Very Strange.

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 5:08 am

Everyone here sounds like me in my head. Which is to say like John Huston because that's who I sound like.
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Well....not really.
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I sound more like a nasal Eddie Haskell.
"Good evening Mrs. Cleaver. My, you look lovely today."

Post by **Dale** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 6:52 am

In my case, truth be known, you need to be hearing a deep voice with a southern USA accent. Kinda Bill Clinton on steroids. We grew up about 20 miles apart.

Dale

missy · Post by **missy** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 7:04 am

I've lived in or around Cincinnati all my life.........

People from "north" say I have a "southern" accent.

People from the "south" say I have a "northern" accent.

But what can you expect from a city that puts it's airport in another state?

Ok - Cincinnatians do have one weird thing common to their speech. If they don't hear you or want something repeated, they say "Please?". Supposedly it comes from the heavy German influence that was in this area (at one time, over 60% of Cincinnati's population, myself included, were of German descent).

And then there's that whole "warsh / wash" thing.........

Oh - I have a slightly deep voice for a female.

Missy

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 7:22 am

I sound like I'm chronically choking on a bowl of cornflakes.

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 7:37 am

Around these parts, we have a Sargento Cheese commercial, where the guy who owns the place says "our family's paaaasion is cheese" with that nasally Wisconsin "a".

I make fun of him every time I hear it, mocking that "paaasion".

Evidently I've done it so much, I've picked up that "a", because the folks here at work (Irving, TX) make fun of me for my Wisconsin A at least once a day..

Do unto others and all that

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 9:01 am

Listen here Pal, I'm sayin' nuttin' ...

Slan,
D.

Wormdiet · Post by **Wormdiet** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 9:08 am

I have a student from scotland in one of my classes. I don;t call on him to read out loud because *no one* can understand him. he's more intelligible in conversation, for some reason.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:25 am

When my kid Gabe was about 9, he had a Scottish camp counselor who introduced him to a new bunkmate named Marcus.
Gabe responded, "do you have a nickname or anything I can call you? Muffkiss is hard to say."

Martin Milner · Post by **Martin Milner** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 11:26 am

Before I met SamT in person, I thought I was the only person in the Pub who didn't have an accent. Along came Toots and then we were three.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 1:35 pm

Flyingcursor wrote:
The Weekenders wrote:Fortunately, being from California, I have a normal accent, like the kind on TeeVee. Sorry about the rest of youse.
I prefer to think of the mid-midwest as the "normal" accent. California is such a melting pot there is no real accent.

Although I met a girl from CA who said, "Dad" like "Dod". We thought she said "dog".

As a child we moved to Irving Texas. My friends laughed because I pronounced the "L" in "Wolf". They found other dialect differences funny as well. It wasn't long before I talked just like them.

I feel your pain. However, it would have been myself laughing at the benighted Irvingians for pronouncing "wolf" as if it were a dog's utterance. Never one to eat something just because 10,000 flies do it, if you get my drift.

And for the record, my avatar has a tinny nasal robotic-type voice.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 2:37 pm

because of the many places I have lived, I am virtually accentless. So unless you hear my posts in some sexy French accent (which is what I would pick, if I had the choice), you're not hearing it right

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 2:40 pm

I sing just like John Davidson.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 2:41 pm

emmline wrote:I sing just like John Davidson.

Please emm...say it isn't so!!!!! I don't want to hear that when I read your posts!

Whistling Willie · Post by **Whistling Willie** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 3:16 pm

dubhlinn wrote:Listen here Pal, I'm sayin' nuttin' ...

Slan,
D.

What part of Scotland are you from Dubhlinn

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 3:24 pm

Whistling Willie wrote:
dubhlinn wrote:Listen here Pal, I'm sayin' nuttin' ...

Slan,
D.

What part of Scotland are you from Dubhlinn

Ballymun, where I come from, has often been referred to has the Gorbals of Dublin.Others would have it has making the Gorbals look like Beverly Hills.

"Pal" is a standard form of address in Dublin and has been for many generations..it's all down to the tone of voice...or to use another well known Dublin phrase.."Don't be lookin at me in that tone of voice pal!"

Slan,
D.