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Sounds of QC - Now With More Accents
Barmymoo:
Wow. That is not how I thought you sounded, Paul. I'm trying to figure out who you sound like - one of my lecturers, I think. Do you moonlight as a Cambridge professor?
ummmkay:
yeah for some reason, your voice was really surprising to me, paul. you don't sound old at all to me (i don't know if that's a weird thing to say)
A Wet Helmet:
--- Quote from: calenlass on 02 Mar 2011, 21:20 ---...have all but nixed my southern twang.
--- End quote ---
My southern accent is 99% gone most of the time. When I get drunk, it will make an appearance. When I get angry or frustrated or stressed, it will rear its head for a few words or a phrase, but mostly it's gone. Yesterday at work I was on the phone with a guy in South Carolina and he said "fixin' to". Then he stopped, and said "Fixin' to is a southern phrase that means we are preparing to."
I laughed and told him that I understand what 'fixin to' means and that where I come from that would count as fancy talk. He asked what I meant and I told him that where my family is from it's one word and we don't pronounce the x. It's "fittinta" As in, "I reckon I'm fittinta spend a weeks pay puh'in gais in my truck. Dayum whendit git so 'spensive?" I think it put him at ease and we had a lovely conversation after that. Accent free on my part.
Lines:
Paul, that made me happy to listen to!
calenlass:
Paul, you sound exactly as English as I thought you did. Also, you are an excellent reader, which I imagine you have had lots of practice doing recently, what with the grandchildren and all. :)
There are a handful of people I would listen to talk all day, and I would say you are probably one of them.
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