People ask me about my accent all the time. I've heard guesses ranging from Irish to tony East Coast boarding school, both wrong. I think it's because my mother spoke English as a second language, and I picked up an emphatic pronunciation from her textbook English. What's interesting is that my little sister hasn't a trace of the accent thing. I figure she must have learned a lot from me. A generic American intonation, how to swim and ride a bike, and why the Ramones were the coolest ever.
Wash: Don't fall asleep now. Sleepiness is weakness of character. Ask anyone. You're acting captain. Know what happens you fall asleep now? Zoe: Jayne slits my throat, and takes over. Wash: That's right. Zoe: And we can't stop it.
'Shindig'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Katerina Bee - Mar 19, 2004 7:50:33 am PST #1563 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
Aims - Mar 19, 2004 9:59:46 am PST #1564 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Pronunciation:
A woman I worked with many many moons ago called a resident of the nursing home we worked at Ms. Camp-bell. When I corrected her with "cam-bell. the p is silent", she stared at me and asked how I knew.
"Do you call it camp-bell's soup?"
"Yes."
I left her alone.
Skyzy - Mar 19, 2004 10:08:35 am PST #1565 of 10002
Yikes! I do an almost Camp-bell pronunciation. I pronounce the 'P' very softly, so you can't really hear it. I basically slur the the p and the b together. Thank you for correcting the error of my ways!!!
Aims - Mar 19, 2004 10:10:23 am PST #1566 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Heheheh.
t says "campbell" to self a few times out loud.
It does sound like the p and b are sorter combined, huh? Well, that's the way to say it. NOT CAMP-bell.
Megan E. - Mar 19, 2004 10:13:50 am PST #1567 of 10002
Supposebly. Supposebly? They went to the zoo? Supposebly. t /joey tribianni
Aims - Mar 19, 2004 10:15:20 am PST #1568 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
BWAH!!
Skyzy - Mar 19, 2004 10:17:34 am PST #1569 of 10002
I'm at work and 3 people in the past 30 minutes have just said "cahton" as in carton of cigarettes/milk/etc. Now, I have always pronounced the R. Am I wrong on that as well?
Megan E. - Mar 19, 2004 10:18:41 am PST #1570 of 10002
Skyzy, no you are so very correct.
Aims - Mar 19, 2004 10:20:29 am PST #1571 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
We have a friend from Northern California that pronounces "almond", "Am-mund".
WTF is that?
erikaj - Mar 19, 2004 10:20:46 am PST #1572 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
"It is a far far better thing I do, than I have ever done." From carton to Carton. And yeah, I always say the R.