Finding things People Lost?

[dmccarty]

The USA has its local accents as well.
The Ozarks have some dillies.
A real Cajun accent will have U wondering if that is really English , however being Canadian and speaking French I do manage to interpret somewhat.
The word Cajun was derived from Acadien which indicated French.

In one of my first trips in NC, I met a guy who I could barely understand. He was speaking English but it was a Southern US English that I had mucho trouble parsing. There are many different accents in the US but especially so in the South. NC had/has people on the Outer Banks speaking what is supposed to be Shakespearean English. Then are there NC accents similar/same as many areas of the South. The guy I mentioned before was from the Piedmont and he was really different. I am sure there are accents up in the NC mountains that are different too. Unfortunately, these regional/local accents are being lost as people move around but also because of mass media.

I used to work for a UK company and the different accents from the UK is astounding. They assured me they were speaking "English." :confused3::shocked::laughing::laughing::laughing: The number of accents just in England is amazing though I think they are loosing those accents too.

When I was a kid in LA they hired a native French speaker to teach French because of the French influence in the state. The French she was speaking was only roughly related to what/how the Cajun's talked. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan

 

[tungularafishcamp]

I love hearing different dialects/accents, hope they never go away! I wonder if television is also helping to do away with them.

I used to help a guide friend every fall for a week when he had the same spaniards come, working as a guide/translator (even though my learned in Mexico, Spanish isn't very good) These Spaniards who all spoke proper Castilian Spanish would crack up at my Mexican slang.

The toughest English accent I ever tried to understand was the Rastafarians in the Virgin Islands, it did not even sound like English to me

 

[dmccarty]

I love hearing different dialects/accents, hope they never go away! I wonder if television is also helping to do away with them.
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Yeah, I really like the different accents I run into. When we were in Ireland, we FINALLY found a store with Irish wool products. We were looking for things for ourselves but also to bring back to family. We kept finding sweat shirts with San Francisco, New York, Boston, etc written on them! :confused3::shocked::shocked::shocked: We did not go to Ireland to buy a sweat shirt with Chicago on the front! :laughing::laughing::laughing:

In the store with Irish products, a very nice lady spent quite some time with my wife. The lady had an odd accent though. You could hear Eastern European but then there would be full on Irish. When we were checking out the cashier, who I think was the manager, started to talk with us and we mentioned the helpful lady's accent. Turns out she IS from Eastern Europe, I forget where, but has been in Ireland for almost a decade which explained the accent.

From what I have heard, TV, radio, music mass media, as well as people moving so much, are removing the distinct regional accents. In the US, we are merging to a mid western accent.

:laughing::laughing::laughing: Seem we are still on topic, "Finding things People Lost."

Later,
Dan

 

[dmccarty]

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The toughest English accent I ever tried to understand was the Rastafarians in the Virgin Islands, it did not even sound like English to me

Try to understand some one from Liverpool. Not really sure what language they are speaking but I have been assured it is English. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan

 

[tungularafishcamp]

Seem we are still on topic, "Finding things People Lost." Later, Dan

Have never been to England, so they are are the ones responsible for our crazy language!

 

[mark02tj]

Did a job in central Mexico about a dozen years ago. The client was a Japanese owned fastener (screws, nuts, bolts, etc.) distributor that had operations in the US, 1 in Mexico and 1 in Canada. The Japanese facility manager learned his English from the Mexicans. It was pretty funny to listen to a Japanese guy speak English with a Mexican accent!

 

[ovrszd]

I've been to Korea 13 times. In Seoul there's a huge International shopping district called Itawon (sp?). Very common to see people from many nations in one shop at the same time. I really enjoy watching people talk amongst themselves in their native tongue, German, French, whatever. Then the shop personnel talking in their native tongue, Korean. Then when it comes time to negotiate on a purchase both parties speak English.

 

[bunyip]

The black tube sticking up out of the ground was a pis* tube for the male Soldiers.

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I was in the RAAF (Air Force) and when on bivouacs we called those 'Dessert Lillies'
A neat row of pipes sticking out of the ground with a funnel on the end, could have been pretty if someone painted the funnels

 

[ovrszd]

I was in the RAAF (Air Force) and when on bivouacs we called those 'Dessert Lillies'
A neat row of pipes sticking out of the ground with a funnel on the end, could have been pretty if someone painted the funnels

Good stuff right there!!!!

 

[Wagtail]

I was in the RAAF (Air Force) and when on bivouacs we called those 'Dessert Lillies'
A neat row of pipes sticking out of the ground with a funnel on the end, could have been pretty if someone painted the funnels

Sorry but I'm calling BS on this!

Everybody knows that the Air Force 'roughing it' is a 3-star motel (no swimming pool :melodramatic.

'Hard Laying Allowance' would apply.