Accent meme

[gothikmaus]

I saw this meme in irisbleufic's journal earlier and just couldn't resist. I wanted to start recording right away, but there were workers still hammering away in the afternoon, so I had to wait until I came back from the usual Thursday magazine meeting.

Also, please remember English isn't my native language, so this is probably going to sound a bit fake, but that's the way I sound when I speak English. The volume's a bit low, sorry.

Instructions:
1) Your name and/or username
2) Where you're from
3) The following words: Aunt, Roof, Route, Wash, Oil, Theater, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Water, Sure, Data, Ruin, Crayon, Toilet, New Orleans, Pecan, Both, Again, Probably, Spitting Image, Alabama, Lawyer, Coupon, Mayonnaise, Syrup, Pajamas, Caught, Orange, Coffee, Direction, Naturally, Aluminium and Herbs.
4) What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?
5) What is the bubbly carbonated drink called?
6) What do you call gym shoes?
7) What do you say to address a group of people?
8) What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs?
9) What do you call your grandparents?
10) What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?
11) What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
12) What is the thing you change the TV channel with?

13) Read this passage from The Speech Accent Archive:
Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids. She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station.

Comments

[irisbleufic.livejournal.com]

Toilet-papering (or "TPing") a house is this weird American Halloween tradition, or at least it was a Halloween thing where I grew up. Interesting to hear that you have relatives in New Jersey, given I grew up in Pennsylvania. Not so far away :)

You're perfectly comprehensible, by the way!

[gothikmaus.livejournal.com]

I have an aunt, uncle and two cousins living about 30 minutes away from NYC. I visited them once when I was 15, I think it's time for another visit...

And I'm glad I don't sound too awful, I try my best to hide the Italian accent of doom.

[gimmesimon.livejournal.com]

You've a lovely accent... if you don't mind me saying!
I might have to attempt this meme!

[gothikmaus.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :3 As long as I don't sound totally awful and people can understand what I say, that's fine... ^_^

[angrylogic.livejournal.com]

I like your accent! Although I wouldn't be able to tell that you are Italian from how you speak English.

[gothikmaus.livejournal.com]

>> Although I wouldn't be able to tell that you are Italian from how you speak English.

THANK GOD. I don't mind having a bit of a strange accent, but I really can't stand the strong Italian accent with all the hard Rs and fucked up THs and non-existent Hs. I know it's difficult, but most people don't even try.

[matitablu.livejournal.com]

Secondo me vai benissimo :) Io ho il timore dell'effetto-Alberto Sordi, considerato che, pur ascoltandolo molto a suon di film e telefilm in lingua, non ho praticamente mai l'occasione di parlare in inglese. Comunque assurdo, proprio l'altro giorno leggendo una discussione sugli accenti dei personaggi di Misfits sono finita sullo Speech Accent Archive, dove a quanto pare 'sta Stella è molto popolare XD

[gothikmaus.livejournal.com]

Ma sì, alla fine a me basta non avere il tipico accento italiano, tipo Rutelli "Pliz visiz Italy" o Berlusconi che parla con Bush, poi mica si può pretendere la perfezione.

Era un po' che vedevo gente parlare di questo meme e visto che mi mando ammale con gli accenti ne ho approfittato. Anzi, vorrei anche postare qualche proverbio in dialetto, ogni tanto i miei tirano fuori delle chicche...

[matitablu.livejournal.com]

Ah ah, beh, io alla 11 saprei rispondere solo con un proverbio in veneto, per dire... quindi tornano sempre utili :D

[gothikmaus.livejournal.com]

Riguardo alla 11, mia madre ha sempre detto "Il diavolo si sposa"; anzi: "Al diaul al sa spusa". :) Ma ho visto che qualcuno ha commentato che dalle sue parti, negli USA, si dice "The devil is beating his wife", quindi ci deve essere una radice comune. The plot thickens...

[matitablu.livejournal.com]

Qui il proverbio è "co' piove col soe, e strighe se fa e coe", cioè quando piove col sole le streghe si fanno le code (ai capelli)... effettivamente la costante è una certa puzza di zolfo ^^;;

[gothikmaus.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia riporta un bel po' di modi di dire con diavoli, streghe e animali vari:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshower

Quelli che si complicano di più la vita, come al solito, sono i tedeschi. Mmh, mi sa che ho trovato l'argomento per il prossimo post sul blog a tema Germania... XD