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  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    Hinny wrote:
    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.
    we call it sellotape... but we know what you're talking about if ya say sticky tape.
    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
  • evenkat
    evenkat Posts: 380
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    we call it sellotape... but we know what you're talking about if ya say sticky tape.

    Lol is that what we call scotch tape? The tape used to wrap gifts.
    "...believe in lies...to get by...it's divine...whoa...oh, you know what its like..."
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    evenkat wrote:
    Lol is that what we call scotch tape? The tape used to wrap gifts.
    :D Yep... we understand scotch too :)
    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
  • cropdustress
    cropdustress Posts: 4,339
    Sellotape here too :p
    In Croatia, I mean, haha.
    And my accent is American...New England ;)

    Oh yeah, sorry Dunk, but really, Scottish accents are probably the worst for me
    to figure out. Now I'm ok, but years ago I met this Scottish guy who was talking to me on the bus and I totally couldn't understand a word he was saying...:o
    Back then, now I'm a pro :p
    "I surfaced and all of my being was enlightened"
  • Sonja_S
    Sonja_S Vienna Posts: 444
    Hinny wrote:

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

    :D German really isn't a nice sounding language. The Austrian version doesn't sound quite as hard (and most Germans don't understand it) but it isn't a sexy language in the least.
    You can tell a man from what he has to say - Neil & Tim Finn
    They love you so badly for sharing their sorrow, so pick up that guitar and go break a heart - Kris Kristofferson
  • Sonja_S
    Sonja_S Vienna Posts: 444
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    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

    Maybe I met tourists posing as Irish men then :D
    You can tell a man from what he has to say - Neil & Tim Finn
    They love you so badly for sharing their sorrow, so pick up that guitar and go break a heart - Kris Kristofferson
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    Sonja_S wrote:
    Maybe I met tourists posing as Irish men then :D
    :D more than likely... although I've heard this one about Irish men before and it just makes me laugh :D
    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
  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    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



    it all depends where you are, b/c i have one too. :D
    i LIKE my accent....some do, some don't. i know many have a love/hate approach to my accent. i definitely sound like a NYer, but i don't have a truly heavy NY accent.

    it's funny, my husband was born in queens, moved to nassau as a young boy. you could still always hear the 'queens' influence in his accent, definitely not a genuine LI accent. now that he has been working in the city boroughs, brooklyn and queens again, his accent has become more and more pronounced, it's funny. :p


    for the record, i ADORE accents, of ALL kinds. i love the flavor they add to speech.
    Stay with me...
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  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    :D I LOVE your accent d2d. It's soooo New York!
    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
  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    :D I LOVE your accent d2d. It's soooo New York!


    :D
    well that's me.


    accents are fun!
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


    I am myself like you somehow


  • Pegasus
    Pegasus Posts: 3,754
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    :D I LOVE your accent d2d. It's soooo New York!
    yep..and you're Soooo Irish!

    now you guys can't say the same thing :p (in English anyway..my accent in french is pretty strong southerner..think Edinburgh for the UK)
  • cropdustress
    cropdustress Posts: 4,339
    Pegasus wrote:
    yep..and you're Soooo Irish!

    now you guys can't say the same thing :p (in English anyway..my accent in french is pretty strong southerner..think Edinburgh for the UK)
    Haha, you're not so French as Sandra accent :D;)
    "I surfaced and all of my being was enlightened"
  • Pegasus
    Pegasus Posts: 3,754
    cropdustress wrote:
    Haha, you're not so French as Sandra accent :D;)
    yep, I got my own unique accent that people pick as randomly:
    spanish, south african, dutch, german, slovak, scandinavian, Italian, Irish (yep got that one), east european, english (only americans ever said that)...then sometimes eventually: "not french?.."
    :p
  • vital5
    vital5 Posts: 5,486
    haha I have an Aussie accent (never steve Irwin or Croc Dundee, not too yobbo ('yob' for those UK people), just an ordinary Aussie accent.... I picked up a little English in it when I lived there ... I was almost disowned, and I still have this thing where i pause harshly, but quickly when I say certain words. who knows why it's stuck around...

    um... don't ever tell me that you think my accent is sexy... I'd surely then use it against you haha.
  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Well TALLY HO OLD CHAPS!
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • vital5
    vital5 Posts: 5,486
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    Well TALLY HO OLD CHAPS!
    haha nice 6,000th post!
  • JordyWordy
    JordyWordy Posts: 2,261
    Dylan Moran: german sounds like "Typewriters eating tinfoil being kicked down a stairs." - just to clarify - i think thats funny but i like SOME german accents

    Swedish accents - PHWAOR
    Dutch people speaking English? - :D
    Welsh - Can do it for me if the girls right
    Donegal (county in Ireland) Accents - PHWAOR
  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    vital5 wrote:
    haha nice 6,000th post!


    THANKYOU :D It had to be done.......
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • Pegasus
    Pegasus Posts: 3,754
    oh, did I mention that I now have a bit of an english accent when speaking french..especially when I just landed?

    seriously, I had french people coming to ask me for a lighter, in english, whilst I was in teh middle of a conversation in french with another french person :confused:

    I don't mind :D
  • vital5
    vital5 Posts: 5,486
    Pegasus wrote:
    oh, did I mention that I now have a bit of an english accent when speaking french..especially when I just landed?

    seriously, I had french people coming to ask me for a lighter, in english, whilst I was in teh middle of a conversation in french with another french person :confused:

    I don't mind :D
    le flamethower? :D

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