Accents....

[athena_ny 1]

I'm wondering if the USC notices their SO's accent still (depending on how long you've been together)? Or if you aren't the USC, does your SO comment on your accent?

I ask this because P is here visiting and whenever we're with friends or those who may not talk to him very often, people always comment on his accent. But I realized that I don't even notice it anymore unless he's very tired or for the few words that he pronounces in a "German" way (wacuum, anyone? or walley).

Just being nosey.

Yes, I notice his accent. I probably understand him better than a lot of people (he's not that hard to understand though) but he obviously doesn't have an American accent.

[rebeccajo 14]

sanita has a nice chechen..russian accent////sounds like natasha from bullwinkle

Boris.............dahhhhhhhling............

[rebeccajo 14]

The day I stop being charmed by that lovely lilt is the day I want somebody to cover me over with daisies...............

Do you ever ask him to say, "I'm gonna make me a balloon and fly away?"

Ok, neither Wes nor I get this.............

(I make him say 'how now brown cow'......just because it sounds goofy.........)

[one...two...tree 2,762]

The day I stop being charmed by that lovely lilt is the day I want somebody to cover me over with daisies...............

Do you ever ask him to say, "I'm gonna make me a balloon and fly away?"

Ok, neither Wes nor I get this.............

(I make him say 'how now brown cow'......just because it sounds goofy.........)

...it was my lame attempt at making a reference to Lucky, the Leprechan from Lucky Charms commercials.

[rebeccajo 14]

The day I stop being charmed by that lovely lilt is the day I want somebody to cover me over with daisies...............

Do you ever ask him to say, "I'm gonna make me a balloon and fly away?"

Ok, neither Wes nor I get this.............

(I make him say 'how now brown cow'......just because it sounds goofy.........)

...it was my lame attempt at making a reference to Lucky, the Leprechan from Lucky Charms commercials.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA!

Never make a comment to an irishman about his 'lucky charms'...................

[♥Sora_9_Dam3a♥ 0]

yep, my husband has an accent...the typical egyptian accent, if you're from nyc, you probably know it...they say 'za' instead of 'the' and they pronounce 'b' as 'p' and 'p' as 'b'--there's no 'p' sound in arabic...lol...

he has trouble understanding me sometimes--i was born and raised in nyc--i never thought i really had an accent--but i met a girl from the west coast and she guessed where i was from in nyc from my accent...lol!! anyway, i tried teaching him that we say wanna and gonna instead of want to and going to....and i don't pronounce the 't' in 'what'....

we should make a list of those phrases that we jumble together..haha

[jundp 191]

I don't notice hubby's accent now. In fact I don't notice ANY American accents anymore.

I never even think of us USC's as having an accent! But it's true. When I am very angry or upset my southern accent comes out and P has a great time mocking me

I don't hear Gary's accent anymore either, unless he is tired then he can be a bit hard to understand, as he mumbles lol But he still isnt totally comfortable speaking in restaurants, ect, cause he says people cant understand him.

We signed a lease on a house last week and the agent had to keep asking P to repeat himself. It's just so difficult for me hear the accent. In fact, he speaks English almost flawlessly (minus the aforementioned w and v confusions, and also "th" instead of "s" and vice versa) but with a British accent, not an American, on some words. He thinks I'm totally nutters because I've been listening really intently since I posted this

[Krikit 1,165]

My Glaswegian friend married a French Canadian. But he's been in Canada for so long that he's lost his accent. (Unless he's around my family or his family.) When he and his wife were having an argument, she'd start yelling at him in french and he'd yell back in Glaswegian. Neither of them understood a word the other was saying, but they got it all out of their system. It was hysterical. They're divorced now.

[Alex & Rachel 78]

Nope, though the other night we got into an arguement because I thought he said floor, so I asked him a question about it, he didn't know what I was talking about, I thought he was being a brat... He was actually trying to say flaw. Haha, he totally can't say r's! No one can understand him at work though, but all the ladies love him anyways

But...floor and flaw sound the same, don't they?

Alex doesn't comment on my accent as often as he used to, but he still has plenty of opportunities to laugh at the different words I use for certain things. And I think it's going to take me a long, long time to the Californian 'oo' instead of 'u/ew' (stoopid, noos, etc.)

Edited February 22, 2008 by Alex & Rachel

[pedroh 21]

yankees can't understand my southern accent...

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I never even think of us USC's as having an accent! But it's true. When I am very angry or upset my southern accent comes out and P has a great time mocking me

After a dozen years in the US, I still have a little of my German accent left - very little. People can't quite tell that it's a German accent but they notice an accent of some sort. Nani, on the other hand, still maintains a very heavy accent after having lived here for 4 years.

[Autumnchik 6]

My hubby never had a stereotypical Canadian accent (I have only heard him say 'eh' one time and he was doing it just to mess with me!!!) His accent is interesting, probably comes from having spent time in Australia and England. I had an English friend tell me he sounded Scottish, which puzzled us both since he never did live there. I don't really hear it anymore, but it is still apparent to others, when I have to translate his orders in restaurants (which is bizarre because it really is a subtle accent).

I am originally from Connecticut, but spent 6 years living in Georgia. It was a matter of job survival for me to have to adapt the Southern accent (I was doing in-home mental health therapy and none of my clients could understand my "Yankee speak"). So I developed a bit of a twang. That has definitely lessened now that I live in New England again, but every so often, others will comment on it. Hubby doesn't even notice it anymore

[Mark&Steph 0]

(well, unless I say herb, with the "h"...lol)

A guy in the store just couldn't understand what I meant by tomahto. Steph had to translate for me

Makes up for the times in the UK when I had to do the same for her.

Like everyone else, I only notice Steph's accent on occasions (and probably the same for her) or when she says something in a different way to how I'll say it. She's endlessly mocking my use of cahn't (which is funny because she's actually picked up cahn't be arsed/bothered from that)

[Jenn! 918]

Yes, my husband's accent is pretty noticeable. Though I don't think he has a "typical" Moroccan accent. He doesn't speak like his Moroccan friends. I think someone listening to him would have a hard time placing where he is from.

[PlatyPius 5]

After a dozen years in the US, I still have a little of my German accent left - very little. People can't quite tell that it's a German accent but they notice an accent of some sort. Nani, on the other hand, still maintains a very heavy accent after having lived here for 4 years.

So they just think that you sound only a little angry?