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Anonymous

Oct 18, 2024

What do people mean when they say you have an accent ?

What do people mean when they say you have an accent? Does it imply that individuals whose English sounds different from the predominant accent of the local people or city are being referred to? I am looking for serious and insightful answers only.

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Anonymous

Dec 01, 2024

That you pronounce words differently; you pronounce letters / consonants/ vowels etc differently; that you talk funny; that you sound foreign. Everyone has an accent. It shows where you’re from; ex. texas, new york, california, britain, africa, china, australia, etc.

Examples:

~pronouncing the word: “adorable”

british accent: adohble

american: adorble

mexican: ador-aye-bleh

~pronouncing the word: “damn”

american: damn / damnit

Ghetto: dayum

british accent: dommit / dom

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~pronouncing the word: “@ss”

american: ah -ss

british: oss

~pronouncing the word: “this”

french accent: deez

ghetto: dis

american: this

~pronouncing the word: “texas”

texan: tayxas

northern american: texas

~pronouncing the word: “what”

chinese/indian accent: vat?

american: wut?

british: woht?

~pronouncing the word: “both”

canadian: bolth

american: bowth

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People sound different from city to city, country to country. The farther the place, the more distinct the accents are from eachother. Such as Texas vs Scottish accents. “yall to val vander schmit” you know? It could be southern vs northern accents in a particular state, or country .

Chinese accents sound different than american ones you know what i mean yet?

Hope I helped!

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Anonymous

Dec 14, 2024

Pretty much, you’re right. I means that you pronounce things differently than they do. I am all the time having to explain to people that I don’t have an accent ? and that they’re the ones….

It’s all a matter of who is doing the listening.

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Anonymous

Dec 26, 2024

Exactly – it usually means that the way you pronounce words is different from them.

There was a wonderful moment in the TV show “House Calls” starring Lynn Redgrave in which someone complained about her “English accent”. She responded “I’m ENGLISH. YOU have an accent.”

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Anonymous

Dec 09, 2024

A heavy accessory could be from any usa. in many situations while somebody learns a sparkling language, lots of the techniques they pronounce words can sound foreign places to a community speaker of that language. while somebody says you have a heavy accessory, it basically ability which you communicate the language in a manner that sounds like a mixture of language varieties. it is not a foul ingredient in many situations, until eventually human beings have a confusing time information you. in certainty, in many international locations an accessory could be considered as a surely thrilling characteristic, and can in specific circumstances additionally be arousing to the different intercourse. ?

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Anonymous

Nov 30, 2024

if your a foreigner then its obvious but if you are from different places in america people use different accents people from jersey talk different from people in ohio depends on where your from

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