Your Native Tongue

[mazin]

Thanks, prathapml! VOTED!

[prathapml]

Cool!

Thanks for voting - this goes out to the rest of you as well.....

[big_gie]

french here

my country is 3/4ths english to about 1/4th french .. i dont like french

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[Phyridean]

Well, I'm an english major, so....Spanish!

Seriously, though, English, and I'm reasonably proficient in Spanish.

[utln]

Bostonian English!

[gamehead200]

Bostonian English! 

OMG, that's funny!

[prathapml]

Bostonian English!

OMG, that's funny!

Aaargh!!

Not until I understand what makes it so!

[Phyridean]

Aaargh!!

Not until I understand what makes it so!

That might take some time, even with the high quality explainers here at MSFN....

Suffice it to say, that a lot of people can't even understand what people from boston are saying...for instance, my parents were once asked if their automatic transmission car was in the park gear...it came out more like:

"Is y'r caa in paak?"

[prathapml]

OK, now I get it....

[utln]

Different parts of the US have different accents. Boston tends to have a very strong accent. We replace R's with A's. Example, we pronounce "Winter" as "Wintah". If you ever meet someone from Boston, ask them to say, "park the car in the Harvard yard".

[Phyridean]

If you ever meet someone from Boston, ask them to say, "park the car in the Harvard yard".

or rather..."paak teh caa in teh haavaad yaad"

ouch ouch ouch...

It's one of those like scottish people speaking english: it's really fun to listen to, but really hard to understand...

[mazin]

In Boston, it was hard to me to understand that a shop assistant meant to say "battery".

But it took me hours in NYC to understand that they meant to say "How are you doing?".

Mostly, Americans have their own accent which could make you forget your English.

[HyDeNCiTy]

Spanish is my native tongue!!! YAY!

[prathapml]

Nice diversity of languages we have here - but as expected, english is in the majority. Oh well, makes it easy for us to communicate amongst each other..

[tak]

Japanese >>/ Chinese >>/ New Yorker English. Heh.

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