You gotta BAD accent Mister!!!

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Well I just casually noticed today while I was talking to my professor that...I have kind of a twangy accent. I was listening to myself talk, and I caught myself saying "I'monna doit".
And then I went back to my seat and I thought about it for quite a while. I was thinking..."I'monna"?
"I'monna; I'm going to"?
"Do people notice that I don't pronounce things right, or is it just me?"

Every now and again, someone will ask me why I have "that accent", but gradually, people just stopped mentioning it.


Do you have an out of place accent in your community?
Me personally, I grew up in Arkansas, so I think I have a "slight" southern accent. It's kind of obvious that I'm not from California. ^.^
 
I have lived in Texas or Arkansas for my entire life... so I know what you're talking about. It shows up more when I'm talking fast, and it causes me slur words together... or drop syllables. The one that annoys me the most is when I say "Hunerd" instead of "Hundred".

But, since I still live here in the south, I am not out of place.
 
Oh really??? Where did you live in Arkansas?? I lived in Fayetville (the Northwest corner) ^.^
 
Well, I don't have an accent. I just speak so fast that I have to go back and repeat what I was saying. XD

It's a little surprising that I don't have an accent, considering my mother still has her Phillippene accent and I've lived with her forever.
 
I don't *think* I have an accent, then again...no one thinks that they have an accent.

I'm from lower New York, and I don't have a New York accent at all (except maybe the way I say "dad" like "dayd".) Only when people pointed it out to me did I realize that I might have a bit of a Canadian accent when I say certain words like "tomorrow." I also say "eh?" a lot after sentences, like Canadians do (or maybe it's a Quebec thing). However, my Canadian accent is no where NEAR as bad as my parents' accents!
 
Some say I have a slight accent, some say it's thick, and some say "American accent"...which I find weird. What IS an American accent? o_O

I honestly I think I have a slight accent since I came from a native land. But growing up in California probably gradually omitted some of my native accent. I don't know...
 
Oh, I have an accent alright. Apparently it's one of the hardest to understand in the UK. :monster:
I rarely pronounce the letter 't' when I talk. For example, I'd have said "le'er". I've got a lot of slang with where I come from that is hardly used anywhere else in the country.
 
Tyler Durden said:
I rarely pronounce the letter 't' when I talk. For example, I'd have said "le'er".
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I do that. :monster:

Other things I do are;

+ Not pronounce the 'h' at the beginning of a word.

+ I don't pronounce the 't' at the end or in the middle of a word.

+ If a word includes the letters 'ou' together, I pronounce it 'ey' instead, for example; "reynd" instead of "round"

The last example is only heard in the part of Portsmouth that I live in, it's rare to hear it in other areas of the city.
 
I actually kinda hate my accent. I mean people who talk to me a lot don't really notice it anymore, but no matter what there are just some words I still have trouble pronouncing, and I sound pretty slow and dumb when I try speaking without my accent because it's hard to talk fast, my accent just comes out!

I actually never really new I had a thick accent till 2 years ago when I heard myself after singing I just can't tell, but it seems everyone else can
 
Oh I have an accent alright. It's not really thick or anything, but sometimes it sounds more of a lisp than anything. o.0

Like I can't pronounce words with 'r' in them right. I think I roll it around way too much.

But other than that, I can say I have a better accent than the rest of my family. :P
 
I have a pretty strong British (generic English, I suppose) accent, which isn't too different from how most of the people I know speak. Being in Wales, there's a lot of Welsh accents... I've grown up around it a lot, yet adapted a very different lilt to what my elders have.

I don't dislike it or anything, but I do wish I sounded a bit different so people wouldn't call me upper-class twat or whatever. XD
 
well.. being norwegian.. I have my own accent. I tend to take in what I hear.
so I have a mix, between British in some words, American in some words.
and some that you never knows where comes from ^^
 
Jeremiah said:
But other than that, I can say I have a better accent than the rest of my family. :P
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Yeah, it's kinda like that with me and my family. Actually only me, my mom and dad, and my cousin are the only ones in my whole family who actually speak english, but My mom's accent is so thick no one can barely understand her anyway
 
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