dynamitedave, sandra_nz, and TheLoadedDog have sent samples. I’m including them into the big compendium, even though I linked to dynamitedave’s samples upthread.
The compendium:
Pronounced by NinetyWt
“Mary rarely rose at dawn, but did so on the day she was to marry Don in order to pore over details such as whether the weather would be fine or poor for taking pictures, who was to pour the wedding wines and pitchers of beer, and to be sure that her poor, overly merry cousin Aaron, visiting from Erin, would catch the last boat (a converted ketch) from the mainland and so would not arrive until about the time the honeymoon bags were put in the boot.”.
Hm. Okay, just listened to sandra_nz and she reminds me somewhat of my current Kiwi friend but only just vaguely whereas **TheLoadedDog **sounds kind of like **dynamitedave ** even though he’s an Aussie.
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I frequently get asked, in my home city of Sydney - born and bred - “Hey, what’s that accent?” So I hope nobody is expecting Steve Irwin.
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I love how you say “away.” You actually sound a fair bit like I was expecting, somehow.
Sunspace, if my recordings are too faint, I’m happy to redo them. It’s the first time I’ve used Audacity, and it’s four in the morning and I’m probably not thinking straight, so the settings could probably have been better.
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No prob. I loudened them.
(Actually, I ‘normalised’ them. It’s in the Effect menu.)
[QUOTE=Inner Stickler]
Am I too late to the party? Or is there room for a minnesotan here too? You could tell me once and for all if I have the infamous accent.
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Be welcome!
(What accent? I’m unfamiliar with it… I thought you guys sounded like us. )
Erm, yeah, about that Minnesota/Wisconsin accent. Maybe ten percent of the residents of the Upper Midwest have that accent. “Ja der hey” isn’t really as prevalent as any filmmaker will have you believe, and the closest you’ll get is a tendency to have a slight Germanic/Scandinavian flair on “yeah” and similar. It’s a little bit sing-songy and a little bit nasal, but not much “howsa 'bout dat.”
Inner Stickler, I can’t detect an accent at all in your voice, which is another way of saying you sound like you come from the Upper Midwest.
All I know is that when I visited Georgia, the natives would ask me to say boat and then laugh. All I could think was, “I don’t have the funny accent! You do!” Luckily my Minnesota nice prevented me from saying it out loud. I only ever hear myself sound Minnesotan when I say Minnesota for some reason.
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Erm, yeah, about that Minnesota/Wisconsin accent. Maybe ten percent of the residents of the Upper Midwest have that accent. “Ja der hey” isn’t really as prevalent as any filmmaker will have you believe, and the closest you’ll get is a tendency to have a slight Germanic/Scandinavian flair on “yeah” and similar. It’s a little bit sing-songy and a little bit nasal, but not much “howsa 'bout dat.”
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For what it’s worth, I wasn’t saying Minnesotans sound like Marge Gunderson but, if you want to hear a representation of the stereotype, that *Fargo *would be the best (easiest?) way. I’d probably direct someone unfamiliar with a Southern accent to, um . . . a Foghorn Leghorn short? I’m suddenly at a loss for a good representation of a stereotypical Southern accent in mass media.
