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hahaha. when I say them out loud they pretty much sound the same to me. How the hell do you make them all sound different??? |
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10.23.2010, 09:41 PM | #22 |
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it's in the water, or rather, "woowta"
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10.23.2010, 10:55 PM | #23 | |
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why do people from manchester say EHHHM? i don't know. i hear it 900 times a day.
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that reads like a Scouser thing
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10.24.2010, 12:35 AM | #25 |
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Yeah, I always think of Liverpudlians when I hear the "eehm" thing, but then I watched this ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wo2-PImEbc My favourite scouse accent ever has to be Jamie Carragher's: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSD9XF6S5BE Amazing. |
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10.24.2010, 05:15 AM | #26 |
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Well it's actually just a link between two vowels to avoid hiatus, it's normally pronounced as a W rather than an R (I think I hear a W rather than an R in said interview - if my French ears aren't wrong though).
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Ok, it actually depends on the vowels :
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http://cardiff.ac.uk/encap/resources...ishphrases.pdf PS : the board can't display some phonetic symbols correctly
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Exactly. "Here we go" poses no problems but "here it is" becomes "here-r-it is". The turning of 'in' into "im" in 'here in Britain' is also true. I just tried it. It's less obvious than the 'r' but definitely there. I'm not sure how widespread it is across other British accents but it's absolutely there in a London accent. |
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10.24.2010, 02:46 PM | #31 | |
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Implying that Londoners are real people.
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Woss bis' 'ee taykin' piss out 'v I fowr miynd? Arr Terr's a proper geez mind, proper gert lush 'ee is.
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I should note that Terry's from Divvywood, so you should take what he's saying with a pinch of salt.
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10.24.2010, 05:13 PM | #35 |
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Just be thankful that Bristol has no real equivalent to someone like Danny Dyer. At least Terry's an official comedian.
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i realize hevusa was probably trying to piss people off gratuitously when he started this thread, but now speaking of dialects & such--
i was watching this irish movie "intermission" this weekend and in the closing credits colin farrell sings "i fought the law" ignore the twatty photos & notice at about 20-25 seconds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWNdf9gsJZ4 i fought the lawr and the law won on a side note, he does a pretty good job with this cover seems like the r serves to join with the upcoming a, so it's i fought the lawrand the the law won anyway. coincidence, or magical realism? |
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10.25.2010, 04:36 PM | #37 |
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Colin Farrell's overly exaggerated 'Oirish' accent aside, law, pronounced 'loor' ends more with a vowel sound, in that the 'r' really just accents the 'oo', giving the transitional 'r' that comes between 'law' and 'and' the same role as it would have between 'here' and 'it'.
Don't American's do the same thing with 'law', only making it more like "laar". Would they not have the same "laar-r-and the, laar won" thing? Or is it just another case of American exceptionalism? |
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i've never heard anybody say they watch "laa-r-and order" "law" stays clear of getting mixed up with order (it's American segregationism) though i've heard plenty hicks saying they have "ideaRs" or "i'm gunna waRsh the truck" ps- here's the original version of the song by the crickets clearly separated (but equal!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxmlcTVFvic it was the 50s-- not a good time for civil rights |
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10.25.2010, 04:49 PM | #39 |
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hahaha. I was actually thinking of Laa and aarder when I wrote that and sat in front of my computer doing a really bad American accent, trying to see if the transitional r worked. And you're right, it didn't. Which makes me wonder if it isn't more a geographically bound thing, rather than one related to the English language in general.
Anyway, I've decided that the New Jersey accent is now my favourite American accent of them all. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vkTN4-GZQQ |
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10.25.2010, 04:52 PM | #40 |
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Meanwhile, I'd happily pay this woman mucho pounds to shout at me like that
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpTkafjPKS8 The fact she's brandishing a power drill makes it even hotter, for some reason. |
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