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atomsk
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 Posted - 2010/12/16 : 20:19:47
I watch tv and movies from all over the world, but some times accents from other country's throw me off so does some slang.
So I was wanting to know something like this.
If you are from a county other than the states, and watch some of our movies/tv do you get thrown off by our accents and/or slang?
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8D
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Posted - 2010/12/16 : 21:05:50
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Originally posted by atomsk:
I watch tv and movies from all over the world, but some times accents from other country's throw me off so does some slang.
So I was wanting to know something like this.
If you are from a county other than the states, and watch some of our movies/tv do you get thrown off by our accents and/or slang?
my friend from New Zealand says that they are so used to watching American movies that it doesn't throw them off at all
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atomsk
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Posted - 2010/12/16 : 21:14:53
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my friend from New Zealand says that they are so used to watching American movies that it doesn't throw them off at all
How about yourself? You live in Canada but you guys must have some slang we dont, right?
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DJ Lawlzy
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Posted - 2010/12/17 : 00:50:31
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Originally posted by atomsk:
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Originally posted by 8D:
my friend from New Zealand says that they are so used to watching American movies that it doesn't throw them off at all
How about yourself? You live in Canada but you guys must have some slang we dont, right?
Every country has their own slang, sure, but I don't think Canada is radically different enough that we'd have trouble watching American movies, really. Most of the movies/TV we see here is American anyway.
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Hard2Get
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Posted - 2010/12/17 : 01:01:17
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Originally posted by DJ Lawlzy:
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Originally posted by atomsk:
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Originally posted by 8D:
my friend from New Zealand says that they are so used to watching American movies that it doesn't throw them off at all
How about yourself? You live in Canada but you guys must have some slang we dont, right?
Every country has their own slang, sure, but I don't think Canada is radically different enough that we'd have trouble watching American movies, really. Most of the movies/TV we see here is American anyway.
Yeah absolutely not. We get a great deal of American TV here, and there really is no issue of understanding any of it. Mostly because it's so well established that any slang that does occur that isn't English we've already heard many times before and got to know (from the same TV programs).
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Dante
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Posted - 2010/12/17 : 01:15:36
Lots of American shows here, too, so I'm used to it. Sometimes someone might have some twists to the way they speak that I find annoying, but most of the time I don't really notice or care.
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Hard2Get
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Posted - 2010/12/17 : 01:18:52
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Lots of American shows here, too, so I'm used to it. Sometimes someone might have some twists to the way they speak that I find annoying, but most of the time I don't really notice or care.
Yes like 'don't got' instead of 'don't have'. I don't know if writers intend for this error but if not then they are genuinely retarded. It doesn't even sound right.
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atomsk
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Posted - 2010/12/17 : 01:33:43
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Yes like 'don't got' instead of 'don't have'. I don't know if writers intend for this error but if not then they are genuinely retarded. It doesn't even sound right.
Are you saying that they change it to "dont have"? Most people now days say "i dont got that", some still say "i dont have that".
The only reason I ask this, I was watching some documentaries the other day, then watch the movie "Green Street Hooligans" and more than half of what some people were saying I couldnt understand them.
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DJ Lawlzy
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Posted - 2010/12/17 : 01:41:41
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Originally posted by atomsk:
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Originally posted by Hard2Get:
Yes like 'don't got' instead of 'don't have'. I don't know if writers intend for this error but if not then they are genuinely retarded. It doesn't even sound right.
Are you saying that they change it to "dont have"? Most people now days say "i dont got that", some still say "i dont have that".
The only reason I ask this, I was watching some documentaries the other day, then watch the movie "Green Street Hooligans" and more than half of what some people were saying I couldnt understand them.
If they have "informal English" like that in movies it's either a) on purpose, to match the dialect of the movie characters, or b) NOT on purpose, therefore the script was written this way which is funny and embarrassing.
The only people who I personally have come across who say "don't got that" on a regular basis were from redneck country.
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Posted - 2010/12/17 : 02:03:56
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Originally posted by atomsk:
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Originally posted by Hard2Get:
Yes like 'don't got' instead of 'don't have'. I don't know if writers intend for this error but if not then they are genuinely retarded. It doesn't even sound right.
The only reason I ask this, I was watching some documentaries the other day, then watch the movie "Green Street Hooligans" and more than half of what some people were saying I couldnt understand them.
lol. This isn't surprising. East End (of London) dialect is almost unintelligible to anyone outside of England.
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Posted - 2010/12/17 : 02:12:44
No I don't :) We have subtitles for everything that isn't in swedish, but if there are any typical language jokes, then it can be a little difficult to get the joke
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latininxtc
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Posted - 2010/12/17 : 02:48:12
i never had a problem with it. i've seen some british sitcoms that come on our PBS channel, Keeping up appearances is 1, and two others that i've watched every now and then that i don't know the titles to. one of them is about a man who has superhuman powers and only his wife knows, and another is about sales associates in a clothing dept. store.
never had a problem with their slang or accents. i have watched a documentary called teenage tourettes camp and i found it a challenge to keep up with, especially 1 of them who sounded like she mumbled all the time.
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Hard2Get
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Posted - 2010/12/17 : 14:44:15
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Originally posted by atomsk:
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Originally posted by Hard2Get:
Yes like 'don't got' instead of 'don't have'. I don't know if writers intend for this error but if not then they are genuinely retarded. It doesn't even sound right.
Are you saying that they change it to "dont have"? Most people now days say "i dont got that", some still say "i dont have that".
The only reason I ask this, I was watching some documentaries the other day, then watch the movie "Green Street Hooligans" and more than half of what some people were saying I couldnt understand them.
No, that's not what I'm saying. I'm just pointing out how retarded it is. Makes a lot of sense that it would be deliberate though as Lawlzy said, because surely no one who is writing scripts for TV is that stupid. It's still odd though why they would want to perpetuate such a thing if in reality most people don't actually talk like that.
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Hard2Get
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Posted - 2010/12/17 : 14:47:33
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Originally posted by latininxtc:
i never had a problem with it. i've seen some british sitcoms that come on our PBS channel, Keeping up appearances is 1, and two others that i've watched every now and then that i don't know the titles to. one of them is about a man who has superhuman powers and only his wife knows, and another is about sales associates in a clothing dept. store.
never had a problem with their slang or accents. i have watched a documentary called teenage tourettes camp and i found it a challenge to keep up with, especially 1 of them who sounded like she mumbled all the time.
Wow those are just the worst comedies. Aimed at the middle aged. Keeping Up Appearances is really old too.
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Posted - 2010/12/17 : 15:08:19
tbh, it throws me when i hear a british accent in an american movie.
i think the british accent throws me in british movies more than anything really... and thats saying something since im british
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Posted - 2010/12/17 : 16:18:32
If anything, it throws me when i hear other australian accents.
We really do have the ugliest dialect of the english language... it's so lazy... but i never notice it unless i hear it in stark contrast to, say, an american accent (like in a movie).
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