How do you talk?

[Chigens and Kay 3,831]

I merged the "Accents" thread with this one, being that they were quite similar.

 

When thinking about making a thread, please use the search function beforehand~

[Hansel 1,511]

How does one not have an accent?   I'm pretty sure everyone has an accent one way or another. Also, the specificness of each accent varies quite a bit. 

 

Either way, I voted British. 

Edited January 7, 2013 by Hansel

[Blizzard Gale 272]

I don't have an accent though I wish I did. Some people tend to tell me I have a slight french accent. Though I'm from USA. If I wanted an accent I'd pick Russian. Russian men have the sexiest accent, or Hispanic. x3

[Discovery Dream 592]

I have an accent, everyone does. It's Midwestern, the default "American" accent. No speech impediments (but hell yeah Spaghatta Nadle), and I usually stay on topic but sometimes I digress. Most of the time there is no topic, as it's pretty much all jokes.

[Darke Pony 27]

I've been told I have a gentle Welsh accent. This generally means deeper vowels However I never notice it myself :x

I also talk rather quickly, talk a lot, and pronounce 'tissue' as 'ti-shoo', not 'tiss-yoo'. Oh, and I can't end a word with the 's' sound properly, as it comes out somewhat like a snake hissing, unless I quickly mute the 's'.

[Victor van Dort 202]

OP should really remove the no accent option. Everybody on Earth has an accent. Anyways, I have an American accent, though if I talk too much then I tend to mispronounce my R's and S's

[Scootalove 10,684]

I couldn't really classiy that I have an accent. I can tell a New York accent can't count, but it could. I might be American but, born in New York with a accent sort of.

[OptimisticNeighsayer 471]

My voice is a standard English Midwestern accent; however I often had difficulty pronouncing "TH" in my youf and while it has improved, it crops up every now and den.  

 

However, since I read more than I speak, I might have something of a "librarian's" accent; that is, I can't properly pronounce words I've never actually heard.  Don't know how distinctive that is though.

[SweetJeans88 408]

i have typical southern "defects" as my beau calls them.  i say winder (window), plugin (electrical outlet), yonder, and hose-pipe (garden hose), kitty cornered (catty-cornered/diagonal), drop cord (extension cord), lightning bugs (fireflies), dirt dobbers (mud wasps), and barried (borrowed).  theres letters missing, and then put in places they dont belong in other words haha.

but, the way appalachian mountain folk talk is the closest living comparison to the speech during shakespeare's time.

 

 

i also forget words a lot and substitute similar words or phrases that dont fit quite right.

 

its moisting outside--forgot the word for rain

patter-ins = patterns

cornucopia= mamaw's corn salad (medley of colours and stuff, plentiful and has corn in it...)

biddies=baby chicks or children

puddin heads - cats

wigglers--puppies

"I grew up in the mugs!" (i meant to say that i was born here and was used to the muggy weather, but thats all i got out lmao)

old muffin hands--god help me they were oven mits that smelled terrible

and gingermanbreads xD

I'm a Northern Californian, so my accent is to say "hella" ad infinitum. XD

 

maybe thats where i picked that up xD i have family in northern cali, like in the hills up yonder xD  old hippies dont die, they just move to california...

[Mutemutt 772]

I imagine I have some sort of American accent but I'm not to sure what I'd peg it as. I'm sure if I spoke in another language, the native speakers would laugh at how American I sound. I have no speech impediment but when I was younger I use to occasionally get a little whistle when I pronounced an "s" sound. 

 

I tend to stay on topic but begin to wander if I start thinking out loud. If the topic changes to something I don't want to talk about, I tend to stop talking.

[Standard User 2,127]

I have a Northwest American accent.

...yes, that IS a real accent. Please believe me.   

I live in Hickville, USA, but I like to imagine that my vocabulary is above the uncouth crowd I go to school with. But that doesn't stop me from throwing "ain't" in a conversation.

"That ain't how that works..." 

[Otter 1,942]

I find it stupid how us Americans think we have no accent. To other nations, we have accents. It's just us, in our infinite stupidity, thinking that we don't have an accent, when in actuality, we do.

[deltaNiNE 8]

Australian accent here, the strength of which depends greatly on who I'm around. In my last two jobs (especially the second one, being a call centre) it was pretty important to speak clearly and legibly. Which is kinda the opposite of an Australian accent  

When I'm around other people I kinda let it slip, though

[The Stranger 812]

Believe it or not American's have accents. I'm a Greek American and have an American accent from long Island. In my house though my father has a heavy Greek accent but it's one of the things I love about him.

 

I tend to talk very fast and stumble over words but over the years that has become less of a problem for me.

Edited January 8, 2013 by Twisted-Bone

[)NightmareLulamoon( 51]

I'm from Wisconsin, so my accent would be a pretty bland one lol Although I do occasionally talk in random diff voices? I think lol idk

[Gamerlin 6]

Other people always tell me I have a southern accent, but then again most folks from Oklahoma do. I'm always embarrassed to hear my own voice, so I mosty rely on what others tell me :]

[Loriem 639]

It is hard for one to say how they sound to others, but they can compare it to how people talk on tv. 

 

With TV, people actually formed one main accent, rather than all the areas having different ones. This way it forms a basis I guess.

 

But I can't tell yah, I know how to make other accents, but I don't know what my main one would be.

[Magpie 621]

I have a little bit of a Canadian one, but it isn't usually all that noticeable,(Eh?). I live in Michigan currently, which is sometimes called south Canada, ad I can kind of tell in the talking.(Eh?) But I have been to Canada before. I don't say eh all that much though. (Eh?) I stumble over words all the time, but that's not an accent, that's just me being bad at talking. (Yes, the eh thing is just a little joke.)

Edited January 8, 2013 by Brosparkles

[Erza 581]

My accent is arabian english accent.

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[FizzyImp 1,838]

I'm British, and I'd describe my accent as being a cleaner version of a Londoner.

I've just recently started announcing my T's a little bit more, but not to the point where I sound 'posh'.

[Jimmy Bronymian 140]

Since my parents both were married/raised/ etc. in France and then moved here (America) they have heavy French accents.  Having being raised around both parents having that accent, I too have a heavy French accent (I get a lot of hate for it for some reason  ) 

[~Lawful Sturdy Wing~ 522]

I have no accent (well, at least I don't believe so) I am from south florida and speak very properly with diction and volume, people often get annoyed with how I speak because it comes across as arrogant some times.

[Just some guy 1,070]

Some people say I have a slight accent because I apparently draw out my vowels,specifically the "o"s.I've never noticed it,but a lot of people have commented about it.I also still have some speech problems from when I was a kid and often trip on my words because I'd speak a little too fast for others.Plus,I tend to mix up words a lot once my mouth gets going in a conversation,so I sound like a lunatic/idiot at times.Yet strangely enough,I can read lines from a book or something perfectly.

 

Anyhow,I guess you can say I speak as a lunatic/idiotic American with some weird,if ever so slight,accent.

[~Master~ Button Mash 2,307]

I guess I have a Chicago accent, but to be honest it really isn't that pronounced.  I also do have the tendency to talk fast.

 

And I do have the tendency to drift in conversations, too. A lot of times the person I am having the conversation with and I will stop halfway through and question how we ended up segwaying onto the topic are on.

Edited January 9, 2013 by StratoPegasus

[Kaneki 1,072]

My voice is pretty American midwestern in my opinion. You'd have to hear it to see what I mean, I am bad at describing. Skype, possibly?