accents

I wonder who was the quiet person who left a message on my voicemail during the night ;-)

not an accent I would have expected

So I should have pressed 1? Blah. Maybe I'll call again next Friday/Saturday. Heheheh :)

Evert it came through through fine. I thought that you would have had a very strong Scandanavian accent.

Mark

Haa, so you hear my tired voice. I kinda didn't know what to say. :} Finnish is all different from the Scandinavian languages.. I can talk swedish next time xD

Lisa I'm sitting here in astonishment after reading your remarks that my accent was prim and formal. Oh my dear girl, how wrong you are!!........lolol!!!! It's obvious that you have not heard many English accents!! :-)

Louisa that is the US image of us. wait till they ever here a liverpudlian or Geordie. why aye man.

In the US TV movie on Prince William they have us driving in 4x4s and all speaking very nicely indeed.

my cousins used to think we live in thatched cottages here and still get around on horse and cart. LOL y'know we just had an indoor loo put in last week. electricity comes before Christmas yipee!! rotflol

to give you a good example of how we speak here is my best written accent

this mornin aye pulled the par cord and had a shar. before breakfast aye had wa'er and then b'ered ma toast. aye wus an edjit becus aye forgat ma sacks when aye put ma shoes an

If you still have my message in your voice mail, please write it here. =)

In Finland, actually, no one speaks the "written language", or I mean - say the words as they really are. We have some dialects here, and they are pretty different, but you can clearly understand what the other is saying if he/she comes from another part of Finland.

yes but doesnt that happen in every country?

5 miles away from where I live the people speak the same language, write it the same but say it diiferently from me. and to an extreme west of Northern Ireland they speak so fast you have to concentrate on what they say.

how could I possibly write what you said LOL you were like a little church mouse and I would have a clue about all those double letters and all those dots at the top.

you write down below in Finnish - hello my name is Evert

and then we'll get others from around the globe to write it. obviously they will write their own name

Church mouse? Hey, come on, I stayed up till 2 am to call you - what can you expect..? And it was a cheaper call operator ;) =)

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Moi, mun nimi on Evert

(in "written language": Moi, minun nimeni on Evert)

:)

church mouse means you were very quiet nothing bad.

I spoke with my normal voice. :/ Well, whatever... =)

Mark talk about one long fishing trip!!!! found you at last. You know my opinion on your accent. People say mine is indistinguishable. Does that make my voice very boring? (look whos fishing now? I like the south west accents "ooh arr"

Oooh yes!! Just remembered. The Geordie and the Brums. Love em!! Mark you are possibly too young to remember a show way back when - Juke Box Jury. The young lady on the panel (from Birmingham, England) used to say, "Oi'll give it foive"!! I do a very good Brum accent. :-)

I bet Mark remembers it louisa! I reckon he is older than he lets on ;) I have vague recollections and Im sure he is older than me! I was thinking more of somerset way.

psilo of course you were thinking of Somerset. Love it all I guess. Then there's the real country of Dorset too. I used to spend my summer holidays on my uncle's farm there near Blandford. Wonderful memories when summers really were warm and sunny and so were the folk down there.

Yes we take our holidays down that way too. you must have a long memory Louisa. dont remember hot and sunny summers :D

only as old as the last woman I touched - is that how the saying goes? in that case it's 24.

Oh yes, the Brummies, also a great accent.

I remeber that lassie on Juke Box Jury, Susan Stranks - 'a typical teenager', have a wee read at this folks, and jolt the brains into memory action....

"HELLO THERE" quoth DAVID JACOBS all those years ago, introducing the definitive record review show of the 60s. Basic format: six singles, either a "hit" (a ring on the chairman's bell) or "miss" (a hoot from his klaxon), reviewed by a jury of two "experts" and two "celebrities". This led to some barely-believable juxtapositions of the type you'd never get today - ROY ORBISON and THORA HIRD, CHARLIE DRAKE and DUSTY SPRINGFIELD, HERMIONE GINGOLD and DIONNE WARWICK, KATIE BOYLE and JOHN PEEL, and SCOTT WALKER and the EARL OF ARRAN. ALAN FREEMAN declared that Cliff Richard's "Living Doll" "wouldn't sell a copy", DAVID McCALLUM said of Pinky and Perky: "They have a certain charm that pigs don't usually have". The Beatles and the Rolling Stones both made up the entire panel on one-off shows.

Memories are made of this ;-)

Wintermoor (ageing)

you saucy old devil. I dont believ a word of it. The saying came from Nelson Mandela believe it or not

Oh great!

Just when you think the demons have left they spring up in a different place. In this case it's that Yowyow teen on JBJ.

Up until the past 5 years my accent was commented on virtually everyday and that Brummie lass was one of the oft quoted in their little 'jokes' (I've heard them all ad nauseaum) .... I wouldn't mind by I'm not a Brummie and have only been to Brummijum 5-6 times in my life :(

I'm just glad the Fast Show wasn't on back then ... Yow ay sin me roit!

LOLOL Baa

I just love an accent. Any accent but I don't have any accent to talk about. Grew up in Hawaii, Taiwan, Minnesota, South Dakota and Montana. I just am a hodgepodge of all of those areas and more due to influences from friends and family. So any accent will do. Lani

What a great thread! I've enjoyed it. I don't think I have an accent, because most of the people in the movies talk the same way I do. :)

We don't talk like they do in the movie Fargo! LOL! That was the dumbest movie I've ever seen, and most of it was filmed in Minnesota, but they named the movie after a North Dakota town. Okay, that's off topic, sorry. :)

Joan: Then you must have a Midwest accent. That is why you don't think you have an accent, about all you hear is the midwestern accent. I have read that the Midwest accent is the easiest and clearest accent to hear. In the article, they said alot of the newscasters and actors have the midwest accent. Personally, I like the NY, Boston and any southern accent. I have a friend from Scottland and she has the prettiest accent, love to hear to talk.

That's an interesting observation about the midwest accent. I suppose, when you think about it, we all have an accent in the oppinion of someone else. Even in Alaska, I notice a certain cadence to speech or word pronunciation that would identify someone from Alaska. I'm referring to those of us that came to Alaska from somewhere else and have lived here for years or were born to parents who moved here. As for the native Alaskan accent, it is quite recognizable and interesting. I've noticed a bit of a Scandinavian lilt to some native Alaskans' speech. All very interesting!

Debby I see you too favour the American accents that I'm particularly fond of. Snap!! I can tell you that I also recognize a Canadian voice as opposed to an American one!! Not too difficult I suppose!!

Louisa: I think it depends on what part of Canada, they are from, like anywhere else. My Manager at work is Canadian and I can't tell he has an accent, though, I don't know how long he has been in the states. Have you found that you are picking up a southern accent. I ask, because, when we visited down South, it was very easy to start to talk like they do.

lol Debby I believe I am one English woman who will always have the accent of my homeland. My son in Chicago is the same and he has lived in the US for over 10 years now. :-)

None of you have mentioned my favourite accent - the Welsh one; it has such a lilt, I could listen to it all day.

Regarding accents - I grew up in Yorkshire, lived in London 7 years, went back to a different part of Yorkshire and then came here and heard all types of English so my accent is a bit neutral! In a similar discussion with a friend, I was once told that I didn't have much of a Yorkshire accent and I replied that I probably had less of an accent than she did - to which she answered, in broad south London "Ah aint go' en ekkssint".

The nice thing about Britain nowadays, is that accent is no longer the social stigma it used to be.

My least favourite accent - south London and Estuary!

I think I posted this elsewhere, but when I was a young girl in northern Indiana, my father took our family down to southern Indiana where we were to attend his family reunion at a state park. When we got there, I was sent off to play with my cousins. I didn't know any of them, and was amazed at their "accents".

They asked me if I'd like to see the far tar. Not wanting to appear rude or ignorant, I agreed. We headed off into the woods, and when we reached a clearing they all stopped and looked at me. For the life of me, I couldn't figure out what we were supposed to be looking at...what was a far tar?

Finally one of them said, "See that far tar?", and I said, "Where?". They all pointed upward, and I exclaimed, "Oh, you mean the fire tower!". They all began to laugh among themselves, and one of them said, "Listen to the way she says far tar!" So accents can vary greatly even within a midwest state.

LOL Weez

I'm with you on the least favourite accent gerddi, in the UK at least. Bit of a shame as i live amongst it (and probably sound like it)

lol Weezy!!

YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA WHEN...

(1) You walk carefully when it is 'slippy' outside.
(2) You often go down to the 'crick'.
(3) You have to 'red up', before company comes over.
(4) You've ever gotten hurt by falling into a 'jaggerbush'.
(5) You know that Ahia is a river, a boulevard, and a state.
(6) You've ever 'warshed' or wershed' the laundry.
(7) You know where Beer Falls is. (Beaver Falls).
(8) Mr. Webster is wrong. You know full well that 'ain't' is correct English.
(9) You know you can't drive too fast on back roads, cause-udda-deer.
(10) 'Gumbands'...need I say more.
(11) You've ever drank an 'Arn'.
(12) You've ever told someone to 'quit jaggin around'.
(13) You know that Clinton, Monaca, and Beaver, are actually names of towns.
(14) You called someone a 'jaggoff'.
(15) You hear 'you guyses', or 'yins' and don't think twice.
(16) You know the three rivers by name and can pronounce thm correctly, but refer to them as ...da Mon, da Al, and da O.
(17) You hate Cleveland, although you've never been there.
(18) You know where KerNEGgy is, and hope you like his museum and 'iberries'
(19) You drink 'pop',eat 'hoagies', pierogies, and gyros (jy-rows).
(20) you drink melk.
(21) You didn't have IHOPS or Waffle Houses.
(22) You know whadt a still mill is.
(23) You cheer for the Stillers.
(24) You know where Picksburgh is.
(25) You expect temps in the winter to be record breaking cold and temps in the summer to be record breaking hot.
(26) You go Dahntahn to da-Strip District, and take your wife with you. Be sure to get a Permanee's sammich while yins are hanging out at nat.
(27) You can find Zillionopal on a map.
(28) You go 'food shoppin' at 'Jine Iggle'.
(29) You don't have a spring break in high school.
(30) You believe that 'Ize' is the abbeviaton for 'I was'.
(31) You know someone from 'Sliberty', Eliberty, or Wesliberty'.
(32) you've played with a dekkacards.
(33) You know the Pittsburgh Zoo is 'Hillinpark' and have been there for school field trips.
(34) You say 'McConnell's Mills', although you know there is one mill there.
(35) You know what is meant by 'The Point".
(36) You love Pensivanya.
(37) Chipped ham was always in your refrigerator when you came home from school.
(38) If you've ever been 'ascared' because that 'nebby' old lady accross the street saw you do something bad, and you know she will 'tell on you'.
(39) No matter how hard you try you can't stop speaking Pittsburghese.
(40) You are reading this , and will forward it to family and friends who used to live in 'da-Burg'.

Have had this in email and seen it on some websites. Most of them are true... =)


YOU KNOW YOU HAVE BEEN IN FINLAND TOO LONG, WHEN.....


1. You rummage through your plastic bag collection to see which ones you should keep to take to the store and which can be sacrificed to garbage.

2. As you walk past the Parliament Building in Helsinki, and see the statues is titled "Svinhufvud" you no longer read it as "Swinehead" ... instead you think "What a good Swedish name!"

3. When a stranger on the street smiles at you:
a. you assume he is drunk
b. he is insane
c. he's a tourist

4. You don't think twice about putting the wet dishes away in the cupboard to dry.

5. A friend asks about your holiday plans and you answer "Oh, I'm going to Europe!" meaning any other Western European country outside Scandinavia.

6. You no longer scrunch up or fold your paper money. You always put your money in your wallet.

7. You see a student taking a front row seat and wonder "Who does he think he is!!??"

8. Silence is fun.

9. The reason you take the ferry to Stockholm is:
a. duty free voldka
b. duty free beer
c. to party heartily...no need to get off the boat in Stockholm,just turn around and do it again on the way back to Finland.

10. Your coffee consumption exceeds 6 cups a day and coffee is too weak if there is less than 10 scoops per pot.

11. You pass a grocery store and think "Wow,it is open, I had better go in an buy something!"

12. Your native language has seriously deteriorated, now you begin to "eat medicine", "open the television", "close the lights off", stay "by" somebody and tell someone "you needen't to!" Expressions like "Don't panic"creep into your everyday language.

13. You associate pea soup with Thursday.

14. Your idea of unforgivable behavior now includes walking across the street when the light is red and there is no WALK symbol, even though there are no cars in sight.

15. Your notion of street life is reduced tothe few teenagers hanging out in front of the railway station on Friday nights.

16. Your bad mood becomes your good mood.

17. Sundays no longer seem dull with all the stores closed, and begin to feel restful instead.

18. "No comment" becomes a conversation strategy.

19. You finally stop asking your class "Are there any questions?"

20. The fact that all of the "v's" and the "w's" are together in the phone directory seems right.(you "vatch a wideo")

21. Your old habit of being "Fashionably late" is no longer acceptable. You are always on time.

22. Hugging is reserved for sexual foreplay.

23. You begin to understand Jussi Jyylanpaarvi's broadcast of the hockey game.

23. You refuse to wear a hat, even in -30 degree weather.

24. You hear loud-talking passengers on the train. You immediately assume:
a. they are drunk
b. the are Swedish-speaking
c. they are Americans
d. all of the above.

25. You give up on trying to find fat-free food and pile on the butter, cream and sugar.

26. You know how to fix herring in 105 different ways.

27. You eat herring in 105 different ways.

28. You no longer look at sports pants as casual wear, but recognize them as semi-formal wear.

29. You can now reconstruct the missing letters on a building. For example MERI.........LIITTO OY.

30. You have undergone a transformation:

a. you accept mustamakkara (Black-blood sausage) as food

b. you accept alcohol as food

c. you accept.

31. You understand why the Finnish language has no future tense.

32. You no longer have to search for the flushing mechanism.

33. You no longer see any problem wearing white socks with loafers.

34. You no longer correct people who say MAC Donald's.

35. You just love Jaffa.

36. You've come to expect Sunday morning sidewalk vomit dodging.

37. You know that "religious holiday" means "let's get drunk."

38. You enjoy salmiakki (salmiac).

39. You know that "mens public bathroom" is another phrase for sidewalk.

40. You know that more than three channels means cable.

41 You get all the Swedish jokes.

42. When you're hungry you can peel a boiled potato like lightning.

43.. You've become lactose intolerant.

44. You accept that 80 degrees C in a sauna is chilly, but 25 degrees C outside is freaking hot.

45. You have "flu" as soon as you sneeze

46. YOU CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE LIVE ANYWHERE BUT IN FINLAND!!!!

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Excellent Evert! Now i understand sooo much better LOL ;)

Evert, that is funny...thanks for giving us a glimpse of YOU - lol
of course there were plenty of those that I didnt get!

And digression becomes fun!!! :-)

Evert I can relate to some of these! LOLOL!

1. You rummage through your plastic bag collection to see which ones you should keep to take to the store and which can be sacrificed to garbage. Yep, we do that here, too!

3. When a stranger on the street smiles at you:
a. assume he is drunk and smile back
b. assume he is insane and smile back
c. assume he's a tourist and smile and wave back with a big, "Howdy!"

4. You don't think twice about putting the wet dishes away in the cupboard to dry.

. The reason you go to Mexico is:
a. duty free tequila
b. duty free beer
c. to get your teeth fixed

10. Your coffee consumption exceeds 6 cups a day and coffee is too weak if there is less than 10 scoops per pot.

13. You associate fried chicken with Sunday.

17. Sundays no longer seem dull with all the stores closed, and begin to feel restful instead. Most of our stores used to be closed on Sunday, too, before they repealed the "Blue Laws" ~ I kinda' wish they'd bring them back.

20. The fact that all of the "v's" and the "w's" are together in the phone directory seems right.(you "vatch a wideo". This doesn't apply here, but I just had to giggle at that one, Evert!

23. You ALWAYS wear a hat, especially in 110 degree weather.

24. You hear loud-talking passengers on the bus. You immediately assume:
a. they are drunk
b. they are Texans
c. all of the above.

25. You give up on trying to find fat-free food and pile on the butter, lard and salt.

26. You know how to fix a bean in 105 different ways.

27. You eat beans in 105 different ways.

28. You no longer look at cowboy boots as work wear, but recognize them as semi-formal wear.

32. You don't bother searching for the flushing mechanism 'cause outhouses don't have them.

33. You still see a problem with wearing socks with sandals.

34. You no longer correct people who say "Peedernalez" instead of "Perdenales".

36. You've come to expect Sunday morning sidewalk vomit dodging on Sixth Street.

37. You know that "religious holiday" means "let's go camping and get drunk."

39. You know that "mens public bathroom" is another phrase for sidewalk.

40. You know that more than three channels means cable.

44. You accept that 80 degrees F in a sauna is chilly, but 55 degrees F outside is freaking cold.

46. YOU CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE LIVE ANYWHERE BUT IN AUSTIN!!!!

socks with sandals dead right there is a problem except if they are being broken in - in the house LOL

Austin is a good place to live - been there