my friend from boston and i were disputing this, bcuz i made mention that her boston accent was awesome and she said that midwestern people have different accents and i'm just wondering if anyone has noticed an midwestern accent,  and if so could you describe it
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No, we don't.\nAlthough, the people that DO have accents think that we have accents just because we don't have their accent! We still sound different to them, so they think we have an accent.\nMake sense?! ;0)
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DUDE! british chicks have the most beautiful accents, some times im gealous of you brits , but then i start to think about a cute girl with a southern accent  and it makes me feel lots better
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Since you are asking about British accents, you might really enjoy the article "Web Project shows developement of British regional accents" at:\nhttp://www.usatoday.com/tech/world/2004-02-11-brit-dialect-Web_x.htm\n\n\nFor a more complete treatment of the development of regional accents, Wikipedia has a good entry at:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_accents_of_English_speakers
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Yeah, do that, and drop all the 't's and 's's , the 'th' sound into a 'd'... There are I think some more, but I have to think about it. E- mail, me, I might come up with more later. I've imigrated to Canada as a kid and moved back to Hong Kong at like 9 and came back this Summer, so I have the Canadian acccent, though I can fake a Chinese accent good.
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We dont have an accent....we all sound the same. It's Americans (who all sound different) who have the accent.
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Good question.  The different colonies had different accents just as in Britain today there are regions and locales with distinct accents.\n\nIn the 20th century, there lived on a remote island in the Chesapeake Bay a population whose English was heavily accented in what many scholars argued was as close to the Colonial English as anything.
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I just don't know if you are referring Latinos as a whole or to an specific group. I know that must people that were born south of the USA, may speak the same way because after all Spanish is their native tongue, so when they move to speak English they may have sort of similar accent. Let me tell you something, not all "Latinos" are the same, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans are very different to the rest of Latinamerica.  You don't say to an Irish he is British or to a Canadian he is American or to a Basque he is Spanish. Culture shouldn't be an excuse to do something wrong, when you are allowed into another country you should learn their customs and traditions. To say that because of my culture i do this or that, is just a lame excuse to avoid responsibility.
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give it time.  your aqccent will fade.  i knnow others who this has happened too.  you can't detect an accent anymore what so ever.  but i woulodn't worry too much about it because americans don't meven understand each other.  we all speak different english depending o where we were raised.  southern is quite different from north eastern, or west coast.  mid western is different also and west virginia seems to have int=vented their own language.  hey try talking to a drunk new yorker.  trust me, you'll feel better then.
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really its so fun ... i like so much the accent ... \n\nthanks alot ... i think the write down its serbian language or im worse in thats 2 as FARSI BALADI ;)\n\nthanks again ... really fun :)
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There are differences in the way non-Americans express themselves (and it's not all due to poor English!). \nBut come to think of it, I'm not sure if those differences represent our different countries. I'd rather say that we're all 'aliens' in a product that is basically US-targeted, and maybe we're eager to please and give a good impression (many US users just don't seem to care). Some cultural differences are apparent, especially with respect to the perception of humor and irony; that's when the common sociocultural background becomes more visible, I think. \nI have no idea if I project something of Argentina in my Q&A, and I don't know what a "typical" Argentine person is like. We're said to be pedantic and think ourselves too cool, but that's just a stereotype... or is it? There was another user from Argentina here that sounded really silly, and I didn't want this person to be associated with 'my' country!\n\nI guess this question was directed at US users...I wanted to add my contribution anyway. I have to say that the mere fact that you call yourselves "Americans", as if the rest of us lived in Oceania or quite another continent, makes me smile. And I think that says a lot about the US too!\n--------------------\nUpdate: Hola Rantrax!! No, it was not you. Glad to know more of us are joining this :-D
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What????\n  I am mexican, i live in mexico, we are very different from the chilean culture, our music is different, our costumes, our food, the spanish accent is different.  The only thing in common is the language, but we have different accents.  The cities are different. All the America Latina  contries are different, except for the spanish ( but we all have differents meaning words)....\nIs like say, what's the different between england culture and usa culture??
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I think you need to quit talking like that.  It's one thing to have a southern accent, but that's not what that is.  It makes the rest of us Mississippians look bad.  Sorry, but that's how I feel and I mean no disrespect towards you personally.
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I hate it when people put on a fake American accent. it sound like they trying too hard, or trying to be American. I can understand if they have lived there for a while, & start talking that way, but faking it, Oh no!!
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Get some Bob Marley and listen to how he spoke! And try and copy him...do it for a while though!\n\nKeep it up, mon!! It's one cool accent!Oh, you;d probably have to know all their slang words to get more of an idea of what the accent is like! Just google it!\n=)
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I am very sorry for that. It really is terrible how people discriminate against ANY culture just because they are like another. ANYWAY they shouldn't discriminate against the first one in the first place! I live in a city with a high Latino population, and everytime anyone says "Mexican" I feel that I need to correct them. It has gotten me into some sticky situations, but I've also made some friends through it. I am a Spanish student and it disgusts me to see how people can just pretend that because they speak Spanish they must be bad. It makes me SICK. I lived in Spain for a while to practice my Spanish and even though I was American *most* (not all, just most) of the people there could still respect me. And when I speak to the Latinos in my city they can still respect me even though I am not the same race as them. And it's amazing, it's not even just latinos either. It is anyone who speaks Spanish. My host family sent their daughter here and everyone was rude to her simply because she spoke with a Spanish accent.\n\nOne last rant and then I am done.\n\nSo my friend and I did an experiment. Even if we are AMERICAN and we speak in Spanish, will they do the same thing? The answer is yes. We went downtown and spoke in Spanish to each other for the day. If someone spoke to us we answered in English, with our American accents, and we were still treated the same way. So my conclusion is that it isn't just the people themselves that are Latino or Hispanic that are discriminated against, but the whole Spanish language.\n\nThis didn't really answer your question....sorry....
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sorry i don't think that french people have a cute accent while speaking french, most of the time i was annoyed that they speak such a bad English and if there's also the accent it just drives me crazy. i must say i started admiring french people who can actually talk good English and in my life i only met one person
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I am an avid theatre arts performer, and while taking performance classes there were quite a few individuals with accents. One in particular was a girl from russia, while in the class I seen her accent decrease dramatically. The reason the class helped her is because before we start our lessons we would do tongue twisters, while keeping our diction (which means that you have to speak as clearly as possible without dropping off the end of any words or smushing the words together). Try some of these tongue twisters:\nThe blue black bug bit the big brown bear, and the big brown bear bled blood.\n\nYou know New York you need New York, you know you need unique New York.\n\nRed leather yellow leather, blue black metal copper kettle\n\nChrysanthimum Geranium Alluminum Linoleum-x3\n\nSay them as clearly as possible, and find new ones regularly. If you start to say them with ease then it will no longer help you to lose the accent. I also have a friend that was born in England, and theatre classes have helped him a great deal as well also because of the tongue twisters. He also said that he would read the dictionary out loud. I hope I could help! Thanks for the 2 points!