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Title: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: FLOOB on January 20, 2014, 09:41:08 PM
Have you noticed that about 80% of the americans who play AH sound like they just stepped off of the set of Hee-Haw? What's up with that?
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Arlo on January 20, 2014, 09:51:58 PM
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Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Fish42 on January 20, 2014, 09:55:12 PM
 :rofl there are a some that do.

Then again I must sound like the Croc Hunter to some, Crikey!

 
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: bustr on January 20, 2014, 09:59:03 PM
Now that we know which side of 100% pays the light bill for HTC. What's your point?
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: mthrockmor on January 20, 2014, 10:22:47 PM
The South loves a good military thing. Google map Army bases and see how many are located outside of the South? Ft Lewis, Ft Drum, Ft Irwin, Ft Carson....anything else?

'nough said!

boo
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Tank-Ace on January 20, 2014, 10:39:57 PM
The South loves a good military thing. Google map Army bases and see how many are located outside of the South? Ft Lewis, Ft Drum, Ft Irwin, Ft Carson....anything else?

'nough said!

boo

Ignoring AFB's, sure. IIRC, most of our strategic airforce, and most of our nuclear missile silos are based outside of the South (not including states that are only Geographically south, such as Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, etc).

Nobody would trust a bunch of rednecks with real power  :ahand.
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Nathan60 on January 20, 2014, 10:42:47 PM
The South loves a good military thing. Google map Army bases and see how many are located outside of the South? Ft Lewis, Ft Drum, Ft Irwin, Ft Carson....anything else?

'nough said!

boo
when I was a kid in Roswell, Georgia I found an old WWII 'pinapple' grenade. I saw a random stip pf cloth in some low bushes being a kid i pull it out and out of the pushes comes this thing and it had weight, I was only in 2nd grade but I knew what it was as soon as I saw it so I just put it down and went and got my neighbors dad as mine was at work, bomb squad come out and I never heard an explosion so I guess they just hauled it away. I always wondered how it got to the woods next to my apartment but I know there were a few camps during ww2 in the area, or it could have just been a souviner that some kid found in his dads closet and lost guess I'll never know
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: BluBerry on January 20, 2014, 10:44:33 PM

Nobody would trust a bunch of rednecks with real power 

 :lol
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: rpm on January 20, 2014, 11:31:53 PM
Nobody would trust a bunch of rednecks with real power 
We just build the nuclear weapons.
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Fish42 on January 20, 2014, 11:35:29 PM
We just build the nuclear weapons.

Pff, they are meant to explode. :neener:
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Rogue9Volt on January 20, 2014, 11:36:36 PM
I hear more Northern, or East Coast accents mostly.. but that could be the times I'm flying.  I like hearing lots of different accents in Game... 
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Banshee7 on January 21, 2014, 12:15:47 AM
We just build the nuclear weapons.

 :rock That's right  :rock
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Rich46yo on January 21, 2014, 07:05:26 AM
I dont mind as long as they stay in the swamp.
(http://i478.photobucket.com/albums/rr149/Rich46yo/rednecks_zpsbcfd074e.jpg)
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Fulcrum on January 21, 2014, 07:11:31 AM
And here I was just thinking Brit pilots I run into all sound like they walked off the set of Mary Poppins.... :noid
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: ozrocker on January 21, 2014, 07:28:11 AM
And here I was just thinking Brit pilots I run into all sound like they walked off the set of Mary Poppins.... :noid
:rofl :rofl



                                                                                                                                              :cheers: Oz
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Copprhed on January 21, 2014, 07:41:54 AM
Ignoring AFB's, sure. IIRC, most of our strategic airforce, and most of our nuclear missile silos are based outside of the South (not including states that are only Geographically south, such as Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, etc).

Nobody would trust a bunch of rednecks with real power  :ahand.
That's why the SAVANNAH River Site in the Central Savannah River area, i.e. Augusta, GA, Aiken S.C was the main tritium producing weapons plant for the country. I'm SOUTHERN, and proud of it!
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: mbailey on January 21, 2014, 08:01:34 AM
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Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Arlo on January 21, 2014, 08:08:51 AM
Hail Freedonia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedonia) and the  Duchy of Grand Fenwick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Fenwick).  :salute
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: LCADolby on January 21, 2014, 08:10:22 AM
And here I was just thinking Brit pilots I run into all sound like they walked off the set of Mary Poppins.... :noid

Van Dyke was a Yank with a beyond terrible ... almost a Geneva Convention breaking ludicrous cockney accent
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: GScholz on January 21, 2014, 08:17:16 AM
I prolly sound something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49CkgeQVh70

 :o


... And our wønderful teleføn system...
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Rogue9Volt on January 21, 2014, 08:17:34 AM
Van Dyke was a Yank with a beyond terrible ... almost a Geneva Convention breaking ludicrous cockney accent

Of course most Americans think we can do your accent better than you can...  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Scca on January 21, 2014, 08:20:51 AM
And here I was just thinking Brit pilots I run into all sound like they walked off the set of Mary Poppins.... :noid
Well, you're in the south, and you talk like you should be hanging around Dupont Circle. 
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Arlo on January 21, 2014, 08:22:02 AM
And then a 'battle of accents' erupted.  :D
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Fulcrum on January 21, 2014, 08:41:36 AM
Well, you're in the south, and you talk like you should be hanging around Dupont Circle.  

Indeed!  Living around Washington DC most of my life will do that.  My 15 years down in the South has done little to change my accent ...tho' I've been known to utter the occasional "y'all" once in a blue moon.

Van Dyke was a Yank with a beyond terrible ... almost a Geneva Convention breaking ludicrous cockney accent

I think I can safely speak for all Americans when I say we accept no responsibility for Dick Van Dyke's horrid accent and bad comedy.  Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was the last straw...ye gods.   :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Arlo on January 21, 2014, 08:45:51 AM
I think I can safely speak for all Americans when I say we accept no responsibility for Dick Van Dyke's horrid accent and bad comedy.  Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was the last straw...ye gods.   :rolleyes:

No you can't. DVD rocks.  :D
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Fulcrum on January 21, 2014, 08:52:02 AM
No you can't. DVD rocks.  :D

Dear God man....that movie is horrid beyond words.  I hear the CIA is using it in place of waterboarding these days.
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Arlo on January 21, 2014, 08:55:38 AM
Dear God man....that movie is horrid beyond words.  I hear the CIA is using it in place of waterboarding these days.

I .... am .... torture-proof! (Whodathunkit?)

(I also like Elvis movies and Doris Day movies.)

(I make up for it with an extensive collection of westerns and war movies - primarily from the sixties.)

 :D
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Mister Fork on January 21, 2014, 09:01:52 AM
And then there are the Canadians.  Sounding like no one in particular with their accent-less English and always being perfectly nice.   Even the local Canadian police are nice.

(http://www.demotivation.us/media/demotivators/demotivation.us_Police-brutality-Canadian-version_130980972814.jpg)
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Fulcrum on January 21, 2014, 09:04:05 AM
I .... am .... torture-proof! (Whodathunkit?)

(I also like Elvis movies and Doris Day movies.)

(I make up for it with an extensive collection of westerns and war movies - primarily from the sixties.)

 :D

(http://www.uploadimages4free.com/upload/big/this_is_madness-11728.jpg)
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Fulcrum on January 21, 2014, 09:06:42 AM
And then there are the Canadians.  Sounding like no one in particular with their accent-less English and always being perfectly nice.   Even the local Canadian police are nice.

(http://www.demotivation.us/media/demotivators/demotivation.us_Police-brutality-Canadian-version_130980972814.jpg)

Canadians are too busy trying to stay warm to be mean.
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Arlo on January 21, 2014, 09:06:54 AM
(http://splitsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/01-vandyke.jpg)
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Tank-Ace on January 21, 2014, 09:32:23 AM
In all seriousness though, if you're from the US, and not an American first and foremost, I want nothing to do with you. And after that.... what does it really matter where you're from?
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: puller on January 21, 2014, 09:36:20 AM
I've probably got one of the thickest southern accents in the game...I just don't drawl.... :lol
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Arlo on January 21, 2014, 09:37:01 AM
I've probably got one of the thickest southern accents in the game...I just don't drawl.... :lol

Contradictory claim.  :D
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Fulcrum on January 21, 2014, 09:42:09 AM
In all seriousness though, if you're from the US, and not an American first and foremost, I want nothing to do with you. And after that.... what does it really matter where you're from?

(http://becausemerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/pew-pew-pew.jpg)

 :D Sorry.  That meme always cracks me up.
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: captain1ma on January 21, 2014, 09:50:03 AM
Indeed!  Living around Washington DC most of my life will do that.  My 15 years down in the South has done little to change my accent ...tho' I've been known to utter the occasional "y'all" once in a blue moon.

I think I can safely speak for all Americans when I say we accept no responsibility for Dick Van Dyke's horrid accent and bad comedy.  Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was the last straw...ye gods.   :rolleyes:

i lived in Laurel Maryland for 8 years and got accused of having a southern drawl, albeit, not thick. Dont think that being in Washington DC will save you from being accused of a redneck up her in Massachusetts. as for the yanks, i love listening to all the english accents, from england all the way down to new zealand and Australia. and they're the nicest most civilized people. then again i was born in germany and love a good german or european accent too. but voice doesnt make the person. its about having fun, not what accent he/she has!

PS i loved chitty chitty bang bang!! horrid accent or not, they were fun movies


<S> to all!! no disrespect meant to anyone!
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Fulcrum on January 21, 2014, 10:04:15 AM
Dont think that being in Washington DC will save you from being accused of a redneck up her in Massachusetts.

That's because people in the Northeast talk funny.   :D

P.S.  None of my posts in this thread are serious or should be taken as such....well...except the Van Dyke / Chitty Chitty Bang Bang* ones.  :rofl


* Which I like to refer to as Chity Chity Bang Bang with a Cheech Martin accent.   ;)
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Rogue9Volt on January 21, 2014, 10:11:26 AM
Well, you're in the south, and you talk like you should be hanging around Dupont Circle. 

Aww burn!!! Hahahaha
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: aztec on January 21, 2014, 10:39:24 AM
That's because people in the Northeast talk funny.   :D





Dang...and I thought being funny looking was all I had to deal with.
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Vraciu on January 21, 2014, 10:48:42 AM
And here I was just thinking Brit pilots I run into all sound like they walked off the set of Mary Poppins.... :noid

 :lol
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: FLOOB on January 21, 2014, 10:57:52 AM
If you think Canadians don't have an accent you need to get oot and aboot more.
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Rogue9Volt on January 21, 2014, 11:02:40 AM
If you think Canadians don't have an accent you need to get oot and aboot more.

Totes McGotes.
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Tracerfi on January 21, 2014, 11:12:53 AM
There have been many people who thought i was i brit dont get why but then it could be the speech issue i have but i dont care its funny
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Scca on January 21, 2014, 11:15:33 AM
If you think Canadians don't have an accent you need to get oot and aboot more.
:aok :rofl
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: shotgunneeley on January 21, 2014, 11:38:46 AM
Found this site. The map on the left shows pronunciation patterns for various regions in the US and Canada. Click on the map to enlarge it, then click on a particular region, finally click on a specific location within the region. You will then be taken to a list of audio recordings and examples. If you've ever heard me over vox, I would fall into the lowland south region of Arkansas.

http://aschmann.net/AmEng/
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Randy1 on January 21, 2014, 12:01:23 PM
Floob, your Momma sho-didn't raise you right. 

Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: BnZs on January 21, 2014, 12:58:52 PM
I find that flying AH combat or doing anything related to aviation makes me and everyone else sound more Southern than they do in everyday life. It is a well-known phenomenon dating back to at least the '50s, known as the "Yeager effect".
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: zack1234 on January 21, 2014, 01:14:22 PM
And here I was just thinking Brit pilots I run into all sound like they walked off the set of Mary Poppins.... :noid

whelks mussels jellied eels handsome :old:

Bruv sounds like Dick van dyke
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: surfinn on January 21, 2014, 01:26:56 PM
I'm from the deep south, and most northerners love the way I talk when I'm up there.  Well the northerner girls do anyway :t
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Randy1 on January 21, 2014, 01:30:49 PM
My hats goes off to those players in AH that English is their second language.   :aok
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Tank-Ace on January 21, 2014, 01:37:57 PM
I'm from the deep south, and most northerners love the way I talk when I'm up there.  Well the northerner girls do anyway :t

I think its more like the way girls think they like country boys. What they like is that idea of a country boy; the strong, bare-chested guy that knows horses, lives way up in the woods, knows how to treat a woman right, and can f**k like a god.

But when you try to find that ideal in real life, you usually end up with some big husky guys who love their beer and look just god-awful without a shirt, may or may not know how to treat a woman correctly, usually stubborn and opinionated as hell, knows horses and tracks their s**t and mud all over the house, and lives on a ranch somewhere not up in the mountains.


You forget Surfinn, we KNOW you. We know you're the fat stubborn guy tracking horse s**t into the house  :neener:.
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: VuduVee on January 21, 2014, 01:52:33 PM
Have you noticed that about 80% of the americans who play AH sound like they just stepped off of the set of Hee-Haw? What's up with that?

yeah, its crazy how people from different places have different accents.
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Bruv119 on January 21, 2014, 02:22:11 PM
have to squelch me dem red neck gvers! 

any accent impression you guys do sound like oliver twist in black and white though,  cobrajet does the best impressions. 
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: LCADolby on January 21, 2014, 02:29:31 PM
Nishi does the most accurate Brit impersonation. Sounds like a Londoner.
Title: Re: Yank accents on V
Post by: Mister Fork on January 21, 2014, 03:13:28 PM
Nishi does the most accurate Brit impersonation. Sounds like a Londoner.
does Nishi sound like 'chip chip cherrie o' or "aaaaalllloooo Swwweettie,  hue from Saaaawouth Luuunden? Willesden per-apps? Dats a Crackin part of Luuunden if you ask me." (It isn't)

And then there are a variety of English accents variations all across the UK plus the Scotts and Irish.

In Canada, apart from Quebec with French accents (around 20 different dialects too), we have Newfoundlanders who have a strong accent of a mix of Irish and Gaelic dialects.   And those from the south prairies speak like they're from Fargo. But everyone else just speaks plain unaccented English.
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: aztec on January 21, 2014, 03:37:42 PM
I'm from the deep south, and most northerners love the way I talk when I'm up there.  Well the northerner girls do anyway :t
You mean them Joeja girls Surf :devil
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: realgood on January 21, 2014, 03:56:07 PM
I've probably got one of the thickest southern accents in the game...I just don't drawl.... :lol
  :huh  :huh  :confused: nutthing like mind southern accents oh yal howrye   :D  :banana:  :banana:
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: lunatic1 on January 21, 2014, 05:34:49 PM
i caint hep they way i tolk..i'm kentucky and live in texas..so there...are u havin a problem with the way people sound???????????? dump your vox.
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: lunatic1 on January 21, 2014, 05:37:32 PM
I hear more Northern, or East Coast accents mostly.. but that could be the times I'm flying.  I like hearing lots of different accents in Game... 
so do i +1
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: JimmyD3 on January 21, 2014, 06:00:06 PM
Now that we know which side of 100% pays the light bill for HTC. What's your point?

 :rofl :rofl :rofl
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: MajWoody on January 21, 2014, 06:01:37 PM
I don't mind the southern accents but I do dislike the Y'all term.
Title: Re: Yank accents on V
Post by: Kingpin on January 21, 2014, 06:07:32 PM

And then there are a variety of English accents variations all across the UK plus the Scotts and Irish.



And don't forget the rest of the Commonwealth nationalities.  Here on the US West Coast late evenings we get the Kiwi's and the Aussies on too.  

I once saved my wingman from asking if a friendly pilot on range was from Australia, and interrupted him, as clearly (to my ear) he sounded like a Kiwi.  Instead I said it sounded like he was in New Zealand, and the Kiwi guy was impressed I spotted the accent.  I've traveled a fair bit and have developed a good ear for accents.  I can often tell what US state someone is from.  I asked a new squaddy what part of Canada he was from and guessed Toronto (correctly).

My favorite case of accent spotting was identifying two Geordies in an airport bar in Dulles International.  They were trying to order a Shandy and the bartender had no idea what a Shandy was and was telling them "we don't have lemonade", which baffled them.  I had to explain that "lemonade" in England means Sprite or 7-up soda (pop, if you're midwestern).  

The two Geordies were appreciative and each bought me a round, as was the bartender for educating him, who bought me a third.  Drank for free during that 3-hour layover.  

Having a good ear for accents pays off sometimes.

<S>

Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: surfinn on January 21, 2014, 06:13:16 PM
I don't mind the southern accents but I do dislike the Y'all term.

Ya we dont care,  we dislike the yous guys saying but have learned to live with it.
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: hlbly on January 21, 2014, 06:15:50 PM
Have you noticed that about 80% of the americans who play AH sound like they just stepped off of the set of Hee-Haw? What's up with that?

Wow dude i just told a joke about inbreds and what they are called my country and what they are called in your country and I got PNG'ed. You probably have the same trouble most Americans do telling difference between English,Irish,and Scotch accents.
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: GScholz on January 21, 2014, 06:18:37 PM
As long as there's no banjo music it's fine...
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: hlbly on January 21, 2014, 06:22:03 PM
No you can't. DVD rocks.  :D
I thought the Mary Poppins, Bert was the most painful one ?
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: MrGeezer on January 21, 2014, 06:29:44 PM
As long as there's no banjo music it's fine...

When you hear banjo music ---- paddle faster.
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Brooke on January 21, 2014, 06:45:40 PM
In America, they haven't used it for years:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdWoZZixI-I
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Brooke on January 21, 2014, 06:47:23 PM
How everyone should speak English:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGp4DvFEgh8

Isn't it?
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: MajWoody on January 21, 2014, 06:55:18 PM
Ya we dont care,  we dislike the yous guys saying but have learned to live with it.
Who says that, Joisey guys?
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Brooke on January 21, 2014, 06:57:59 PM
Here is a short quiz that asks you simple questions (like "If you say the word THOUGHT, does it rhyme with LOT") and nails which American accent you have.  Quite interesting.  Probably quite funny for non-Americans to take the quiz and see which American accent it thinks you have.

http://www.youthink.com/quiz.cfm?action=go_detail&sub_action=take&obj_id=9827
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Lusche on January 21, 2014, 07:04:43 PM
Probably quite funny for non-Americans to take the quiz and see which American accent it thinks you have.


I came out neutered...err, neutral:  "you don`t really have a local identity"  :old:

Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: FLOOB on January 21, 2014, 07:15:28 PM
Here is a short quiz that asks you simple questions (like "If you say the word THOUGHT, does it rhyme with LOT") and nails which American accent you have.  Quite interesting.  Probably quite funny for non-Americans to take the quiz and see which American accent it thinks you have.

http://www.youthink.com/quiz.cfm?action=go_detail&sub_action=take&obj_id=9827
Where the heck to people say thought and it doesn't rhyme with lot?
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: RipRap on January 21, 2014, 07:27:33 PM
I don't mind the southern accents but I do dislike the Y'all term.

Spend some in the north. You will give your left (insert body part here) for people to say Y'all instead of "Yinz".  :bhead
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Brooke on January 21, 2014, 07:35:33 PM
Where the heck to people say thought and it doesn't rhyme with lot?


Being from the northern Midwest of the US, just about everything in that list (where they say "do X and Y sound alike or different when you say them") sound different when I say them.  "Thought", when I say it, sounds like "caught", "wrought", "brought" -- or spelling it in a different way that is phonetically the same for me "thawt"; and "lot" when I say it sounds like "shot", "hot", "trot", etc.
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: SPKmes on January 21, 2014, 07:35:59 PM
There are quite a few I hear and my first thought is ....Casey Kasem plays AH.... there is one which is so close I really do often wonder
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Brooke on January 21, 2014, 07:36:49 PM
Spend some in the north. You will give your left (insert body part here) for people to say Y'all instead of "Yinz".  :bhead

I'm from Michigan.  What's "yinz"?
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: shotgunneeley on January 21, 2014, 07:40:50 PM
Where the heck to people say thought and it doesn't rhyme with lot?


What surprised me was the question do the words "bag" and "vague" rhyme? For me, the "a" is short on "bag" and long on "vague".

I came out neutral as well, even though I live only an hour north of the Louisiana line. I have a very deep voice (players on vox think i'm over twice my age), but the quiz didn't take into account words like: Do you say "y'all"? Do you cut off -ing words like "fixin'"? Do you say "should'a/of, could'a/of, or would'a/of" instead of "should have, could have, or would have"?
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: MajWoody on January 21, 2014, 07:52:13 PM
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Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: MajWoody on January 21, 2014, 07:54:00 PM
I'm from Michigan.  What's "yinz"?

Never heard that one. I have heard people from Missouri call me...    you'uns
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: RipRap on January 21, 2014, 08:09:19 PM
I'm from Michigan.  What's "yinz"?

Never heard that one. I have heard people from Missouri call me...    you'uns

Mainly used in SW Pennsylvania, parts of Ohio, West Va. (Known as Pittsburghese). Plural replacement for "you all". Example: "Yinz believe that Stiller game" or "Yinz jeet jet?" (Did you guys eat yet?)
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: FLOOB on January 21, 2014, 08:13:32 PM
Being from the northern Midwest of the US, just about everything in that list (where they say "do X and Y sound alike or different when you say them") sound different when I say them.  "Thought", when I say it, sounds like "caught", "wrought", "brought" -- or spelling it in a different way that is phonetically the same for me "thawt"; and "lot" when I say it sounds like "shot", "hot", "trot", etc.
The question's for people who talk like peter griffin and jfk I think.
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: hlbly on January 21, 2014, 08:18:43 PM
As long as there's no banjo music it's fine...
Over cross the pond ...what kindly music is it what blows they highness's to eat and what all. Listen to a hlbly's first exposure to American football.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfMEC58rhRc by the late great Andy Griffith.
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: BuckShot on January 21, 2014, 08:59:10 PM
Here is a short quiz that asks you simple questions (like "If you say the word THOUGHT, does it rhyme with LOT") and nails which American accent you have.  Quite interesting.  Probably quite funny for non-Americans to take the quiz and see which American accent it thinks you have.

http://www.youthink.com/quiz.cfm?action=go_detail&sub_action=take&obj_id=9827

It said I'm western, wrong coast. It must have thought that because it didn't ask how I tend to say car, there, or four...cah, theyah, fowah.

Fun thread. The map neeley put up is worth looking at.

Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Brooke on January 21, 2014, 09:06:58 PM
OK, too many people reporting that quiz gives "neutral" or wrong answers.  Here's another one that might be much better at spotting where in America you are from:

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2011/11/what-kind-of-american-accent-do-you.html
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: hlbly on January 21, 2014, 09:14:37 PM
Loved the quiz. I was born in San Angelo Texas. Lived there for 6 years while dad was instructing at Goodfellow AFB. I got so tired of the teasing. I got a recorder and got rid of it.
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Ten60 on January 21, 2014, 09:36:17 PM
Every time one of you febs keys up this is what I hear -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4KEWEi5hE4
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: XxDaSTaRxx on January 21, 2014, 09:50:03 PM
Fort Wayne IN is a boring city. Were all Yankees.




I DO NOT SUPPORT THE YANKEES THOUGH. TERRIBLE TEAM.  :D
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Ray77 on January 22, 2014, 08:15:19 AM
I've been talking American my whole life.
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: icepac on January 22, 2014, 08:46:55 AM
Southern and western virginia accent harshes my buzz.
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: NatCigg on January 22, 2014, 08:57:53 AM
have fun in da up eh?

gooing ta waash my sweatshirt.

too maach ice on tha lake for da boot.
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: ozrocker on January 22, 2014, 09:36:11 AM
This was on TV last night :aok


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030637/

Professor makes a bet that he can teach a Flower girl with a Cockney Accent to speak proper.
George Bernard Shaw play.

Here in Jersey, we say things like Jeet yet? (Did you eat yet).
We say shoulda, woulda, coulda, Trent -in (Trenton), Noork (Newark)
North Jersey is totally different people, accents, etc. South Jersey we have more of a Philly dialect :aok
                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                             :cheers: Oz
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: earl1937 on January 22, 2014, 11:33:45 AM
I'm from Michigan.  What's "yinz"?
:banana: Gosh, just found out New Jersey is in U.S.! I thought the way "our" press was attacking the Gov., I thought it was a foreign country!
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: FLOOB on January 22, 2014, 08:49:49 PM
What surprised me was the question do the words "bag" and "vague" rhyme? For me, the "a" is short on "bag" and long on "vague".

I came out neutral as well, even though I live only an hour north of the Louisiana line. I have a very deep voice (players on vox think i'm over twice my age), but the quiz didn't take into account words like: Do you say "y'all"? Do you cut off -ing words like "fixin'"? Do you say "should'a/of, could'a/of, or would'a/of" instead of "should have, could have, or would have"?

In north central US, Dakotas etc., they don't pronounce leg and egg like layg and ayg, they way they say leg and egg rhymes with reg. So it wouldn't surprise me if they pronounce bag like bayg.

Pronouncing should've as should of is one thing, but actually writing "should of" is so stupid that it disgusts me to the core.
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: FLOOB on January 22, 2014, 08:58:36 PM
Also, have you noticed that some sickos in america don't pronounce roof and root the same as foot, book, cook and hook.
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Gemini on January 22, 2014, 09:14:30 PM
http://spelling.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/english-pronunciation/
 
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: GScholz on January 22, 2014, 09:25:34 PM
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Mano on January 23, 2014, 12:33:44 AM
Hee Haw !


Pfffffttttt and you were gone !!!


 :D
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: lunatic1 on January 23, 2014, 12:38:23 PM
doesen't matter how a word or sentence is said--we all still know what is said.
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Arlo on January 23, 2014, 12:49:35 PM
doesen't matter how a word or sentence is said--we all still know what is said.

"Bugeees inbuoond 4 oo cluck. Check seex beegle-a. Eble-a Beker I em beengu. Cherleee-a repurts veenchester. Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp! Secundery tergets destruyed. Bork bork bork!"


Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Mister Fork on January 23, 2014, 01:57:01 PM
doesen't matter how a word or sentence is said--we all still know what is said.

Zat iz korret. Ve no dat ven ve saez une verd, zere iz no mizinterpz on vat zat menz! Achtung!
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Slate on January 23, 2014, 03:28:07 PM
  The Dutch should invade Holland with help from the Netherlands.  :old:
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Tank-Ace on January 23, 2014, 04:59:37 PM
  The Dutch should invade Holland with help from the Netherlands.  :old:

(http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/square_small/12/120457/2060505-mel_gibson_look.jpeg)

A man who defied England to free England from the English.
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: TEShaw on January 25, 2014, 08:34:33 AM
JJ, the Kiwi pilot, visited my town in the U.S.  We were making plans over the phone  to meet for dinner in a decent restaurant when he asked if he should bring a toy.


(incomprehensibly generous yet childish custom?)


I learned later he was asking if he should wear a necktie.

regards, TEShaw

Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Brooke on January 25, 2014, 11:00:53 AM
A friend of mine was having a Halloween party at his business and invited us, saying "Please come in fancy dress."  I showed up wearing a suit jacket.  Then I learned what "fancy dress" means when you are British. :)
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: ink on January 25, 2014, 11:34:41 AM
In all seriousness though, if you're from the US, and not an American first and foremost, I want nothing to do with you. And after that.... what does it really matter where you're from?

I know I am late to the party.....but damn...this is funny right here.....and just a little peak at whats wrong in this society.


personally I am a man of God first.....then I am a DAD....then a Husband.....then a FREEMAN...not an American.....A Patriot....yes.....American.. ....pfft

Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: LCADolby on January 25, 2014, 11:57:29 AM
A friend of mine was having a Halloween party at his business and invited us, saying "Please come in fancy dress."  I showed up wearing a suit jacket.  Then I learned what "fancy dress" means when you are British. :)
:lol


 :rofl
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: John Galt on January 25, 2014, 04:47:19 PM
I have yet to find out what part of Texas nordmans accent hails from.
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Arlo on January 25, 2014, 05:49:33 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5T3ubSdhSM
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Arlo on January 25, 2014, 05:51:34 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr7Q_GZlvis
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Rogue9Volt on January 25, 2014, 06:23:36 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr7Q_GZlvis

 Boy the german folks in the comments weren't happy with that guy's imitation...  :D
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Arlo on January 25, 2014, 06:26:24 PM
Boy the german folks in the comments weren't happy with that guy's imitation...  :D

Ist zat zo?
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Rogue9Volt on January 25, 2014, 09:19:45 PM
Is vat I day, da? :bolt:
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: TequilaChaser on January 25, 2014, 09:25:02 PM
well is it a Yank's accent or is it a Sountherner's accent............. or is it city folk accent verses country folk accent.....

and I really don't care what y'all think of my accent......

puller, I did find your post hilarious though.... out of all the years of playing since the introduction of voice comms in these games..... I have heard some very deeply rooted accents from all over... maybe I'll run into ya in the game , to see how deep your Oklahoma "southern" accent is.....

geez, what a funny thread...

TC
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: Arlo on January 26, 2014, 11:29:37 AM
well is it a Yank's accent or is it a Sountherner's accent............. or is it city folk accent verses country folk accent.....

and I really don't care what y'all think of my accent......

puller, I did find your post hilarious though.... out of all the years of playing since the introduction of voice comms in these games..... I have heard some very deeply rooted accents from all over... maybe I'll run into ya in the game , to see how deep your Oklahoma "southern" accent is.....

geez, what a funny thread...

TC

You have an accent? I didn't notice.  :D
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: John Galt on January 26, 2014, 12:38:12 PM
Ya we dont care,  we dislike the yous guys saying but have learned to live with it.



It took me 2 years of living away from PA, to stop saying yous guys. And only three months back here to catch myself using it again.
Title: Re: Yank accents on VOX
Post by: MrGeezer on January 26, 2014, 03:03:54 PM
I have yet to find out what part of Texas nordmans accent hails from.



Actually, having done college in Minnesota, nordman sounds very normal to me.