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[adiva_calandia]

This meme looks like fun!

Comment with one or several things you want to hear me talk about or say. Anything from my favorite ice cream flavor, to what I would do if stranded on a desert island with only a bag of potato chips and a cell phone charger. Or you could make me sing a Christmas carol and speak a foreign language. That works too.

As a bonus, I'll offer to talk in one of the dialects I'm okay at: Standard American, Irish, Scottish, Texan, Fargo/Sarah Palin, British English (thanks kenovay!) (RP or Cockney), or Brooklyn.

There's a reason I liked Richie Tozier best. >.>

ETA1: A Cockney (by way of Australia) rhapsody about Indian food, for misslucyjane.

Comments

[misslucyjane]

Tell us about your favorite meal in a cockney accent!

[adiva_calandia]

*snickering* La.

[misslucyjane]

*giggles* Love it.

And mm, Indian.

[djcati.livejournal.com]

Read us your favourite passage from your favourite book. In a Scottish accent.

[adiva_calandia]

I'M SO GONNA REGRET THIS. *laughing*

[adiva_calandia]

La!

[girl-wonder.livejournal.com]

What would *you* do it zombies took over the world?

[adiva_calandia]

La!

[girl-wonder.livejournal.com]

EEE! You are so charming. This is awesome.

[lienne.livejournal.com]

Talk about Downside.

In the voice you imagine any of the Downside characters uses.

:D?

[nita_callahan]

Should I just read some fic? *amused*

[nowait-letme.livejournal.com]

If you must!

[adiva_calandia]

La!

[surexit.livejournal.com]

Can I be hideously pedantic and point out that British would include Scottish and I think you mean English?

Also, that there are quite a few Scottish and Irish accents, and I don't think many of them really classify as dialects rather than accents, although that's a subjective judgement, of course, and RP and Cockney are not really dialects either, or at least, I wouldn't classify them as such. (AND, while I'm on the subject, interesting point: both are pretty behind the times - Cockney is being wiped out by Jafaikan (MLE) and RP is being polluted by Estuary. Although the dividing line between Cockney and Estuary is a bit vague, so maybe Cockney is finally winning really.)

I'm sorry for the annoying pedantry! English within the UK is fascinating, man.

[adiva_calandia]

*giggles* The pedantry's fine! It's good for me to get my terms straight, too. I tend to get accent and dialect mixed up. I think the way they're used here at CMU Drama, a dialect is a version of a language, and an accent is a way of speaking a language. So any vowel-changing, r-flipping, g-dropping speech that's still a native English speaker, that's a dialect -- but someone who speaks, say, Mexican Spanish as their first language speaks English with an accent. So I speak Japanese with a Spanish accent, and I speak English in a Midwestern dialect.

I think. >.> Even as I write it I'm uncertain. I should check with my Speech teacher. I do know, however, that I'm learning the Standard American Dialect, not Accent, and we're not learning a different version of American English, just different pronunciations.

Anyway! I attempt not to specify which Scottish and Irish accents I'm using because a) I have no idea, and b) maybe then people won't notice so much when I stray from Dublin to Leeds and back again. >.>; The British vs. English is a good point, though. *fixes*

[surexit.livejournal.com]

The way I always have it is that an accent is a pronunciation thing, and a dialect is a pronunciation thing + a vocabulary and grammar thing, which sounds like a very different definition to yours. Hmmmm. Possibly a difference in American vs. British definitions? Anyway, so Shetlanders speak a dialect, but Hebrideans just have an accent, and Ulster Scots is a dialect but Dubliners have an accent.

It depends on where you draw the line, obviously: I wouldn't categorise Cockney as a dialect, even though it has some slightly different grammatical features (like the double negative and tagging questions on the end) and also some of its own vocabulary, but that's maybe just because a lot of the features that might make Cockney dialectal are features in the way I speak (I speak... kind of high-end Estuary. Like, it's close to RP, but I drop my t's and some other stuff: I say Tuesday as Chooseday, for example, which is Estuary).

Also, I would like to point out that if you stray from Dublin to Leeds, you are hitting two extremely different accents, and I would be pretty impressed. :D

(Also, for future Cockney-speaking reference (I say Cockney, but you weren't wrong about straying into Australian - it was mostly the bastard child of Australian and American, and made me laugh) (please don't take that as me being rude, man, accents are hard and it was way better than any attempt I could make at an American accent of any stripe) we pronounce tomato as tomahto, not tomayto.)

[adiva_calandia]

Possibly? Or possibly it's a performance vs. linguistics difference in definition? *shrug*

I would like to point out that if you stray from Dublin to Leeds, you are hitting two extremely different accents

Seriously it's awful. *laughing* At this point I do most of my accents by ear -- that is, my Scottish voice is actually just David Tennant, my Irish voice is Colin Farrell in In Bruges, my Cockney voice is I don't even know what -- and I spent a couple months working on a show set in Northern England where the whole cast spoke in a Leeds dialect. So anything that's not straight British strays up north at times. (Of course, then my Minnesota/Fargo/Sarah Palin voice will inexplicably wander into Ireland, so . . .).

(*notes!* One day I will do these all scientifically and with training and they will be GOOD! *proclaims*)

[surexit.livejournal.com]

That might be it.

Man, every time I try for Welsh it strays to the Indian subcontinent. So, you know, Dublin to Leeds is really not too bad. :D