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04-24-2005, 08:25 PM #1Forum Member
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What kind of english do you speak?
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04-24-2005, 08:54 PM #2MembersZone Subscriber
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The English I speak is Geordie, well thats my accent anyway
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04-24-2005, 09:06 PM #3MembersZone Subscriber
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Cajun.....
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Paincourtville Volunteer Fire Department
Paincourtville, LA
"I have a dream. It's not a big dream, it's just a little dream. My dream — and I hope you don't find this too crazy — is that I would like the people of this community to feel that if, God forbid, there were a fire, calling the fire department would actually be a wise thing to do. You can't have people, if their houses are burning down, saying, 'Whatever you do, don't call the fire department!' That would be bad."
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04-24-2005, 09:58 PM #4MembersZone Subscriber
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I speak New Yorker
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The Workhorse Company
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04-24-2005, 10:07 PM #5former FH.com member
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ughhhh the worst kind - a New Englandah livin in Teyaxas.
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04-24-2005, 10:13 PM #6FH Mag/.com Contributor
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I'm with SAFD, another damn yankee in Texas. Everyone back north thinks I have a drawl now. But I can still break out the Italian/Philly accent when needed. Whatsamatta U uh?
But I can speak Whale too: WWWHHHEEEEEERRRREEEEE AAAAAARRRRREEEEE WWWWEEEEEE GGOOOOOIIIIINNNNGGGG???
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04-24-2005, 10:15 PM #7Forum Member
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Proper.
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04-24-2005, 10:17 PM #8Forum Member
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Sarf of the River
Sarf Lunden--same city as the Quoon(could never spell that right) but me'n'er speak a totally different language
What a pity most of you(Canucks excepted) could have been Colonials!
Never mind, better luck around--maybe Muslim?
Do not throw your toys out of the sandpit-this is know as English humour(not humor)--you will not die from it-you can just hope it is contagious.Last edited by Tooanfrom; 04-25-2005 at 05:55 AM.
"If you thought it was hard getting into the job--wait until you have to hang the "fire gear"up and walk away!"
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04-24-2005, 10:32 PM #9Forum Member
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I speak Canuck WITHOUT the 'eh'.
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04-24-2005, 11:22 PM #10MembersZone Subscriber
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I've lived in Tennessee most of my life (a short time in England, a few years in St. Louis). My father grew up on Long Island and my mother grew up in St. Louis (she was also an English teacher).
In the south, people assume I'm a yankee. In the north, people think I'm a midwesterner. Midwesterners don't know what to make of my accent.ullrichk
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04-25-2005, 01:49 AM #11Forum Member
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Midwestern, even though I haven't lived there in 10 years.
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You know you're a female firefighter when you don't worry about your butt looking too big in your bunker pants.
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04-25-2005, 02:50 AM #12Forum Member
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Who needs to speak english when you can speak australian?
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04-25-2005, 04:12 AM #13Forum Member
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Southern.....ya'll.
Got a kick out of going to Seattle and having people tell me, "you're from the South, right?"
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04-25-2005, 07:01 AM #14MembersZone Subscriber
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I don't know the difference between General American English and Yankee, but it must be one of the two. There's a regional accent around Cleveland, so I think my version of English has a little bit of that in it, too. We kind of stretch out our short a's so they almost sound like long a's.
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04-25-2005, 07:54 AM #15Forum Member
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hmm
i think i speak californian....with the occasional dude and hella..lol
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04-25-2005, 08:47 AM #16Forum Member
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"Bahstin/New England". I have also been known to use the words and phrases I know in different languages into a conversation for "emphasis"
Last edited by CaptainGonzo; 04-26-2006 at 05:26 PM. Reason: corrected a spelling error...one year later!
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04-25-2005, 09:05 AM #17Forum Member
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Redneck.. howsyourmammanem
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04-25-2005, 12:37 PM #18Forum Member
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Texan I guess.
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04-25-2005, 01:51 PM #19Forum Member
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I speak proper english, without that silly accent you Americans put on your vowels
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04-25-2005, 02:17 PM #20Forum Member
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I guess I speak general American with a Texas flair.
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