Foo - Accents

Me and my buddy, or shall I say m8, went up to a water park for the weekend and talked and acted like we were Canadian the entire time. Any time someone would ask us something or we asked someone something, we'd talk with a super thick Canadian accent. Like saying, ya there hey, don't ya know there ya, eh, idk the whole shabang. Anyone else do this for fun? If you don't you should try it, it's a lot more fun than you might make it out to be:D

How is this different from your Wisconsin accent?

i live in between chicago and milwaukee. i dont speak any different than anyone else

edit- besides calling the drinking fountain the bubbler

I speak with a Martian accent

Me and my buddy, or shall I say m8, went up to a water park for the weekend and talked and acted like we were Canadian the entire time. Any time someone would ask us something or we asked someone something, we'd talk with a super thick Canadian accent. Like saying, ya there hey, don't ya know there ya, eh, idk the whole shabang. Anyone else do this for fun? If you don't you should try it, it's a lot more fun than you might make it out to be:D

I hear that pretty much all the time. Canadian ~= Yooper

water park? is it warm enough to do that yet?

Please make a tape of this Canadian "accent" so that I might mock you endlessly... in my not so Canadian accent.

:D

Sounds like you were trying to pull off a maritime accent and even then...there are many variations of that too dontcha know bye.

If you don't you should try it, it's a lot more fun than you might make it out to be:D

What was the response of the people around you?

Did you talk about poutine? How about maple syrup?

East Hill

So you are saying that I can pick up chicks with this accent ?

Any time someone would ask us something or we asked someone something, we'd talk with a super thick Canadian accent. Like saying, ya there hey, don't ya know there ya, eh, idk the whole shabang.

Except for the 'eh', reminds me of the movie Fargo.



i live in between chicago and milwaukee. i dont speak any different than anyone else

edit- besides calling the drinking fountain the bubbler

Don't you refer to soda as 'pop'?

So you are saying that I can pick up chicks with this accent ?

It's worth a try, but aren't the peeps gone for the season?

East Hill

Soda > Pop
Drinking Fountain > Bubbler

EH - People here tell me I have an accent.

:)

I canna use it for evil...my wee Scottish grandmother would turn in her grave if she ever knew that.

I have yet to be told I sound like I'm from the Maritimes anywhere else in Canada, or that I sound Canadian anywhere else.

Soda > Pop


Ya know, down here where it was created, we just call it coke.

Its give or take on the pop thing. Some call it pop, I call it soda. At soccer tourneys where theirs people from all over the world, me and my buds talk like were Swedish to pick up the chicks. For some reason they are always amazed by accents. Kilts are a big thing too. hahaha

Its give or take on the pop thing. Some call it pop, I call it soda. At soccer tourneys where theirs people from all over the world, me and my buds talk like were Swedish to pick up the chicks. For some reason they are always amazed by accents. Kilts are a big thing too. hahaha

Swedes with kilts?

Photos?

East Hill

Mesican ftw.

My accent is ridiculously Southern, so I can't fake any others. :( :(

And this all happens in Wisconsin? Mad.

i live in between chicago and milwaukee. i dont speak any different than anyone else

edit- besides calling the drinking fountain the bubbler

Yeah you do. Trust me.

explain^

oh n indoor waterpark

My accent is ridiculously Southern, so I can't fake any others. :( :(

You don't need to. Leave the south and you will make any man melt. ;)

Uhh, not that you don't do that now, but outside of the south that accent will be extra hot.

Swedes with kilts?

Photos?

East Hill

You could not handle those photos... :)

(there's a fair bit of Swede in me too).

That is an accent I have to deliberately fake and it really does not have the same power as invoking the gaelic.

You could not handle those photos... :)

Darn...

A good Gaelic accent (especially an understandable Scottish accent) is very enticing.

East Hill

explain^

oh n indoor waterpark

I moved from KS to Chicago, there is a definite difference. Like bag and "behg". I was told I had a twang, and that was the first time ever I have been told I have any sort of accent. KS isn't that far south:rolleyes:.

explain^

oh n indoor waterpark
If you didn't already have an Upper Midwest accent, you would not have been able to convince those girls you were Canadian.

Mesican ftw.

No no no, Fuzzy. It's Meh HEEE can. Because they are from Meh HEE co.

I would have seen through your Canadian act as soon as you:

1. Showed any signs of a sense of humor.

2. Tipped your waiter/waitress.

3. Didn't interrupt every other sentence to explain how it is done better in Canada.

nice^^

I would have seen through your Canadian act as soon as you:

1. Showed any signs of a sense of humor.

2. Tipped your waiter/waitress.

3. Didn't interrupt every other sentence to explain how it is done better in Canada.

Which regions of Canada have you met people from? We differ just as widely as citizens of different states.

Sometimes I like to break from the norm and try to talk without a Southern accent. Which is pretty difficult when you're Southern. :p

I would have seen through your Canadian act as soon as you:

1. Showed any signs of a sense of humor.


I know plenty of Canadians with a sense of humour--there's even a few who post in Foo ;) .

East Hill

Ya know, down here where it was created, we just call it coke.

or Co Cola, not Coke a Cola. At least that is what the older members of my clan do. To all us youngins, brown, carbonated beverage = coke. Unless you drink Dr. Pepper.

or Co Cola, not Coke a Cola. At least that is what the older members of my clan do. To all us youngins, brown, carbonated beverage = coke. Unless you drink Dr. Pepper.

Yep, Co-Cola. That's what we say so folks will know ya didn't mean tea (that would be iced, properly served with lemon, and a sprig of mint--or a shot of blackberry acid (http://endlessbanquet.blogspot.com/2006/10/tartaric-blackberry-acid-test.html) if you were at my Grandmother's on a Sunday).

No no no, Fuzzy. It's Meh HEEE can. Because they are from Meh HEE co.

You don't listen to the spanish radio that much do you?:D

Yep, Co-Cola. That's what we say so folks will know ya didn't mean tea (that would be iced, properly served with lemon, and a sprig of mint--or a shot of blackberry acid (http://endlessbanquet.blogspot.com/2006/10/tartaric-blackberry-acid-test.html) if you were at my Grandmother's on a Sunday).

My grandmother made SWEEEEETTTTTT Tea. The kind where you add sugar to the boiling water and then add the the tea bags. Could be served with fresh picked mint on occasion, usually served with a lemon wedge.

I work at an Italian restaurant, and I can do a pretty mean Italian accent. Someitmes I tell the customers my name is Mitcholo.
On some nights, when the waiters are speaking their native tongues, I do a redneck voice and say something like "Hey, Git yer gaddmn Messican asses outta here and stop talkin in yer freaky-deaky Chinese acksents. I can't understaaaand you, git outta my cuuuuuunty!"

My grandmother made SWEEEEETTTTTT Tea. The kind where you add sugar to the boiling water and then add the the tea bags. Could be served with fresh picked mint on occasion, usually served with a lemon wedge.

I order mine half and half when I eat out, the pour over your flapjack tea always has been a little much for me. My grandmother was a fan of sachrin {shudder**.

I hear that pretty much all the time. Canadian ~= Yooper

Isn't a "Yooper" the same thing as the UP (upper peninsula of michigan)? I don't think I've heard it relate to canada before...

Me and my buddy, or shall I say m8, went up to a water park for the weekend and talked and acted like we were Canadian the entire time. Any time someone would ask us something or we asked someone something, we'd talk with a super thick Canadian accent. Like saying, ya there hey, don't ya know there ya, eh, idk the whole shabang. Anyone else do this for fun? If you don't you should try it, it's a lot more fun than you might make it out to be:D

how is a canadian accent any different than a cheesehead accent?

how is a canadian accent any different than a cheesehead accent?

One has health care.

One has health care.

good point.

I talk with a Canadian accent everyday. Comes from being Canadian, I guess.

how is a canadian accent any different than a cheesehead accent?

Canada does not suck also.

What Canadian accent are we talking about? There's the "Good day, eh" accent and then there is the French Canadian (someone help me out with the proper name). I recall a conversation on Bourbon Street with a young French Canadian lady during a visit to New Orleans. Very nice accent.

I would have seen through your Canadian act as soon as you:

1. Showed any signs of a sense of humor.

2. Tipped your waiter/waitress.

3. Didn't interrupt every other sentence to explain how it is done better in Canada.

At least we can spell humour... we pay our service staff slightly better here so we normally do not tip as generously and if I may interrupt you for just a moment... everything is better in Canada.

Except the women.

:D

This thread reminds me of how I smile whenever people say they (or someone else) doesn't speak with an accent. You don't hear your own because it's "normal"

Sometimes I like to break from the norm and try to talk without a Southern accent. Which is pretty difficult when you're Southern. :p

I do this as well. I can lay it on pretty thick at times, lol.

It bugs me when the boyfriend from North Dakota tries to copy my Southern accent. It's so bad. Boo, Midwesterners with no accents. :P