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RE: The Sound Of My Voice is immune To Social Divide, Listen—“Hello.”
We’ve been in England going on two months now, the sound of my American “accent” brings an instant feeling of
I've often wondered where the people of the UK learned to speak English??? It's so hard for us to understand them here in Brooklyn New York....!?!?!?! :>)
Oh man, it isn’t any easier for this LA guy! It’s not just the accent but the arrangement of sentences and dialect, too, I’m often pausing conversations “what was that?” “Say it again, please.” “One more time?” Eventually I get it but yeah, “eventually” is the key wOrd.
Thanks for stopping by @angryman, I hope you’re having a nice weekend.
But...don't we have the same problem here in the States? Boston, Brooklyn, Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana etc...
I had a (Southern boy) Corporal approach me while in the Military asking, "Ow much'cha laaack?"
(Meaning: How much do you have left, before you're finished...)
I've heard that China has over a hundred dialects.
100?! I think 99 is plenty.
Just yesterday a lady asked me, more like a young girl, “Awview a loit-uh?” Again, I had to say “excuse me?”
Well, sentences are often backward here, add the British accent and that’s when I’m saying “excuse
Me?” I’ve had to ask 4 and 5 times... “one more time, please?”
See, If someone asks me for a lighter, I would be accustom to it sounding like “do you have a lighter?” whereas here, the dialect switches a few words around so they say “have you a lighter?” Well, now if you read that sentence in the first paragraph, ‘Awview’ is “have you” with a British accent and ‘loit-uh’ is “lighter.” .....Awview a loit-uh?
Add slangs and that’s when I’m asking 4 and 5 times. “Tricks,” for example. I’ve had a few people, a checker at a cash register for example, “tricks?” I now know tricks means ‘how’s it goin?’
Chuckin’ means raining. Quid means pound, you really wanna learn that one, don’t get your money messed up. They call their currency here pound and/or quid, that’s an important one to remember.
Yeah ok, I think this response is lengthy enough now.
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Yes...lengthy enough, and with my two cents being thrown into the mix, maybe we both should get off the subject that we'd easily spend another three weeks humorously harping on...???