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.
Spike: Heard what happened up top, offing your dad and all. Don't know if you know this, but, uh…I killed my mum. Actually, I'd already killed her, and then she tried to shag me, so I had to-- Wesley: Thank you. I'm…very comforted.
'Lineage'
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.