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'cause the party don't start 'til I walk in (it's stuck in my head, okay?)

Jul 25, 2010 18:21

In the next couple of days I plan to post a couple fics here (that are from fs_exchange and then possibly create a masterlist. So just...sorry in advance for the spam?

All I've done for the past week is talk to people about Inception. Except for when I was at work, and then I just wrote porn in my head. Um. Anyway. Actually, I've spent most of my week ( Read more... )

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complications_g July 26 2010, 03:40:31 UTC

I really like Johnny's costume! The froofy shoulder things are epic. :D

I didn't realise that Ellen Page was Canadian until now. /o\ I can't tell the difference between American and Canadian accents, so I'm always surprised when someone turns out to be Canadian. Are there big tells I could learn about? Like, pronunciation-wise and such?

michanna July 26 2010, 05:38:14 UTC

We say Sorry with an O instead of Sarry. That's really the only thing I can reliably use to tell and I'm Canadian. There are other tells but they're less universal.

Also, we say 'eh?' instead of 'huh?' or 'hey?'

complications_g July 26 2010, 05:45:45 UTC

Whoa, where do people live that they pronounce sorry as sarry?

Ah, I've the jokes about that. ;)

michanna July 26 2010, 07:50:33 UTC

I find that all Americans say it with more of an 'a' sound than we Canadians though you have to go to New York for them to really say saaaarry like The Nanny :p

complications_g July 26 2010, 12:44:41 UTC

Ah, ok then. And oh man, the nanny accent is painful. D:

nova33 July 26 2010, 21:07:07 UTC

Oh, of course you did. ;)

Dude, I am not going to hold it against you; I am appallingly bad with accents. I'd say that I agree with michanna, for sure, about the O. Also apparently people think we say "aboot" instead of "about"? And that we say "house" funny. Basically our OU sound is weird, apparently. Um...we do actually say "eh" a fair amount as well. Plus there are just certain words that are different, but that's not helpful accent-wise, exactly.

Basically I'd just say that it's tough because accents change regionally anyway (more so in the US than Canada) so it's never going to be totally obvious. (But please do not ever confuse my accent with a Texan one; that'd be weird.)

michanna July 27 2010, 06:08:17 UTC

But please do not ever confuse my accent with a Texan one *giggle*

complications_g July 28 2010, 08:15:59 UTC

:D

Meh, I think Americans say a whole lot of things very oddly.

Oh, definitely. And of course not! I can totally tell a Southern American accent, they're hilarious and I kind of love them. ;D

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