About Accents.....
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Is it true when you go overseas and stay there for long time maybe USA, you come back with a different accent from what you had before you left??
OMG! Its 8. And I haven't sleep!!
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Maybe got a little 'influence' liao..
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bo change leh.
haha maybe nt long enuff. -
Have
I Gt Fwen Come Back Aussie , Language Slightly Different But Can Understand Gud Ler -
it's true.
i cm forum here tok.
tok until i become liddis one. -
No wonder getting cuter and cuterOriginally posted by Hello Kitty:it's true.
i cm forum here tok.
tok until i become liddis one.
Just Kidding =) -
izit leali dat obvious?
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I think you're wondering if it's going to happen to you.Originally posted by mhcampboy:Is it true when you go overseas and stay there for long time maybe USA, you come back with a different accent from what you had before you left??
OMG! Its 8. And I haven't sleep!! We shall see. 
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he is going?
good.
can help me buy tings. -
all acting........
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I went 2 week holiday in NZ.. by 2nd week my english start to have NZ twang liao... but only so that they find it easier to understand me. Come home everything forget liao
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maybe.... if you stay long enough and mix around with the locals
i like those spanish accents.. when you speak english and you have the spanish accents.. damn sexy
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Not the guys who provide commentary for Primera Liga football matches here.Originally posted by Lorry`:i like those spanish accents.. when you speak english and you have the spanish accents.. damn sexy
But the lady at Pret A Manger does have a cool accent.
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i love french accents.... even when they get angry and shout vilgarities or harsh words... it all seems melodic...Originally posted by Lorry`:maybe.... if you stay long enough and mix around with the locals
i like those spanish accents.. when you speak english and you have the spanish accents.. damn sexy -
i no been there i oso can speak their accent
can be acquired
but if u are there, u er ru mu ran, u will try to speak like them -
not true.
only IF you want to speak like them.
by the time you reached certain age, your native accents is fixed liao.
so no matter how long you went oversea, you will still retain your native accents.
you speak with their accents is only for them to understand you easier and sound more local to them.
by the time you come back it is only a matter of choice of which accents you want to speak with. it wont change your native accents. -
depends on whether each person wants to actually change the accent.
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Kinda....i think it influences you more when you are young......
After staying at indo.....people here all thought i'm a foreigner coz my english accent wasn't local.....sooner or later i got used to it..... -
depends on urself, my cousin go study in aussie for 3 years
come back still the same -
my cousin went to aust and came back speaking like an american!!! classic!!
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there are so many regional accents in north america ... you'll end up with a confused accent .... the effect is rather comical ....
but no worries ... the moment you're back in Singapore, you'll instantly revert back to Singlish ....... trust me, I know ....
(unless you're a poser, of course .... ) -
yeah......i hate posers......they act as if they are not sporeans at all.....bloody posersOriginally posted by Fatum:there are so many regional accents in north america ... you'll end up with a confused accent .... the effect is rather comical ....
but no worries ... the moment you're back in Singapore, you'll instantly revert back to Singlish ....... trust me, I know ....
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funny thing about accents, I was eating prata the other day and at the table beside me was a black guy with a chinese girl ....
from his accent the chap's from Africa .... but for some strange reason the girl was speaking to him in some pseudo ang moh accent ....
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What gets me is why do people think that they have to "slang" in order to be understood? If you speak clearly and don't spiak Singlish, you will be understood. IMHO.Originally posted by Fatum:funny thing about accents, I was eating prata the other day and at the table beside me was a black guy with a chinese girl ....
from his accent the chap's from Africa .... but for some strange reason the girl was speaking to him in some pseudo ang moh accent ....
it was hilarious ! ...
So Fatum, have you lost your Saskatoonian accent? -
I never had it ... I just bit off the lors, lehs and the lahs ...Originally posted by jetta:What gets me is why do people think that they have to "slang" in order to be understood? If you speak clearly and don't spiak Singlish, you will be understood. IMHO.
So Fatum, have you lost your Saskatoonian accent?
but it all came back to me the instant I touched down at changi airport ....
"unker ! ... teh si siew tai ka nai ! " ....
see ! ... I'm a heartlander ...