Random Rants
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I've always wondered if the difference between an American speaking English and someone from the UK speaking it is audible to a non native speaker.
It is. American English sounds as if people have a chronic ENT infection. But what am I saying being german.
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@NickD The difference is noticeable. The British speak more tenderly, more clearly. Words are distinct by ear. Americans have many abbreviations, words are unclear. The effect of a hot potato in the mouth. It is similar to the speech of a TV announcer and the speech of a farmer's salesman from Alaska)) I say this without offending anyone. I am only talking about the sounds of the language. In Russia, we also have local dialects. You can understand where a person is from by ear.
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We still have funny letters. Unfortunately, Cyrillic is not very design-oriented. The years of Bolshevism are taking their toll. Nobody cared about beauty. Foreigners are touched by this.
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@Walery-Smirnoff I’ve not experienced Italian swearing in the wild, but I’ve always loved this line from Maria Stuarda (possibly my favourite Italian opera):
Profanato è il soglio inglese, vil bastarda, dal tuo piè!
Powerful, scurrilous and strangely beautiful. Of course it pushes Elizabeth over the edge into queen of hearts mode and Mary ends up a little bit shorter!
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@ARNC It's funny, we have a word PROFAN))) This is a stupid and gullible person. Inexperienced. And in Italy this word is defiled
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@Walery-Smirnoff
I know a bit of Russian and i think thats an accurate description but I'd like to add that its a creaky, unlubricated cart being dragged through gravel. I do appreciate the flow of it though as I do with most other languages. I enjoy the sound of most foreign languages, but i still cant stand the sound of French, to me it sounds meek and sleazy at the same time. My wife speaks Tagalog, which i know a little bit of, but i don't like it either, sounds like baby babble. I think my favorite sounding languages are Japanese and Russian. Also, I'm aware that Americans generally sound nasal and obnoxious, but there are huge variations from place to place.
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OH, while i'm here, I'd like to add that today is my first day back in heavies after months in 14oz, and man is it nice. The blue planets must've aligned for this because I now have access to this forum at work again lol
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I spent the whole summer in shorts and a big T-shirt. On my feet were flip-flops. One day it got cold. I put on jeans and a 16 oz jacket again. I put on boots on my feet. And oh my God! How heavy and tight!!! The day passed with torment. Now it's warm again and I'm in rags again)
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@Walery-Smirnoff how about Australian English? I'm not sure if you've heard much of that, apart from some actors in otherwise American productions?
We abbreviate on a whole new level, there isn't a word in the language we won't shorten to 2 syllables. And if it's one syllable, we'll extend it!
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@endo said in Random Rants:
I've always wondered if the difference between an American speaking English and someone from the UK speaking it is audible to a non native speaker.
It is. American English sounds as if people have a chronic ENT infection. But what am I saying being german.
When we moved to Pennsylvania my co workers were- amused by my accent. Same thing, honking voice
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@ManiacLachy To my shame, I have never been interested in Australian English and New Zealand English. Locality probably introduces peculiarities into the language everywhere. And I really like your country culture and music. The British are such musical people and masters of mixing culture and music. I would like to visit both Australia and New Zealand. But alas.... Our politicians have eaten shit and are crowing like roosters.
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By the way, there's an Australian woman's YouTube channel. She independently learned Russian from scratch. And she speaks beautifully. she seemed to live somewhere near Samara))) I deeply respect such people. And she's a damn beautiful woman.
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@steelworker what accent would that be?
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The one where I pahk the cah in Hahvid Yahd
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Funny enough, some of the heavier Bostonian accents you’ll ever come across are from Rhode Island and Maine
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As somebody that lived in southeastern Massachusetts, which is on the border of Rhode Island, I can tell you that the accents were pretty legit. Moved from Minnesota to Mass in 1987…not only were the accents thick, but also the hairspray on the high hairdo’s of the ladies.
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