You're gonna sound funny when I finally meet you....
By TheRealDawn
@dawnald (85146)
Shingle Springs, California
July 15, 2009 10:59am CST
Do your online friends from other parts of the world speak to you in their accents inside your head or in your accent? If it's your accent, they're going to sound totally different to you when you meet them in person. Hey, maybe we should all spell things the way we pronounce them. Whaddya think?
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
17 Jul 09
i pretty much do write the way i talk.
i more or less have a heavy northern accent.well..i'm told it's heavy anyway..i don't hear it.i'd never make a good voice over person though LOL
@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
17 Jul 09
LOL you'd be used to me then,it's pretty close.
my mom has one of those "kennedy" accents.
we chuze to get cawfee..an do the odda thing..
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@James72 (26790)
• Australia
15 Jul 09
I've never actually thought about it like this before! 
I've spoken to some of my mylot friends on Skype a few times now, so in those instances I know how they sound already. As for everyone else, to see people writing like they sound could be quite interesting! How the heck I'd do that for myself is anybody's guess as I have a hybrid accent. I think I'd much rather prefer to think that everybody sounds like Alvin or one of the other Chipmunks, it's fun that way! 
I've spoken to some of my mylot friends on Skype a few times now, so in those instances I know how they sound already. As for everyone else, to see people writing like they sound could be quite interesting! How the heck I'd do that for myself is anybody's guess as I have a hybrid accent. I think I'd much rather prefer to think that everybody sounds like Alvin or one of the other Chipmunks, it's fun that way! 1 person likes this
Skype on helium would be hilarious though and I think I'll put that on my bucket list. lol.
@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
16 Jul 09
Well until I heard their voice on the phone, of course they sound like ME in my head! LOL So yeah, writing like we talk would be cool and just too funny for words! LOL It would confuse a lot of people though...............which would be even funnier! (my bad!)
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
16 Jul 09
Oh goody! Pho net ics! My favorite! LOL
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@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
15 Jul 09
After donkey years in JA I still have a British accent but when I speak patois my accent is right on.
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
15 Jul 09
I don't hear you speaking either one! You sound American in my crazy head!
@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
15 Jul 09
Nope. As soon as I open my mouth everyone knows that I am a Brit.
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
15 Jul 09
Ohhhhhh I'm trying to imagine it, but my head isn't cooperating...
@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
16 Jul 09
I'm reading a book where the author writes the Scotts character with a heavy accent...it is very difficult to read. lol And I LOVE that accent! I find myself trying to read it outloud to be able to 'hear' it right.
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
16 Jul 09
Vaguely reaching back into my memory, I think it was Faulkner who started writing dialog the way people actually spoke. Hard to read but without it, you lose a lot of the color of the story...
@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
16 Jul 09
I usually plow through books I like but this one is taking me awhile. I am 'vocalizing' each passage that has the accented dialogue. I need to do that to understand it...lol.
I've read books with southern accents written the way they are spoken..but I HAVE a southern accent and listen to it every day...so it's not so difficult to understand as the scotts. I remember when I was in middle school, the Beatles had just arrived and we girls would talk in what we thought were British accents...lol We were a mixture of cockney and the Queen's English, I think! lol
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@eaforeman6 (8979)
• United States
16 Jul 09
Yes, but I have a strong Texas accent so I am sure that it is just as different. I think it is facinating, to listen to , not only the accent but much of the terminolgy. Very interesting topic too!@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
16 Jul 09
Wait, could you come back and write that the way you pronounce it? lol
@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
17 Jul 09
My friends here don't have accents in my head. That's why the friendship doesn't seem quite real...the person isn't real to me when I have never even heard their voice I've heard MYKL's, Pyewacket's, Gab's & Irish's voice on sing snap but even that is not quite the same.
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@nancyrowina (3850)
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21 Jul 09
A few times I've spoken to my friends in other countries on the phone and they've sounded different to how I thought They would. Not in their accent just in how deep their voices are or the tone of their voice. It would be funny to start a discussion where everyone had to respond phonetically (how they would say the words) just to see what it turned out like.
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@maximax8 (31046)
• United Kingdom
15 Jul 09
I am from an English speaking country in Europe. I write on My Lot using American spellings because it comes from the USA. It is excellent to have friends from many different countries on My Lot. I imagine their accents depending on where each one of them comes from. Some of them work overseas from their home country. People that are non English speaking countries might have learned English with a British or American accent.
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
15 Jul 09
Do you imagine their accents? I hear everything in my head in American English...
@p1kef1sh (45681)
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15 Jul 09
I think that for me what I have found confusing is that southern accents seem to be northern and vice versa - with US friends I mean. Australians sound Australian and I have no problem with fellow Brits. But I notice a twang in so many US accents. I sound like I write I think. "Home Counties" English.
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
15 Jul 09
Well when I read this, I hear it in my head in American English and I just KNOW you don't sound like that! :-)
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
15 Jul 09
My hearing's kind of bad. Especially with all of North American and the Atlantic ocean in between us...
@leenie50 (3992)
• United States
17 Jul 09
Hey dawn,
I like the way you think. I think that's a good idea. I just hope we can all understand each other. But it would help us to connect that much more. If we have a photo and the way they pronounce words, then we would know a little bit more about them. Ya'll understand that don'tcha? I've lost a lot of my semi-Southern drawl. Hugssss
leenie
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
17 Jul 09
Spelling things the way they don't sound! lol
Hi yourself! :-)
@lindanurtanaya (17)
• Indonesia
15 Jul 09
I have very bad accent in english, when we meet each other. I'd preferred to be quiet and be good listener. Too much talking makes me wrong using grammar and always forget many vocabulary.
@lindanurtanaya (17)
• Indonesia
15 Jul 09
Irgendwann können wir in Deutsch, ich bin so glücklich lernen fremdsprache, Ich habe gehört,von Fraulein Libby, dass Sie sprechen Deutsch. Jetzt Ich habe eine diskussion freund, der Deutsch sprechen.
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