Topic: Whats your accent erm em speech impediment today?
Blayne Bradley
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Me, I mix up my r's, l's, and w's and end up using them interchangably, i screw up my th's alot as well. and I mumble, generally to myself, sometimes I talk to myself, myself is a very likable person, no back talk *nods*.
Mellon is merron, lonely is lonwry, Halo is Hawo, look is wook, Korean is Kowean, and whenever I speak french I speak in a very Anglophone way, I dont even say the french words in the wrong order I do it the right way with one word after another in the logical course. I pronounce three as free, my friends are really polite on these points very polite, either they can understand me perfectly sometimes, do a really good job at pretending to understand me, make really good geusses when I speak or ask politely "what? can you repeat that."
Occasionally its turned into a joke and someone usually Tyrel is called in to translate "Blaynespeak" but I take it in good fun, I have made very little effort to improve my speech distinctness since highschool and after my speach/grammar classes I got into a very lazy part of my childhood development, I have NO IDEA how I passed highschool but aside from math, media, law/journalism I slept through EVERY class and doodled ahistorical maps of europe during art class. (I got in trouble for that, apparently drawing maps is good and all but I aparently needed to be more diverse )
Like nearly every class where nothing special happened I slumped over my desk and slept and drool a little y'know a few kids would be jerks and snicker and laugh but whatever.
But ya so my somewhat incoherant-koreanesque speach patterns have stuck, my dad is an ass and tries repeatedly to get me to correct ym speach bu screw that I say, I am how I am, I percieve therefore I am. Me, myself, I, the person typing this post, raison d'etre.
Also a funny story at College on my first day i meet this person named Dave, he has this funny english accent and I geuss hes South African and I ask, hes surprised, its apparently a speech impediment and many people have asked if he was english or austrialian before but never South African. I found this funny but reasonable Ive seen alot more South African whites with englishesque accents then actual stuffy Oxford stiff upper lip.
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Same as yours. Canadian.
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Blayne Bradley
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I have found that the single most funniest sentance to date, if not the funniest thing in the entire world of humor. I am not kidding.
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I dunno. I guess I sound pretty much like most people in the Mid-West, though I was born in Maryland and have spent most of my life in South Carolina and southernmost Texas. It wasn't easy to rid myself of a Southern accent, you can believe me, but I worked all through HS to purge it.
When I speak Spanish (which I do with startling fluency for someone who began learning it as a teenager) I sound like I'm from Monterrey, Mexico.
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Oscar Wilde once said "We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language"
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My mom was always annoyed at me because I say "yat" instead of "at", but really, if you say it in a sentence, "yat" sounds perfectly natural.
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I have a strange, exotic-yet-unidentifiable accent. I do not suffer from lallations, thankfully.
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By the way, Blayne, if you do switch your "r" and "l"s that may qualify you for an actual speech impediment, called "lallations."
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Aren't these names for speech impediments actually rather cruel? I mean, why is there an 's' in the word 'lisp'?
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I used to stutter. Now I just talk fast. Occasionally, when I can't find an English word to finish a sentence, my mind supplies me with a French or Arabic word. I sometimes do this on purpose to annoy my friends.
I say "eh" a lot, and use all other Canadianisms. I also use internet slang in normal conversation. This annoys my parents tremendously.
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When talking in my graduate musical analysis class, I often get through descriptions of phrases, or conceptual ideas by simply supplying whatever word pops into my head in the moment. Musical analysis is notoriously difficult to verbalize, so a connection between two notes becomes, in my speech if not my actual thoughts- "a road" or "an inference" or "a window." The list of possible words stretches into infinity.
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