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The most off-topic WCDT discussion ever
Kugai:
Hehehe
Thanks folks
Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters all round!!!!
ZoeB:
-- we also walk dogs.
http://home.intranet.org/~greyhat/ebooks/Heinlein/Robert%20A%20Heinlein%20-%20We%20Also%20Walk%20Dogs-proofread.txt
Vurogj:
Roswell, I guess, would be the one with the ball in his mouth. The Old English Sheepdog back right just reminds me of an old British kids' cartoon called Mop and Smiff.
A Scots accent (to me at least) is all about those rolled r's, and I worked very hard on acquiring them (born to Scottish parents but have never lived there, so no natural accent).
Warning - while you were typing Emily has lost two dogs but gained three marmots. You may wish to review your post.
Loki:
Reading this thread, I feel a lot less self-conscious about my language pronunciation already :laugh:
ankhtahr:
The R is probably the most prominent feature of Scottish English, but usually it's not a rolled r (as is being used excessively by Rammstein e.g.) but a tapped r, which sounds like a rolled r which is only being rolled once. Opposed to a rolled r which is being produced by, I would say, the back of the tongue, it is being produced by rolling the tip of the tongue back to front over the roof of your mouth. It is slightly similar to the Japanese r (which is the origin of the myth that Japanese couldn't pronounce "r"s properly).
But it's very hard to pronounce this r right in front of a consonant, which is why some speakers "add" a vowel in between. This makes "girl" sound like "girel" for some.
Loki: The reason why I as a non native speaker am so interested in this is because I want to use correct/consistent pronunciation. (And because of the nice Northern accent of the Ninth Doctor, and the typical Estuary accent of the Tenth Doctor, which stands in contrast to the Scottish accent of David Tennant)
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