Discussion thread -- SEVENTY-FIVE WORD WRITING CHALLENGE November 2013

Chris, I would guess that I have donated 100 gal or more of my precious fluids in the past few years (don't know what that is in litre), they have collapsed most of my viens but they keep trying. Enough about my medical history, I have an idea for a story so this could be the month. I have been watching so much TV that I am picking up an English accent (British that is old chap). I never really noticed in the past but American TV is dominated by British announcers and news reporters. I quite often find myself speaking with a English accent but I'm only talking to the TV so it does not matter. I'm going to dig out some old books and have a butchers hook so I can start on my story.
Bob
 
Not sure which is further from a southern drawl, a Brit or a Cheesehead.

I have noted quite a few of our British friends on here taking a swing at American Southern/Western/Country dialects though.
 
Tywin said:
Not sure which is further from a southern drawl, a Brit or a Cheesehead.

I have noted quite a few of our British friends on here taking a swing at American Southern/Western/Country dialects though.
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I ended up extending an American voice from the challenges to a full short. It's like hearing dialogue, I think. If you can hear the voice in your head, it should translate.
 
springs said:
I ended up extending an American voice from the challenges to a full short. It's like hearing dialogue, I think. If you can hear the voice in your head, it should translate.
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No worries, it's all good and a lot of fun to read. Sometimes translates a bit funny with a southern accent and then some non-American word choices, though. Even some Brit-English spellings coupled with southern-accent spelling throws me for a loop sometimes.

I'm interested to know what you folks on the other side of the pond would consider an "American Accent". To my ear the difference between an accent from the American deep south is a bit different than country or western accents, significantly different than a Louisiana/New Orleans accent, and almost sounds like a different language than what you would hear in someplace like Boston, Wisconsin, California, etc, etc.
 
I somehow get the feeling that my already dubious reputation has been further tarnished in the eyes of my good peers, following some perverse libel that equates me to some harsh taskmaster in an army of forced conscripts.



I'd far rather avoid torches and pitchforks here, so reviews are definitely out. I guess I can try the challenge sometime, I'm feeling somewhat better, though not over my cold as of yet. But again, there's really no promises until the thing is up, okay? I see some of you out there donning your favorite steel gauntlets for slapping me with!



American accents are far and varied, believe me. Up here in the Pacific Northwest, for instance, we have perhaps the softest, slightest accent in the country. There's almost nothing to it. That contrasts horridly to what's affectionately known as the Deep South accent, which is where you'll hear either that backwoods hillbilly style, or that twangy Texan-style drawl. Louisiana is different from those because of the Acadian settlers back when the British took over Newfoundland, so that introduced some French background into the mix. Northeast has a strange conglomerate of Italian and Irish, among other things, from the great immigration from Europe during the '20s.
 
Tywin said:
No worries, it's all good and a lot of fun to read. Sometimes translates a bit funny with a southern accent and then some non-American word choices, though. Even some Brit-English spellings coupled with southern-accent spelling throws me for a loop sometimes.

I'm interested to know what you folks on the other side of the pond would consider an "American Accent". To my ear the difference between an accent from the American deep south is a bit different than country or western accents, significantly different than a Louisiana/New Orleans accent, and almost sounds like a different language than what you would hear in someplace like Boston, Wisconsin, California, etc, etc.
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I think, in the same way you'd never try the nuance between eg a Northern English and Southern English accent, nor would we with a US. But! If the character's talking, I'm inclined to go with it. If I was doing a book length piece, I'd ask for some American betas. :) and, um, my US accent is probably someone I've listened to (we get loads of tourists here) or from a film.
 
I think I've got a somewhat stretching kind of grasp on different British accents-I don't think I'd be able to differentiate between different regionals, but seeing as how there's British people who do video game videos on Youtube, plus being introduced to some British film culture, and a particular enjoyment of both Irish and Scottish Celtic music, I might have some form of idea of which basic accent is from where.


Welsh I could probably never differentiate, though.
 
Bit similar with a 'British English'. The generic (old fashioned) accent I emit, Springs Ulster, Mouse's Zummerzet, nixie's north of the border and what I suspect Gary expresses himself in are all very different, but have something in common which separates them from Boston (all right, not all that separate from Boston), Chicago, Chillicothe, Baton Rouge… and again from Melbourne, Perth (the other one, not Ace's), Calcutta, Hong Kong or Singapore.

We can all (even Texans) learn to intercommunicate, with a certain amount of effort (some better than others; the English language, in all its incarnations, is exceedingly tolerant, as well as being flexible and multivalued.
 
True enough. It's not nearly as needy of accentuation as, say, Spanish or Chinese dialects.


And yet, I've been told time and time again from people for whom English is a second language, that it is exceedingly difficult to learn as a non-native tongue. I suspect it has to do with our bendy, flexible grammatical rule structure.
 
If I get round to it in the morning, I might do a workshop thread and see if we can tell the difference in accents.

Chrispy, you left the posessive off Springs' Ulster... :D
 
Hehehe. I've heard quite a few dialects in my time.


Cajun is probably one of the most difficult of the "American accents" to understand. I had an easier time understanding a Scottish dialect than Cajun. And that Scottish dialect was from a deep-voiced, heavy accent.
 
Howdy,
Nascar fans need to learn a special language I call Larry Maceze, here are a few transulations.
cow shin------caution
ha-------------high
wod-----------wide
tars-----------tires
non-----------nine
lond----------lined
sod-----------side
non d---------90
lon-----------line
tom----------time
ba hond-----behind
towk---------talk
the list goes on and on, I have them all written down, so if you ever need a transulation just call non non fov, just email
Bob
 
Bob Senior said:
Howdy,
Nascar fans need to learn a special language I call Larry Maceze, here are a few transulations.
cow shin------caution
ha-------------high
wod-----------wide
tars-----------tires
non-----------nine
lond----------lined
sod-----------side
non d---------90
lon-----------line
tom----------time
ba hond-----behind
towk---------talk
the list goes on and on, I have them all written down, so if you ever need a transulation just call non non fov, just email
Bob
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That's what it sounds like down in North Cackalaky.
 
Bowler1 said:
If that was writers block, Karn, I'll have some too.
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That wasn't writer's block. That was a quickly churned out pile of sludge just to get everyone off my back, hehe.


No, it was out of lack of desire, discouragement, and illness exhaustion that I didn't enter this month for so long. And it was only you all getting on me like you did that I finally relented.
 
That's what we're here for! If you don't take up the challenge yourself, somebody here must challenge you to do it. :D
 
hurray! dusty you got karn to post! you deserve a prize.. how about ... david tennant?

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