Accents
Accents
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#1re: Accents
Posted: 7/28/05 at 11:36pmWhenever I'm in the South (like I am now), I automatically integrate an old style Southern accent in speech, unintentionally. So technically, whenever I introduce myself, it's in a different accent.
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Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#2re: Accents
Posted: 7/28/05 at 11:38pm
Oh, god- my vowels start to lengthen whenever I hang out with my friends from Texas, too. It's bizarre, but usually I catch myself before it looks like I'm mocking them. Same with clipping certain sounds when I'm with my Korean friends.
Updated On: 7/28/05 at 11:38 PM
#3re: Accents
Posted: 7/29/05 at 3:58amI don't introduce myself to people with a different accent, but when I'm talking to someone with a different accent, I somehow take it on
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#4re: Accents
Posted: 7/29/05 at 4:29am
Oh God yes. But only if I know I'll never see that person again. 
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#5re: Accents
Posted: 7/29/05 at 10:41amwhen we were in london in april, we spoke like brits (or tried) the entire time. it was hard not to!
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wildcat
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/04
#6re: Accents
Posted: 7/29/05 at 10:47amWhen I'm in a store in the US I always have to speak with an American accent because the locals have a little trouble understanding the Aussies. It just saves time.
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#7re: Accents
Posted: 7/29/05 at 10:50amI used to go into fast food places and order in different accents - and Shira, I have the same problem in the South, too - you just can't help it!
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eslgr8
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/04
#8re: Accents
Posted: 7/29/05 at 11:17am
When I lived in Cuenca, Ecuador for a year, I almost immediately tranformed my accent (in Spanish) to the local one, which changed the pronunciation of a whole lot of words.
Unlike my sister, a true Southern California girl, who's lived in Nashville for 20 years and has hardly picked up even a touch of the accent.
Updated On: 7/29/05 at 11:17 AM
Beergoggles
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/30/05
#9re: Accents
Posted: 7/29/05 at 11:57amA lot of people from the south for some reason assume were from near Liverpool... so i throw on a scouse accent for the fun of it sometimes!
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#10re: Accents
Posted: 7/29/05 at 12:27pmi've picked up accents depending on where i am but a friend of mine went to a school dance with me and told everyone he was from Ireland and spoke with an Irish accent. it was really funny because almost everyone believed him and he was never going to see these people again-he went to a different school. someone asked me about him the other day and its been 3 years.
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#11re: Accents
Posted: 7/29/05 at 12:30pmGerman is my second language, and there are times I speak english with a german accent just for fun
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#13re: Accents
Posted: 7/29/05 at 2:20pmWhenever I watch a movie with British accents in it, I walk away talking with one.
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#14re: Accents
Posted: 7/29/05 at 2:26pmI use a British accent to BS my way backstage at concerts. It works wonders.
"All the while making faces like a baby platypus who forget to take some Beano before eating a chimichanga." FindingNamo in reference to Jessica Simpson's singing.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#15re: Accents
Posted: 7/29/05 at 2:31pmI normally sound like a French whore....
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#16re: Accents
Posted: 7/29/05 at 2:32pm
Better than smelling like one Diva. 
"All the while making faces like a baby platypus who forget to take some Beano before eating a chimichanga." FindingNamo in reference to Jessica Simpson's singing.
CurtainUp
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/9/04
#17re: Accents
Posted: 7/29/05 at 6:02pmMy friend was Ellard in "The Foreigner" (if you dont know, a role with a heavy Southern accent). His friend coaxed him into ordering his meal in that accent - but, ironically, the waitress introduced herself in a Southern accent and he didn't want to moch her and couldnt do it!
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#18re: Accents
Posted: 7/29/05 at 6:14pmHow does a British accent get you backstage at a concert?
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#19re: Accents
Posted: 7/29/05 at 6:31pmI've been talking to this guy for a few weeks now and he has a Southern accent. You can tell too when you hear him talk. Also, one of my friend's is playing Willard in a production of Footloose right now. He can do a really good Southern accent, especially during the song "Mama Says".
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#20re: Accents
Posted: 7/29/05 at 6:33pmwildcat, isn't an Aussie accent what Helen Reddy has? Or is that Kiri Te Kanawa? Damn, I'm always confusing the two...there's a story I heard about the nephew of one of them but I can't remember which of them it is...
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#21re: Accents
Posted: 7/29/05 at 7:07pmI have to do a Brooklyn accent for the show I'm now in, and I started slipping into the accent while talking to one of my friends on the phone. And all of the people in my show who have to use accents talk to each other using whatever accent they have. It's quite amusing.
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ConvinceMe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/05
#22re: Accents
Posted: 7/29/05 at 7:09pmI speak with an American accent, often.
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#23re: Accents
Posted: 7/29/05 at 8:23pmI know some actors who, when working day jobs as receptionists, answer the phone as someone different each time, just to amuse themselves. I've never had the nerve to be that unprofessional, but it sounds like fun.
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!"
Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
#24re: Accents
Posted: 7/30/05 at 2:08am
I considered doing that when I used to work at an ice cream store, especially on days that weren't busy. I never did though... 
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