How do you talk?

[Overdrive 5,366]

It all depends on the subject, whether or not I'll use a more casual, or more business wordset. In either case, I have a light Westerm Pennsylvanian accent.

[Raritas 6,820]

I've got a English accent. East Anglian (Suffolk), to be precise. I don't have the stereotypical accent this area is known for (was gorn orn buh?), but I have picked up a few things from the dialect. I say Wortuh for "Water" and Sin for "seen", as a couple examples

Edited May 4, 2015 by Raritas

[Magic Note 2,748]

I don't really have an accent or have a sort of a speech impediment. However, I have a tendency to drift off-topic sometimes in conversations.

[Frostgage 7,975]

I don't have an accent or speech impediment, but my voice is pretty deep and I speak quietly so sometimes people can't understand me. Also I usually flub words when I try to talk too fast

[Grepper 3,192]

I consider myself to have no accent and I usually speak clearly.

I can stay mostly on topic in a conversation.

[Lunatic Cake 1,618]

My specialty is that Americans say, I sound british and Britons say I sound american. And in the end, I fooled them all.

 

I like to mix up words sometimes. I mix the first letters of the words sometimes. Very annoying I tell you. And I can stay on topic but only if I want to.

[Vertigo-01 101]

I lived in Atlanta back in the 90s, so it was a mix of northern speech rate with a southern drawl.

 

Now I just have a fast, scruffy accent. No idea what you'd call it.

[Blackened 512]

I have an English accent, but I can't really tell which one. It sounds like a mix of RP (Received Pronunciation) and a northern accent.

 

As for my speech, sometimes I go off track, by which I mean I lose my thoughts and can't think of the right word, or sometimes I stumble over words. This doesn't happen very often, although I get slightly pissed when it does. I also don't have trouble pronouncing letters.

[Art Thief 215]

I talk the way i type, I don't have an accent.

[Lightwing 12,967]

As far as I know, i don't have a notorious accent that makes my voice to stand out from the others.

 

I don't know about what the other people thinks, but I don't think I got accent.

[gone~ 614]

I don't think that I have an accent. Or, I guess you could call it an American accent...?

[Trickilee 139]

My english is great, but when I get tired I tend to slip in a little Dutch/Norwegian accent.

Edited May 5, 2015 by Trickilee

[NullAccount 287]

I only have an accent if you aren't from midwestern America. I do have a speech impediment. I have a lisp, so my s's often sound like th. But to quote Watsky, "If you think your speech is normal, your impediment is listening." I do digress quite often.

[Guest]

I have an accent and can stay on topic, sometimes. However, my words can come out in the wrong order and when that happens and I try to correct myself, I end up stuttering other words that were supposed to be in the sentence or keep repeating the mistake while trying to get the right word out, to then end up in an infinite loop until I shut up.

 

Even so, sometimes I just give another word that has the same first letter to the word I was going to say. I.e, I remember trying to say "Swear" once, but ended up saying "Smell" & "Swell" instead.

Edited July 2, 2016 by Guest

[Summer Breeze 2,527]

I talk a lot

 

and fast

 

and it's dutch with lots of english words mixed into it. but that's when I talk dutch.

 

when I talk english I also talk a lot and fast and there is almost no difference, sometimes I don't even remember which language I've spoken even though I only talk english for a few years   and I trained myself to have a brittish accents and all my teachers say it's flawless, which I'm really proud of because a brittish accent is the most amazing accent in the world 

and I  just can't stay on topic, sometimes I start talking about something completely different suddenly but sometimes it slowly goes off topic and it's just hard to talk about only one thing when you want to talk about everything!

Edited July 2, 2016 by Summer Breeze

[JeyWiz 1,097]

Depends on who i talk with. If it's with my family or other friends out of school. I have a slight filipino accent. If it's with my friends at school sonce most of them are Australian I speak in some Australian accent. I speek very fast all the time otherwise i don't talk at all, most of the time. XD

[Babyyoshi309 1,829]

Sometimes I forget to open my mouth all the way when I talk...  (true story)

[VengefulStrudel 1,486]

I have a rather thick Greek accent, but most people that have heard me think I'm either Russian or German at first. No speech impediments though.

 

As for staying on-topic, I do and don't. In real life, I tend to go slightly off-topic but then pull back. In online conversations, however, I type up walls of text, so some off-topic is inevitable. But then that off-topic becomes its own conversation and becomes on-topic.

[kanwe yest 157]

I have a new york accent mixed with a california accent (i know they are complete opposite) but i'm mixed with both of them.

 

i don't have a speech imped and i can usually stay on topic

[A Black Circle 1,586]

Like a white pretentious idiot.

[Justin_Case001 4,876]

Under accent, I marked "yes, other."  Let me be clear about something--I have an average American accent.  Many people seem refer to this as "no accent", but of course it is an accent.  Everyone on Earth speaks with an accent of some kind.  No matter how you sound, you have an accent to the ears of someone with a different accent from yours.

 

I really wish I had a fancier accent though.  In my opinion, American is probably the most boring of accents.  I think I'd like Australian.  Like Dr. Chase on House.  I also wouldn't mind talking like Rarity.  I really wish I could sound fancier, but it just sounds dumb and contrived if you're doing it on purpose.  I'm happy about the fact that I'm very articulate, though.  Inarticulacy is a pet peeve of mine.  Half the time when a stranger tries to get my attention, I can barely understand them.  Why can't people talk?  I don't have trouble understanding foreign accents; I have trouble understanding incomprehensible drivel.

[Hocus Pocus 636]

I mean, we all technically have an accent, mine is an American accent with a tad of midwestern thrown in. I tend to put heavy emphasis on the first vowel of a word, and draw vowels in general out longer than most other regions do.

 

While it isn't a problem in English, it does make it rather difficult for people with my accent to attempt to learn fast-speaking languages, such as Japanese (especially with the only difference between the word "no" (iie) and the word "house" (ie) being how long you draw out the "i" in its pronunciation)

 

As for speech impediments, while I do not naturally have any, my nightly retainer gives me a slight lisp when I wear it which when my friends notice I'm wearing it, they try to get me to say as many words with "s" in it as possible, because they think its funny or cute or something.

 

Aaaand finally, as for how often I lose my train of thought and digress from the topic at hand... I have ADHD.... I think you can take a wild guess

[IsraelYabuki 441]

Normally I studder when I speak. I'm mostly American but I'm also Hispanic. Although my accent leans heavily towards an American accent, I can pronounce some spanish vocabularys in my spanish accent. But that's usually a tick you pick up at birth when you've been born AS a Hispanic.

[gabbylikespie 60]

I don't have an accent. Since I have braces, my pronunciation isn't right sometimes. And I stray off topic sometimes.

[cmarston1 5,959]

I don't think that I have any sort of accent what so ever.