@dlowan,
What sounds like an accent to you and Thomas. . . .
@roger,
roger wrote:
What sounds like an accent to you and Thomas. . . .
Don't START me with the relativity of accents.
To YOU Beth has an accent, too.
@dlowan,
Im not smiling, Its been raining and the weather forecast looks even ominouser.
@farmerman,
Getting wet walking to my car tonight made ME smile, however.
Rain is GOOD here.
@dlowan,
That's touching and scary how empathy from others is new to her..
but sweet, and in a way she has some herself with the worry about your feelings.
@dlowan,
Unless you count her funny Canajun way of pronouncing the "ou" sound in "house" and "about", Beth doesn't really have an accent. She just says "eh" a lot.
(Additionaly, but that's not an accent problem, she keeps repeating this fixed idea that there are butter tarts in Canada. I have yet have to see any, and have become very skeptical of their existence.)
@Thomas,
She has a hell of an accent to my ears.
But she sounds so SWEET!!!!
I know an accent when I hear one, and you ALL have accents. Except of course me. I don't got no steenkin' accent. I tawk poifect.
@Roberta,
We all tawks poifect to ourselves.
Except...I can hear my accent.
Compare it with the old standard BBC English, I expect.
Good lord.
I can hear a kookaburra.
@dlowan,
How about the standard ABC English?
a kid, prolly 12 or so, stopped his bicycle at the edge of my yard today while I was weeding my corner garden.
mister, hey mister, he says...
what do you do here, he asks as I walk closer.
do you work on cars?
I told him I did sometimes, and I cooked nights over at the cafe.
(turns out he is the littlest brother of a former bartender who is now in Iraq)
I ask him is he the little guy who left a message on my machine about the motorcycle by the garage. (an old smallish cafe racer)
he says yes, that was him, and would I want to sell it, he has $100 he could go get right now...
(he dint leave a name or number yesterday, but was verra excited on the phone)
I told him I hadda fix a gear in the starter first, but that I would not sell it to anyone else till I talked to him.
he says he is gonna save his money till he can pay me what I need for it.
(I just may let him, if his mama says he can have it)
he was SO polite, and engaging, he reminded me of Izzies son (less charming accent, of course)...
@Thomas,
Thomas wrote:
How about the standard ABC English?
More or less gone the way of standard BBC English.
@Rockhead,
You just have to give it to him Rockie. He's gonna need the 100 bucks to get a pillion passenger.
He might be a champion motorcycle racer one day. He has the makings. Just think if he was.
I had Carl Fogarty sat on my knee once when he was two.
Roger has an accent, too!
"mazing!
an inside joke still has me smiling -
' in public even. Add a dollar'
@margo,
roger does NOT have an accent, he and I are the only posters who don't have an accent.
@dlowan,
Sweet! says you, Olivia Newton John
<pffffffffffft>
The peanut farmer insisting I take a jug of his homemade dandelion wine.
@dyslexia,
You can't get away with that, Dys. I've heard you speak in person.
