SAW THIS...HAD TO LAUGH..........

[golfhobo]

Originally Posted by Consider

How can you HEAR what I THINK??? Or, with those silly masks over your eyes, SEE what I MEAN?

Brits are known for their habits of sleeping with "aids" to shut out the world. I was just making another JOKE!

And, whether you want to believe it or not, your "British" is showing more than you know!

But, it's OKAY. I find it/you "quaint."

Hobo

[Consider]

Originally Posted by golfhobo

How can you HEAR what I THINK???

Ohhhhh. Good one! Well done!!!!!! lol

Or, with those silly masks over your eyes, SEE what I MEAN?

I just love it!!!!!! I did not snap at all!

Brits are known for their habits of sleeping with "aids" to shut out the world. I was just making another JOKE!

I don't think I knew anyone who did that... I'm sure they think it's Americans who do that.

And, whether you want to believe it or not, your "British" is showing more than you know!

I talked a bit funny even before I lived there... from reading a lot. I used to read. A lot of books are written with an English accent. Sort of.

But, it's OKAY. I find it/you "quaint."

You know what, it's fun to chat, isn't it?

Hobo

[golfhobo]

A lot of books are written with an English accent. Sort of.

Tis a shame, eh?

I was going to write a book once, but the publisher couldn't understand my "Southern" accent! :wink:

Say Domawdge!! :shock:

[Consider]

Originally Posted by golfhobo

Tis a shame, eh?

I used to feel so alienate in London (mainly, I suppose, because I was an alien)... one of the few things I thought was really worth while was that I picked up how to write with that English feel. (I majored in English and I always wanted to be a writer.) Now, you've got me wondering about my compass...

I was going to write a book once, but the publisher couldn't understand my "Southern" accent! :wink:

What was your book about? You actually got to talk to a publisher... Wow!!!!

As far as I got was a managing editor of Deutsche taking me for a glass of one on Bloomsbury Square... darn it, I no longer even remember the name of the London square to which several prominent writers were linked (I had to look it up).

Say Domawdge!! :shock:

Puzzling over it...

Puzzling...

Doe Maw d g....

Dome awed g

....

I used to really like the way that Clinton sounded. I liked his accent. I thought it felt really real.

On the other hand, I always get the feeling Bush is conscioiusly sounding like a cowboy...

I remember when I first moved to Santa Fe, that there were several fellows here, one the son of a well known architect, who adopted the local Hispanic accent. That's how Bush always sounds to me.

[golfhobo]

Just kidding ya some more, Consider!

Books can't be written with an accent (unless you spell phonetically.) You speak with an accent, you write with a style or perhaps a flair.

I was joking about having written a book in a Southern accent.

And showed an example of it by mispelling C'est domage. French for "It's a pity."

[Consider]

Originally Posted by golfhobo

Just kidding ya some more, Consider!

Books can't be written with an accent (unless you spell phonetically.) You speak with an accent, you write with a style or perhaps a flair.

I was joking about having written a book in a Southern accent.

And showed an example of it by mispelling C'est domage. French for "It's a pity."

How funny, I was thinking French. But then I thought maybe that couldn't be true because of all the bad press the French have gotten and how they are sort of disliked here at this point.

Only when I visited France I just loved it. (three weeks in car and tent)

No, I think books can be written with an accent. Besides the spelling kind.

I remember several years ago when I was still a Realtor, I was so tired of believing people who were only wasting my time. I wanted a way to check to see if people were telling the truth.

I happened upon handwriting analysis, and in one of the books I bought on the subject it talked about how nationally there are handwriting traits.

If I remember correctly, one of the illustrations was that the English tend to have a more vertical stroke than Americans... the more vertical, the more independent... wrong choice of words to make this believable... Let me try again, the more a person's handwriting slants toward the right, the more they want to be liked. So the American is more driven by wanting to be liked than the English person. (This is a decade ago, so I don't know if there's been a change since the war in Iraq.)

It's seems as if you could have a book.

You've sure made me want to go back to writing more.

[golfhobo]

Okay, we're both right. I wasn't considering THAT definition of accent except that it, to me, means the same as "flair" or "style." Like the way you could decorate a living room with an accent.

I was only considering the speech accent. If two Brits type the same exact sentence, how can you tell if his accent is Cockney or Cambridge? (perhaps not the right word for it.)

Now... if they are allowed to say the same thing but using their own familiar vernacular, YOU would be able to recognize where they were from, and would actually READ the words with the appropriate accent in your mind.

So, in THAT respect, I suppose one COULD be considered to be writing with an accent, or more precisely.... being READ with one.

Cheers!

[Consider]

Originally Posted by golfhobo

Okay, we're both right. I wasn't considering THAT definition of accent except that it, to me, means the same as "flair" or "style." Like the way you could decorate a living room with an accent.

I was only considering the speech accent. If two Brits type the same exact sentence, how can you tell if his accent is Cockney or Cambridge? (perhaps not the right word for it.)

Now... if they are allowed to say the same thing but using their own familiar vernacular, YOU would be able to recognize where they were from, and would actually READ the words with the appropriate accent in your mind.

So, in THAT respect, I suppose one COULD be considered to be writing with an accent, or more precisely.... being READ with one.

Cheers!

Love it!!!!!!!!!!!

The thing is... Cockney vs Cambridge... I think it's tricky if you are supplying the sentence.

But if you describe something, or show something to those two people, and then ask them for their own sentence about it, then I think the origin will be ... maybe ... noticeable.

I love your image of decorating a room with an accent. That is very easy to see, the flair of one person as opposed to another.
In terms of Cambridge... John, the topologist I lived with in London, graduated first from Kings College Cambridge. He was "wrangler."

He had the right to walk on the broad grass lawns, as did any Kings graduate, as I remember it, though few did.

Okay... but to reach that achievement he'd been sent away to school when he was 5 so that he wouldn't pick up the local accent. His father was a minister in the Cotswolds.

So John felt a lot of isolation at an early age.

I would think that over paragraphs or chapters his experience of separation might become evident, as opposed to a Cockney person whose family life might have been daily for many more early years.

I think that is very like your idea of how livingrooms might be the same room... but differently decorated.

[golfhobo]

The thing is... Cockney vs Cambridge... I think it's tricky if you are supplying the sentence.

But if you describe something, or show something to those two people, and then ask them for their own sentence about it, then I think the origin will be ... maybe ... noticeable.

That is EXACTLY what I just said. I just said it with a Southern accent. :wink:

[Consider]

Originally Posted by golfhobo

That is EXACTLY what I just said. I just said it with a Southern accent. :wink:

So did you watch Coupling?

I'm very curious what you thought.

[shyykatt]

Ain't nevea' heard o' 'coupling'- 'cept on a hoss.

(thats my 'northern redneck-chick' accent!) :shock:

[Consider]

Ahhhhh,

It's a British comedy that I just love. It is a bit over the top.

There are four couples in it... well, enough characters for four couples, but not all of them get together...

Darn it... I can't quite think of all the characters... there are four guys... but there may only be three women....

Check it out if you get a chance. I would LOVE to hear what you think of it.

[shyykatt]

Hmm.... I am very poor and have only 'regular' television; but I'll take your word for it!
My 'tv excitement' is limited to re-runs of 'Everybody Loves Raymond' and right now, 'Deal or no Deal'- man I wanna get on that show!!- I'd leave as soon as I got to $25,000!-those people are so greedy! Hell, I'd be happy with $1000 at this point!

[Consider]

Originally Posted by shyykatt

Hmm.... I am very poor and have only 'regular' television; but I'll take your word for it!
My 'tv excitement' is limited to re-runs of 'Everybody Loves Raymond' and right now, 'Deal or no Deal'- man I wanna get on that show!!- I'd leave as soon as I got to $25,000!-those people are so greedy! Hell, I'd be happy with $1000 at this point!

Did you apply to get on? You should!!!!!

the thing is, you could win soooo much. I think the thing to do would be pray major before going.

I would love to go on it, but I don't have any friends to be in the cheer section.... so they'd never choose me.

Coupling is on free pbs. Check out your pbs schedule... you might really enjoy it. The characters are soooo funny. and the situations....

[shyykatt]

Oh, PBS- got that
I wouldn't have much of a cheering section either- but if I won anything, I bet I'd have a few new friends
Naa, I couldn't be on that show- the stagefright would render me comatose! :shock:

[Consider]

Originally Posted by shyykatt

Oh, PBS- got that
I wouldn't have much of a cheering section either- but if I won anything, I bet I'd have a few new friends
Naa, I couldn't be on that show- the stagefright would render me comatose! :shock:

Now I'm kinda into wishing you were going on --

I think that being a truck driver would be interesting for them -- it would appeal to a lot of people.

You'd have to have some major dream to fulfill, for wanting the money.

I wanted to be on the John McEnroe one, but I didn't know about how to apply early enough... I would have loved to meet him...

the cool thing about Deal or No Deal is that you don't have to know millions of things...

[shyykatt]

I'm only married to a trucker (does that still count?)
Yeah, I don't want to know millions of things either- too confusing! :shock:
I would be in a lot of troubl on a show like "Wheel Of Fortune";

"CL_SS _ DRIVERS"- I'd be all "Gosh darn, I just don't know!"

[shyykatt]

"Troubl"?? See what I mean?!!!

[Consider]

Originally Posted by shyykatt

I'm only married to a trucker (does that still count?)
Yeah, I don't want to know millions of things either- too confusing! :shock:
I would be in a lot of troubl on a show like "Wheel Of Fortune";

"CL_SS _ DRIVERS"- I'd be all "Gosh darn, I just don't know!"

lol... it took me pretty long to figure that out...

Not for me, either.

But the Deal or No Deal... that'd be fun.

Think of a thing you want to do with the money and apply... REALLY!!!!!!

[Consider]

Originally Posted by shyykatt

"Troubl"?? See what I mean?!!!

Do you like Wheel of Fortune, then?

I don't even watch it...

I would love to do Big Brother or Survivor... Survivor to lose weight.