Weird Sayings....

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I hate geography...did I tell you that?

Nope, sorry! Oh and pardon my limey faux pas in calling a canuck a yank.

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Flats are different then apartments here, flats are having the entire floor to yourself.

Where'd you hear that ya monkey? :P Apartment's just the American word and flat's the British word. I spent the last 6 months in a flat in the UK and it certainly didn't take up the whole floor I can tell ya!

Edited August 18, 2005 by Images

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Nope, sorry! Oh and pardon my limey faux pas in calling a canuck a yank.

Umm okay...what ever you just said slid past my brain.

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Im Canadian by the way :P I like aussie accents the best...and english. But no offense British, gets on my nerves.

Canadians have an accent too Digital. And yes Images, Americans have MANY accents (I have one of them :) )

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Where'd you hear that ya monkey? :P Apartment's just the American word and flat's the British word. I lived in a flat in the UK and it certainly didn't take up the whole floor I can tell ya!

But in canada people* consider flats like one big open huge space...

 

* me as 'people'

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Canadians have an accent too Digital. And yes Images, Americans have MANY accents (I have one of them :P )

I can do Californian, a bad New Yorker, several Southern ones (including Alabama and the "I do declare!" gentleman one) and a standard TV one. I can halfway do most if I practice but the one that eludes me is that New England one. Its so tough!

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I can do Californian, a bad New Yorker, several Southern ones (including Alabama and the "I do declare!" gentleman one) and a standard TV one. I can halfway do most if I practice but the one that eludes me is that New England one. Its so tough!

I can imitate a cats meow pretty good. Look at the topic everyone...'weird sayings' why are we talking about muffins, flats, and accents? Or did I gear us off track... :P

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you did :P

 

and I hate the saying "You cant have your cake and eat it too", what good is a cake if you cant eat it?

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you did  :P

 

and I hate the saying "You cant have your cake and eat it too", what good is a cake if you cant eat it?

I thought it was you 'can have your cake...' not can't?

Edited August 18, 2005 by DigitalLava

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::Sighs, shakes his head and eats a lychee:: :P

Eats a what? :)

 

All right, I'll admit it...I'm an ignorant American. :P

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Eats a what?  :)

 

All right, I'll admit it...I'm an ignorant American.  :P

Why'd ya admit that? Could of said why America super sizes everything.

Edited August 18, 2005 by DigitalLava

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I can do Californian, a bad New Yorker, several Southern ones (including Alabama and the "I do declare!" gentleman one) and a standard TV one. I can halfway do most if I practice but the one that eludes me is that New England one. Its so tough!

New England is tough? That's my accent, supposedly. Not that I live in New England anymore.

Edited August 18, 2005 by WesleyMustDie

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Why'd ya admit that? Could of said why America super sizes everything.

I admitted it because I don't understand Images...at all.

 

And America has a standard belief..."Bigger is better". I don't much like it.

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I admitted it because I don't understand Images...at all.

 

And America has a standard belief..."Bigger is better". I don't much like it.

Yes, never been a fan of that belief either

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Haligonians have the non-accent!

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and I hate the saying "You cant have your cake and eat it too", what good is a cake if you cant eat it?

Well once you eat the cake you don't have a cake anymore do you? :P

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New England is tough? That's my accent, supposedly. Not that I live in New England anymore.

Oh tis most tough, believe me. During my A-level drama back in high school every time someone had to play an American they got me to try and coach 'em. New England was my kryptonite.

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Oh tis most tough, believe me. During my A-level drama back in high school every time someone had to play an American they got me to try and coach 'em. New England was my kryptonite.

Apparently it's tough to understand too...when I first moved to the south, everyone was asking me to "Slow down" and "Speak normally".

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A lychee is a disgusting fruit. :P And I'm with Harry Potter on the cake saying; that one has always irritated me as well.

Edited August 18, 2005 by Kestra

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A lychee is a disgusting fruit. :) And I'm with Harry Potter on the cake saying; that one has always irritated me as well.

Awww an acquired taste I'll admit and I used to hate them but they grow on you :P

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but they grow on you

This one weirds me out... I don't like things growing on me that shouldn't be!

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oh oh!

 

this is my kinda thread, now lets see, i think i do a pretty good englsh accent and austrailian comes with it...i do the stereotypical chinese accent (watch a christmas story) uh i was told i have a good french accent but my dad says that my 6 years of spanish education is starting to get in the way. i gave up on trying to learn a russian accent a while ago and now im honing my new england accent (watch good will hunting and you'll see what i mean) i think as far as regional american accents go im farely good at the mid-southern (kentucky, tennesee) considering i live at the southwestern edge of a state thats quite close to the 2. i also find new jersian(new joysie!) accents pretty funny altough im not very good at it.

 

i do an impression of rick steve (uncle red) that my canadian friends mom says is dead on "if the women don't find you handsome they should at least find you handy" that saying along with the occasional "eh" about summs up my canadian accent.

 

i live in the midwest, so watch good morning america and you have my accent. i find the way we speak very dull, its not slow or goofy or anything. I live about 15mintues from a city too so thats probably half of it. ::sigh::

 

any as for another wierd saying i quote movies lines alot and mrs. doubtfire is a favorite of mine, this ones from the scene where robin williams's character is faking all of the goofy nannies

"hello! Lailer get back in yer cell... dont make me get the hose whew!!"

whats great about that one is people know they've heard it before but cant remember form what, i dont bother telling them.

 

 

oh just remembered

i was down in kentucky for a drumline competition and after wards there was this car that was decorated with a bunch of halloween decorations (this was in february) well someone was taking a picture of it and in a southern twang her friend says "its not right to take pictures of other peoples cars" it made me smile

 

::catches his breath::

Edited August 18, 2005 by koolaidman

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I can do Californian, a bad New Yorker, several Southern ones (including Alabama and the "I do declare!" gentleman one) and a standard TV one. I can halfway do most if I practice but the one that eludes me is that New England one. Its so tough!

at least there are some of us located in "alabama" do have and possess an expanded vocabulary beyond some exhibited here in this thread......and do know to not ask a canadian "kes-ka-seh-froggie" (spelled phonetically sorry)....and in some cases are

bi-lingual:tesellagee,.....for instance....figure that one out.. :) :P

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I'm bilingual...English and Spanish. :P

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Haligonians have the non-accent!

As do Torontonians.. the only people who have accents in Canada are the Quebecois and the Newfies.

 

:;snickers:: Haligonian..