New Zealand

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

Not very long now until the All Black's first real test at the tournament against Scotland. Should still win convincingly but it'll be interesting to watch.

[*Riley*]

Aussie person alert !

When you ( PITA ) said let's go have a barbie, isn't that more Australian ? Because that's what we do evry night for dinner... Do you people who live in America think our 'accent' is weird because I don't even realise we have one
I don't there are many Australians on this site apart from Distortia & I..

[DucksRMagical]

I think Australian people definitely have an accent, but I don't think it's weird or anything. You'd probably think I have an accent, even though I don't think I do. I took a quiz online once to find out what kind of accent I had and I got 'Midland Accent', which they said was another way of saying 'you don't have an accent'. But to people in other countries, I'm sure I've got an accent.

[*Riley*]

Well, you don't 'need' to have an accnt, I heard a pure English lady talking on the television and she sounded perfectly normal. This may be that the show was lying and she was Australian but any-hoo.
I think English people soiund cool although my mum disagrees. So I put on a English accent to annoy her.

I think it's really weird that we all have different accents let alone different languages. We surely had only one language at first then it just grw and grew until we got all of the numrous ones of today.
Also, the dark-skinned people who still live in tribes and were cloth and mabey various kinds of jewelry.

Imagine how much easier the world would be if we had one language every could speak then no-one would be laughd at for being different. ( Descrimination)

I recieved a letter this morning from my sponser child; she lives in Ethiopia and lives in a bamboo hut made out of mud,grass and wood. In the letter she spoke to me likeshe hd known me forever. Her birthda has just passed and I have sent her many items. My parents said I can visit her whe I want but I think it will be hard to cope with. While I'm sitting there with my normal clothes and nourished body, she will sit there and look at me with envy...

So there it is. My view on the many culture of the wide world !

[Q.Araignee]

Everyone here thinks I speak really strangely, because I don't really have a typical yorkshire twang to my voice- I tend to stick to RP than colloquialisms. It might be because I was home taught for the best part of 2 school years before actually going to school, and was taught to enunciate over what was my accent until it wasn't noticeable anymore. Great for presenting and acting, but sounds a bit strange to everyone else.

Wait until I get to Edinburgh, I bet I come back imitating their soft Scottish accent!

And if it was a T.V. presenter talking, they still stick close to RP too- the BBC initiative that kind of stuck.

[FawkesthePhoenix]

i use some british terms, but i don't have an accent.

[*Riley*]

I would love to hear everyone's accent on here. I've heard Distortia's over MSN ( microphone ) she has a canadian accent but she is Aussie because she used to live in Canada..
( If you don't mind me telling everyone Distortia lol )

[DucksRMagical]

That would be cool, Riley! I could take a a video of something and talk in the background and post it here. Maybe I'll take a video of all my HP stuff.

I also use British terms, mainly because I've read them in HP. I can imitate a few accents, British, New York City, Southern US, Texan. But I don't think I do them very well.

[FawkesthePhoenix]

yeah, i can imitate accents, too. a video would be cool.

[*Riley*]

Yeah cool ! I'd totaly do that..

Is there a way of posting videos or would you just email it ?

[DucksRMagical]

You post them by uploading them to a website, like www.photobucket.com, and then post the link on here.

[GodrictheGriffon]

Half my class thinks that I have an Irish accent. It's really weird and one of my friends that I've known for three years thought until just a few months ago when I set him straight that I was born in England. I sometimes use different accents subconciously. I once got stuck in a Liverpool one for two weeks after listening to The Beatles constantly for over a month!

[Scarlet Lioness]

It's funny how an Australian accent sounds so different yo a New Zealand one, but most people think NZ'ers are Aussies.

People say I sound American sometimes, with a hint of Irish. It's sooo weird. I'm not American but I am Irish. =]

I sound Irish/Kiwi/American apparently.

[Wanderful]

I'm English but I have a scottish accent. I'm currently in Australia though, for a holiday visit, but I still have to go to school with my cousin ! I'm not aloud to stay home without my aunt/uncle home !
*Mumbles something about burning house and how it only happened once*

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

It's funny how an Australian accent sounds so different yo a New Zealand one, but most people think NZ'ers are Aussies.

People say I sound American sometimes, with a hint of Irish. It's sooo weird. I'm not American but I am Irish. =]

I sound Irish/Kiwi/American apparently.

Australian accents have such a wide range, but certainly a mild one could easily be confused with ours, I can hear it. Sometimes I can't even tell the difference, especially because some Kiwis go and live over there and vice versa.

Personally, I think our accent is just lazy. We must have the laziest accent in the world. It's fantastic, we just grunt and can understand each other hahahaha. Well not quite. But sometimes. It's very laid back.