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What I meant is that there is no "Canadian" accent, as the poster I was responding to made out. I realise the fact that I didn't put "Canadian" in quotation marks made this ambiguous.
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What I meant is that there is no "Canadian" accent, as the poster I was responding to made out. I realise the fact that I didn't put "Canadian" in quotation marks made this ambiguous.
Yep, but I've hardly seen it all: America or Canada.
Then there's no English accent nor an American accent.
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Yes. I've been to New York, California, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Florida, Virginia, and Hawaii, among other states. Next month, I'll be going to Idaho.
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Exactly... That's what I was saying...
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No, I have never been to any of the three oceans we border. Never been to Vancouver (coming up in a few years for sure, by 2010 at latest
), Halifax (probably doing that soon), or the Arctic Ocean (i don't think i will ever. maybe go to the yukon, but never as far north as old crow.)EDIT: also, there is no such thing as a Canadian accent. There is a 'Tronno' accent, north ontario accent (sudbury+north), a prairies accent, an alberta accent, a maritime accent, a francophone accent, an anglophone (english quebecer) accent, a newfoundland accent, and a pacific accent AT LEAST, probably more.
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Define your accent by your news casters
News casters?
BBC accent.
jeps
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what independence movements are their in your countries? (yes, changing my theme did get me thinking about this)
Here we have Québec (MAJOR) and Western Canada (minor)
Here we have Québec (MAJOR) and Western Canada (minor)
TopDog
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There is, there is, there is and there is.
And the Canadian one is by far the most annoying.
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Well, I've been to the Malmö in the extreme south of Sweden, but I've never set my foot in Lappland. So I would have to say yes and no.
And yes, Sweden is a large land area: the fifth largest in all of Europe.
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if you are talking about 'eh?', and things like that, there's no such thing. There is no such thing as a national accent in a nation as big as ours, or even in Britain. In Britain, you can go find 12+ accents in only ENGLAND, never mind Scotland, North Ireland, Wales, or any other part of britain around the world. I think NZ might be the only one on the list to have a national accent, though I'm sure the Maori don't sound the same, and maybe not even north/south islanders, but that im not sure of.
America has tons of different accents. Boston, New York, and Chicago all sound nothing like each other, and they are even farther from the midwestern accent, which is nothing like LA, which is nothing like Texas, which is nothing like Miami. There is no way there is an american accent unless your only info is watching one show on TV.
America has tons of different accents. Boston, New York, and Chicago all sound nothing like each other, and they are even farther from the midwestern accent, which is nothing like LA, which is nothing like Texas, which is nothing like Miami. There is no way there is an american accent unless your only info is watching one show on TV.
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Independent Hungarian region movement in Transylvania. The Hungarians make up only 19% of Transylvania (and only 5.5% or so of Romania) but because there is a small region where they are concentrated, being like 70%, they want that area independent.
My opinion? Not gonna happen. They already have all the rights they can wish for (including schools and street signs in their language, though the language is not official at nation level, etc), so no sane nation in the world (except maybe Hungary) would support that. Second thing is that the area is way too small. The whole "country" would only have a population of less than 1 million people.
Much more interesting here is the unionist movement (with Moldova), but that's probably far enough from happening, too many economic concerns, too many minorities there and too hard with Transnistria right there.
We have Moravia(very minor). They have also their own party, which wants independence (it has support about 0,2 percent)
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not enough ram!
We have a party in Bavaria that wants full independence from Germany
( 0,8% ) and a Frisian party which is aiming for partial autonomy.
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For goodness' sake, can anybody here read? This is happening too many times now, where people just do not read how discussions have progressed.
This has already been dealt with. The only thing annoying here is you.
The BBC accent is based on Kentish.
amadeus
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Your country is less than .5% of the world's surface.
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This new thread is just repeating everything said in the first one.
As I've posted before, I grew up in Canada, lived 30 years in London and
now 3 years in Cornwall.So I've heard lots of accents.
No, there is not a single accent for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales,
America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand or South Africa. Each one of
these English-speaking countries has many regional accents within them.
So do most European languages, I'm sure. I know Spain does, because
I've lived there as well. Some might seem strange to your ear, some
may not. But each one can be distinguished from the other.
If you hear the news for a lot of these countries, they may adopt a
kind of universal accent for the whole country, like BBC English for
example, but that's not what people speak in their local areas.
So there is no real national accent, as I've said.
As to the guy who is annoyed at the Canadian accent, I have to say that
the New Zealand one is even more whiney than the Australian, like
somebody talking through their nose all the time. That is irritating
As I've posted before, I grew up in Canada, lived 30 years in London and
now 3 years in Cornwall.So I've heard lots of accents.
No, there is not a single accent for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales,
America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand or South Africa. Each one of
these English-speaking countries has many regional accents within them.
So do most European languages, I'm sure. I know Spain does, because
I've lived there as well. Some might seem strange to your ear, some
may not. But each one can be distinguished from the other.
If you hear the news for a lot of these countries, they may adopt a
kind of universal accent for the whole country, like BBC English for
example, but that's not what people speak in their local areas.
So there is no real national accent, as I've said.
As to the guy who is annoyed at the Canadian accent, I have to say that
the New Zealand one is even more whiney than the Australian, like
somebody talking through their nose all the time. That is irritating
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Been to Maine, Florida, St. Louis, and spent a few days in San Diego, so I've covered a good portion of the US.
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To Israelis: All I can ever think of is that bombs are constantly going off there, or something like that, what is it actually like?
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