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| Thread ID: 103709 | 2009-10-03 22:02:00 | Kiwi accent - Hard to understand? | papa_smurf (15292) | PC World Chat |
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| 816659 | 2009-10-03 22:02:00 | When i was at starbucks in the states, one of my mates asked a lady how to use the wireless internet, and the lady went to give him a glass of water. LOL Kiwis pronounce plant as pl-aunt, americans pl-ant and blast as bl-asst Do you think kiwis accent are hard to understand |
papa_smurf (15292) | ||
| 816660 | 2009-10-03 22:11:00 | I'm just wondering how the lady can mistake 'wireless internet' with 'a glass of water'. | qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 816661 | 2009-10-03 22:13:00 | I'm just wondering how the lady can mistake 'wireless internet' with 'a glass of water'. IDK, we just LOL'd so hard |
papa_smurf (15292) | ||
| 816662 | 2009-10-03 22:29:00 | As an immigrant the kiwi accent is probably the easiest of the English speaking languages to understand, much easier than American, Canadian, Australi whinge and anywhere North of London in England | gary67 (56) | ||
| 816663 | 2009-10-03 22:29:00 | The accent is no problem, it is fairly pure. I believe it has been quoted as next to BBC English. What I have a problem with is the "CroakyVoice" that is in vogue at the moment, usually by young females. Almost unintelligable(spelling?). Where did that sound come from? The sooner it goes the better. PJ |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 816664 | 2009-10-03 22:32:00 | As an immigrant the kiwi accent is probably the easiest of the English speaking languages to understand, much easier than American, Canadian, Australi whinge and anywhere North of London in England I have just put a hex on you!!! There is nowt wrong with a Yorkshire accent!!!!PJ |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 816665 | 2009-10-03 22:47:00 | It is only other people that have accents........................:clap Edit: when we first arrived here 32 years ago, my wife asked for six eggs at the dairy over the road, she was given a packet of Zig Zag cigarette papers. Edit: poppa john, the croaky voice as you call it amongst young girls seems to be world wide, well amongst Americans and Australians and even the British seem to be doing it |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 816666 | 2009-10-03 22:55:00 | Some accents are truly beautiful. The Welsh one would be tops. Course I am biased being half Welsh & having lived there. Some of the West Country, same. Some of the Irish & Scottish as well. PJ | Poppa John (284) | ||
| 816667 | 2009-10-03 23:16:00 | The one the grates me like finger nails down a blackboard is the that NZ girl accent like when they call out at the supermarket price check on ............... I like the Southern accent from around Gore. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 816668 | 2009-10-03 23:18:00 | When I was waiting in a queue at Disneyland with my then young daughter, a group of American girls asked us where we were from. We replied simply, "New Zealand." Apparently we were meant to say more as one of them said, "Don't stop talking - we love your accent." "Not difficult to understand?" I asked. "No," they chorused, "Just keep talking, we love it." | Roscoe (6288) | ||
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