Got my butt chewed twice

[DrumMayer]

Where would we be without all the "friendly" and "sage" advice of these strangers?

[wildrover]

Where would we be without all the "friendly" and "sage" advice of these strangers?

My guess is, we'd all be lacking wits or a pair of steel toes to back them up . All the "friendly" remarks just keep us on our game...

[Drac]

...nah...they'd just think it was one of those Capital One credit card commercials where the barbarians are doing their Christmas shopping...what's in your wallet?

Best

AA

Off topic but my wife constantly asks me -

"When did Norse/Scandinavaion people get Bristsh accents??

Jim

[Graham A. Robieson]

So... you didnt pronounce it "Lamb-it like Damn-it" my wife likes to correct folks on that!

I pronounce it as "Lamb-ant" their is a more french sounding version "La-mont" cause Scotland and France were allies for centuries and until the turn of the 20th century Scotland and France had joint citizenship.


All the best,


Graham

[Teufel Hunden]

She than got on my case because I didn't say Lamont with the right accent. I pronounced it right just without the Scottish accent.

This actually REALLY annoys me. Some people insist on gaining a particular accent when pronouncing a single word in sentence, then revert back to their normal accent, and it sounds ridiculous to me. Speak with your usual tongue and call it good. As well traveled as I am, I've never hear anyone but an American do this. I've never heard a Scot try and speak with an American accent to pronounce anything, nor a French person, nor an Arab... etc. I speak with a mid-western American accent, so all of my words are going to sound like that, unless I'm speaking a different language altogether.

[Drac]

This actually REALLY annoys me. Some people insist on gaining a particular accent when pronouncing a single word in sentence, then revert back to their normal accent, and it sounds ridiculous to me. Speak with your usual tongue and call it good. As well traveled as I am, I've never hear anyone but an American do this. I've never heard a Scot try and speak with an American accent to pronounce anything, nor a French person, nor an Arab... etc. I speak with a mid-western American accent, so all of my words are going to sound like that, unless I'm speaking a different language altogether.

I do have to say I'm guilty of that but in my defense it is not intentional. Sometimes the words I pickup are from someone with an accent and I learned it from mimicry. My wife beats me across the head to get me to stop and I try to make an effort but habit.

Jim

[Teufel Hunden]

I do have to say I'm guilty of that but in my defense it is not intentional. Sometimes the words I pickup are from someone with an accent and I learned it from mimicry. My wife beats me across the head to get me to stop and I try to make an effort but habit.

Jim

I think we're all guilty of it from time to time, and some words truly lose the meaning if you don't pronounce them correctly. But someone correcting you on how to say Lamont correctly and expecting you to gain an accent that isn't yours is over the line, IMO. It's like my name, Samuel. Your average midwestern American is going to pronounce that name the same as I do. But someone who has spoken Spanish their whole lives might pronounce it "Sahm-well." It's just how the world works, and it would be totally inappropriate of me to tell that person, "no no. You need to pronounce it like an American would."

[Mike_Oettle]

Jim (Drac) wrote: “Off topic but my wife constantly asks me – ‘When did Norse/Scandinavian people get British accents?’ ”

It all depends on who they learnt English from. Those that settled in the US (and their descendants) speak like Americans.
Those who picked up English from Britons will naturally speak with British accents.
But nowadays a great many Europeans (and Asians) learn English to be able to communicate with Americans, and are taught either by Americans or by others who are contracted to teach US English.
Regards,
Mike

[wildrover]

This actually REALLY annoys me. Some people insist on gaining a particular accent when pronouncing a single word in sentence, then revert back to their normal accent, and it sounds ridiculous to me. Speak with your usual tongue and call it good. As well traveled as I am, I've never hear anyone but an American do this. I've never heard a Scot try and speak with an American accent to pronounce anything, nor a French person, nor an Arab... etc. I speak with a mid-western American accent, so all of my words are going to sound like that, unless I'm speaking a different language altogether.

How about regionally specific colloquialisms?