Accents
 

What is the matter with Canadians not being able to tell the difference between a British, Australian and New Zealand accent? Really ticks me off. Learn to hear the difference.

/rant

I can tell the difference between British/Aussie (it's pretty blatant...), but not Aussie/Kiwi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2gii...rom=PL&index=7

Why England people so snobbish? Why hijack all thread? This Northwest North America forum, not England forum. Make your own EnglandScene.net

I only have issues with Aussies/Kiwi's...I have NEVER heard of anyone mistaking English for Aussie/Kiwi...Sucks to be you.

The British and South Africans have the same accent

/flame on

Don't they? :haha:

TOP GEAR RULES



i've been saying that to every brit i meet :)


welcome!

they totally don't

I can usually tell the difference between all three, but I have lived in New Zealand for about a year+multiple vacations there.

English = easy to tell
Aussie = very similar to the NZ accent, yet much more of a "nasal" sound
NZ = what the other two aren't, and a bit of a softer accent then the Aussies

That's about the best I can describe it.

you think thats bad.... white boys thinks all asians are chinese ...><

i can't really tell the difference too ...but i dun really care ...

Heh...exactly! You can only tell the difference if you have came in contact with the dialects. At least for us Asians we can tell between English and French and Spanish and etc. A white dude probably can't tell the difference between Mandarin, Korean and Japanese!

Whats to say its just white folks? What about Latinos, Blacks, Natives, Indians, Persians, etc etc.

Why would this be surprising, how often would anyone here talk to anyone with one of these accents?

i can kinda tell the difference, but so what if I can't?

i don't see the point of this rant

it's not like i interact with these accents regularly

It's because nobody gives a shit.

You guys arguing about brit vs. Aussie??

The only accent I have trouble recognizing is India vs. pretty much anything middle east... their English just have this weird accent.....

Now have any of you met a person that's Aussie that lived in UK or visa versa? 'cause it's fucked! Can't even tell which is which!

I have a friend from Perth who lived in London for 3 years and another friend from Manchester that lived in Melborne for 5 years. Really wacked accents.

it could be alot worse... hehe.. its all english damn it..

I get that same shit mate!! Im not Australian and im not South African, im English and damn proud of it

It's easy...girls with an aussie accent are way hotter than those with an english accent.

lol wow...

this is retarded... no one cares... but it's always pretty awkwrad as hell when you mistake people.

i can tell between british/aussie, but not aussie/kiwi or anything, that's too much.

how can you mess that up? the Aussie's have straight teeth :D

ZING!

I can't tell the difference between mandarin and taiwanese