These Stupid Titles VI

[MrPaperCamel]

I am confused now. Weren't we fighting you? Now you are our beneficiary? Der-bluh?

[darxbane]

What kind of Almsgiver are you if you get paid?  Doesn't that contradict the giver part?  While I am at it, why did your accent change with your title?  Do all Almsgivers acquire a Cockney accent? 

[firstRainbowRose]

Woah, I leveled.  When did I level?

The accent was originally there.  I comes and it goes as I hang out with people who have one and those who don't.  It's kind of a natives thing.  *wink*

[Loud_G]

Sounds like me...I often slip into any of a number of different UK accents if I'm goofing off or not paying attention...

[firstRainbowRose]

I really do that without thinking about it.  I have a natrual accent (I've been told I sound like I'm everywhere from the phillipense to the uk) which really I have NO IDEA where it came from.  But because of it if I'm around anyone from europe I will pick up their accents without even realizing I'm doing it.  I hate it because I worry they think I"m making fun of them.

[darxbane]

Don't you hate that?  It only happens to me when I speak to someone from England or the Southern U.S.  I have no idea why. 

[Reaves]

Lol same to me, although so far its only happened when someone has an English accent.

[Necroben]

Being Southern, I have that happen to me all the time.

[GreenMonsta]

Lets not even talk about accents. Being from Boston every one looks at me funny when I talk. When I was at Fort Jackson South Carolina and Fort Sill Oklahoma people would bring their families over just to have me talk in front of then. They would ask me to say things like "car, bar, cigar, retard, beer, weird and string them together to make funny sentences. After a while being a novelty becomes irritating. I will tell you that going other places I never start using other accents. I have a hard enough time trying to speak with out my own. Even though I can speak without it there are times when I slip and don't even realize.

[Necroben]

My wife tells me I get real country if I'm mad.  Most of the time I can keep it under wraps (lots of people say they can't tell where I'm from), but some of my family sound just like "Larry the cable guy" and just as dumb!

Many are strait out of "You might be a Redneck if..."

My wife's family is from upstate NewYork and I catch a lot of grief when I say Y'all.

[GreenMonsta]

What about yonder? I mean the word has no limits. It could mean across the room or it could mean over the horizon. I dont know, I usually just end up being dubed a Yankee and being from Boston that isn't the best thing.


This just goes to show that our little militia has a diverse background. Not only that but we now have royal backing and that means funds for our preparations.

[MrPaperCamel]

I grew up in Queens and live in AZ. I understand a lot of what everyone is talking about. I literally cannot say Coffee without someone looking at me. And there are all kinds of weird words changes that I had to go through

Wagons are now Shopping Carts
Sacks are now Bags
Chop Meat is now Ground Beef

[CthulhuKefka]

Bubbler= Water Fountain.

Always my favorite.

I don't have a natural Boston accent, but it comes out when I'm really, really tired or really, really drunk. /shrug

[Reaves]

wow you really used to  say wagon? That is so awesome.

[The Jade Knight]

Monsta & Snow:  There's no such thing as "no accent".  What you think of as "no accent" is probably a Western/Midwestern US accent ("Standard" US accent used to be Midwestern, but it's been shifting to a pure Western lately.  The two aren't THAT different, though).  So you have an accent, whether you realize (/accept) it or not.

But I, too, always pick up the accents of whoever I talk to.  It's funny.  I'll pick up British accents, Canadian accents, Australian accents… even non-native accents like Mexican and French ones, without even meaning to.  Sometimes I feel bad when I do this with a non-native speaker, though, as I'm worried they'll feel like I'm mocking them (I'm not, I just adapt my accent naturally to whomever I'm speaking to).