cuz of my dialup, but the reason that most people think that their recorded voices sound different is because when you talk normally, a fair bit of sound reaches your ears through the mass of your head, because solids are a better conductor of noise than gases. Neal's usless fact for the day.

I only listen to the ones I don't have to specially download...

Nice, Beef Jerky! Cool accent.

Aw, Burns - mine has something in it just for you.

ManofSteel, yep: definitely Southern.

Originally Posted by Dallian

ManofSteel, yep: definitely Southern. [/b]

That's me. I'm just a poor ol' Southern boy.

PNG Pyro, I'm on dial-up, too. It didn't really take that long to upload mine, and it was bigger than about half the others.

Originally Posted by CoLd

Aw, Burns - mine has something in it just for you. [/b]

Really? Can't you upload on here like Beef Jerky did? I just don't trust downloading from third party sites like that.

Originally Posted by Burns

Really? Can't you upload on here like Beef Jerky did? I just don't trust downloading from third party sites like that. [/b]

Haha. It's trustable. =P

It's over 500 KBs, so it can't be uploaded.

CoLd BlooDed, I figured out I didn't actually have to download it - I just clicked on the Lo-Fi link and it played! You guys and your technical shit...

Anyway, LOVE the ending! I LOLed. But no, I can't say I hear much of the Canadian accent in there... That was good and entertaining though - well done! :bravo:

Okay, so I recorded my accent using my phone's voice recorder, right, but I can't send it from my phone to the computer. So.. another wait while I either 1) actually go out and buy a mic, or 2) get the services to send multimedia messages from my cell.

Fun, fun, fun.

Originally posted by Burns
CoLd BlooDed, I figured out I didn't actually have to download it - I just clicked on the Lo-Fi link and it played! You guys and your technical shit...

Haha, my bad, I totally forgot you could do that. Good thing you figured it out.

Anyway, LOVE the ending! I LOLed.[/b]

Good! Its purpose has been served.

But no, I can't say I hear much of the Canadian accent in there... That was good and entertaining though - well done! :bravo:[/b]

Haha, you mean there's not much of a stereotypical Canadian accent in there. This is really how everyone from BC talks.

But thanks for listening.

CoLd BlooDed's accent is also my own[Being a BC boy an all], I was going to post a submission but my mic died a few days ago.

Here's mine, enjoy
http://s165.photobucket.com/albums/u76/pac...harryaccent.flv
p.s. cool topic