Heyo
Veteran Member
Yep, the US also has some accents you need subtitles for.
But I still think that the worst English is spoken in England.
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Where Are You Actually From?
- Thread starter Nakosis
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But I still think that the worst English is spoken in England.
I was in a hotel in Seattle, turned the TV on to see Taggart was playing with subtitles.
Secret Chief
Very strong language
Ahh. Thayte?
Secret Chief
Very strong language
I've got it on dvd.About time this series was on TV again.
"Pick up those damn banana pills!" came out of my husband's mouth. Banana pills? What the **** are banana pills? Potassium suppliments?
Banana peels.
I also had to educate him, after reading his writing, that 'and' has a 'd' on the end. It isn't 'an'. "I got the milk an cheese."
Secret Chief
Very strong language
Actually, this word is spelt "n."
I didn't hear the whole video, but the accents I heard are familiar to me. I've had family in the South and spent some time around there. Plus, where I live, it has quite a lot of people passing through, so I've gotten used to a lot of accents over the years.
When I hear people from England speak, it's not so much that I can't understand the accent, but sometimes their word choice can throw me for a loop.
Wirey
Fartist
I come from the land of the ice and the snow from the midnight sun where the hot springs flow.
This is an interesting question. I'm distantly related by marriage on my dad's side to a Nazi war criminal and on my mom's (also by marriage) side to a former Israeli politician. There's a family reunion.
This is an interesting question. I'm distantly related by marriage on my dad's side to a Nazi war criminal and on my mom's (also by marriage) side to a former Israeli politician. There's a family reunion.
so...you come from the land up over?
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
It's a funny thing.
I was born in Missouri. I know very little of the State, and living in California I have been "called out amd corrected" on how to pronounce it by people born and raised there.
I grew up in Indiana. There's more of that that shows. Like my work ethic and love of Godsmack, 80s rock (apparently more of a rural thing) and cheese sauce with my breadsticks.
It's not as pronounced as it used it used to be, but America has tons of regional terms and words, where what you call something just depends on where you grew up.
There's also a lot of variance in how we say "you all." However, despite the stereotype, y'all is heard around at least the continental US.
Heyo
Veteran Member
It's pronounced "mi-se-ry".
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
They tell I'm supposed to say "miz-ur-uh." Not all of them, of course, just the ones who apparently tossed their brain off the Gateway Arch.
According to a speech lady (I have since forgotten what exactly she does) I sound like I'm from a Northern State like Minnesota, combined with a speech rate of a Texan, plus something she couldn't place (Autism and the bar bell in my tongue). Definitely not a rural Hoosier though, even though a handful of people try to tell I do.
Yerda
Veteran Member
My partner's grandad had two brothers: one in the British Army, one in the IRA.
Apparently, this was not totally unheard of, but it tickled me when I heard it.
Wirey
Fartist
Yes, I live in Canada! Or as @Revoltingest calls it, "Michigan's Hat!"
And because Windsor Ont is south of Detroit,
Canuckistan is also "Michigan's Thong".
Heyo
Veteran Member
Canada? You've got hot springs also? I was thinking of Iceland, which famously has many hot springs, so many that they heat their pavements with the water.
Wirey
Fartist
We have hot springs. Nuclear powered.
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TagliatelliMonster
Veteran Member
If I go by DNA, I probably should say that I'm from Europe as I have ancestors from all over in the last 4 generations, especially on my father's side.
Culturally, I'm Belgian. It's where I grew up and it is the culture that I have absorbed. Even if I would move to another country, I don't think the "belgium" will ever grow out of me. That ship has sailed.
I also have no issue identifying as a European in cultural context.
I imagine it might be similar for a New Yorker to identify as both a New Yorker and as an American.
New Yorker being a "sub set" of American of sorts.
That's kind of how I feel about it.
European of the Belgian kind. Or something like that.
Ha...my patriarchal grandfather was from Burton on Trent.