Accents!

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  • roar
    roar Posts: 1,116
    accents are sexy.

    too bad i live in a region with no distinctive voice, particular style or dialect.
  • vital5
    vital5 Posts: 5,486
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    Wow, I just have to start a thread on this. I never realised how much an accent can get you chatted up... til Chicago! I'm one of those people who are pretty slow to catch on that people are chatting me up... I just thought American guys are really really friendly... til evenkat pointed it out to me. I was like 'no you're wrong, I haven't noticed it' but then I was watching out and it was fucking hilarious. Even if I just asked for a lighter, they would make conversation :D ... and I was shocked at how absolutely gorgeous most of these guys were. Ya know the kind that are really big headed and wouldn't look twice at ya at home... were chatting me up :eek:

    I'm telling ya, accents are fucking brilliant, you should all get one :p
    what is this accent you speak of?... and how did the guys even understand you? ;) irish accents... well i guess there might be some hot ones... :p
  • vital5
    vital5 Posts: 5,486
    reeferchief wrote:
    Speedy mover huh? I have a bit of a geordie accent, which has it's benefits.;)
    that just means you are able to understand other Geordies ;) heh
  • Pegasus
    Pegasus Posts: 3,754
    roar wrote:
    accents are sexy.

    too bad i live in a region with no distinctive voice, particular style or dialect.
    depends which one...Brummy isn't for example..
  • vital5
    vital5 Posts: 5,486
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    :D well after 10 days in the States I've had to retrain myself not to talk about the 'fun in the line' (craic in the queue) or the bathrooms... what the fuck? I just want to piss... not have a fucking bath :D so yeh, I see where you're coming from :D
    I had to learn some words whilst living in England... no one understood some of my Aussie words :p

    like Liquid Paper.... They kinda got it... but "ohhhh you mean Tipex" haha

    and sticky tape.... ha.
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    vital5 wrote:
    I had to learn some words whilst living in England... no one understood some of my Aussie words :p

    like Liquid Paper.... They kinda got it... but "ohhhh you mean Tipex" haha

    and sticky tape.... ha.


    "tipex"...wtf is "tipex"??
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  • Hitch-Hiker
    Hitch-Hiker Posts: 2,873
    AmentsChick wrote:
    "tipex"...wtf is "tipex"??
    It's that white stuff you use to cover up mistakes when you're writing. Bet you don't know what blu-tac is either :p
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  • vital5
    vital5 Posts: 5,486
    Hitch-Hiker wrote:
    It's that white stuff you use to cover up mistakes when you're writing. Bet you don't know what blu-tac is either :p
    I do... the stuff that rips the paint off walls when you take your posters down :)
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    Hitch-Hiker wrote:
    It's that white stuff you use to cover up mistakes when you're writing. Bet you don't know what blu-tac is either :p

    Yeah...liquid paper...or more commonly "White-out"
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    i admit i am a sucker for a glaswegian accent. :)
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • vital5
    vital5 Posts: 5,486
    AmentsChick wrote:
    Yeah...liquid paper...or more commonly "White-out"
    Whoever coined the term liquid paper was a marketing genius :)
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    vital5 wrote:
    Whoever coined the term liquid paper was a marketing genius :)

    That would be me.
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  • vital5
    vital5 Posts: 5,486
    I also learned that pants are underwear in England... and you don't want to walk into Millets and ask for a can of stuff to re-waterproof your pants.... very funny :)
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    One of my favorite terms..."nappies". I think that's fricken adorable! :)
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  • vital5
    vital5 Posts: 5,486
    catefrances wrote:
    i admit i am a sucker for a glaswegian accent. :)
    I really don't like Scottish accents that much.... My fave has to be liz hurley type accent :) *drools*

    I'd respect anyone's authoriti that had an accent like that ;)
  • vital5
    vital5 Posts: 5,486
    AmentsChick wrote:
    That would be me.
    okay.. marry me.. you must be loaded ;) heh

    Surely you didnt :)
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    Sonja_S wrote:
    :D That's funny - my sister and I went to Dublin last weekend. We went to get some dinner and when I couldn't see where the toilets were and decided to ask the waitress we were like 'crap, what are the washrooms called in Ireland again?'. BTW, I found the Irish men quite smooth - my sister was a bit freaked out though.

    Apparently I speak English with a Canadian accent (and vocabulary). One friend of my ex in Calgary actually complained that he was looking forward to my Austrian accent and then I didn't have one. I don't know if that sicko thought Schwarzenegger-English was sexy :p
    Irish men smooth? :D:D hahahahaha... I just find this too funny! In fairness to them, they try to be... in a James Bond kinda way, but most of them don't have the Pierce Brosnan accent so it's not quite the same in a bogger accent :D
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
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  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    vital5 wrote:
    what is this accent you speak of?... and how did the guys even understand you? ;) irish accents... well i guess there might be some hot ones... :p
    :D I've no idea how they understood me... perhaps they didn't. Perhaps I mistook their 'what the fuck are ya saying?' for 'I love your accent, say more' :D ah well, tis all good!
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • chime
    chime Posts: 7,839
    dunkman wrote:
    thats ok.. neither can I ;)


    i was actually gonna do a youtube xmas message from dunk... and i was going to post a prize to the person who actually understood what i was saying...

    of course i was a wee bit drunk when i thought of this idea :)

    I'm guessing this may be a prize I might not want to win :o

    Because of living in different places I have a couple of different accents depending who I'm talking to :o ... as you witnessed :D
    So are we strangers now? Like rock and roll and the radio?
  • Hinny
    Hinny Posts: 1,610
    vital5 wrote:
    and sticky tape.... ha.
    What do they say instead of sticky tape?

    I love a soft French accent.

    Not so much a rough German one. Feels like I'm copping abuse when it might actually be a compliment.
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