Accents....

[PlatyPius 5]

Name it and we'll film it, and I might throw in an accent for free!

It was either Noble Roman's or something in "The Square" or both if Noble Roman's is on the campus.

Or something like that... I couldn't understand Steph's accent

Noble Roman's in Delaney Square. (I think it had another name...)

I worked there, too.

It went away several years ago - DePauw bought the building (like they always do) and turned it into some kind of office thing. The huge Victorian house that was next door was the scene of one of Greencastle's few murders several years ago. At that point it was a steakhouse and one of the owners shot the other. The house was given to anyone who would move it, and it's now the restored Victorian Day Spa out by Veteran's Memorial Highway.

[jundp 191]

Mags - when she tries - sounds more American than I do. Actually, she sounds more "California Valley Girl" than "American".... It's hilarious, though. Especially since she acts all stupid and dingy when she does it, too.

"Like, oh my god Becky! Look at her butt! It's like so BIG!"

Bribe her to do that on camera for you sometime.....

Maybe the bribe could get her to kill two birds with one stone and do it while videoing the downtown area. Steph's mom used to live there and work in a pizza place. She got excited when I mentioned the pizza place in the video, but it wasn't the one

Name it and we'll film it, and I might throw in an accent for free!

I would pay good (virtual) money to hear Mags doing a valley girl accent

[yogib37 3]

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

Look ROCKY.. Let me pul a rabbit out the Hat

love bullwinkle

[greeneyedgirlfl 0]

I threatened Darren that if he lost his Essex/Devon accent, I was sending him back until he got it back!!! He tries to do my southern accent (family from West FL & Savannah); it's hysterical!!

[Empress of Groovy 373]

When Jon, who grew up about 20 miles west of London, tries to do an American accent (like, when imitating one of his female coworkers), he ends up sounding like Rain Man.

His imitations are improving, though. For example, he can do a pretty good (accent-wise) imitation of the "real client" doofuses on the local law firm TV commercials. "When I needed aggressive legal representation, I knew just who to call..."

Hmm...

[KandD 1]

I live in dang South Carolina, we're gonna screw Iain's lovely accent up

OMG, no! heh heh

I live in Kentucky, but was born and raised in California.

It still gets under my skin sometimes when I hear things like "we aint got no.." or "its over 'er" instead of over THere. Im quite used to "y'all"... lol I've been here 10 years now!

I was telling him about the way most ppl talk here.... he thinks "ya'll" is hilarious and loves to tease me saying hes going to start saying ya'll and aint all the time.. LOL

I said, PLEASE dont let anyone here teach you how to pronouce anything hee hee hee

Hey now , dont be talking about us KY people. LOL. I noticed ur from the Kentuciana area me too.

[bora bora 1]

My husband only speaks basic-intermediate English so his accent is quite strong (and that is one thing he desperately wants to work on). Sometimes I have to repeat a word that he mispronounces because people don't understand.

I hope he learns to speak English like me and not those southerners living here in Flerrrda because I'm from NY

On the other hand, I watched myself on TV (while living in Brazil) speaking Portuguese and my accent is quite slight...sometimes people think I'm from the south of Brasil and not American. That makes me feel good.

Edited February 23, 2008 by bora bora

[SnowyTater 0]

QUOTE(Y_habibitk @ Feb 21 2008, 11:34 PM)

QUOTE(SnowyTater @ Feb 21 2008, 09:27 PM)

I live in dang South Carolina, we're gonna screw Iain's lovely accent up

OMG, no! heh heh

I live in Kentucky, but was born and raised in California.

It still gets under my skin sometimes when I hear things like "we aint got no.." or "its over 'er" instead of over THere. Im quite used to "y'all"... lol I've been here 10 years now!

I was telling him about the way most ppl talk here.... he thinks "ya'll" is hilarious and loves to tease me saying hes going to start saying ya'll and aint all the time.. LOL

I said, PLEASE dont let anyone here teach you how to pronouce anything hee hee hee

Hey now , dont be talking about us KY people. LOL. I noticed ur from the Kentuciana area me too.

Man...nah, I kind of love all the southern twang and culture and everything. Around the bottom of the Blue Ridge mountains and bluegrass and all that is just an extension of Iain's Scottish culture anyway. He heard somewhere once that actually, the southern accent is closer to what "true English" USED to sound like than today's british accents are. Anyway, no, love rocking chairs and baking pies and talking slow and all that stuff

One time we took my fiance tubing on a river and stopped at a gas station for fries when we left. Some yuppy-ish Northerners were in there and it's kind of a backwoods town where you just...spot people and look at them like 'not from around here'. ...The guy had never seen boiled peanuts before and asked the cashier if you're supposed to eat the shell and all

Some things just shouldn't happen

[Alex+R 0]

Wait, what's a boiled peanut like? Do you eat the shell?

[bora bora 1]

QUOTE(Y_habibitk @ Feb 21 2008, 11:34 PM)

QUOTE(SnowyTater @ Feb 21 2008, 09:27 PM)

I live in dang South Carolina, we're gonna screw Iain's lovely accent up

OMG, no! heh heh

I live in Kentucky, but was born and raised in California.

It still gets under my skin sometimes when I hear things like "we aint got no.." or "its over 'er" instead of over THere. Im quite used to "y'all"... lol I've been here 10 years now!

I was telling him about the way most ppl talk here.... he thinks "ya'll" is hilarious and loves to tease me saying hes going to start saying ya'll and aint all the time.. LOL

I said, PLEASE dont let anyone here teach you how to pronouce anything hee hee hee

Hey now , dont be talking about us KY people. LOL. I noticed ur from the Kentuciana area me too.

Man...nah, I kind of love all the southern twang and culture and everything. Around the bottom of the Blue Ridge mountains and bluegrass and all that is just an extension of Iain's Scottish culture anyway. He heard somewhere once that actually, the southern accent is closer to what "true English" USED to sound like than today's british accents are. Anyway, no, love rocking chairs and baking pies and talking slow and all that stuff

One time we took my fiance tubing on a river and stopped at a gas station for fries when we left. Some yuppy-ish Northerners were in there and it's kind of a backwoods town where you just...spot people and look at them like 'not from around here'. ...The guy had never seen boiled peanuts before and asked the cashier if you're supposed to eat the shell and all

Some things just shouldn't happen

hahaha, I'd never seen boiled peanuts (either) before I moved to Florida.

One of my co-workers loves to tell the joke - What's the difference between a Yankee and a Damn Yankee?

The Yankee goes home...

He loves to say this in front of me.

[Amby 490]

Wait, what's a boiled peanut like? Do you eat the shell?

I don't know the answer to that either!

[Krikit 1,166]

Wait, what's a boiled peanut like? Do you eat the shell?

I'm still confused over those too. You see little trailers on the side of the road with huge signs advertising "BOILED PEANUTS" and people pulling over to buy some. I haven't a clue what a boiled peanut is. (Other than what the name implies.) Or what to do with it.

[*JG* 2]

I've never really noticed Andre's accent; but I think it's cause I've spent so much time with him and talking on the phone.

I do notice it is heavier when he drinks, when he's excited, and when he lapses into Patois when talking to someone on the phone.

[Jenn! 918]

Wait, what's a boiled peanut like? Do you eat the shell?

For the longest time, I thought they were "bold peanuts" because I'd only ever heard people with southern accents say it.

Edited February 23, 2008 by Jenn!

[LaL 418]

Wait, what's a boiled peanut like? Do you eat the shell?

I'm still confused over those too. You see little trailers on the side of the road with huge signs advertising "BOILED PEANUTS" and people pulling over to buy some. I haven't a clue what a boiled peanut is. (Other than what the name implies.) Or what to do with it.

They are goooooood!!! We always stopped to get the spicy jalapeno ones. Its essentially a huge pot with spices (or none!) with peanuts in their shells. You buy a bag, peel & eat! The peanuts are just tender and flavorful. Before I moved south a girl in my office brought some back from AL. We all looked at her cross-eyed as none of us had heard of it either, now I am a big fan!