Demelza

My friend used to chat on a forum. She chatted and argued and made up and talked and joked and laughed for hours and hours on end whilst she was bored at home. She told me that sometimes, while her husband was at work and the baby was in bed, she would feel like she was down at the pub on a night out with her cyber friends because they were all so friendly etc!!! So, anyway one day one of them suggested a 'party' and that they would all go from all over the country, to one person's place and have a party !! so they managed to arrange it and they did it. Actually she says they met in a field in the end because there were so many people. And my friend was so low at the time, hard life etc etc. and was excited about meeting the people that she had been chatting to and laughing with for the past few months............and wo-behold, she got so dissapointed. she told me that when you read posts on a forum you allways read it in your own accent, and then when you meet that someone in the flesh, it's bad enough jsut having the shock of what they look like, but when they start talking in a slurring brummy accent or a farmer giles devenshire accent it just threw her right off course !!! It just hadn't been how she had been reading their posts for the past 9 months !!! She said that it just didn't suit them....
so I was wondering what you really sound like? I am probably so wrong but when I read Shanazels posts i imagine a really strong south american accent and when I read Moons posts I imagine a soft but blunt european accent and sara as speaking in a real right yorkshire lass accent and A'isha Azhar as pronouncing her words very well.
This might just sound like a load of *** to you but I was just thinking about it and thought I'd write as I think as I do sometimes !! good night all, love demelza xxxx

Amulya

I can imagine it must be very strange to meet people from forums and suddenly they seem so different in reality. I know 3 people from this forum, but they don't seem very different from the way they post.
It might be funny to meet me ha ha, I have the weirdest accent people tell me. It is not always easily placable. It has elements of different accents, mostly because I travelled so much.

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Anatoliy

Arnold Zhswarznegger's akzend multiplied 10 times, spiced with my own words creating (in Don King's style). I doubt you could understand a lot from what I would say Except if you speak Russian or Ukrainian

Mair

I sound pretty stereotypically New Jersey. You know that book/movie Like Water for Chocolate? I pronounce that "like waughter fer chawklit."

Viv

LOL!! I had a similar experience. There was a group of about four gals that I met through a fan board and we got to be really good friends over the years. We'd chat for hours three to five times a week, and even wrote short stories using each other as charecters. When we finally met in person we laughed about how each of us didn't sound a thing like what we imagined we would. That and we kept laughing that any minute we expected to see our words roll across each gals face in our custom chat colors and fonts because we were so used to reading everything off the screen.
I probably don't have much of an accent to speak of, but I tend to use interesting pronunciation of words. Combine pronounciations from notheastern US, with a southern drawl and a bit of a cowboy twang I guess...LOL!

Gabi

My biggest claim to fame is that I am and always will be a dog rescuer/entertainer. Needless to say my Downward Dog is fabulous and I have mostly mixed breeds

Demelza

People say that they don't have an accent when acctually they do to someone else !!

Now I think I speak the queen's finest English (! ) but I've been told that I've got a right Nottingham accent which is a bit rough to be honest :o !! and yet when I go anywhere North, people always say 'oohh don't you speak posh !!' and I would never have thought that I speak 'posh'.

I don't know about other parts of the world but here in the UK the accents change within very short distances. For someone who lives just 15 miles from where I live, they talk so different !! I'ts good I guess to clock where someone is from just from without having to ask them!

And we have words in my city that someone in the next city does not understand - like Mardy

miss_shimmy

gabi thats awesome,we rescued our dog indee,she has been with us four days,she too is a cross breed.bless her sweet heart,she is so loving and greatful.

I am saying this in my finest and sweetest soft yorkshire english well spoken accent...he he he


love to all


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Zurah

I’ve been more or less fluent in English since about age fourteen or so and write a lot better than I speak it – I usually talk pretty fast in Spanish, so I almost always do the same in English - needless to say that some days Shakespeare would roll over in his grave if he heard me. The funny thing is I actually worked as a translator for a few months. Also I’m South American and been living in Spain since 2002, so even in my mother tongue the first thing people notice is my accent – some people (like my brother) lose theirs after some time, but I’ve held onto mine, because the locals love it. Although after all this time living across the pond my Venezuelan relatives say I talk a bit funny.

Moon

Hi, I guess you can immediately hear I'm from Holland, but my accent isn't really that bad. When I speak to people who have English as first language, I try harder to pronounce the words right then when I'm talking English with a Dutch person (sounds strange but it sometimes happens at school) or with a foreigner. However you will quite often hear me pronounce the "th" like a "d" and pronounce the "d"at the end of words more or less like a "t". Also I think I mix up English and American pronounciation (and spelling).