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Re: Squatters
« Reply #75 on: June 30, 2007, 03:23:16 pm »
Quote from: littlefallsmets on June 29, 2007, 05:21:03 am
No matter how attractive she is or smart or funny she is, a heavy Austrailian accent... man, they shouldn't even give boys at summer camps salt-peter, they should just... play recordings of women with heavy Austrailian accents and they won't be able to maintain their erectionss.

Diff'rent strokes, I suppose... Australian accents are the best as far as I'm concerned. Followed closely by British, Southern, and Russian accents.
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Re: Squatters
« Reply #76 on: June 30, 2007, 03:24:19 pm »
oh, now, see, there is a certain southern accent that is horrible. But then there is the really subtle one that some ladies I know have... that one knocks me right out.
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Re: Squatters
« Reply #77 on: June 30, 2007, 03:36:45 pm »
Re: Australian accents this is my argument. The lady in the bikini, not the one with the camels. How can you not dig that accent? I'm almost certain my liking of this accent has nothing to do with her bikini.

There are variations that are bad though, mainly from down south, just like I've heard sexy and horrifying versions of a female southern USA accent.
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« Reply #78 on: June 30, 2007, 05:17:35 pm »
Okay, I'll admit it:

A heavy Southern accent sounds like some sort of brain damage to me and on some deep genetic level I cannot get over the idea that I cannot risk the accident of allowing my genes to mix with someone unable to speak a language.

I am sorry. I apologize. I do not intend this.

My father once told me: "There are only two stereotypes that are true, Mike. Most Irish are drunks, most Southerners are ignorant. Everything else is a damned lie but I have seen no evidence against those two stereotypes."

Of course he also told me: "Mike, you can be anything you want in the world. Except for president. Because if you're a Catholic president, they'll blow your brains out in Texas."

My dad's a weird guy. Awesome but weird.
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Re: Squatters
« Reply #79 on: June 30, 2007, 05:36:35 pm »
No one has ever asked me why I dropped what southern accent I had.

It's kind of unfortunate, but there you go.
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« Reply #80 on: July 01, 2007, 07:00:28 am »
People ask me all the time why I "got rid" of my Aussie accent.  They didn't have to be a 12-year old boy in pre-Paul Hogan America, is my reply.
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Re: Squatters
« Reply #81 on: July 01, 2007, 02:37:51 pm »
Quote from: Lister on June 30, 2007, 05:36:35 pm
No one has ever asked me why I dropped what southern accent I had.

It's kind of unfortunate, but there you go.

So . . .
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Re: Squatters
« Reply #82 on: July 01, 2007, 04:59:43 pm »
Quote from: littlefallsmets on June 30, 2007, 05:17:35 pm
My father once told me: "There are only two stereotypes that are true, Mike. Most Irish are drunks, most Southerners are ignorant. Everything else is a damned lie but I have seen no evidence against those two stereotypes."
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Re: Squatters
« Reply #83 on: July 01, 2007, 05:39:41 pm »
« Last Edit: July 11, 2007, 05:04:49 am by pmcd9 »
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Re: Squatters
« Reply #84 on: July 01, 2007, 06:10:59 pm »
Nope.

"Everyone else is just people. Don't trust the heavily religious, either, but that's... like... that's not an ethnic thing."
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« Reply #85 on: July 01, 2007, 10:03:48 pm »
Actually, Paul, I think you might have that back to front. I can't remember the whole punchline, but it ends up "too lazy to steal".
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« Reply #86 on: July 01, 2007, 10:52:07 pm »
Quote from: jaydub on July 01, 2007, 07:00:28 am
People ask me all the time why I "got rid" of my Aussie accent.  They didn't have to be a 12-year old boy in pre-Paul Hogan America, is my reply.

Does it come back when you're really stressed out? I studied Spanish for 3 years in high school. I had a very good accent through extensive practice (my teacher asked me if my folks spoke Spanish at home, and I replied that no, we're Sicilian). However, whenever I got really tired or really angry or whatever, it would get shot to shit and I would just be speaking pissed-off-gringa.
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Re: Squatters
« Reply #87 on: July 01, 2007, 11:58:46 pm »
That's one of the things we talked about in that class I taught. If people's accents have changed, they often revert at least partially to their childhood accent in emotional situations. 

Let's go to jaydub's house and tease him till he gets really mad and see what happens...
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« Reply #88 on: July 02, 2007, 02:36:24 am »
I really, really, really want to hear my dad with his Boston accent. He got rid of it in his mid-20s. It made my mom very happy.

weird thing: people constantly ask my mom if she is from Boston, Wisconsin, or Chile. These are all places she has lived. Apparently she has some tiny amount of accent from all of them.
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« Reply #89 on: July 02, 2007, 03:16:43 am »
I've gone through my life with an accent that people (in australia anyway) either identify as canadian or irish but never australian. My dad is third generation australian from england and my mum grew up in new zealand so there's no logical explanation but I just can't seem to shake it.
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