"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
I also felt very confident about my answers, reprazent.
― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link
I want to have a good voice for TV and radio. :(
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link
whoore.
and jenny, i guess it's because my accent is only at about 20% of it's strength from what it was 7 years ago that i forget i may still have one. when i saw my younger sister at a family event last month she told me she couldn't stand to listen to my accent (i think i was pronouncing my r's).
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link
I don't know how I say horrid. As I sit here in the computer lab whispering "harrid... whore-id" to myself, they both sound right to me.
I got South second to midland if I said that "pin" and "pen" sound similar. The fact that I could go either way there is, I believe, entirely attributable to Jeff. Anecdotally, a WV cousin of mine thought my name was "Ginny" until we ten or eleven because he'd never seen my name written out and "Ginny" and "Jenny" sound the same coming from people with southern accents.
― jenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― jenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link
Malarkey.
― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link
Amanda -- malarkey, but accurate for me, at least. Since I have, after all, lived in Chicago almost all my life.
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link
awesome. i miss those accents.
― JuliaA (JuliaA), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― jenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost- QB/WR/CB. i was actually much better on defense than offense.
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link
I am in the black for vacation time for the first time since June! I have .26 days of vacation.
― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link
Quarterback, wide receiver, cornerback.
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost, I meant his coach's accent
― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link
Yes, but I'm having trouble distinguishing between "whorrible" and "hawrible" myself.
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link
The vowel sounds of American Englishhttp://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/IPA/VowelChartLF.gif
― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link
"whorrible" = "or"
"hawrible" = "arrrrr"*
*pirate
― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link
botboatbought
I'm suggesting (and this is what I think Webster's is doing) that the O in "bore" is not a unique sound -- it the "aw" of "bought" plus an R.
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link
In Apocalypse Now, Brando says "the harrur", right?
― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link
i'll just call you shirley.
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link
or something without vowels maybe. lrl.
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― nklshs (nklshs), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― JuliaA (JuliaA), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― hans moleman (otto midnight), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link
The IPA can be used to describe any language, which is why it's handy when doing phonological transcriptions or interpreting phonological transcriptions of languages that we may or may not know. If you know the IPA and you see a transcription of a language you have no idea how to pronounce, it gives you everything you need to pronounce the word. It won't tell you what it means or how it's written (its orthography) but it will give you an idea of how to say it. You can also analyze patterns that way. It's also why it's futile to try to describe sounds as "flat" or "weak" or "wrong" or by using other vague/subjective adjectives. The IPA uses places and means of articulation to determine the differences between sounds.
― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link
So, today my old boss (who is way cool) and the two other guys I work directly with were going to go have lunch, bullshit, piss & moan, have a beer or two, etc. Well, today one of the higher-ups is in town, and co-opted our lunchtime. So, instead, we were going to lunch with my new boss, the higher-up, and a couple others. This option was slightly less appealing to me, but still, the prospect of a free lunch somewhere new was enticing.
So, I was sitting around waiting for a particularly nasty file to distill, and I heard people getting ready to go behind me. I figured they'd say "hey, let's go" when they were ready, and we'd go. Then I looked around and EVERYONE is gone. I got completely ditched! Now I don't have a clue what to do... I think I know where they went, but it's a ways away, I don't have my car, so I can't just go over there. What do I say when they get back? I'm fucking pissed about this.
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link
How about them [sports team]?
― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link
Bot = bahtBought = bawt
I say ARRR-nge. I draw the line at Lawrel, although I could easily lapse into it.
― jenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link