Random Poll of Nine Days Ago! (884)

[Stopwatch]

There are a few people in my classes (probably around 5 of them...?) who speak RP with a hint of their local accent :x, though one of them is from the area where that accent came from in the first place so :x. But yeah, dialect and accent-wise BE varies way more than AE from what I can tell. I mean, you can pin down where people live within a few miles in some cases with knowledge of the right accents :x. Ask a Brit how they say "book" and "bath" and it can reveal lots about them :X.

*pats Kleene XD*

[mangaluva]

There are a few people in my classes (probably around 5 of them...?) who speak RP with a hint of their local accent :x, though one of them is from the area where that accent came from in the first place so :x. But yeah, dialect and accent-wise BE varies way more than AE from what I can tell. I mean, you can pin down where people live within a few miles in some cases with knowledge of the right accents :x. Ask a Brit how they say "book" and "bath" and it can reveal lots about them :X.

*pats Kleene XD*

In the town I grew up in, you can tell which of three neighbourhoods and associated primary schools someone went to by their accent and what slang they used : x When I was learning to teach English, I spent a lot of time getting told "It's HALF PAST EIGHT, not HALF EIGHT!" and "BoTTle of waTer, not bo'el o' wa'er!" XP

[Stopwatch]

There are a few people in my classes (probably around 5 of them...?) who speak RP with a hint of their local accent :x, though one of them is from the area where that accent came from in the first place so :x. But yeah, dialect and accent-wise BE varies way more than AE from what I can tell. I mean, you can pin down where people live within a few miles in some cases with knowledge of the right accents :x. Ask a Brit how they say "book" and "bath" and it can reveal lots about them :X.

*pats Kleene XD*

In the town I grew up in, you can tell which of three neighbourhoods and associated primary schools someone went to by their accent and what slang they used : x When I was learning to teach English, I spent a lot of time getting told "It's HALF PAST EIGHT, not HALF EIGHT!" and "BoTTle of waTer, not bo'el o' wa'er!" XP

But it is half eig- *shot*
You can tell the neighbourhood thing to an extent over here too. There are too many exceptions within my school alone to take the accents as an exact rule though, though you can use them to tell what set people are in sometimes (even if someone is from a working class family who lives *right* in the centre of town they can end up with a (relatively) posher accent if they're really good at loads of subjects for some reason I can't quite explain o.O :x).

[mangaluva]

There are a few people in my classes (probably around 5 of them...?) who speak RP with a hint of their local accent :x, though one of them is from the area where that accent came from in the first place so :x. But yeah, dialect and accent-wise BE varies way more than AE from what I can tell. I mean, you can pin down where people live within a few miles in some cases with knowledge of the right accents :x. Ask a Brit how they say "book" and "bath" and it can reveal lots about them :X.

*pats Kleene XD*

In the town I grew up in, you can tell which of three neighbourhoods and associated primary schools someone went to by their accent and what slang they used : x When I was learning to teach English, I spent a lot of time getting told "It's HALF PAST EIGHT, not HALF EIGHT!" and "BoTTle of waTer, not bo'el o' wa'er!" XP

But it is half eig- *shot*
You can tell the neighbourhood thing to an extent over here too. There are too many exceptions within my school alone to take the accents as an exact rule though, though you can use them to tell what set people are in sometimes (even if someone is from a working class family who lives *right* in the centre of town they can end up with a (relatively) posher accent if they're really good at loads of subjects for some reason I can't quite explain o.O :x).

Yeah, I do know some people who purposefully sharpened their diction when they were studying a lot of Advanced Highers, especially the ones who were trying to get into med school. Less slang and more precise diction sounds more intelligent, I guess that's the thing. My accent gets weird touches too, depending on what I'm watching... The other day, after marathoning Game of Thrones, I got a touch of Yorkshire stuck in my accent all day XD

[Stopwatch]

There are a few people in my classes (probably around 5 of them...?) who speak RP with a hint of their local accent :x, though one of them is from the area where that accent came from in the first place so :x. But yeah, dialect and accent-wise BE varies way more than AE from what I can tell. I mean, you can pin down where people live within a few miles in some cases with knowledge of the right accents :x. Ask a Brit how they say "book" and "bath" and it can reveal lots about them :X.

*pats Kleene XD*

In the town I grew up in, you can tell which of three neighbourhoods and associated primary schools someone went to by their accent and what slang they used : x When I was learning to teach English, I spent a lot of time getting told "It's HALF PAST EIGHT, not HALF EIGHT!" and "BoTTle of waTer, not bo'el o' wa'er!" XP

But it is half eig- *shot*
You can tell the neighbourhood thing to an extent over here too. There are too many exceptions within my school alone to take the accents as an exact rule though, though you can use them to tell what set people are in sometimes (even if someone is from a working class family who lives *right* in the centre of town they can end up with a (relatively) posher accent if they're really good at loads of subjects for some reason I can't quite explain o.O :x).

Yeah, I do know some people who purposefully sharpened their diction when they were studying a lot of Advanced Highers, especially the ones who were trying to get into med school. Less slang and more precise diction sounds more intelligent, I guess that's the thing. My accent gets weird touches too, depending on what I'm watching... The other day, after marathoning Game of Thrones, I got a touch of Yorkshire stuck in my accent all day XD

Hmm... I guess so, though I think quite a bit of it is unconscious changes (talking in general here, not just your examples). I know when we ended up doing this sorta thing in English our teacher came up with the example of how your voice could change depending on who you're talking to on the phone or what group of people you're with. Or maybe when if you try to sing a song that's sung in any other accent and end up singing it in, say, an American accent in order for it to sound 'natural'. Actively changing your accent requires a bit more work if you keep lapsing but it can be done. Makes sense for them to change it, though given what stereotypes are given to certain accents anyway and I've just lost what I was trying to say, sorry.
When I have teachers with certain accents (especially the Irish and Scottish ones :x) I have to consciously stop my accent from going that way. I get the feeling they could get offended if I suddenly started talking like that :x. And I keep hearing about that Game of Thrones and still have no idea what it is :X o.O. But I know that Torchwood can allow me to do a fairly accurate Welsh accent for up to an hour afterwards :x.

[mangaluva]

There are a few people in my classes (probably around 5 of them...?) who speak RP with a hint of their local accent :x, though one of them is from the area where that accent came from in the first place so :x. But yeah, dialect and accent-wise BE varies way more than AE from what I can tell. I mean, you can pin down where people live within a few miles in some cases with knowledge of the right accents :x. Ask a Brit how they say "book" and "bath" and it can reveal lots about them :X.

*pats Kleene XD*

In the town I grew up in, you can tell which of three neighbourhoods and associated primary schools someone went to by their accent and what slang they used : x When I was learning to teach English, I spent a lot of time getting told "It's HALF PAST EIGHT, not HALF EIGHT!" and "BoTTle of waTer, not bo'el o' wa'er!" XP

But it is half eig- *shot*
You can tell the neighbourhood thing to an extent over here too. There are too many exceptions within my school alone to take the accents as an exact rule though, though you can use them to tell what set people are in sometimes (even if someone is from a working class family who lives *right* in the centre of town they can end up with a (relatively) posher accent if they're really good at loads of subjects for some reason I can't quite explain o.O :x).

Yeah, I do know some people who purposefully sharpened their diction when they were studying a lot of Advanced Highers, especially the ones who were trying to get into med school. Less slang and more precise diction sounds more intelligent, I guess that's the thing. My accent gets weird touches too, depending on what I'm watching... The other day, after marathoning Game of Thrones, I got a touch of Yorkshire stuck in my accent all day XD

Hmm... I guess so, though I think quite a bit of it is unconscious changes (talking in general here, not just your examples). I know when we ended up doing this sorta thing in English our teacher came up with the example of how your voice could change depending on who you're talking to on the phone or what group of people you're with. Or maybe when if you try to sing a song that's sung in any other accent and end up singing it in, say, an American accent in order for it to sound 'natural'. Actively changing your accent requires a bit more work if you keep lapsing but it can be done. Makes sense for them to change it, though given what stereotypes are given to certain accents anyway and I've just lost what I was trying to say, sorry.
When I have teachers with certain accents (especially the Irish and Scottish ones :x) I have to consciously stop my accent from going that way. I get the feeling they could get offended if I suddenly started talking like that :x. And I keep hearing about that Game of Thrones and still have no idea what it is :X o.O. But I know that Torchwood can allow me to do a fairly accurate Welsh accent for up to an hour afterwards :x.

Oh yeah, I get a brilliant Welsh accent off Torchwood. Actually, I go a bit Welsh just thinking about Torchwood. I have Eve Myles in my head right now.

And... actually, I would tell you to read or watch Game of Thrones, but it's not exactly appropriate for a 15-year-old, so... if you do watch it, do it with the volume down. (It's SO GOOD. Just... so adult : x)

[Stopwatch]

I see... :x *goes off to search Wikipedia to find out which kind of 'adult' Manga means :x*

[mangaluva]

I see... :x *goes off to search Wikipedia to find out which kind of 'adult' Manga means :x*

Adult language, explicit descriptions of sex and gory battle in the book, extreme gore and softcore sex in the show. If you do watch or read it... I didn't tell you to : x

[PT]

If you say they should conform on this, then what if someone argues that AE (American, not Australian ) is the most common internationally and that means that everyone should type in it? Yeah, I agree that YY-MM-DD or DD-MM-YY are much more logical, but like I said earlier a lot of stuff in English isn't particularly logical .

American is more common? I'd doubt that, considering pretty much the entire EU uses British English (in fact, if we wrote AE in school, it'd get marked and counted as a mistake). If there is a standard of English, it's probably the British one (more precisely, RP), not one of the American dialects, even though they are more common.

That seemed to me like a hypothetical statement. You're reading too much into it.

It's freaking date stamp, get over it.

[Stopwatch]

I see... :x *goes off to search Wikipedia to find out which kind of 'adult' Manga means :x*

Adult language, explicit descriptions of sex and gory battle in the book, extreme gore and softcore sex in the show. If you do watch or read it... I didn't tell you to : x

Aha, so I just skip past the sexual bits and I'll be fine~! I mean- :x

(Nah, I think I'll look into the books the series seems to be based off then decide whether to watch the series or not. Given that it seems to be a fantasy/drama mix I should like it, but the time setting isn't my favourite. Violence, gore and language isn't so bad imo ) 

EDIT: RM'd and ignoring the above post *tries to post again*

[Commi-Ninja]

I tried to find a gif to properly express my feelings for me

I decided to settle for this one

^^^^^ Win.

[mangaluva]

I see... :x *goes off to search Wikipedia to find out which kind of 'adult' Manga means :x*

Adult language, explicit descriptions of sex and gory battle in the book, extreme gore and softcore sex in the show. If you do watch or read it... I didn't tell you to : x

Aha, so I just skip past the sexual bits and I'll be fine~! I mean- :x

(Nah, I think I'll look into the books the series seems to be based off then decide whether to watch the series or not. Given that it seems to be a fantasy/drama mix I should like it, but the time setting isn't my favourite. Violence, gore and language isn't so bad imo ) 

EDIT: RM'd and ignoring the above post *tries to post again*

The books are fantastic, but LONG. Like upwards of 800 pages each on average long. Like the third and fifth books are both two books each because if they were one book they'd be something like 1800 pages long. Delve into them if you don't plan on getting to any other books any time soon

[Stopwatch]

I see... :x *goes off to search Wikipedia to find out which kind of 'adult' Manga means :x*

Adult language, explicit descriptions of sex and gory battle in the book, extreme gore and softcore sex in the show. If you do watch or read it... I didn't tell you to : x

Aha, so I just skip past the sexual bits and I'll be fine~! I mean- :x

(Nah, I think I'll look into the books the series seems to be based off then decide whether to watch the series or not. Given that it seems to be a fantasy/drama mix I should like it, but the time setting isn't my favourite. Violence, gore and language isn't so bad imo ) 

EDIT: RM'd and ignoring the above post *tries to post again*

The books are fantastic, but LONG. Like upwards of 800 pages each on average long. Like the third and fifth books are both two books each because if they were one book they'd be something like 1800 pages long. Delve into them if you don't plan on getting to any other books any time soon

Hmm~ Sounds interesting . I'll get round to them once I'm past the mocks and I've got through the rest of the Watch parts of Discworld (which I really should've finished ages ago, but school got in the way ). *adds to Birthday list x:*

[Kaito Lady]

I tried to find a gif to properly express my feelings for me

I decided to settle for this one

^^^^^ Win.

^^^^^^^^^^^^agreed