<gets worried look in eye>

<ponders how to divert thread back to treehouse or in worst case a plush restaurant>

Hmmm....

Try a French Canadian accent. Even if mixed with a Texan one is still very nice.

I do not have an accent though.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

<throws in necklace made out of silver milk bottle tops>

<doesn't differentiate- it's all shiny!>

Martin, I imagine you *do* have an accent. I however, do not ;)

Oh please....

An accent is something belonging to other people.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Translation: Kitten is so unintelligible that tree doctors have been called in to analyse her bark.

<casually rolls gold and platinum marbles around and then bins them>



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Accent, I thought that that was something those frenchies put over letters so that they could remember how to say them. As for me, according to Aussies I've got a pommie accent, and the poms think that it's Aussie!

It's not like I'm all "I've got a brand new combine harvester" or anything - and I definitely don;t sound like Paul Hogan. Oops, that's another Earworm loose in the wrong thread - Sorry.

Cannibal,

I know how your experience is: I have an accent that has shades of Oz, some Scottish, and a good deal of gibberish due to not hearing the sound spectrum above 4khz [until I got my new hearing aids now I can hear bats talking but I don't understand what they are saying]

When I lived in the YUK locals took me as being from NZ, Canada, RSA, or not being a native English speaker. Years later I saw My Fair Lady and understood what all the hoohaa about the accents were. Pack of snobs, they was, in London. If you didn't pronounce 'snow' as something you caught rabbits in then you were marginalised. Not as bad as the French though.

And listening - when forced to - to modern youth pronunciations I feel I would join a Trappist monastery rather then speak in such a manner.

Even the English bloody mistake me for English. Or South African. And once I had a Scottish woman believing I was from Glasgow- although I did put on a voice for that.

I'll ask a silly question: Where are you actually from, Kitten? A lot of the indications have been contradictory and I haven't quite worked it out. Don't worry, I won't tell anyone.

Egon.

*grin*
ALL TOGETHER NOW!

I come from a land down under (waahooooooo!)
Where beer does flow and men chunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder
You better run, you better take cover...

<sigh>

Are none of you real?

Egon's asking if we're real? Have we not yet convinced ye?

Have you ffolks not yet realised that Kitten is from the enchanted realms. Who else could do all that she has done, break her neck in a most delicate way, and still kill for chocolate even when the moon is not full?

As for speaking Glaswegian a talented person with a skinfull usually sounds like a native of Glagow on a Saturday night. But at least she's not been accused of being a geordie. That really is incomprehensible! [Ah, square brackets! Actually I'm not sure if geordie really classifies as a language.]

As for 'real'. As Mentor said: 'It passes for real as you currently understand reality.' I think this is a wonderful line for a philosopher discussing ontology and other metaphysical matters.



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I sometimes ask myself the same question ES!

Deep question Egon. And one that requires careful contemplation.

<gazes into navel>

bunyip Wrote:
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> [Ah, square brackets! Actually I'm not sure if geordie really classifies as a language.]

Geordie is a dialect, not an accent. If you live there for a couple of years it becomes reasonably understandable.......and the more broons you down, the easier it is.

For a moment I thought the Tennant talk is going on. Sheesh. I've got tickets to see him on October, by the way. And since I usually couldn't care less for the pretty boys, I think it's in fact he accent, the humour, and the fact that this guy isn't taking himself serious. Brilliant. :D

And for the question if we're real. Well, in my case:

Germans, we're Germans
Football play we better than you.
Germans, we're Germans,
I hope you like Germans, too.

*takes a bow*

quantum randomisation occurring:

thoughts of the Greek v German philosophers football match from early Python.

Beckenbauer

also, Oxford Book of Modern Quotations: 'Life is too short to learn German'.

If Natalie of Bremen is reading this - sorry.

Former Oz Ambassador to UN (older whose daughter married a Frenchman): ' I never use a French word when I can use a German one.' Said at a family gathering with guests from many nationalities present.

Never use a word when you can use a fruit instead.