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British and australian/new zealand accent

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wnab21
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idk why but i wish i had one. do any of you guys?
Dec 1 2008 1:28PM
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bailer
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any one of the three? id rank em best to worst as kiwi, brit, aussie
Dec 1 2008 1:34PM
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hnosyalnif
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Yes I do.  Good old British accent (with a bit of South African thrown in from my travels earlier this year)...
Dec 1 2008 2:01PM
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toominator
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I have one! all three are quite different though
Dec 1 2008 2:16PM
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Hubsta
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I have a southern British accent :D


Dec 1 2008 2:37PM
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A_Longley
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i am british :D
Dec 1 2008 2:41PM
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UNREAL
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I dont have a real accent, but I have a really good fake English accent. I went on a canoe trip for 3 days, and convinced my trippers i was English. They didnt know. Now I use the accent when I meet new girls because they dig it
Dec 1 2008 3:12PM
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Malcolm
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yeah id be so sick. i want a british accent or one of those hardcore irish accents
Dec 1 2008 3:13PM
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eurotune2
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British accents are my favorite by far, i wish i had one... or at least meet a girl that has one
Dec 1 2008 3:17PM
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ski_foxx
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i love british accents. I spend a lot of the winter at Whistler, and everyone who works there is an aussie or kiwi import. its like "hey dude, just bc you have a 6 month work visa doesnt mean youre a local. i live 200 miles a way. im more local than you." but im usually just mad bc they want me to hook them up with my friends...sad face.
Dec 1 2008 3:42PM
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carbon.pulse
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Kiwi accents are mint.
Dec 1 2008 3:45PM
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Silence
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they are super different

I don't mind british accents, but they can vary depending on where in the UK the person is from.
THat definitely applies in Australia too. THere are people from oz with horrrrrrrible accents (actually i can't say i enjoy having an Australian accent..sometimes i wish I spoke like an american or canadian)
Dec 1 2008 4:19PM
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fence_steeze
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^Pretty much sums up our accent....

Dec 1 2008 4:40PM
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Kazabazua
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I spent part of my childhood in NZ so i grew up with a kiwi accent for a few years. I can still switch to it pretty easily but it's forced, wish i still had it naturally.
Dec 1 2008 4:46PM
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Kazabazua
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bahaha that was so awesome dude
Dec 1 2008 4:48PM
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Horizons
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I've got an Aussie accent. I've only ever been told good stuff like how its attractive and how people with they had a cool accent (althought I think canadians have  a really nice accent). Mostly it's just annoying when people try and guess and get it completely wrong, mines often confused with English or NZ.. and once I even got American!

Dec 1 2008 4:50PM
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al_britskiier
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Im Engish, but my accent probably sounds nothing like an American would perceive an English accent to be like, northern accent sounds alot different to a London accent. 
Dec 1 2008 4:50PM
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mellifluous
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ugh dont say that. my math teacher has one. it's so fucking annoying..
and he says
"hwow"
and "hwy"
like the h sound before the w.
like stewie's
"coolhwip"
Dec 1 2008 4:56PM
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396222687862
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bahahaaa so perfect
Dec 1 2008 5:04PM
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Kazabazua
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thats only certain people. i have a few friends from different parts of ireland and none of them do that.

Dec 1 2008 5:04PM
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Fly_White_Boy
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I dunno, I'd like to have any of the three. They're all pretty sweet accents.
Dec 1 2008 5:09PM
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Italian.Stallion
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Yeah I heard British accents are good with the ladies
Dec 1 2008 5:15PM
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holyDINOSAURS
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no. you're either local or you aren't.
sorry.
Dec 1 2008 5:50PM
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vincepru
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word, if i had one wish. it would be to have a kiwi accent and a dirty black tan
Dec 1 2008 5:56PM
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Silence
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word. i'm happy to say we are pretty chill people
Dec 1 2008 6:04PM
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ATLskier
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yeah dude aussie accents are so much better than british

i can fake a good one from oz, but that's prob cause i listen to a lot of music from there and a watch a lot of chasers war on everything.
Dec 1 2008 6:10PM
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wnab21
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hilltop hoods sounds so dope
Dec 1 2008 8:48PM
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jaylib
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i speak a mean british accent..
Dec 1 2008 8:50PM
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TeamJones
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Best video ever? I think so.
Dec 1 2008 9:38PM
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RtC.
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I love being british and having a British accent, but i hate being English in America, it seriuosly sucks. Everyone I meet is like 'hey, are you from Australia/NZ'. Only one person has guessed me as being British in 6weeks. It's damn useless.

On the other hand girls dig it, I just don't like the American accent on chicks. Makes it hard... Well actually it doesn't...

But being a southerner is dope sauce, Northern accents suck. haha, kidding but bring the North/South divide war.
Dec 1 2008 10:02PM
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fence_steeze
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haha, check this australian out.... what the fuck

Dec 1 2008 10:08PM
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Silence
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^ Same people that made the beached whale one..please don't think that is a standard aussie haha
Dec 1 2008 10:43PM
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skiminnesota
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lovely accent, new jersey?
Dec 1 2008 10:50PM
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Skibumsmith
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I want a canadian accent eh or NZ would be awesome.

So if you're from England/NZ is it hard to understand Americans because it seems like we have an accent?

Dec 1 2008 11:40PM
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DHogg
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I'm a kiwi so yep sure do. If your kiwi/aussie you'll notice that they can be pretty different and laugh at people who get you confused. Happened to me a lot in Canada.

To the guy above me: Nah, you can understand fine unless its some southern accent. American accents r sweet
Dec 1 2008 11:48PM
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Skibumsmith
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That's funny because i can't understand half of what you guys say and southern accents i have trouble with that too.
Dec 2 2008 12:08AM
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shea.
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haha i have both, ive got an aussie accent but im a kiwi at heart so i can out one on easy lol
Dec 2 2008 5:28AM
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shea.
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^ woah is it just me or does every1 see his post italicised(sp?) i noticed in another thread that every1's post were in italics after i posted
Dec 2 2008 6:23AM
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SKIDUBAIGUY
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How to speak like i do-

this

Mixed with some aussie perth accent because i used to live their.

Dec 2 2008 7:02AM
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PopsicleStand
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this is me, and probably a lot of other newschoolers





Dec 2 2008 11:30AM
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Shpadoinkle
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I have a slight Southern accent. Some days it's strong. Some days it's not as strong.
Dec 2 2008 11:35AM
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ryan.c
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exactly. i hate how people think they're all the same. pisses me off



i dont have one anymore, but my parents do. some lady asked my dad if he was from south africa, so he responded "no, if i was from south africa id speak like this" in a really strong south african accient. they felt really dumb and kinda freaked out at the same time.
Dec 2 2008 12:10PM
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sick-as-aids
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i am obviously a kiwi and have a pretty fresh accent. but i want a Canadian accent, anyone wanna trade?
Dec 2 2008 3:44PM
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k-rob
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YES.
Dec 2 2008 3:47PM
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ATLskier
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some days its strong...meaning when you get drunk?
Dec 2 2008 6:12PM
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ski_foxx
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i just meant it pisses me off that they act like im on their turf bc they work in the lodge or a hotel im staying in. Im not nearly cool enough to be a "local" in whistler either, but i knew where BC was before they googled "ways to make me cooler with the foreign ladies while also learning to snowboard."
Dec 2 2008 10:55PM
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Silence
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Dec 2 2008 11:02PM
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Aerozol
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Haha you guys subtitle aussie/NZ accents on TV.

It's pretty sad.
Dec 2 2008 11:46PM
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toominator
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wow.. relax mate. who cares if you knew where bc was before someone on the other side of the world did. lots of the kiwis who go to whistler / other resorts have been going over for years
Dec 3 2008 12:29AM
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ATLskier
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you mean the war of northern aggression right?

traditional southern accents are close to british accents...like proper southern gentlemen/plantation owners back in the day.... I am not talking about modern rednecks. but southern accents can sound cool if they are mild and not all redneck and shit.
Dec 3 2008 1:46AM
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B.Aussie
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I'm an Aussie not with a strong Aussie accent though.  I can put on a fairly decent American accent but don't like the Kiwi accent.  Like a good American accent in a guy though.
Dec 3 2008 2:18AM
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