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08-11-2015, 05:09 PM #1
Super weird alloy accents
Sitting at a bar overhearing a flamboyantly gay Asian dude who learned English here in Houston. Nttaww any of it. Just kind of comical and impossible to describe- reminds me of some people I know w/ the biggest ny accents who are Asian and grew up in Chinatown.
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08-11-2015, 05:14 PM #2Funky But Chic
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Black people in Boston often trip me out for that reason.
Also people in 3rd world countries often speak English with an Irish accent because they learned it from Irish nuns. Kinda trippy to hear a dude from Mozambique talk to you with a brogue.
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08-11-2015, 05:24 PM #3
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08-11-2015, 05:28 PM #4
I worked a case against an opposing counsel raised in a Foreign Service family. His old man was frequently reassigned so he attended schools in a half dozen countries. He had some sorta Scottish/North African/SE Asian/Yonkers blend goin' on.
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08-11-2015, 05:30 PM #5Funky But Chic
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08-11-2015, 05:44 PM #7
Used to work with a bunch of Germans who spoke English with an Australian accent.
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08-11-2015, 05:45 PM #8Funky But Chic
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08-11-2015, 05:45 PM #9
I've got family who are half-Irish, half-Chinese by ancestry. Asian side of the family is all Arkansas and Texas, and that's where they were raised. I notice that the combination of ethnicity and accent messes people up all the time.
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08-11-2015, 05:49 PM #10Funky But Chic
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08-11-2015, 05:52 PM #11here in Houston.
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08-11-2015, 05:54 PM #12Registered User
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I had a landlord once who had a Boston/Texas accent. Raised in Boston till 12 or so, then she moved to Houston. She had a really fucking annoying habit of calling at 8 am on Saturdays to make sure everything was okay with the house, so I'd get to hear that godawful abomination of an accent when I was tired and hung over.
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08-11-2015, 05:55 PM #13
i clicked hoping to see some of this:
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08-11-2015, 05:57 PM #14
I know a chick from LA who moved to Wales about 7 years ago. It's like if you tried to create the most pretentious stuffy Anglo accent you could, back in the fifth grade.
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08-11-2015, 08:04 PM #16Funky But Chic
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08-15-2015, 11:21 AM #22
Used to work with two Canukistanis, one of which was Quebecois. We went to Paris for meeting, arrived at hotel late. Quebec takes command, steps up and starts checking us in. Desk clerk looks kind of puzzled. Other Canuk steps up and asks (in Parisian French) if something is wrong. Desk clerk sez "it's very hard to understand your friend with his speech impediment"
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08-16-2015, 11:07 AM #24
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08-17-2015, 07:32 AM #25
a buddy of mine was born in england and lived in france and boston. his accent is crazy
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