Definitively... I don't like some accents...

goganga

Lately I'm listening to a British online radio, because a Facebook friend is working there, so I can email him and asking him some songs... Well... no offence, but... Speak to the hand

I like the American accent better! I mean... the British accent is.. is... d'oh!

well, it's different!
Sometimes I also watch movies in English, generally they're American movies and it's quite easy to understand them. But Sunday the movie was in British-English and hell! it was harder to understand it! Anxious

Emmy, I'm sorry, I think your accent sounds like the British one, so please... no offence... hug

But really... I do know that British people created the English language, but I think Americans made it better.... Silenced

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Emmy · Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 9:09 pm Post subject:

Simy dont worry- I can assure you no offence taken. Even my son-in-law has complained to me about some words he cant understand and also the way I converse when I go into our own dialect.
If you think the BBC English is difficult to understand then you'd be climbing the wall if it was being transmitted in Scottish!! Each area here has, as we would say here, a differnt 'twang' (sound).
Sometimes even I cringe when when I listen to people talking on TV even from my own area. (Its said to have the worst sounding dialect so I'll not say where in Scotland or else I'll get in trouble-just joking after all I'm one of them) Glasgow on the other hand has a sound and also words of its own too. The people who live in Inverness have lovely sounding voices.
I have said this before when my penfriend from USA phoned me (years ago)
she couldnt understand a word I said in Scottish. She understood Spanish so it wasnt until I tried out my 'pigeon' Italian that she understood what I was saying. She also said we speak very quickly as well. Think

Guess with me you'd be lost completely on skype
Simy dont forget practice makes perfect!!
I'll let you into a wee secret, sometimes I dont understand some people when they speak the American version of English.

Big Laugh

Is that your reason for that last emicon Think

No Union Jack and no Scottish Flag either Shame on you

just joking Applause

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Rosie B. · Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 5:46 pm Post subject:

Simy, I do love the sound of British, Scottish and Australian accents but watching movies with British and Scottish accents can be difficult. My husband puts on the English subtitles even thought they are speaking in English.
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Emmy · Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 6:27 pm Post subject:

Rosie I'm laughing here just now because sometimes I put on the subtiltes too not because I dont understand what's being said but because if I'm wearing my hearing aids sometimes its difficult to hear the words clearly and if I take the hearing aids out and increase the volume to maximim the dogs dont like it no one else would either Think

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goganga · Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 8:40 pm Post subject:

Emmy wrote:

Is that your reason for that last emicon Think

No Union Jack and no Scottish Flag either Shame on you

just joking Applause

Emmy

No Emmy, I just did not find the Scottish Flag in the collection of emoticons available here on ForumUp! Dunno

Rosie B. wrote:

Simy, I do love the sound of British, Scottish and Australian accents but watching movies with British and Scottish accents can be difficult. My husband puts on the English subtitles even thought they are speaking in English.

Rosie, I'm very very glad to know that!!! So that means that I'm not wrong!!! At first I've thought that something was wrong with me, but indeed something was wrong... with them!!! Silenced

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Emmy · Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:44 pm Post subject:

Quote:

So that means that I'm not wrong!!! At first I've thought that something was wrong with me, but indeed something was wrong... with them!!! Silenced

no wonder you used that emicon Very Happy

Perhaps your replies should be read with the opposite meaning

Whistle

Perhaps you're both wrong! There is a simple way to fix your problem. Just stop listening to broadcasts from USA and stick to the BBC UK. Angel

Always at hand to sort out problems when required Big Glad

Emmy

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Gil · Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 7:36 am Post subject:

I'm reading this while listening/watching the famous Scott, Craig Ferguson, on television!
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Emmy · Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 11:25 pm Post subject:

Gil Just who is Craig Ferguson?

Now if you had said 'Rabbie Burns' or the 'Proclaimers'
or Jimmy Shand d'oh!

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goganga · Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 12:22 am Post subject:

Emmy wrote:

Quote:

So that means that I'm not wrong!!! At first I've thought that something was wrong with me, but indeed something was wrong... with them!!! Silenced

no wonder you used that emicon Very Happy

Perhaps your replies should be read with the opposite meaning

Whistle

Oh c'mon! I meant to say that the thing that is wrong with them is their different accent! d'oh!

maybe...

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how I long to see the sun in a sky of perfect blue,
with the sunlight on my face, but there's nothing I can do...
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Di troppe cose non so cosa farne, per me che avrei bisogno di poche immagini ma eterne. (G. Gaber)

Gil · Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 8:30 am Post subject:

Craig Ferguson is a comedian that currently has a late night talk show. His show comes on after the David Letterman show on CBS TV. He is originally from Scotland, but got his US citizenship, scored 100% on the test, last year.
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Rosie B. · Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 10:54 pm Post subject:

The thing with putting the subtitles on is that I have to look down at them and it's distracting.

Maybe to explain better: we have an 8 1/2 foot diagonal measure TV screen so looking down at the bottom of the screen to read these sometimes makes you miss what's going on in the picture itself.

My husband is VERY hard of hearing.
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