Re: Why do Canadians have such a think accent?
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Originally Posted by
nec207
The phenomena of Canadians losing accent is not just in Canada but even the US .
It's pretty cool, really. Accents and dialects form due to groups being cut off from one another. These days, accents are changing a lot due to travel, media, communicating, etc.
I've spoken to Europeans (UK, and non-English) on voice chat quite a lot, and even they tend to have the typical North American accents.
Re: Why do Canadians have such a think accent?
Guess your not aware that we have two offical languages. English and French, which we have many millions of speakers. Not unusual to encounter someone whos second language is English. Which means they do have a heavy accent. French is taught across Canada starting at grade 1 and becomes optional at grade 9. Or it used to be anyway.
Re: Why do Canadians have such a think accent?
The only real difference between the generic American accent, and the Western Canadian accent is the difference in the way roof is pronounced. :)
Re: Why do Canadians have such a think accent?
I have a book "An Introduction to Language", which touches the accent aspect of languages, specifically English very well. So I just want to ask:
Do Australians (and New Zealanders) really pronounce "torches" the same as "tortures"?
Re: Why do Canadians have such a think accent?
Good grief I cringed at some of the pronounciations in those youtube clips.
Some are obvious differentiations like
aluminum <--- We (England and Australia) say Alu-min-ium
(Shopping) Cart = Shopping Trolley
Route is pronounced Root (root is Root...That's puggled you aint it)
Gym shoes = Trainers (or pumps)
Grandparents = Grandmother/ma or Grandad
Carnt (can't) remember ennymoor from the youtube clips
Re: Why do Canadians have such a think accent?
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Originally Posted by
zombifier25
I have a book "An Introduction to Language", which touches the accent aspect of languages, specifically English very well. So I just want to ask:
Do Australians (and New Zealanders) really pronounce "torches" the same as "tortures"?
Nope
Torch-ez
Re: Why do Canadians have such a think accent?
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Originally Posted by
zombifier25
I have a book "An Introduction to Language", which touches the accent aspect of languages, specifically English very well. So I just want to ask:
Do Australians (and New Zealanders) really pronounce "torches" the same as "tortures"?
I have not come across that.
Re: Why do Canadians have such a think accent?
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Originally Posted by
Swagman
Nope (for aussies)
Torch-ez
But Kiwis do sound (to us) like they're saying Fush & chups instead of Fish & chips
Re: Why do Canadians have such a think accent?
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Originally Posted by
Swagman
aluminum <--- We (England and Australia) say Alu-min-ium
We had a whole thread about that a while back.
Re: Why do Canadians have such a think accent?