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[Kaz]

You could never pass for Scots then. It's like every third sound outta my mouth usually.

Think Wullie from the Simpsons saying "Ach"

[SweeneyxxTodd]

I still can't do it.

Listen to my fail

Just like for my meme, login with crazy_porpoise@idreamofjimmy.com and use the password princezuko.

[Kaz]

*pisses herself laughing*

Seen Achmed the dead terrorist?

How do you spell that?

A - C - FLEM -

:lol:

Seriously you were getting there...

[Kaytron]

@Laura: You giggled aLOT
why do Germans, when speaking english have that slight accent?
I can't explain it. but lol, you sound cool ^_^

^Kaytron^ :ph43r:

[Kaz]

Anyone who doesn't speak English as their first language has a trace of their own accent plus the accent from the region of English they're learning.

Soed (my way of saying Sorted)

[Fire Pearl]

@ Kay: LOL seriously I don't have an accent. It's just my ultra coolness that confuses your sense of hearing. I've never had an accent. Never. I'm just too cool for the proper way of pronounciation, that's my curse. :P xD

@Mary: Hahaha that was classic! (no offense please). I guess it's a really troublesome sound for you ^_^ Just like Kaz, we have that 'hacking noise in the back of your throat' a LOT in our language. A lot, a lot, a LOT.



But I figure it's as hard for you as for most English-speaking people it is to pronounce my name the way I'm used to it. lol I nearly cracked up when an English-woman tried to say the German 'au' in Laura :lol:


LOL but since you saved our accents <_< xD, I can't help but tell you:

Keep practising :lol:

@Kaz: meh. Seriously now, I wasn't THAT giggly at all. I listened to it again...jeez that's practically nothing!

On a different note: You're awesome, you're right and damn, Scottish-ism is cool. ^_^

Fall gelöst. (my way of saying sorted :P)

[SweeneyxxTodd]

I said Laura the English way until I heard your meme. Now I say it pretty close to what it really is. As close as I'm ever gonna get, I think. I kinda actually say it the Spanish way, because the au is pronounced the same. But it's still different. I can tell a difference, so I know you'd be able to.

And I still can't do that hacking sound either.

@Kay: Everyone has an accent. Even within English there's a bagillian different accents. When speaking a foreign language, you're gonna have a little bit of your native accent, plus a bit of an accent of the type of language you're learning. plus the accent of the area you're learning from. It's an accent jamboree.

[Fire Pearl]

And might I add to Mary's and Kaz' words, there also is the accent of your teacher and the area (s)he learned to speak English from.... :wacko: It's a bunch of influences. Not even speaking of the vocabulary...since I hang out on rather American sites, I find myself always surprised again with words that are more fashion in Britain I didn't know at all. I rather know American expressions I guess.


But as I said, we're not having accents, we're just not approving of stereotype pronounciation. We like being unique xD

And yeah I like to think the way I pronounce my name is very close to the original way...since it's decending from Latin. ^_^

[Kaz]

I remember when my German teacher gave me these vocab lists for words I'd never heard before, just before listening to a test.

This one time she'd added a random word (I don't remember, soz) which was translated as "means nothing, emphasis."

I asked her and she said it was like we use "pure dead."

That was pure dead brilliant.

I remember searching for the word in the test but I couldn't hear it and I was all disappointed. I wish I could remember what it was now.

[SweeneyxxTodd]

We do the same thing, only we say "drop dead" instead of "pure dead."

[Kaz]

Hehe. Like, ken is another one we use.

ken = know. Is not Scottish. Just Dundonian. Even more special :lol:

[SweeneyxxTodd]

How would you use that in a sentence?

[Fire Pearl]

We (aka youth) say 'voll' ALL THE FRIGGIN TIME.

I almost use it in every sentence. Always. Forever. (although it's kinda bad style)

It actually means 'full'. But we use it for 'very' , ,,,yeah you could say 'drop dead'. She's pretty...nuhuh She's 'full' pretty.

It's 'full' empty.

That's 'full' crap.

So stupid, but I can't stop saying it.


It's so full nice to say it. lawl.

[SweeneyxxTodd]

I think I'm gonna end up picking up a few Scottish and German sayings after talking to you guys so much.

My everday vocabulary will become like a different language. I already still say sicknasty after most of my grade stopped about a month after they started.

My lingo is influenced by so many different things. A lot of it I get from Carol, though. I talked pretty straight and clear until she muddled my vocab with her strangeness. But I thank her for it. It's more fun talking like this :rock:

[Kaz]

How would you use that in a sentence?

I dinnae ken

I don't know

:D

[SweeneyxxTodd]

I dinnae ken

:wacko: That's like a different language, Kaz!

[Kaz]

That's what they said in Egypt too!

It's so true though. I don't type how I speak AT ALL. You guys would NEVER understand.

[SweeneyxxTodd]

I should start saying that :P Also that phrase, "nae danger." You said that means "no" in your meme, right.

I like those phrases.

[Kaz]

Yeah, "Nae Danger" means "no way" or "yeah right" or something to that effect.

Nae bather = no problem

I dinnae ken = I don't know

Gees it = Gee is it = Give me it

Dingies = Lies

Ai (I) / Eh = Yes

It's neverending...

[SweeneyxxTodd]

For "nae bather" is it the a like in jam? Or like in father? In the case of the latter, though, it'd probably be spelled "bother."

So I'm guessing it's the first one.

*saves list*

I'm gonna be talking like a Scots person come 09 lol.