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George Mason University Speech Accent Archive
JT Olds writes "Apparently George Mason University is running a project to document differences in speech and accents from different backgrounds and the like. They have a paragraph that 306 sample readers have read and recorded, and all of these sound files are categorized by background, gender, age, and other things. They say that this is primarily for teaching and learning, and is especially useful for any linguists out there, but I just thought it was cool. The sound bytes are released under the Creative Commons license. Of course, the Google cache of the main frame is here.
As a side note, I did get the link to this from Penny Arcade's Jerry Holkins."
No cockney support? Insensitive clods...
It's nice they named a University after him, after all, he did save Jack Bauer's life by swapping seats on the plane with the nuke...
Perhaps if someone could come up with a "reasonable average" of the lingo, then that would be the true english...
Sylvester Stallone got English right. Let him be our definition of true English.
They say that the first accent was a grave mistake...
Accents are inherently funny to me. Not really a race thing.
My southern-ese (think jeff foxworthy) has gotten me into trouble... well, maybe it was because I was driving around yelling it out my window... with a bullhorn... in the south... at 3 am... by some yuppie apartments.
Hey I though it was heeelarious!
And while there I saw a chalkboard outside a cornerstore with a joke on it:
;))
A foreigner was at a sheep farm watching them shear the wool off the sheep. Knowing a better way he said "Here, let me show you how to shear your sheep"
The Kiwi replied "I'm not shearing with anybody!"
Never let it be said that Kiwi's don't know how to laugh at themselves! (and for this instance we'll forgive them their rediculous accents
Nintendo sues "George Mason University" for their "Speech Accent Archive", saying that the university is guilty of trademark infringment on nintendo's patented "Hellooo it's meeee Marrrrrioooo " and that they're trying to take advantage of the copyrighted italian accent in their work...
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I can't recognize southern France accents through english. It's very well known that the "singing" rolling accents found in the south of France just isn't compatible with pronouncing english properly, so either someone from there will speak english so badly you won't get a word of it, or he'll speak english properly and his native french accent will be filtered out by his very act of speaking english.
"He had a minkey."
(obligatory Clouseau quote)
Like what I said? You might like my music
If I (a person who lives in America and speaks US English; no born American (thank goodness)) were to go to England and converse with an Englishman; who would have the accent, me or him? The obvious answer, as a lot of Americans fail to realize, is me.
As someone who moved from the US to the UK, let me tell you that the British people here don't consider the language I speak to be English. It's American, and I better not forget it. : )
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Sanity is the trademark of a weak mind. -- Mark Harrold
They missed quite a few accents.
Bill Shatner
Christopher Walken
Dana Carvey's Ross Perot
James Stewart
For doctors practicing in Boston:
Doc "Ok, open your mouth and say 'R'"
patient "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
Doc "Good!"
http://github.com/gbook/nidb
I hate it when people think I have an East London accent. I don't. I have a South East London accent.
Does the study show if software pirates say "arr" more often than other people ?
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