Cellar Door - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Encaitare · 10-14-2004, 09:02 PM

Ah, so you're a New Yorker too, Fea? I can't stand people trying to talk like rappers and whatnot... come on, it's the suburbs. There is no "hood."

And, er, yeah... on topic... Apparantly the Midwestern "accent" is the closest thing to speaking the English language without an accent, if you see what I mean. My orchestra director, who I believe is Midwestern, speaks so nicely and clearly; it's so refreshing.

Having never been to England, I have hardly any first-hand experiences with the accents, and TV is unreliable. But if you try and say it with the very distinguished sounding sort of accent, the phase sounds quite nice. New Yorkers are notorious for speaking somewhat poorly, so when I say cellar door it doesn't have quite as nice a ring to it. I try my best to break that sort of sterotype, but I am guilty of saying "cawfee" for coffee and "chawklit" for chocolate. Ah, well. I'll just run around saying "verisimilitudinous" to make up for it! (I love that word!)

Thread Tools
Show Printable Version Email this Page
Display Modes
Switch to Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Threaded Mode

10-14-2004, 09:02 PM	#33
Encaitare Bittersweet Symphony Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: On the jolly starship Enterprise Posts: 1,814	Ah, so you're a New Yorker too, Fea? I can't stand people trying to talk like rappers and whatnot... come on, it's the suburbs. There is no "hood." And, er, yeah... on topic... Apparantly the Midwestern "accent" is the closest thing to speaking the English language without an accent, if you see what I mean. My orchestra director, who I believe is Midwestern, speaks so nicely and clearly; it's so refreshing. Having never been to England, I have hardly any first-hand experiences with the accents, and TV is unreliable. But if you try and say it with the very distinguished sounding sort of accent, the phase sounds quite nice. New Yorkers are notorious for speaking somewhat poorly, so when I say cellar door it doesn't have quite as nice a ring to it. I try my best to break that sort of sterotype, but I am guilty of saying "cawfee" for coffee and "chawklit" for chocolate. Ah, well. I'll just run around saying "verisimilitudinous" to make up for it! (I love that word!)