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.
So whats YOUR accent?
Posted by Flaming Toad on a Stick (Member # 9302) on :
Same as yours. Canadian.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
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.
Posted by David Bowles (Member # 1021) on :
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.
Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
Oscar Wilde once said "We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language"
Posted by Tara (Member # 10030) on :
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.
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
Apparently, I pronounce the word iron strangely...
Posted by Phanto (Member # 5897) on :
I have a strange, exotic-yet-unidentifiable accent. I do not suffer from lallations, thankfully.
Posted by Phanto (Member # 5897) on :
By the way, Blayne, if you do switch your "r" and "l"s that may qualify you for an actual speech impediment, called "lallations."
Posted by Euripides (Member # 9315) on :
Larrations? Rallations? What?
Either that or your first language was Japanese.
Aren't these names for speech impediments actually rather cruel? I mean, why is there an 's' in the word 'lisp'?
Posted by Avatar300 (Member # 5108) on :
For the irony?
That's not ironic, it's just mean. Posted by Tara (Member # 10030) on :
Also, isn't the word 'stutter' pretty hard to say? And 'dyslexia' pretty hard to spell?
Posted by Flaming Toad on a Stick (Member # 9302) on :
I like this thread.
Posted by Flaming Toad on a Stick (Member # 9302) on :
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.
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
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.
Posted by RunningBear (Member # 8477) on :
I have a chinese/southern US/ montana/ oregon accent,
I call it wadjujustsay-ese.
I can't really say r. or use r's.
for instance when I say barber, it sounds like buhr-uh-buh
And my name, Storm, everyone hears it as Strom.
My first language was chinese, so I can pronounce most of those words flawlessly, but I can't remember them, which blows.
I used to be unable to say s, z, or t, in a proper american fashion either, but hours and hours in the infernal speech rooms "cured" that.
People can usually understand me perfectly after a few minutes, or hours, depending.
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