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What are the idiosyncracies? The Voice of Lews Therin - 25/04/2004 10:06:17 PM

Mine's a mess. I've bits of Western New England left, a bit of southern and more than a bit of Canadian. It's not standard at all. The people locally don't notice much real 'accent' so much as personal idiosyncracies on some words.
Examples would be interesting and/or entertaining.

I don't know about awful but some make it very hard to understand. My hearing's slightly out (too much gunfire over the years) particularly in my right ear and I often have trouble with characters and people who have accents - particularly in films. It's not as bad in person but it's noticable.
Gunfire...from combat, hunting, target practice, going postal...?


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ha ha *wikedly grins* *NM* - 25/04/2004 08:24:56 AM 1 Views
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Re: so perhaps you would know what I meant If I said... - 25/04/2004 08:32:03 AM 1 Views
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Re: Accents - 25/04/2004 09:42:36 AM 20 Views
Re: Accents - 25/04/2004 09:43:02 AM 16 Views
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good survey, Thomas. - 25/04/2004 11:54:30 AM 28 Views
Good questions. - 25/04/2004 12:30:49 PM 28 Views
Re: Accents - 25/04/2004 12:40:48 PM 16 Views
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well... - 25/04/2004 01:47:41 PM 1 Views
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Re: Accents - 25/04/2004 05:10:43 PM 17 Views
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Re: Àcçéntš - 25/04/2004 07:55:21 PM 1 Views
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Re: What are the idiosyncracies? - 25/04/2004 10:54:09 PM 1 Views
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Re: Interesting... - 26/04/2004 03:42:01 AM 1 Views
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ahem... - 26/04/2004 04:56:22 AM 1 Views
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Re: There's no problem with Korea and career being homophones - 26/04/2004 06:25:42 AM 1 Views
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Re: Russian is highly uniform, though - 26/04/2004 08:03:01 AM 1 Views
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Re: - 26/04/2004 11:25:56 AM 1 Views
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Re: What words? - 26/04/2004 12:22:47 PM 1 Views
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fine, fine - 26/04/2004 07:07:08 PM 1 Views
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Yes and no... - 26/04/2004 08:25:49 PM 1 Views
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yes, you've got it - 26/04/2004 10:44:00 PM 1 Views
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yes, I know *points down to other post* *NM* - 27/04/2004 04:41:52 AM 1 Views
LMAO - 27/04/2004 09:45:36 AM 1 Views
*hugs* - 27/04/2004 07:11:59 PM 1 Views
Re: - 27/04/2004 07:14:59 PM 1 Views
*hugs back* - 27/04/2004 08:02:08 PM 1 Views
*blushes furiously* - 27/04/2004 08:05:09 PM 1 Views
Re: *hugs back* - 27/04/2004 10:24:58 PM 1 Views
*grins* - 27/04/2004 10:25:34 PM 1 Views
*NM* - 27/04/2004 11:33:13 PM 1 Views
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I don't have an obvious dialect. - 28/04/2004 04:31:59 PM 2 Views