by Cinnamonipples Sun Nov 25, 2012 12:48 pm
2634. Mango your voice is cuuute. >w<
ALSO GUYS FUN FACT: WE ALL HAVE ACCENTS.
It's funny cuz y'all are "I don't think I have an accent" and "You guys don't have accents" but I am definitely hearing several differences in the way Taco, Mango, and I pronounce things. Like, I was a little "I dunno" in mine because obviously you don't hear your own voice often and you grow up with people who sound the same as you, but listening to my own recording, I can definitely hear it.
See, an accent doesn't have to be a strong contrast, like English people vs. American people, or English-as-a-second-language accents or anything. Even in England there are TONS of different local accents from place to place, it's actually kind of nuts, since England's much smaller than Canada or the States. X3 But even just some subtle ways in which people pronounce vowels can indicate where they come from. Like, there's that whole "Oot and Aboot" Canadian stereotype, right? Well, I have never ever heard a Canadian actually talk like that, but there is a difference in the way we pronounce the "ou" sound.
In fact, my accent might not even be just "Canadian". I think I have a little bit of Ottawa Valley Twang going on. It's not much, cuz I didn't grow up in the areas of the Ottawa Valley where it's really strong, but there are some vowel sounds and speech patterns that I've noticed sound just a little different than say, my family who live in English-speaking parts of Quebec.
LINGUISTICS IS ACTUALLY REALLY FASCINATING STUFF AND I LOVE LEARNING ABOUT HOW PEOPLE SAY THINGS DIFFERENTLY. >w<