Tokyo-Saint Posted 28 September, 2012 Posted 28 September, 2012 When I was young I moved from Scotland to England and obviously had a Scottish accent. I had to change this pretty quickly as talking like Taggart junior didn't go down too well in a Winchester primary school. As I go older I thought I didn't have an accent until I moved to Tokyo and was told I had a Southampton or even a west country accent. I thought this was bull**** as it was the accent I was used to. However, now when I go to games I can really pick up the accent from people around me. Knowing how you speak will help me read your posts. I currently use the voice of Carson From Downton Abbey to read Bletch's posts (in my head of course I am not an impersonator and my brain is much better at doing voices than I am), Rimmer's voice for MLG and Joe Pasquale for Turkish. Can you please fill in the gaps and let me know your accent/voice.
Redbul Posted 28 September, 2012 Posted 28 September, 2012 Southampton born and bred but have been told I have a London accent. So, Ray Winstone it is!
scotty Posted 28 September, 2012 Posted 28 September, 2012 I always read tokyos posts in clouseau's sidekick Kato's accent. You fheul.
Turkish Posted 28 September, 2012 Posted 28 September, 2012 I dont have an accent, accents are for northerners, farmers, cockneys and c*nts.
Tokyo-Saint Posted 28 September, 2012 Author Posted 28 September, 2012 I dont have an accent, accents are for northerners, farmers, cockneys and c*nts. Everyone has an accent Turkish, you just need to move away from where you are to find out what yours is. Have you ever lived anywhere else?
saintmonkey1979 Posted 28 September, 2012 Posted 28 September, 2012 A strange hybrid of Essex and Hampshire accents, but with strong Essex dialect. Sounds really odd at times
Tokyo-Saint Posted 28 September, 2012 Author Posted 28 September, 2012 Glaaaaaaaster Are you dune or not? The fat butler from Downtown Abbey. I know that, already put it above.
Cheese on Toast Posted 28 September, 2012 Posted 28 September, 2012 fred west? No, I am not Fred West
pap Posted 28 September, 2012 Posted 28 September, 2012 Southampton, although I can go posh when I need to.
Cheese on Toast Posted 28 September, 2012 Posted 28 September, 2012 Are you dune or not? I know that, already put it above. Does Dune have a gloucester accent?
Bearsy Posted 28 September, 2012 Posted 28 September, 2012 I can do a jamaican but it don't go down too well these days. I can also do a good Down's Syndrome. I'm trying to read Tokyos posts in a scottish but it ain't really happening he should say things like "Och Aye!" and stuff more often. Also if he could talk to someone called Jimmy
saintbletch Posted 28 September, 2012 Posted 28 September, 2012 No, I am not Fred West But is this Cheese on Toast or his carer speaking? Hope you changed your password Cheese/Dune/Fred. Thinking about it, you've basically paid a fiver to come on here so that you can continually deny being somebody else. Fair play.
Cheese on Toast Posted 28 September, 2012 Posted 28 September, 2012 But is this Cheese on Toast or his carer speaking? Hope you changed your password Cheese/Dune/Fred. Thinking about it, you've basically paid a fiver to come on here so that you can continually deny being somebody else. Fair play. They didnt know my password, I just ;eft my account logged on
Tokyo-Saint Posted 28 September, 2012 Author Posted 28 September, 2012 Does Dune have a gloucester accent? He lives there I believe. I can do a jamaican but it don't go down too well these days. I can also do a good Down's Syndrome. I'm trying to read Tokyos posts in a scottish but it ain't really happening he should say things like "Och Aye!" and stuff more often. Also if he could talk to someone called Jimmy Don't worry bear, I don't have a Scottish one any more. Also, perhaps I should have made it more clear before everyone just put Southampton down. In Southampton there are a range of accents, there is the farmer kind of one that is most common when you start going towards Hythe "Are you havin a larf mate? What I's been tryin to say is", there is the "Oi nipper, you starin at my pint" chavy style one that used to be common in Ikon at the weekend, there is the bit posh "I work at IBM in Hursley" one, then there is the kind of repressed posho one that Bletch has or Margaret Thatcher for a woman. There are probably more, feel free to describe your own.
alehouseboys Posted 28 September, 2012 Posted 28 September, 2012 Southampton born and bred but have been told I have a London accent. So, Ray Winstone it is! This. A 'Southampton fans' accent shouldn't be confused with a 'Southampton' accent as a fair chunk of our supporters come from places like the New Forest, Wiltshire and Dorset and if I suddenly realised I spoke like that I would change my accent with immediate effect Why would anyone keep talking like that if it labelled them as thick country bumpkins who are ridiculed by us normal people?
Turkish Posted 28 September, 2012 Posted 28 September, 2012 Everyone has an accent Turkish, you just need to move away from where you are to find out what yours is. Have you ever lived anywhere else? Yep, i've lived in London, Sussex and Yorkshire, they have accents, i dont.
Lets B Avenue Posted 28 September, 2012 Posted 28 September, 2012 He lives there I believe. I thought he was in Leicestershire. Melton Mowbray or a similiar place. Yep, i've lived in London, Sussex and Yorkshire, they have accents, i dont. You are a fecking god. why do you waste your time with us plebs on a mongboard?
Turkish Posted 28 September, 2012 Posted 28 September, 2012 I thought he was in Leicestershire. Melton Mowbray or a similiar place. You are a fecking god. why do you waste your time with us plebs on a mongboard? It keeps me grounded.
Tokyo-Saint Posted 28 September, 2012 Author Posted 28 September, 2012 Bear, you live in Birmingham don't you? Do you sound like Stan Collymore.
scotty Posted 28 September, 2012 Posted 28 September, 2012 Bear, you live in Birmingham don't you? Do you sound like Stan Collymore. Hard to tell, his voice is always drowned out by the screams from his swedish girlfriend.
Bearsy Posted 28 September, 2012 Posted 28 September, 2012 Bear, you live in Birmingham don't you? Do you sound like Stan Collymore. I've not long moved up here bro, I don't know if to try and learn it or not - on the one hand it's nice to fit in or whatever, on the other hand they sound proper stupids! They say some weird stuff up here! If you is talking rot like bletch they is saying you is "chattin bubbles". Instead of are they is saying am. Like "How am yer?" which means like "Good afternoon, how are you doing today my good man"
Bearsy Posted 28 September, 2012 Posted 28 September, 2012 They is also saying "Oh my days" a lot. I ain't sure what that means as yet.
Orange Posted 28 September, 2012 Posted 28 September, 2012 This. A 'Southampton fans' accent shouldn't be confused with a 'Southampton' accent as a fair chunk of our supporters come from places like the New Forest, Wiltshire and Dorset and if I suddenly realised I spoke like that I would change my accent with immediate effect Why would anyone keep talking like that if it labelled them as thick country bumpkins who are ridiculed by us normal people? Whats wrong with a 'country' accent? Quite a few have it around where i live, nicer than a mockney style accent..
Tokyo-Saint Posted 28 September, 2012 Author Posted 28 September, 2012 They say that in London as well Bear. I don't think it is to do with the area more a generational thing for the kids of today. I think it means they took part in the riots of something.
Tokyo-Saint Posted 28 September, 2012 Author Posted 28 September, 2012 Yep, i've lived in London, Sussex and Yorkshire, they have accents, i dont. So you are like Trevor McDonald then?
pap Posted 28 September, 2012 Posted 28 September, 2012 Whats wrong with a 'country' accent? Quite a few have it around where i live, nicer than a mockney style accent.. I agree. I really loike the Sf'ampton accent. Really.
badgerx16 Posted 28 September, 2012 Posted 28 September, 2012 Mild Lanky with the odd touch of rural Hampshire.
Saint Luke Posted 28 September, 2012 Posted 28 September, 2012 Never thought I had anything opther than middle Englan until I moved up to London in 1982 and the locals all thought we were coutry bumpkins. Pretty sure any Hampshire twang has gone now as I have lived in London ever since.
Bearsy Posted 28 September, 2012 Posted 28 September, 2012 Oooh that sounded sinister! I weren't making a threat i was just saying bout how when i need a knob enlargement, i always get it done at Saint Luke's. I'm sure a lot of people do.
Tokyo-Saint Posted 28 September, 2012 Author Posted 28 September, 2012 Wouldn't now bear, I had a knob reduction once but that was on the NHS as it was just causing too much damage at the weekends. Sometimes it would go out on it's own and leave me at home. I had that done at St bart's hospital, I don't think he posts on here much.
Bearsy Posted 28 September, 2012 Posted 28 September, 2012 I hear Smirkys wife does a good knob enlargement
LVSaint Posted 28 September, 2012 Posted 28 September, 2012 A posh Surrey one. They love it in these parts...
SNSUN Posted 28 September, 2012 Posted 28 September, 2012 I HAD a posh, private school-educated, Berkshire accent until I started my first proper job. I swiftly learned to ditch it and now have a bit of a London accent, to make the tourists I serve feel welcome.
Colinjb Posted 28 September, 2012 Posted 28 September, 2012 (edited) A hint of Coventry (it does have it's own accent) mixed in with the Hampshire, Kent and North Yorkshire I had influencing me growing up. Throw in a hint of Maltese, Northumblerlandshire and Mockney and you have quite a cocktail. Edited 29 September, 2012 by Colinjb
Lighthouse Posted 29 September, 2012 Posted 29 September, 2012 A strange blend of Northern/East Mids and West Country. I've lived in Scotland, Germany, Holland and the USA at various times, although luckily never for long enough to invade on my dialect.
suewhistle Posted 29 September, 2012 Posted 29 September, 2012 When I was a kid I lived abroad in Europe and all the 'Mericans we knew would say "I lurv your English accent!". When I visted grandparents in Eastleigh all the locals would say "You sound American, mush" [or similar...]. Later I returned to the UK and 10 or so years later I was on a course where the tutor was an expert on accents and dialects, and frighteningly accurate as well, "you're from just north of Swindon" or "Dorchester way". For me she said - "you've got a very neutral accent"...
Convict Colony Posted 29 September, 2012 Posted 29 September, 2012 Mine is f*cked as it only takes me about a year of being somewhere before i start sounding like a local. Used to be proper farmer (herefod) then went normal when i went to live in hong kong as a kid, then went posh back in Eng then went aussie after 3yrs there, then chinese ( i keep using mandarin words as part of english sentences) after 4 yrs in Singapore and now am in Suud Afrikaaa so am sounding like the racist guy out of Wild Geese or that swiss bloke out of Zulu Schiess "How far can you march in a day" fella. Only aim is to avoid living n US as no one wants to sound like a yank.
Saint Martini Posted 29 September, 2012 Posted 29 September, 2012 During my childhood I spend some years in the USA and learned my first English there. Back in the Netherlands I learned British English in school. After that I lived in the USA for another year and then a year in Belfast. My accent is British when I'm in the USA and American when I'm in the UK. I do tend to adapt quite quickly. If I'm in London my accent adjusts itself rather quickly and I'll talk more British after a day or so.
timebomb Posted 29 September, 2012 Posted 29 September, 2012 Born and lived in Southern Africa until 1968 - had a strong South African accent, lived in Southampton until 2003, now in Birmingham area. People still say they can hear the SA accent but mostly a Southampton one
Secret Site Agent Posted 29 September, 2012 Posted 29 September, 2012 A cross between Benny Hill and Mick Channon. Although I have a slight posh accent when in that sort of company.
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