# Post in accent **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 4, 2011, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-in-accent/577165 "2011-04-04T17:07:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-in-accent/577165/21 "2011-04-05T15:28:15Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > **jjimm** , I fought yors mite be Winston Churchill but I don’t fink that ee’s a crazy fun lovin guy! I say, from what part of London are you? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-in-accent/577165/22 "2011-04-05T15:42:45Z")
Rushen is right. New accent now: Eee really dooon’t knoow what **yyimm** ’s acky-cent eez, ees noot yet oon oof de oofeecial lengveeges oof de Oonooted Nootions, but ees eccepted es loongua froonca in de Uuruupean Uunioon? ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-in-accent/577165/23 "2011-04-05T15:47:13Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > Ur na! divvent man, yur gonna hoy a clemmy arrus, irril git nack, givowwer! Deadcat, you were close. It is more the Wear valley (particularly the pit villages beyond Durham) than Newcastle but close enough. Translation: “Golly, please don’t. It appears you are going to throw a large stone at me. That will hurt immensely, please stop it.” And your is Brummie? or somewhere near? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-in-accent/577165/24 "2011-04-05T17:05:31Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Rushen is right. New accent now: > > Eee really dooon’t knoow what **yyimm** ’s acky-cent eez, ees noot yet oon oof de oofeecial lengveeges oof de Oonooted Nootions, but ees eccepted es loongua froonca in de Uuruupean Uunioon? No, it ish a very common accshent in the European Union. And it’sh not jusht the Irish who like getting schtoned. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-in-accent/577165/25 "2011-04-05T17:15:43Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > No, it ish a very common accshent in the European Union. And it’sh not jusht the Irish who like getting schtoned. Ees froom da Oomsterdoom? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-in-accent/577165/26 "2011-04-05T18:46:29Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Ees froom da Oomsterdoom? Yesh! We are living in de Nederlandsh, and loving to eat the krokketen and have good timesh, yesh? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-in-accent/577165/27 "2011-04-05T18:52:47Z")
Ooo de Neverlaands! Ees tooo never fur mee! ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-in-accent/577165/28 "2011-04-05T23:23:53Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > And your is Brummie? or somewhere near? No, and not really. It’s quite hard to express it accurately in writing but there are a few big clues in what I’ve already posted. **jjimm** , I could “hear” Dom Joly doing yours but I couldn’t place the country! ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-in-accent/577165/29 "2011-04-05T23:38:09Z")
I vas talking mit my gut friend Jens and ve were in this pab in the vest of irelant. There vas a session going on mit a hant flute player. I said to myself, Andreas you must purchase one of these hant flutes promptly. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2011, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-in-accent/577165/30 "2011-04-07T19:20:33Z")
> [@Dead\_Cat](#): > > **jjimm** , I could “hear” Dom Joly doing yours but I couldn’t place the country! Have you sheen the windowsh? > [@An Gadaí](#): > > I vas talking mit my gut friend Jens and ve were in this pab in the vest of irelant. There vas a session going on mit a hant flute player. I said to myself, Andreas you must purchase one of these hant flutes promptly. I vas on my handie mit Jens also talking, und ze hant flute player vas so loud, ve could not hear each ozer. Zis vould never heppen in Charmany. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2011, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-in-accent/577165/31 "2011-04-07T19:38:54Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Have you sheen the windowsh?I vas on my handie mit Jens also talking, und ze hant flute player vas so loud, ve could not hear each ozer. Zis vould never heppen in Charmany. This is ridikolos! ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-in-accent/577165/32 "2011-04-12T14:30:18Z")
Tis thread’s hulareeuus mon. Ah canna belayve yoo kud ha soo mooch fun in as lettal tiam ahs this. Aneeway, ah rekon non a ya weel work owt ma accent (well, meebee **jjjim** meet). Moost yanks dunna even noo that et eggs-est. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-in-accent/577165/33 "2011-04-12T14:33:23Z")
> [@Illuminatiprimus](#): > > Tis thread’s hulareeuus mon. Ah canna belayve yoo kud ha soo mooch fun in as lettal tiam ahs this. > > Aneeway, ah rekon non a ya weel work owt ma accent (well, meebee **jjjim** meet). Moost yanks dunna even noo that et eggs-est. A Jamaican Mackem? 🙂 Or maybe a Geordie… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-in-accent/577165.md?page=1)