Regional Accents

sometimes when on phone my speech echoes back and it sucks to hear a completly different voice :dabs:

what kind of accent would i like to have ??

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franky four fingers ftw :lol:
 
Mr JP Fugley said:
I can understand if they are like just visiting a Country. I assume they must have one the same as anyone else, even if they are on military duties.

However not for the serious business of soldiering.
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The US have huge numbers of soldiers posted in Japan, S Korea and Germany. These are not active roles as such and consequently they tend to go in and out under normal rules. Due to the rotation of troops most get a stint in one of these slots and therefore need a passport. I like the idea of lining up for a visa stamp though - very Duck Soup.
 
Squeamous said:
On the subject of British accents in America, I found they tended to think I was Australian. They're just not used to hearing foreign accents from other developed countries I think :unsure:.
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The last merkin I spoke to said I spoke good english and asked where I learnt it. They thought I was dutch or something:dabs:
 
I find listening to myself on tape horrible - don't know why it is just embarrassing. My accent is not fairly soft but I still cringe.
 
I hate mine, in several languages.

I used to have a fairly good proper (posh-ish :dabs:) british accent when i used it daily at skewl, then I got really out of practice. My intonation got really mad for a bit, and that was so funny I kept doing it, ended up sounding a bit welsh.

Then I didn't speak any english for a couple of years, and the next time I had to speak any (with some exchange student mongs, and some germans when I was in Germany) I sounded like a merkin.

I'm even more out of practice now, so I expect I'd sound somewhat merkin but mostly ace of base, 'cept when I catch myself and start pronuncing some words with a british accents :dabs:

In other words, I'm all over the place.

It's 'cos of t'telly, see. There's not much british stuff on, and tons of the merkin.

My native accent, like, currently sounds a bit like I'm a hick. It used to be less marked, but I find that the less I communicate with people, the more I revert to my original dialect, which is terrible.

People used to mistake me with people from further up north, but not today.


In other languages I just sound like a menthol, trying my way forward, like.

I fucking hate my own voice as well :dabs:
 
I couldn't be arsed with it last night.

Basically if you're travelling for private/civilian reasons you need one. I should also imagine that if you're going to a base overseas in peacetime different countries will have different passport/Visa requirements. If you're on military business invading a country like Iraq, you would only need a military ID. Clocker of course was suggesting that Americans prefer to go to Iraq because it's more fun than England (you can pretty much torture indiscriminately over there and no one tells you off if in high spirits you accidentally shoot a friend. There is also ice cream and McDonalds on demand). I made a humorous quip about it being a bit excessive to go to war just to avoid getting a passport given that last time I looked only a third of Americans had them. However this point managed to deftly sidestep the Clockmeister and caused a serious sense of humour failure. That's where we're at so far.

To bring us up to date, I can't quite see the invading American forces queueing up at Iraqi passport control languidly kicking the tracks of their tanks waiting for their passports to be checked, tutting loudly about how long it took for their luggage to come through on the carousel.
 
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