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[randomling]

If you like the British accents that's cool. Just don't move to Birmingham.

 

[Ao the Overkitty]

I'd say link to Angcuru's implant, but that'll get you something about as witty as "I LIKE SWORDS!"

Ah. Fighter, you are my arch nemesis! Much more a combination of Black Mage and White Mage, myself.

8-Bit Theater good.

 

[randomling]

Its hilarious seeing Americans exposed to strong Geordie accent in Newcastle. Southerners like me have a hard enough time understanding 'em, Americans barely have a hope

I remember seeing the guy that plays Neelix in Voyager at a convention over here. A girl from Birmingham or somewhere asked him a question. Ten times. Somebody else had to repeat the question in a more standard accent before he understood it.

Man that was funny.

 

[blackshirt5]

Its hilarious seeing Americans exposed to strong Geordie accent in Newcastle. Southerners like me have a hard enough time understanding 'em, Americans barely have a hope

I can understand my ex-girlfriend drunk, and she's got a strongass Texan accent; I fear no other accent.

 

[randomling]

I can understand my ex-girlfriend drunk, and she's got a strongass Texan accent; I fear no other accent.

One word: Glaswegian.

 

[blackshirt5]

One word: Glaswegian.

A key phrase: Big drunken Texas girl falling all over her smaller boyfriend while he tries to decipher whether she's saying "I wanna screw" or "I'm gonna puke". You learn fast to decode the accent.

Although what is Glaswegian?

 

[Ao the Overkitty]

I work with a lot of Oriental and Indian students who's grasp of speaking English isn't very good, let alone trying to understand them through their thick accents.

I usually have to ask them to repeat a couple of times. Damn my American inability to understand the more 'foreign' accents.

 

[randomling]

Brummie, Geordie and Glaswegian (the local accents of Birmingham, the North-East of England and Glasgow) are probably the three most difficult accents for British people - who have some familiarity with them - to understand. The reason for this being, they are very, very divergent from the "standard" accent. For Americans, who have probably never heard these accents before, they're practically indecipherable.

It's not an attack on American-ness, Ao; anyone who comes across an accent that is that unfamiliar and that different from what they're used to is liable to have difficulty understanding it.

(Having said that, it is a fairly typical British joke, and it is pretty racist, and I apologize.)

 

[Skade]

I can understand my ex-girlfriend drunk, and she's got a strongass Texan accent; I fear no other accent.

Where is she from in Texas. I have no accent, and am always interested in those who do. I'd like to know why I am so unusual.

 

[Ao the Overkitty]

It's not an attack on American-ness, Ao; anyone who comes across an accent that is that unfamiliar and that different from what they're used to is liable to have difficulty understanding it.

(Having said that, it is a fairly typical British joke, and it is pretty racist, and I apologize.)

Oh, I'm not the least bit offended. If anything, I pick on Americans' stupidity and inability to deal with people different then them more then most.

Bring on the insults!

Seriously though, it's a fairly common joke over here that Americans can't deal with more then one language. Ever seen Tortilla Soup? (American version of Eat Drink, Man Woman).