I have a habit of adopting accents when exposed to them - not usually on purpose - generally quite unconsciously. I was in Wales for two weeks and by the time I left I was singing me words just like the rest of them...![]()
I love to do the Irish accent too - I even had an Irishman fooled once but he got a bit septic when I dropped back into kaiwai...for some reason he seemed to think I was taking the piss...had to do a quick removal - he was a bit pissed at the time.
South African accent continues to elude me though...some of the vowel sounds I just can't get hold of...![]()
. “No pleasure is worth giving up for two more years in a rest home.” Kingsley Amis
I had to change my accent in the uk.
At work on the first day I asked for a desk and a pen. I got given a floppy disk and was told they had no pins. From then I learnt to use an A (like day) vowel.
Can I have a dask? and I'd like some aggs please.
Spat it it out on the streets od CHCH in the 70's
Now days I'm pegged as a fuknKIWI here & spotted as an Aussie cunt when I come "home".
Told that joke about what's the new Kiwi national anthem at a party in Leeston one cold night in 04... oh it's I still call Australia home
It went down like a lead balloon![]()
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