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Mooey Cow posted:We don't do that OP. Making fun of people for how they speak is extremely rude and insensitive and only an English-speaker would think of doing such a thing, all "hooowdy folks this is how you eat a cheesin burger yeehaw" I don't think anyone is making fun. Well, maybe they are, but I am interested in knowing how people hear other languages and accents. Like, Dutch sometimes sounds like English to me, but I know it isn't. And Portuguese gets me confused to hear it, because it's like Spanish and French together but also isn't either of them! And the other day I was listening to the radio, and I thought they were speaking...I sounded at points like Hebrew or Arabic but just certain things...turned out it was Telugu!
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Wall Balls posted:when making fun of american tourists we say OH MY GAWWWWD That's chicago
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German on the other hand is a beautiful language that really comes through in song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ynj6w2tII
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This is amazing.
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Vato posted:I don't think anyone is making fun. Well, maybe they are, but I am interested in knowing how people hear other languages and accents. Like, Dutch sometimes sounds like English to me, but I know it isn't. And Portuguese gets me confused to hear it, because it's like Spanish and French together but also isn't either of them! TBH, once you know a language, it's very hard to hear anything but actual words when you hear it. So people posting from countries where English is well-known are unlikely to have such experiences. You might hear children trying to imitate English though, and I think they often make sounds like "yeah" and "weah" when doing so.
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Mooey Cow posted:TBH, once you know a language, it's very hard to hear anything but actual words when you hear it. So people posting from countries where English is well-known are unlikely to have such experiences. That reminds me of the director of The Downfall saying he had to turn down the volume every time he watched a Hitler Shouts about X video because otherwised hed be distracted by the actual dialouge
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Mooey Cow posted:You might hear children trying to imitate English though, and I think they often make sounds like "yeah" and "weah" when doing so. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDAFhoT0v9g&t=161s
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Norton posted:Thanks, this is great. Of course there's blackface in this video.
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This reminds me of a memoir about growing in Maoist China (Wild Swans or something?) where as children they played their version of Cowboys and Indians which was "Patriotic Factory Worker vs Decadent Imperialist American Lapdogs" where to be American they ran around saying "Hello! Hello! Hello? Hello!!!"
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say "wa waaa wa wa waa waaaa wa wa wa" while gesturing robotically w your hands. this is claearly english.
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Lima posted:American english: Swap every period and comma with the vile word 'like'.
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I was going to say we call them 'whinging poms' but then you mean the language. We mock it by opening our mouths and speaking it i guess. (Australia)
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In linguistics I learnt that native Americans imitate white people by talking "too much and too fast", calling everyone friend or buddy repeatedly, and acting overly familiar, asking questions that are obviously too personal. Also handshaking and hugging excessively and over enthusiastically.
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Saying the other person's name a lot in a conversation. I thought americans did that only in movies to remind the viewer of the character's names, but recently heard two old rear end american* tourists talking and one of them used the other guy's name twice in the maybe four sentences I overheard. The name was "Charlie" in case you're interested. *could've been canadian too i guess
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Aug 15, 2018 11:45
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I'll pay for it with my credit card
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YeahTubaMike posted:these both sounded pretty much like sims radio A year or so ago my friends and I took some mushrooms and at some point my gf's phone shuffled to the Sims soundtrack The half recognizable almost English gibberish from the Sims had us really concerned for a bit.
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Milo and POTUS posted:I'll pay for it with my credit card Do you have any non dairy creamer
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scott zoloft posted:A year or so ago my friends and I took some mushrooms and at some point my gf's phone shuffled to the Sims soundtrack Lol when you get so high you think you've forgotten english Non sarcastic 
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Gaunab posted:Of course there's blackface in this video. to be fair it's set in america
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ferroque posted:This is the most accurate representation of what english sounds like to non-english speakers (and it's a fuckin banger too) I think this one is funnier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG8uKIqt9Nc
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Parrots pick up on language and approximate it.The nonsense they say is English interpreted by another species. https://youtu.be/LeoPehOQkhM (Subtitles are more what it sounds like than what he is saying though he does know some phrases)
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Icochet posted:Saying the other person's name a lot in a conversation. As an American I notice this and it bothers me. This trait and too much smiling are red flags.
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Icochet posted:Saying the other person's name a lot in a conversation. I thought americans did that only in movies to remind the viewer of the character's names, but recently heard two old rear end american* tourists talking and one of them used the other guy's name twice in the maybe four sentences I overheard. to be honest i feel like in terms of using names to refer to the person you're speaking to, americans don't really ever. Like you can basically forget a person's name after the day you met them and it will almost never come up again whereas in many languages it's common to address someone directly rather than using something like 'you'. Like here it'd come off strange essentially using third person when addressing someone.
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I've only ever known or talked to a few people who say the person's name they're talking to frequently, and those who do it are always weird and off. I definitely don't think it's an american thing. I tried watching 13 Reasons Why, and it was pretty bad enough already, but what made it even more jarringly bad is that every character spoke the name of the person they were talking to multiple times per conversation.
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i've always heard that americans are easy to spot abroad because we have freakishly white and perfect teeth. nobody values tooth polishing and bleaching like americans, or medically unnecessary dental work
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A friend from Hong Kong says Australian English sounds like HURR MURR NURR DURR BURR
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elmer chud posted:As an American I notice this and it bothers me. This trait and too much smiling are red flags. Smiling too much? Like, being friendly?
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A. Beaverhausen posted:Smiling too much? Like, being friendly? Sociopaths wear a constant smile when conversing, as they know that normal humans smile to convey happiness but don't understand any further than that.
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Tree Bucket posted:A friend from Hong Kong says Australian English sounds like HURR MURR NURR DURR BURR That translates to 'hey mate, no dingo baby' if you're interested.
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My wife is from overseas, and while visiting her folks you have a whole flock of little age 1-4 nieces and nephews swarming around. And of course at that age none of them know a lick of English. So to them they're at a family party and there's a bunch of normal adults yeah yeah, but than there's this one weird guy (me) there who just makes strange noises from his mouth instead of talking like a goddamn regular person. Well one time, as one does, you still talk at little kids for fun... "Hey Christina! Where is your brother!" etc, and that 3 year old girl turns to me after enough of this and just goes "BWAWBWAWBWAWBWAWBWAW" at me lol. I must seem like just some complete retard space alien that hangs out with their aunt. It's adorable to be condescended to by a toddler.
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elmer chud posted:Sociopaths wear a constant smile when conversing, as they know that normal humans smile to convey happiness but don't understand any further than that. That's bullshit
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Gaunab posted:That's bullshit 
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Icochet posted:Saying the other person's name a lot in a conversation. I thought americans did that only in movies to remind the viewer of the character's names, but recently heard two old rear end american* tourists talking and one of them used the other guy's name twice in the maybe four sentences I overheard. I don't think this is a thing Americans do at all, or Canadians for that matter. 
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Grape posted:I don't think this is a thing Americans do at all, or Canadians for that matter. I think this might be regional. I talk to people around the country every day and it seems southerners (Dixie, not the SW) do this a lot more than anywhere else. They're much more likely to interject a "..well, [first name], I'm [doin'/thinkin'/gonna'/whatever]" into a sentence than anyone I know. No idea why, whereas up north here I can know someone for weeks and just say "Hey, can you.." without caring I never learned their name or forgot it, or in place of where you or I may may just use "well, man" Just another stupid Southern thing.
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Yeah I'm from the Northeast so we basically do everything the total opposite of what the South does lol. Me being a Northeasterner has also not been a big help with the foreign inlaws, lots of them are decent with English (understanding it rather than speaking it) but then their daughter/niece/sister/cousin went and chose the fastest talking region of the US to pick a husband from. It took me awhile to realize my otherwise English fluent sister in-law was picking up maybe 25% of what I was saying to her and was mostly politely smiling and nodding lol. I have learned to slow down and throw less regionalisms in things.
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Northeasterners are trash English speakers, followed by swedes
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The more I think of it, the more I'm convinced it is just a southern thing because I can hear fat white middle aged white women talking to me and saying "Wehell aaahlraight Maaahkelll (Michael)" Like 2-3 times in a very brief conversation on multiple occasions with me and now I'm irritated irrationally and had just never noticed it before and now will never NOT notice it.
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Gaunab posted:Northeasterners are trash English speakers, followed by swedes We're the epicenter of Yiddish entry into English, and for that alone we are the best. You friggin' schmuck.
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