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[Nicole]

Anyone ever read "the God Delusion"? Oh gosh,I'm appalled at the horrific arguments of mr. Dawkins, I mean if your gonna challenge God, stick with God ...not religion! Makes me angrier with each page I read (had to read it for a philosophy module)!

[The Book Whisperer (aka Boof)]

Nicole, no I haven't wanted to pick that book up. I really haven't wanted to hear what he has to say but I must admit to being a tad intrigued now you have posted about it. I certainly would never buy it and line his pockets though!

[The Book Whisperer (aka Boof)]

Kirsty, yeah can you imagine reading one of the classics in a scouse accent? Too funny.

[Kirsty]

hehe... I've been told I do a good scouse accent, so will have to try it next time I read a classic... at least it'll keep me amused!

[Kristie]

Boof/Charity/Lori

I've heard sooo many talking about Blindness... I guess I will have to add that to my to read and to buy lists. You are all enablers!!! :)

[The Book Whisperer (aka Boof)]

Kirsty

"eh, eh, to be or not to be? That is the question, soft lad!"

[Lori, Super Mod]

Im not "up" on my accents.. Maybe if I youtube them, I can find the one I hear in my head....

[Kirsty]

OMG Boof, that's hilarious... I just read that out in a scouse accent... hehe

Lori - Maybe... I reckon the accent you're hearing is a southern accent. That's mostly what you hear in films/tv programs that have been broadcast in the states (except for Daphne in Frasier... although funnily enough Jane Leeves who plays her is, in reality, from an upper class English family and so talks quite posh!)

[Lori, Super Mod]

Heres the one I hear in my head. Its definetly a Kate Beckinsale, Kate Winslet kinda of accent....
Now if only i could LOOK like them too...
AHhhhhhh

[[deleted user]]

This reminds me of a time that I was in London waiting for a train in The Tube and a couple of girls came up and ask me to talk just so they could here my accent. They thought it was so funny. It was so comical to me having lived such a sheltered life where my accent seemed so normal and the English accent sounded funny to me.

[Kirsty]

It's weird isn't it... I often think about things like that... I thought I was the only one, lol.

[Kirsty]

Can't access YouTube at work Lori, but will listen later when I get home, and will see if I can figure out where the accent is from!

[[deleted user]]

Nope, you're not alone! :)

It's easy to not realize how many different dialects there are, too.

[The Book Whisperer (aka Boof)]

Lori, Kate Bekinsale's accent is quite posh for most people in England - in fact she hasn't really got an accent (Queens english maybe). If you have ever heard Daphne Moon from Frasier, watched Coronation Street, Emerdale, Last of the Summer Wine (I know you guys can get them over there) that's more what Kirsty and I sound like. Hee hee (mind you I have been told I talk posh for a notherner).

Jeremy, whenever I go to the States I get asked to speak (not in NYC though, they're not bothered there). I quite often get asked if I know so and so from a town that is probably about 300 miles from me too (I think they think that we all know each other in England).

[[deleted user]]

Don't worry Boof. Canadians and Mainers get the same treatment!

[Linda]

JT:

Just loved Edgar Sawtelle. This is one book you wish would go on and on. The guy's a master with words.

[Linda]

Hi Marion:

Welcome to the group. Between this website and my reading list, there is little time for anything else. You'll love it.

[Lori, Super Mod]

Thats funny that you think Beckinsale seems accentless, she definetly has an accent to us... hee hee. I've heard Daphne from Frasier, but in my head its not quite as loud and strong as that... a little softer... boy do I feel retarded explaining this.. haa haa

[Ann from S.C.]

I am from South Carolina... Yeah I get "Say Ya'll again. or Git ovav hear." from my friends from up north. Its so funny!

When I read, not only do I put accents, I think of famous people as the main characters. I just read the new James Patterson book THE DANGEROUS DAYS OF DANIEL X and I kept thinking of a young Shia Lebuf. Btw, very good book for teens, and a new series.

[The Book Whisperer (aka Boof)]

What I really hate is when you have read a book and you have "seen" the character in your head and you know what they sound like and then you watch the movie and they are totally different. I spend the whole movie thinking "they wouldn't do that, or say it like that..."

Ann, I love Y'all. It reminds me of The Jerry Springer Show (LOL, just kidding. Well, I'm not but I don't mean any offence).

[Kirsty]

Boof, it's funny... I also have a 'posh' northern accent, because I lived in Norwich and Ipswich for a while - so I still have an eastern twang... I can't win - when I talk to my friends down there they call me common, and when I talk to my friends at home they call me posh!

[The Book Whisperer (aka Boof)]

Kirsty, that's exactly the same with me. I have lived down south for years and also in Wales so my accent (which was never really broad anyway) got even more diluted. My in-laws (who are from London) think I sound really northern but my friends up here call me posh too.

[Donna]

I don't have an accent. 'caws I'm from Newyawk!

[[deleted user]]

Me neithah. No accent heeyah. Ayuh. Wicked.

[Chloe]

It's funny but I tend to think the only people in the US without an accent are on the West Coast (discounting the ever-popular Valley Girl accent). Personally, I love a good mix of pseudo-Southern Texas swagger mixed with the down-home feel-good Betty Crocker-ness of the MidWest.

[[deleted user]]

Is the Valley Girl accent the same as the surfer guy/gal accent I heard in San Diego? "Dude, I wouldn't go to Ti-Ah-Wa-Na. It's gnarrrrly dude."

Betty Crocker-ness! lmao.

Actually, come to think of it, I have a blend of slight Downeast accent mixed with South Boston. Then I have a few Jersey sounding words like huhry and fluhry. I kind of pick up accents easy.

[Emma]

Started Breaking Dawn last night. It's absolute CRAP.

[Charity]

I find that people in Ohio don't really have an accent. Very weird considering all the accents surrounding it.

If you go west of Ohio, you get the strong Midwest accent. East, you get the Northern accent. South, you get the Southern accent. North, you get Canada. Eh. :-)


P.S. I'm less posh British, more cockney.

[[deleted user]]

What if you go Northwest?

[Chloe]

It's a blank slate. A template upon which you could build accents. There's the Canadian accent, but even that is milder in the West than further East. Or maybe I just don't hear it because I'm from the Northwest.

[Charity]

Then, you're in Hell Michigan. And it smells too bad to think about accents. :-)




*J/K to Michigan residents

[Charity]

Oh...I guess Jeremy was talking to Logan and I offended all the Meeshagun folks for no good reason.

[Jessica]

Hey, Michigan doesn't smell bad, only in Wolverine country. ;)

And I think it's funny that you crossed out Hell because there is indeed a Hell, Michigan.

[Emma]

People who live in British Columbia don't say eh. I know from experience.

[[deleted user]]

I wonder if the Comedy Central writers scour online groups to get some of their material...

[Chloe]

Yeah, but you still stretch your vowels out to obscene lengths and eat Kraft dinners. Sorry, Canadian baiting is one of my favorite past-times. My wife's company is 90% Canuck, mostly from Vancouver/Victoria, so we have a lot of opportunities for mockery. Then they mention our president and we hang our heads in shame. Then I mention Stephen Harper and they hang their heads in shame. It's endless amounts of fun.

[Charity]

I don't live near B.C., but I'll take your word for it.

I live closer to Ontario.

[Emma]

Haha Logan. Now, I'm one of those Canadians who prefer Starbucks and DON'T eat their Kraft dinner with ketchup. The one thing I hate about Canada is that our politics are so damn BORING. We can demonize conservatives and make the liberals saints, because we know they're all corrupted white guys.

[Charity]

A lot of people talk about Massachusetts accents, but I've found that in Massachusetts, you don't so much get an accent as you get cursed the F*%@ out! :-)

We found a t-shirt that says, 'Massachusetts...The M is for...Shut the F#%@^%^ up!' We had to buy it!

[Charity]

Emma, do you make one of those foul concoctions of ketchup and mayonnaise to dip your fries in?

[Emma]

Oh hell no! Bleck! Though I do put ketchup on my hot dogs.

[Charity]

Ugh!

I detest Miracle Whip. It is nothing more than salad dressing and sugar. Ketchup and mayo (or 'special sauce' as the Canucks call it) grosses me out.

Vinegar is fine though. I eat my fish and chips with vinegar.

[Charity]

Emma...ketchup on hot dogs! You really are an American at heart aren't you?

[Emma]

I love Miracle Whip. Vinegar and ketchup on my fries.

[Emma]

If you define American at heart as someone who forgets her own government and is constantly saying "us" when I mention Bush screwing "you" over.

[Charity]

I'm going to be thrown out of America because I'm not a big ketchup fan. I can eat it, but it really is too sweet for me. I put mustard on just about everything. Give me some brine, baby! Vinegar is great.

[Chloe]

Now I've got the "fish and chips with vinegar, vinegar" song going through my head. This thread is fantastic.

[Emma]

We go so much off topic it amuses me.

[Donna]

I have been born in raised in NYC and as noone thinks they have an accent I def think I do. I been to Ohio and ya right! They really don't have accents and not much of anything else (no offense)

Comedy Central has to get it from somewhere!!!

[Charity]

I think if I ever get to move to England, I could survive solely on fish and chips. I'd weigh 40000 tons, but I'd survive. :-)