May 17, 2011
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Xanga Accent Challenge
• Your name and username.
• Where you're from.
• Pronounce the following words: Aunt, Roof, Route, Theater, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Water, New Orleans, Pecan, Both, Again, Probably, Alabama, Lawyer, Coupon, Mayonnaise, Pajamas, Caught, Naturally, Aluminium, GIF, Tumblr, Crackerjack, Doorknob, Envelope, GPOY.
• What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?
• What is a bubbly carbonated drink called?
• What do you call gym shoes?
• What do you call your grandparents?
• What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?
• What is the thing you change the TV channel with?
• Choose a book and read a passage from it.
• Do you think you have an accent?
• Be a wizard or a vampire?
• Do you know anyone on Xanga in real life?
• End audio post by saying any THREE words you want.
There, mock me.
Comments (63)
Lmao at "salt in my wounds", props for a Jewish living book, and very impressive DVD collection in the background.
@lovejennyy - I am studying Judaism right now and actually looking at daily living in Jewish communities. I have been trying to connect with the roots.
That DVD collection is just a scratch on the surface of my entire collection. I am compulsive when it comes to dvds. I find it easier to buy them rather than going to the theater. It's almost the same cost.
Woit does ye meen youse probably got 'n accent? Youse sound like yer on a horse herding dem dare beasties with pointy hornie fings.
damn, everyone is toing this accent thing!
• Your name and username.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov / Sir Sparrow
• Where you're from.
My mummy's tummy
• Pronounce the following words: Aunt, Roof, Route, Theater, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Water, New Orleans, Pecan, Both, Again, Probably, Alabama, Lawyer, Coupon, Mayonnaise, Pajamas, Caught, Naturally, Aluminium, GIF, Tumblr, Crackerjack, Doorknob, Envelope, GPOY.
Rightio mon Septic Chappie! Dun dat roight 'n proper! Wot now, Wisconsin?
• What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?
Wiv or wiv out shit on it?
• What is a bubbly carbonated drink called?
liquid
• What do you call gym shoes?
I call them Jim's shoes
• What do you call your grandparents?
Dead
• What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?
Granny's walker. She has to earn her keep or it's back in the shed.
• What is the thing you change the TV channel with?
My sex slave does that sort of thing, in between other duties.
• Choose a book and read a passage from it.
"Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place ... With us it ain't like that. We got a future."
• Do you think you have an accent?
Wot?
• Be a wizard or a vampire?
I be a buccaneer I be
Do you know anyone on Xanga in real life?
You mean someone somewhere has a real life?
• End audio post by saying any THREE words you want.
Fucking ding dong!
Hey! You be a Yiddish laddie? Are you related to Rabbi Burns? One of the great poets.
shopping cart!! ....in my video I forgot how to say that...but nothing too bad..since the only time I've been in the US I didn't go for groceries...
Also, I see how many words are pronounced differently from what I thought....what kind of accent you have?
"If I wanted to be hip, I would call them Kicks" Ahaha! I was going to call them kicks in my video. But I people around here dont usually use kicks for gym, just for fashion ;].
Nice accent.
yup. when i lived in wisconsin it was pop but now that i live in cali it is soda pop, haha.
Nice accent.
I can't really do a vid, but I'll do my best:
Heather aka Exposedwrists
Currently Oklahoma
Pronounce Soundout: Auuunt, Rooof, Rouwte, The-ate-er, Iron, Samolon, Cara-mel, Fire, Water, New Orlens, Pecon, Both, Again, Prob-ab-ly, Alabama (really fast), Law-yer, Qoupon, Mayo, P.J's, Caught, Nat-tur-rally, Foil, G.I.F., Crackerjack, Doorknob, On-vel-lope, GPOY.
TP
Soda
Sneakers
Grandmother and Father
Shopping Cart
Clicker
(I'm typing the next as if I was reading it out loud...not as the author wrote it.)
"I clamped a sixed-fingered hand around my sword hilt. Five moonths I'd tra-veled with her. Five months of livin' off the land, killin' that we both could eat. I'd slaine win-ter starved wolfes and fowl band-dits. I had guard-ed her back while she healed the sick. I had been woun-ded twice, and twice she had healed me."
Hell yes I have a deep southern accent that is weirdly mixed with a southern California accent! Sometimes the two cancel each other out and I have no accent at all!
Vampire...because in a weird way I sort of am one already..
I've only met one face to face but as for other modes of getting to know Xangans such as facebook or others...I'm starting to. I'd really actually love to meet all my faves if I ever can. We just had a southerners meeting in Houston but unfortunately I could not go to that because of money and other reasons...sigh.
Hmmmm.....Stinky Weasel Teets!
The best I can do for you suga'.
(I think my accent is a reflection of the fact that I've lived all over the States.)
KICKSSS!!! YESSSSSSSSSSSS! AHAHAH!
@Sir_Sparrow - yeah I have a pretty bad accent, I blame it on my time spent working on farms.
I need one of them sex slaves.
I may just be related to Rabbi Burns. I think he was the Jewish Scot. I think we come from the same clan.
@NiDH0GG - well I have no accent because everyone around me sounds the same. Actually people say I have a Wisconsin accent but it's not too thick. I've heard that in some communications classes in universities they teach students to sound like they are from the Midwest.
@LadyMira - Yeah I guess "kicks" is more for the fashion aspect but when I taught PE I would usually compete with the students and we would play kickball so of course I'd have to change into "kicks" for kicking the ball. I think it'd be pretty uncomfortable to run and kick in dress shoes.
@jiazy_1 - thank you
@StrawberrySunrises - oh man, when I went to college in MN everyone from there called it soda. Then you got all the people from Ohio and they'd be split in calling it soda or pop. Then people from my side of Wisconsin called it pop and then those up against Lake Michigan usually called it soda. So I take it you weren't living between Milwaukee or Manitowoc.
@ExposedWrists - True story...when I was living in MN a friend from when I lived in TX said I still had a southern accent. I spent a summer in Philadelphia when I was a kid but I never picked up that accent. Over a Christmas break when I was teaching high school religion, I immersed myself with The Sopranos. I came back from break with a thick east coast accent. Then when I was teaching at a different school one break I immersed myself with Rome and came back with a British accent. Then another break watched nothing but Deadwood and came back with a twang.
@FahtiSama - Just so I could be cool...my students took to calling them that after I said it. They also tried to make up their own slang words but they never caught on.
kicks lol
"I have an accent. I am a wizard."
I enjoy how you just laid that all out like that. LOL
Nope, no accent
High five for Wisconsinnn. Dude, I was once very intrigued by Judaism. I studied it a bit when I was at the U of M Twin Cities. AND DAMN about all those DVDs. Jealous.
Haha. such diversity. well i never knew manitowoc. but i did know milawaukee. i believe we were around appleton. i haven't been near wisconsin for so long i don't remember how half the words sound anymore.
Probably is a hard word to pronounce, much like salmon.
No, you don't have an accent...at least not to me, but I'm from Minnesota, what do I know?
Yeah, you've got the Wisconsinite accent downpat
Three thumbs way, way up.
@ohellino - what else are you going to call a shoe used to kick a ball in a highly competitive game of PE kickball?
Have a great...
...have a great...
...have a great what??
@KickingSheep - that was sort of geared at a Xanga who says both about me.
@TheInappropriateSkirt - high five! Yeah, Judaism...it's a very interesting religion. I've got so many books on the subject. I once considered moving to Israel to take a job as a shabbat goy at a resort. I also did similar work at a Jewish summer camp here in the Dells. And those DVDs are just the surface. I have stacks in front of that entertainment center plus two shelves and then stacks by my other large tv. I think I may have about 1300 dvds. I watch them instead of TV.
@StrawberrySunrises - Oh yeah, I forgot the Fox Valley people who said pop. My school was mainly those groups plus a few from California and Arizona and Washington State...basically they came from every Lutheran high school of that specific denomination. You really are missing out on speaking Wisconics. I suppose you don't remember "bubbler".
@Rob_of_the_Sky - I corrected myself because when I was student teaching my college supervisor heard me say two words and he gave me so much hell for mispronouncing them. I said "prob-ly" and instead of "picture" I took the Wisconsin route and said "pitcher".
@PaintingFl0wers - hmmm you must be on the eastern side of MN close to the Mississippi River or near the Cities. I lived for 6 years down by Mankato (5 years of school and 1 of teaching) and a lot of people out there had a distinct accent.
@NVPhotography - I'm just thankful I didn't slip in "youse guys" or "you betcha"
@methodElevated - awww...thank you
@raiderjester - corn dog...I either screwed up the audio or ended the video before I finished what I was saying.
Your accent isn't too noticeable. I wish I could do one of these in a mock Pennsylvania Dutch accent but I was never very good at imitating one.
no i don't. what is a bubbler? I am guessing it is beer.
@carolinavenger - Oh man I wish I could do the Amish accent. I also wish I could do the German Baptist accent. They are sort of like the Amish but they do use some technology. They are a little more liberal when it comes to technology than the Mennonites. Ladies have to wear dresses and a head covering and the men dress plainly but they can drive cars. They all seem to have a German accent mingled with a southern accent. It's quite interesting to hear. I'll have to secretly record one some time.
@StrawberrySunrises - it's a water fountain but you'll only hear that term in Wisconsin
lmao at the "salt in my wounds" comment. I get a kick out of it when people refer to the shopping cart as "the buggy"!!!
@lonelywanderer2 - yes! I think I was in a Walmart and the greeter lady asked if I wanted a buggy. I just looked at her and asked "what?" She pushed the cart in front of me and I was like "oh...yeah". I was thinking of maybe something like a dune buggy or a baby stroller.
@godfatherofgreenbay - Exactly! lol.
@godfatherofgreenbay - Haha no it wouldn't. Honestly I was ROFL while watching this video! Its hilarious how laid back you were but it also seemed like you were enjoying it! Haha! xD
@Sir_Sparrow - lol
I've no problem to understand you, so it can't be that much of an accent.
The way all of you say aluminium is weird to me. I've to ask my leo.org to help me learn it.
You sound normal to me, if that makes sense!
@nattata - well that is great you can understand me. I had to look what that website was. I think that is a spelling error. It should be "aluminum".
@ArmyWife4Life2007 - of course it does, I suppose you don't hear many primary English speakers over there other than the people you are close to.
@godfatherofgreenbay - Eh, I talk to a lot of soldiers in the company and have a few friends, so I hear a lot everyday, really.
I was just going to do this via audio, but after seeing your beautiful mug,I figure I might as well go video.
@raiderjester - I'm surprised my mug didn't crash the internet
Thanks to this comment section I have learned about the Old German Baptist Brethren. Xanga is edutainment.
@SoapAndShampoo - I'm glad I could help. It's important to know the difference in these parts.
we say "route" differently lol 'rowt' v. 'root'
This is great! You have an accent, but it wasn't as thick as i thought it would be. You and my husband say "Wisconsin" the same way...i say it differently and he makes fun of me. Oh, and you pronounce "Green Bay" differently than me in that you annunciate a different part of the word when saying it...hard to explain. I call it pop too
Loved this video!
I think Imma do this when I have some time
@godfatherofgreenbay - Same here. BTW what did you use to record?
@BranmacFeabhail - I guess I pronounce it both ways depending on the situation. Like if it is talking about a road I would say "rowt" and if it was describing a direction to travel like for directions would be "root"
@ShamrockLover - oh man whenever I watch college football I get so cheesed off at the announcers because they would pronounce Wisconsin "Wes-con-sin". That just bugs me to no end and sometimes that sets me of more than boneheaded plays.
I think I put more emphasis on the "Green" in Green Bay because it describes the bay.
Glad you enjoyed!
@TheGiantSlayer - awesome...let me know because I'm going to be away from here doing some fishing.
@raiderjester - I have a logitech webcam that hooks up to my usb port or whatever and then I just upload it to youtube.
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