Regional Accents

Squeamous said:
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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Perhaps not - but in my world them would be the rules :shifty:

Clocker rarely has a failure on the humour front so one suspects he is being a bit of a tease :shifty:
 
Yeah, an' also the fact that their primary contact seems to be wiv people oo go there 'cos few Americans 'ave ever bin aahtside America mate.

(okay Chalice?)
 
I actually heard your (chalice) voice once on gmailtalk (or whatever it was called),
as i recall,
it was smooth, deep, resonatingly barreled confident manly tone mixed with a unique accent just to add a specific regional flavor and not banal cliche voice.

You do not need a Stephen Hawking's voice, although for a few quid i can slit the cords.
 
Biggles said:
People live in Wisconsin? :O
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Yes, that's where Australia shipped all it's criminals.
Leading to the iconic phrase, "Throw a little lutefisk on the barbie, mate?"

Squeamous said:
Yeah, an' also the fact that their primary contact seems to be wiv people oo go there 'cos few Americans 'ave ever bin aahtside America mate.
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True.
The one or two who do manage to leave the country seem to prefer Iraq to England, oddly enough.
 
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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Whereas the average Brit could unerringly differentiate between a Philadelphia accent and a Wisconsinite?
 
My only recent info re: soldiers and passports comes from my nephew who recently spent his spring break out here with me.
He is a third year cadet at West Point.

Whenever traveling off campus (base?) he is required to carry a special military passport, presumably for emergency use to reconnect to his assigned unit wherever they may have gotten to in his absence.

I have no idea what the procedure is when a unit is shipped overseas- obviously they do not go through Iraqi Customs (if such a thing even exists).
 
Ah! Then I should have got into a long boring dialogue about it rather than just giving up? I'll remember for next time.
 
100% said:
I actually heard your (chalice) voice once on gmailtalk (or whatever it was called),
as i recall,
it was smooth, deep, resonatingly barreled confident manly tone mixed with a unique accent just to add a specific regional flavor and not banal cliche voice.

You do not need a Stephen Hawking's voice, although for a few quid i can slit the cords.
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Zed, barring the cutting my throat thing, that was the nicest thing anybody has ever said to me.

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Yes, apart from the radio broadcaster voice, the conversation itself was not as exciting.

It went something like this
"Hello?"
"Hello?"
"Helllllllloooo?"
"Can you hear me?"
zed types - i can hear you
"I can't hear you"
zed types - I do not have a microphone
"Damn shame that is"
zed types - i'm new to this, was just trying it out
"Fuck you newb"
zed types - No fuck you
"do you want to hear me sing?"
zed types - why not? hit it
"lalalala lola la la lola etc etc

I don't exactly remember the convo, but it was your basic i got technical failure typo thing.
 
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