How do you think other RFer's sound? (America, churches, marriage)

Djamila · #1 02-12-2007, 08:20 AM

I never realized this until Yugo joined, but I have imagined your accents for so long.

When I read English, I can hear it in my head the same as it is said in American movies. I kind of read your posts with a different voice for each worldview, I think. The Conservative people I hear in my mind with a southern accent - and so on.

What reminded me is this post in Yugo's welcome thread:

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Originally Posted by Yugo

Oh, I know. I have a half breed friend (Serb/Muslim) from Lukavac, but insists on saying he is from Tuzla! Since then he gets to glorify over the fact that Tuzla is the only municipality that did not vote for a nationalist party during the war, high mixed marriages, Churches and Mosques standing side by side etc..etc..

No matter how hard I try, I can't hear that bolded part in any accent other than Bosnian. lol It's so perfect.

"Sinsden egets to glorri-fy ohvur defectdat" lol

Sunstone · #2 02-12-2007, 08:29 AM

You write such beautiful prose, Mila, that I think of you as a native speaker.

Quoth The Raven · #3 02-12-2007, 08:30 AM

Well, I know how 3 of them actually do sound, but other than that, I don't tend to allot accents to anyone.

RevOxley_501 · #4 02-12-2007, 08:30 AM

oh no, what do you imagine my accent to be like milla?

Djamila · #5 02-12-2007, 08:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Sunstone

You write such beautiful prose, Mila, that I think of you as a native speaker.

Awww! Frubals!

Djamila · #6 02-12-2007, 08:31 AM

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Originally Posted by RevOxley_501

oh no, what do you imagine my accent to be like milla?

I kind of imagine you as Greek, I guess. But Greek like in movies, not the real thing.

Djamila · #7 02-12-2007, 08:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Quoth The Raven

Well, I know how 3 of them actually do sound, but other than that, I don't tend to allot accents to anyone.

You say that you're implying I'm somehow not normal.

RevOxley_501 · #8 02-12-2007, 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Djamila

I kind of imagine you as Greek, I guess. But Greek like in movies, not the real thing.

wow

well its not very correct...change it to southern american lol...i cant break that southern drawl no matter how hard i try.

Booko · #9 02-12-2007, 09:12 AM

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Originally Posted by RevOxley_501

well its not very correct...change it to southern american lol...i cant break that southern drawl no matter how hard i try.

Not just Southern American, since even just in Georgia there are variations on accent.

I imagine you're is fairly like the accents I hear in Macon...am I close?

Very north Georgian accents are more like Tennesee or W. Virginia, depending on where you are.

Being from the northern Midwest, I do demented things like refer to a group of women as "you guys" though I have largely trained myself to avoid that.