05-15-2010, 07:33 PM | #361 |
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You can do it easily, Clod. It's more about intonation than pronunciation. Brits have so many different accents that if you get the vowels un-americanized, speak at a reasonable pace, and stress the right syllables, it'll be fine.
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05-15-2010, 10:06 PM | #362 |
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One thing I have noticed about impersonating accents is that they often drift through regional dialects. Someone doing a "British" accent might start Queen's English, slide into Educated London, drift into Cockney, and meander through Yorkshire to Scottish, aye?
It might help to have a specific person whose accent you are mimicking in mind - maybe even a picture of them in front of you - to keep you on track. Oh, stuff it, just drop a lot of "I say" and "Don't you know" and "old chap" into the text.
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05-15-2010, 11:03 PM | #363 |
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hehe. just go for educational american, but faster and stress the other syllable.
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05-16-2010, 02:47 AM | #364 |
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Bwitish? Bwitish? Moy dear chap, if oy was any moah Bwitish, oy wouldn't be abuw to talk at awll.
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05-21-2010, 04:30 AM | #365 |
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Saw the ad for this product today:
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05-21-2010, 08:18 AM | #366 |
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That is so cool, I want one for my shark-crazy son but ......it COSTS $200!
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05-21-2010, 10:01 AM | #367 |
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I just realized that my little Portia [ who died recently] was featured on the cover of 2010 BT mini calendar this year and I did not even know! She was 3 months old here
http://www.calendars.com/catalog/pro...Id=prod123478& She is also in another 2010 calendar I cannot seem to find, I saw on my friend's wall, she and her litter sister are on the month of May.
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05-21-2010, 11:36 AM | #369 |
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Everything is amuseful today.
There really IS no sense crying over spilled milk. Who'd've thunk?
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05-21-2010, 11:38 AM | #370 |
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Don't cry for me, I'm from Xenia.
Not really, but I'd like you to cry for me. kthxbai
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05-21-2010, 12:48 PM | #371 |
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Back in University I once asked classmate, who played on the University team, what the differenece between League and Union was, he replied "one is a game for thugs played by gentleman, the other a game for thugs played by thugs", I forget which he said was which.
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05-21-2010, 12:51 PM | #372 |
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My first thought is why, Brits are plenty used to hearing american accent, I would have thought a well enunciated regionaly neutral american accent would work just fine for most applications.
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Quote:
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05-21-2010, 01:14 PM | #374 |
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I've always wanted one of these, but I would not prop myself up against a tree in one, that'd be asking to be shot!
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05-21-2010, 11:43 PM | #375 |
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We've always wanted to see you in your bare costume.
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