Question of the Day - Friday Edition

[ayoub]

What accents / dialects can you do? (If you can, voicepost your accents and put a link in the comments :D)

Comments

[huggscancer.livejournal.com]

i like accents, but then again, most peopel have them, you just dont alwyas notice them because thats how your used to hearing things

[ex-nothingto835.livejournal.com]

i have a large number of South London friends, so that accent comes quite easily to me...as for the rest, i haven't a clue!

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Saaaaarf London?

A scot's lass doing a Saarf London would be amusing... :)

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

But can you mimic any accents?

[huggscancer.livejournal.com]

nope

[huggscancer.livejournal.com]

*blushes* i didnt fully relay the post. lol. i cant do anything other then my minnesotan accent

[ex-nothingto835.livejournal.com]

i got a good tip from a friend once- basically you're not meant to move your tongue very much as you speak. it's a very lazy dialect. i love it, it always gets a giggle.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:)

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Yeah, those guys down there are fairly lazy... (My East London prejudices are showing!)

[huggscancer.livejournal.com]

:-p

[jaebird.livejournal.com]

Hahaha
I'm a minnesotan too
:D

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Small world :)

[cmerun12.livejournal.com]

new joisey, da bronx, tennessian, deep south, brit, scot's brogue, valley girl - just to name a few.

I pick up accents with ease.

And no. I'm not posting valley girl for you. Nice try.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

LMAO!

[mighty-rontor.livejournal.com]

I can only answer the question with another: What accents can't I do?

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

So? Do some!

[lilgeorgiawhore.livejournal.com]

Southern, New York (I've done several plays with that accent) and British (of course you'd probably be able to tell it's a fake ;-)) Actually, I was in New York once and my friend Erin and I were on the lil ferry going over to the Statue of Liberty and we were talking in our British accents and this guy comes over to us and goes "Are you from England?" and Erin replies "No, Ohio." And the guy asks "Are you sure?" and she goes "Yes, quite sure." Haha. That was a fun trip ;-)

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

LOL! Sounds like you got him :D

[lilgeorgiawhore.livejournal.com]

Haha. So it would seem :-)

Speaking of accents, when my family went to Europe, we were riding the Underground and my dad started talking with this English father and son, and at one point in the conversation my dad goes "We're visting from America" and the English father smiles and goes "Uh, yeah, I kinda figured that out." It's a very American way of thinking -- even when in a foreign country -- that it is the other person who has the accent.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Oh, I think the same way...

Thing is, being from England, and speaking English, logically, us Englishmen and women don't have accents ;)

[maeghanne.livejournal.com]

I can do a sort of Queens English accent, cockney, Deep South and random different kinds of "redneck". But I can't voice post..

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Redneck? Sounds like fun :)

[kalquessa.livejournal.com]

Gollum, Stitch, Really Fake Russian.

[fox-bard.livejournal.com]

I'm readily good with Irish, Scottish, and a variety of North American dialects, but I'm a natural mimic. Give me any dialect from anywhere in the world to listen to for an hour, and I can probably mimic it.

[evergladesqueen.livejournal.com]

does the ghetto accent count? LOL
*hugs*

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

I think it's time you did a phonepost conversation between Gollum and Stitch...

That would be hilarious!

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Yeah... I grew up around Scots, and I can't get the accent right every time :)

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Yup!

[kalquessa.livejournal.com]

I think I've posted a few times as Gollum, but never as Stitch. My family has a weird tendency to break out in random bad impersonations of various accents/dialects when we are talking about subjects that are not entertaining enough on their own. The fake Russian is my favorite, but I also love the "Norsky" American dialect found in places like Wisconsin and Minnesota. I'm told it's something they pick up from being so close to Canada.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

I like to break out into Scouse or cockney, just to shock people :)

[evergladesqueen.livejournal.com]

well i surely can do that one! LOL
*hugs*

[donnickcottage.livejournal.com]

Sorry, we don't have accents here. It's the rest of the world that talks funny.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

LOL!

Actually, it's only the English who can speak English without an accent ;)

[huggscancer.livejournal.com]

hehehe. where are you from?
:)

[donnickcottage.livejournal.com]

Elko-New Market area

[torisrabbit.livejournal.com]

i can do irish. but i am kind of sick so i cannot do it at the moment -(

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Get better soon Nikki...