Please post media (youtube clips, etc) that clearly show an English accent that you are intimately familiar with - your accent would be a good example.
Originally posted by AThousandYoung The Monkees had a song called "Randy Scouse Git". What does that mean? Horny "Scouse" go away?
First word's right, 'scouse' is the term for people from Liverpool (particularly stereotypical Liverpudlians), and 'git' is a term for an annoying person.
None of the three accents I offered are mine. They're all Los Angeles accents though (the AAL one is more Southern, but similar to LA AAL). Mine is a mix of Standard American and Chicano I think, but it's hard to analyze oneself. A few people (bus drivers, etc) have said I seem to have a European accent but who knows where that comes from? Listening to too much Beatles?
I sound kinda like this guy's version of Standard American.
Originally posted by ElleEffSeee First word's right, 'scouse' is the term for people from Liverpool (particularly stereotypical Liverpudlians), and 'git' is a term for an annoying person.
"One of those stereotypically sex crazed, annoying blokes from Liverpool."
That's what it means? What a bizaare thing to name a song.
Originally posted by AThousandYoung Please post media (youtube clips, etc) that clearly show an English accent that you are intimately familiar with - your accent would be a good example.
Los Angeles Chicano accent:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4DUi5Q_BPs
Standard American English woman with a hint of "valley girl", Malibu, Beverly Hills to me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmS6mkO3_TQ
African-American Language:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klxGFAnY4nI
I've always hated the way Californians pronounce their "L"s.
Originally posted by AThousandYoung None of the three accents I offered are mine. They're all Los Angeles accents though (the AAL one is more Southern, but similar to LA AAL). Mine is a mix of Standard American and Chicano I think, but it's hard to analyze oneself. A few people (bus drivers, etc) have said I seem to have a European accent but who knows where that comes from? Listeni ...[text shortened]... e.com/watch?v=B8kVnx4Pvo4
Is he a scouse? He's from Liverpool. Were the Beatles scouses?
Originally posted by Crowley Idiotic extremist ANC youth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39vBhsoNdrA
It's amazing how different the African accent is to the Afro-American accent. I've met several Africans; my buddies and I used to hang out with this one really annoying guy from Ghana, and there's an African man living on my floor. My sister went out with an African man once too.
Anyone familiar with the Southern accent? I bet that's where a lot of Black accent comes from.
There were British undercover agents in Northern Ireland who were compromised and murdered because their otherwise perfect accents were from specific Belfast housing estates that were incompatible with their cover stories. Belfast is no more than a large town by international urban standards. The diversity and specificity of accents and dialects in the U.K. is extraordinary for what is only a medium sized island.
Originally posted by AThousandYoung It's amazing how different the African accent is to the Afro-American accent. I've met several Africans; my buddies and I used to hang out with this one really annoying guy from Ghana, and there's an African man living on my floor. My sister went out with an African man once too.
Anyone familiar with the Southern accent? I bet that's where a lot of Black accent comes from.
Southern american english has ties to celtic languages and uses a lot of dipthongs and glide vowels. While some words are drawn out others are contstricted.
example of older more rual speech: 'At thar feller overair tain't got nairy a good hunt'n dawg woth a thang.'
(translation: That fellow over there hasn't got a single dog of any value.)
As far as Afro-American english, there is an influance but it stands as its own sub-dialect.
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