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[Deverz]

... But then I took an arrow in the knee...

[video=youtube;mSDfxde8fSg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSDfxde8fSg[/video]
Warning has a swear

 

[Z Power]

 

[Nick_Da_Wizard]

Language Deverz, Language.

 

[Deverz]

I said it contains a swear

 

[Avenger]

He was asking you to teach him English. It's a plea for help.

 

[Nick_Da_Wizard]

Yes, i want to know any language other than English (Australian)

 

[Deverz]

That's the only one I know, Try learning 'Merican

 

[Nick_Da_Wizard]

Which American? Alot of Americans sound different to eachother

 

[Z Power]

This one.

[video=youtube;OiyH4QS8nCk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiyH4QS8nCk[/video]

 

[Zeonix]

I still don't know which America that is, therefore he must be Canadian.

 

[Deverz]

I was thinking like this
[video=youtube;-LCsiWL6gn0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LCsiWL6gn0[/video]

 

[Nick_Da_Wizard]

Thats a stereotype isn't it? surely people dont talk like that?

 

[Zeonix]

My accent is neutral enough that you can't tell where in the US I'm from. People are surprised when they find out I'm from NYC, because they expect me to speak like a guido. So yeah, that's a stereotype of the south. That isn't to say people are a little difficult to understand in certain regions, though. For example, West Virginian accents can be pretty bad once you get into the mountains and the coal-mining towns.

 

[Nick_Da_Wizard]

yeah, I wonder how the accents are formed? like its the same country and all, in Australia we sometimes just get certain towns that sound really lazy and extremely stereotypically Australian. They give us a bad name.

 

[Zeonix]

It's pretty easy to understand as far as the States go. It's a nation of nations, populated by people from the world over. The regions with the most contact with the rest of the world, primarily the northeast and the west coast, have accents best described as an amalgamation of everyone who's ever passed through or lived there. As these people pushed west and east, they became separated from everyone else, retaining their accents while everyone else's changed as a result of a kind of linguistic evolution. Then you have places like the UK, where the upper class went out of its way to change the way they speak to create a barrier between them and the lower class, only to have the lower classes mimic that accent creating what we hear today. A closer approximation of how they spoke in the 1700s would probably be the accent you hear in Virginia. The Spanish did the same thing, except they decided to add lisps to everything. And now the rest of the spanish-speaking world makes fun of them.

 

[Nick_Da_Wizard]

Did Australians purposely form their accents too? I never really knew any of this. The Aborigines have similar accents maybe we stole it from them?

 

[Zeonix]

Similar scenario of prisoners from different areas being forced to work together, while being mostly cut off from the rest of the UK for awhile.