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So your mom can understand drawl?

My g/f whines about the same thing....

Funny thing is, my mom grew up in Alabama and Mississippi; you'd think she'd understand better than I do, but no.

Here you go, Reliant: http://s228.photobucket.com/albums/ee19 ... IP0060.flv

Cpl Kendall wrote:

Mikey wrote:
Could be worse... you could have a British one.

Oh... sorry.

When I think of a British accent, I think of the stereotypical cultured one "hip hip ho ho" and all that. When I think of an American accent I think of the stereotypical southern redneck.

The reality is that each country has dozens of different ones. Hell I can drive from Ottawa to North Bay (500km or so) and hear at least three different ones.

You want to talk about confusing? I'm born and raised on the US mainland and eight years ago I moved to the island of Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands. The "hawaiian accent" is something called "pidgeon". Example, "Howzit bra? Shoots, heh u da kine?" Translation, "How are you today my friend? Great. Say, are you........? (da kine is an open ended reference that could mean literally anything) Still english, but a VERY condensed form.

Point being, sometimes accents very not only from region to region, or state to state, but I've seen them differ from city to city 8)

To be fair, Oahu also has an interstate highway.

Think about it for a second, folks.

Mikey wrote:To be fair, Oahu also has an interstate highway.

Think about it for a second, folks.

Some of our bilingual cities have varying accents. Notably Ottawa.

Mikey wrote:To be fair, Oahu also has an interstate highway.

Think about it for a second, folks.

Well, they needed something to replace our grass huts LOL

So, does it lead into the sea, or what?

Rochey wrote:So, does it lead into the sea, or what?

Nope, just in many confusing twists and turns. I still get screwed up because we don't use the compass system (north, south, east, and west) for the most part, unless talking about which side of the island people are from (a 30 to 40 minute drive is a cross country trip out here) We use Mauka (towards the mountains), Makai (away from mountains), Diamondhead (our biggest mountain), and Ewa (toward the water). Think about it.

That's an unusual way of doing things.

We DID have accents (Russian, Scottish) in TOS, of course. Wonder what happened to the Russians and Scots in those 75 years (Chekov at least seemed pretty proud of his heritage)

Uh...they all died out?

Well, didn't Worfs adoptive parents have accents? Come to think of it, what about Bashir (and his parents) and O'Brian?

Rochey wrote:Uh...they all died out?

*Austin Powers sees Russian general and celebrates the victory of Russian communism*

"Austin, we won"

Austin Powers: Yay capitalism!

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I suppose the rest of the world just got tired of the Scots, then?

Tsukiyumi wrote:Funny thing is, my mom grew up in Alabama and Mississippi; you'd think she'd understand better than I do, but no.

Here you go, Reliant: http://s228.photobucket.com/albums/ee19 ... IP0060.flv

lol. no we dont eat eel pie. i've never eaten eel in my life.

Reliant121 wrote:

Tsukiyumi wrote:Funny thing is, my mom grew up in Alabama and Mississippi; you'd think she'd understand better than I do, but no.

Here you go, Reliant: http://s228.photobucket.com/albums/ee19 ... IP0060.flv

lol. no we dont eat eel pie. i've never eaten eel in my life.

Eel isn't bad, really. I just don't think it'd be good in pie form.