Apparently we people from the West coast in Canada and the states have different accents that those in Toronto.  I knew about New York accents, but Toronto?

Anyways, in this clip if you listen to the Seattle accent, that's how I speak.  This is strange though because we all grew up with the same (mostly American TV shows) and everyone mostly sounded the same.  You'd think that that would have created universal English.

I'd love to hear this lady doing Newfoundland speech.  


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Wow that is amazing. I'm a huge fan of accents/dialects of English and occasionally dabble in putting on Irish and Australian accents and I pretend to be a foreigner when I go out with my buddies. I find people are more friendly towards you if they think you're not from around here.

But that level is just crazy. Usually I'm really anal about actors and actresses putting on accents, and outside of Cate Blanchett, few manage to truly convince me (Richard gere in the Jackal, anyone?), but this girl is pretty damn good! I'd like to hear her do a Cork dialect too!

Maybe it's just me but I thought her Torontonian accent had quite a whiff of Minesotan in it? Her O's? I don't know? Mostly I find Canadians tend to do two things differently than Americans (and I'm generalizing here!). Firstly of course there's the vowel dipthtong in "ou" which is lowered as in "couch", "about", "out" and so on, and secondly they usually pronounce their intrasyllabic t's as t's instead of d's as most Americans do. Like how most Americans pronounce "ladder" and "latter" the same way. Or pattern as "paddern" or computer as "compuder". This might vary within different accents of Canadian but I'm not really versed in these intricacies.

What's an example of New Foundland speech?

But I gotta say my favorite accent of her's is the New Zealand one. I love the New Zealand vowels. They're so freaky.

Hey,

Impressive, I'd sell my soul to be able to speak with an Australian or Scottish accent. But she forgot Boston, I would have liked to see that. And maybe some Ebonics too, or Cajun.

sheepwalker    

I was blown away, until her lame excuse for a Texan accent.

I don't think she is 25

I agree with sheep.  Would have liked to have seen Boston.  After that Chicago, or something really off the wall like "stereotypical homosexual", cause their accents rock.

Yeah, because THAT'S not offensive!

Quoted from ABennettWriter Yeah, because THAT'S not offensive!

Thanks, I figured you'd agree with me.

Anyway, that isn't offensive at all.  It's no different than somebody faking an Irish accent and talking about booze, or faking a Kentuckian accent and acting like a complete moron.

edit:  I need to take this a step further.  In my opinion, adding the word stereotypical in front of something takes a lot of validity out of  it in regards to seriousness.  To say something is stereotypical is to admit that you recognize the fact that it is, and pretty much take the air out of it.

The only people I could see being offended by something flagged as stereotypical are, in fact, walking stereotypes themselves.  

Quoted from Shelton Thanks, I figured you'd agree with me. Anyway, that isn't offensive at all.  It's no different than somebody faking an Irish accent and talking about booze, or faking a Kentuckian accent and acting like a complete moron. edit:  I need to take this a step further.  In my opinion, adding the word stereotypical in front of something takes a lot of validity out of  it in regards to seriousness.  To say something is stereotypical is to admit that you recognize the fact that it is, and pretty much take the air out of it. The only people I could see being offended by something flagged as stereotypical are, in fact, walking stereotypes themselves.

Mike is right. You'd have to try pretty hard in order to be offended by that. Now without the "stereotypical" prefix you'd have a case because then Mike would be suggesting that your sexuality inherently denotes an accent or body language.

But personally I really tire of stereotypical gay "accents". They're just not funny to me. They're the reason the Simpsons sucks ass these days. Too many gay jokes and funny accents.

Quoted from The boy who could fly this isn't stereotypical at all

That's not stereotypical.  That's sad.


Phil

Not all gay guys sound like Carson Kressley.

Quoted from ABennettWriter Not all gay guys sound like Carson Kressley.

Yeah, that's kind of the point we've been making with this stereotypically gay thing.  Welcome to the party.