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Originally posted by shavixmir
Well, thank you!

I personally like the French accent when they're speaking English. That has got to be the sexiest sound in the whole wide world.
I've been told this many many times but I don't understand why it's so particularly pleasant to English speakers' ears..it makes me cringe... Anyway, talking about accents, I do a really good Glaswegian accent, with a slight kind of French twang of course, so it's a bit of an odd mix but people never fail to recognise it. 😏

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Originally posted by Philodor
That's why we do not know what they are blathering about and just put the 'phone down.
Who is "we"?
Did you mean "I"?

Personally I find it harder to understand the Indians. They tend to talk too quickly.

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Originally posted by FrenchQueen
I've been told this many many times but I don't understand why it's so particularly pleasant to English speakers' ears..it makes me cringe... Anyway, talking about accents, I do a really good Glaswegian accent, with a slight kind of French twang of course, so it's a bit of an odd mix but people never fail to recognise it. 😏
Once, when I was living on a Kibbutz, there was this lad from Glasgow.
We were sipping vodka on a sandy hill, over-looking the dead sea and he asked where I was from.
I told him I was from Glasgow.
He answered: "You don't sound very Glaswegian, you sound more like you're from Edinburgh."
And I replied: "No, that's just education..."

Everything sounds sexy in French. Even saying something like: "Je voudrez une baguette avec jambon et fromage...sil vous plaits..."
Especially with that hoarse sort of French voice....

brrrrr... brb, need to pop by the toilet.

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Originally posted by Redmike
Do you have any problems with what the BNP stands for?

Not with the socio-economic status of their members.

Tell us whether you support their policies or not.

A simple question.
Banque Nationale de Paris? 😀

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Originally posted by Philodor
That's why we do not know what they are blathering about and just put the 'phone down.

As to why so many of these pestilential centres are cited there, it is probably to try to get the Glaswegians to work for a living and get them off the 'benefits'.
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Originally posted by royalchicken
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Well done . I was waitng to see who would be the first to come in on queue (another one for you).

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Originally posted by Philodor
Well done . I was waitng to see who would be the first to come in on queue (another one for you).
There are two actually.

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Originally posted by shavixmir
[b......... the Glaswegian accent was found the 3rd best accent to understand. Behind the Edinburgh accent and Oxford English.[/b]
Do you mean an accent like that of the present Speaker of the House of Commons?

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Originally posted by Philodor
Do you mean an accent like that of the present Speaker of the House of Commons?
No, Silly. Rab C Nesbitt's accent.

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Originally posted by Philodor
Well done . I was waitng to see who would be the first to come in on queue (another one for you).
I suspect that 'queue' is actually the first of these gaffes which has been intentional. I have no interest in correcting the typing, spelling or grammar of anyone who is not an arrogant racist lunatic who holds others to standards of communication xe cannot meet xymself.

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Originally posted by royalchicken
I suspect that 'queue' is actually the first of these gaffes which has been intentional. I have no interest in correcting the typing, spelling or grammar of anyone who is not an arrogant racist lunatic who holds others to standards of communication xe cannot meet xymself.
You poor half-wit, have you no other line of argument but to cry 'racist' like a parrot?

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I like the sound of Yiddish myself .. always makes me laugh whatever they may be saying.
French to the American ear (mine) is sensual, musical, very plesent.
German always comes off angry and stiff.
Brits all sound like they have a stick up there arse and are trying hard not to let on about it .. stiff upper lip and all that rot.
American english is mixed depending on what part of the country you're in .. it runs the whole range from simply ignorant to totally stupid.😀

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Originally posted by jammer
I like the sound of Yiddish myself .. always makes me laugh whatever they may be saying.
French to the American ear (mine) is sensual, musical, very plesent.
German always comes off angry and stiff.
Brits all sound like they have a stick up there arse and are trying hard not to let on about it .. stiff upper lip and all that rot.
American english is mixed ...[text shortened]... t of the country you're in .. it runs the whole range from simply ignorant to totally stupid.😀
Kletzmer is very attractive music. Some of the great operatic singers like Jan Pierce, and musicians like Ishthak Perlman recorded it,

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Originally posted by Philodor
You poor half-wit, have you no other line of argument but to cry 'racist' like a parrot?
Actually, I'm crying 'racist' because I have read many of your posts. Which of my posts over the past ~4 years justifies your claims that I am a half-wit?

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Originally posted by royalchicken
Actually, I'm crying 'racist' because I have read many of your posts. Which of my posts over the past ~4 years justifies your claims that I am a half-wit?
Halfwit = someone who disagrees with Philodor.