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29 August 2013
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Silly Girl said
Perhaps you had a bit of an accent when you were talking to RN, but you didn’t when you were talking to the Yankees. T’is quite possible– I’m always influenced by who I’m talking to.
Or RN is more observant than the Yankees were. I always notice people’s accents, but my mum doesn’t. Different ears, y’know.
Perhaps you had a bit of an accent when you were talking to RN, but you didn’t when you were talking to the Yankees. T’is quite possible– I’m always influenced by who I’m talking to. It is often the case that people pick up an accent which is quite foreign to the ones they hear all the time.
No one down here thinks I have any hint of an Australian accent – yet when I am in the UK numerous people comment on it.
It seems locals will only notice if it is particularly strong. I’m guessing AG’s southern drawl is quite mild compared to your typical axe-wielding redneck.
^ That was meant to be a joke 🙂
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I’ve had Yankees say that I don’t have a southern accent. Interesting that RN thinks I do.There were several British men at the conference I was at last week. Happy ears.
As I was born north of the Mason Dixon line, I qualify as a “Yankee” – you have a definite Southern accent to my ears.
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Offline Good observations, SG and trc.
Well, there we have it, folks. Zig and RN have made a ruling on my voice. Would y’all like some sweet tea?
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Offline Ahhh Girl said
Well, there we have it, folks. Zig and RN have made a ruling on my voice. Would y’all like some sweet tea?
Nah – make mine a cawfee.
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I have a question: what the hey is it with Americans and accents? What’s the obsession with people who don’t sound like you (ie the non-American part of the world)? What does investigating that mean for an American? I’ve never understood this and have never heard a satisfactory explanation!
I think one thing I’ve noticed is that quite a few Americans don’t think they have an accent- that they just have an, I don’t know neutral voice (?). Then you try and explain that everyone in some way has an accent that identifies where they’re from- unless they’re good at masking it. If ye met my Austrian pen-pal, you’d swear she was from a posh-side of London in the way she speaks and I know a German girl who speaks in a valley-girl accent.
That and a lot of people in Germany think I sound like I’m English…..ah….no 
. I have no problem with English people? It’s just how the hell do you think I sound English, have you heard an English person that sounds like me before? I don’t think so unless they’re an Irish expat who revoked their citizenship.
The second I say I’m Irish, they go “ahhhh Irish whiskey!”, yes….Irish whiskey.
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I think one thing I’ve noticed is that quite a few Americans don’t think they have an accent- that they just have an, I don’t know neutral voice (?).
That’s odd – I know quite a few Americans and they all think they have some type of accent.
The second I say I’m Irish, they go “ahhhh Irish whiskey!”, yes….Irish whiskey.
Stereotypes. 
Sounds like fodder for a “Pet Peeve”.
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18 March 2013
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AppleScruffJunior said
I think one thing I’ve noticed is that quite a few Americans don’t think they have an accent- that they just have an, I don’t know neutral voice (?).That’s odd – I know quite a few Americans and they all think they have some type of accent.
Do you? Huh, I wouldn’t have guessed. Well, you learn something new everyday!
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The second I say I’m Irish, they go “ahhhh Irish whiskey!”, yes….Irish whiskey.
Stereotypes.
Sounds like fodder for a “Pet Peeve”.
People are always more friendly towards me when they find out I’m Irish. I guess they know if they play their cards right, I’ll show them where the pot of gold really is (hint: it’s not where you think!).
So long as they don’t expect me to get plastered everytime I go out somewhere, I’m alright with the whole “Irish=alcohol-lover” thing, we basically enforce it upon ourselves, anytime some big hot-shot comes over here we have to give them a tour of the Guinness brewery first and teach them how to pull a proper pint.
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Ahhh Girl said
Good observations, SG and trc.Well, there we have it, folks. Zig and RN have made a ruling on my voice. Would y’all like some sweet tea?
Well Fiddle dee dee Scarlett
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Well, there we have it, folks. Zig and RN have made a ruling on my voice. Would y’all like some sweet tea?
No thanks, the only thing I drink is skim milk and water.
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Offline Well, that’s just fine, honey. Would you like some ice for your water?
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Well, that’s just fine, honey. Would you like some ice for your water?
Sure 😀
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Come sit a spell on the front porch with me and enjoy this ice water.
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Offline Oh dear, AG has gone full-on Suthern hawspittality on us… 
Surprisingly, the first ‘Southern’ word I pick up when I’m ‘going a bit Southern’ isn’t ‘y’all’– it’s ‘ain’t’, which is technically not really specific– it’s slang from all sorts of English-speaking places. I almost never say y’all. My Southern trace-of-an accent, or lack thereof, is concentrated mainly in the vowel sounds, particularly those that end in R, as well as the dropping of the G in ‘-ing’. If you want to hear it, you’ll have to wait till A) I’ve been talking to people with actual proper accents and. or B) I’m really tired and/or feeling lazy.
Yes, I have done a wholly unscientific study of this. Yes, I am very interested in such things.
Edit: It occurs to me that perhaps that’s part of the reason behind AG’s semi-legendary welcoming-ness to new forum members (commemorated wonsaponatime during the End Of The Year Awards). She certainly treated me with the (in)famous Suthern hawspitality when I was new and green here.
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Ahhh Girl said
Well, there we have it, folks. Zig and RN have made a ruling on my voice. Would y’all like some sweet tea?
No thanks, the only thing I drink is skim milk and water.
What’s the taste of skim milk? I never try
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Annadog40 said
Ahhh Girl said
Well, there we have it, folks. Zig and RN have made a ruling on my voice. Would y’all like some sweet tea?
No thanks, the only thing I drink is skim milk and water.
What’s the taste of skim milk? I never try
Slightly watered-down milk. It tastes okay when you get used to it (though some folks will disagree with that).
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Ahhh Girl said
Well, there we have it, folks. Zig and RN have made a ruling on my voice. Would y’all like some sweet tea?
No thanks, the only thing I drink is skim milk and water.
Sweet av though 
edit: Also apologies, I dashed in and ranted about accents when you had a perfectly good question:
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Do you have a particular voice that you read certain users posts in and if so, what voice for what poster?
Well I do imagine @Beatlebug to sound squeaky and excited, and @Joe to sound calm and measured. @Ahhh Girl always sounds friendly (and now Southern), and for some reason @Zig sounds cheeky to me. I don’t have a clear impression of anyone else yet except perhaps @meanmrmustard has a gruff gravelly sound.
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15 February 2015
Offline Ha! That sounds about right to me. Only, if you met me in real life, while I would be excited and excitable, I wouldn’t exactly be squeaky as my voice isn’t that high-pitched.
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Offline @Beatlebug Knowing your love of language, and how you like it to be right, is there a reason you spell ’tis as t’is?
Just curious because it always throws me.
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Offline @Ron Nasty Two reasons. One, because I picked it up from AppleScruffJunior and that’s how she spells it, and she’s Irish so she ought to know. Two, because my spell-checker objected to ’tis and insisted I spell it the other way.
It makes sense to me– a contraction of ‘it is’, with the I in ‘it’ dropped off and the remaining letters stuck together with an apostrophe. T’is.
That’s how I grammar, yes, sort of instinctive like the Fabs’ guitar playing
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