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| Thread ID: 141752 | 2016-02-17 06:11:00 | Rant | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1416141 | 2016-02-17 17:26:00 | or "chimley" :) You left the "b" out! Ken :) |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1416142 | 2016-02-17 18:12:00 | Inserting an "i" in mischievous so it's pronounced "miss cheev ious". Or inserting an "i" anywhere (ipad, iphone etc) :D |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1416143 | 2016-02-17 18:34:00 | Accents. ;) No it isn't. Some kiwis do it. I won't mention who they usually are. And watching a US program, several people on it, all from the same location, the one woman kept saying arks.... It's laziness, not accent. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1416144 | 2016-02-17 18:41:00 | Geneology instead of genealogy. | Neil McC (178) | ||
| 1416145 | 2016-02-17 18:46:00 | ass-k arse-k That's accent. But the K is the last sound in the word. Ark-s ak-s Accent but still the wrong pronunciation. Makes them sound like idiots |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1416146 | 2016-02-17 18:50:00 | Supposebly is not a word Also weird thing about accents. I can hear the Kiwi accent when a Kiwi is on an American TV show or movie but not in person. Probably from watching so much American TV and getting used to their accent in that context. The reverse is also true, I don't normally notice the American accent (except for strong regional variants) on TV but it's obvious in person. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1416147 | 2016-02-17 18:56:00 | Transposition of letters in various ways , is not uncommon. It is heard all the time on radio, TV, in ads, by announcers, by most NZers in fact :)............. eg sto-er, mo-er instead of store, more. Even fo-er instead of 'for' deriving from fo-er instead of four because it sounds the same. It's the way of the world. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1416148 | 2016-02-17 20:44:00 | Kiwi's using Ass instead of Arse Could go on all day about language that annoys me :) But I sometimes am guilty too, I tend to do the Mischiev i ous thing |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1416149 | 2016-02-17 20:45:00 | I agree 100%. Lets keep the purity of our English language. God knows we want it to stop evolving & changing. So we will need to go back to how it was say 600 years ago, before it was bastardized by the commoners. Any changes after that, cant be used. No foreign words , despite issues thats going to cause, since we bastardize many foreign words in our language. If we cant correctly speak those foreign words in common use, then we have no right to use them . Lots of words will need to be struck from our language . On the radio today they were saying that Shakespeare simply made up new words. They obviously will all need to go. We cant have anyone just making up new words can we. Those damn NZ'ers will be banned from speaking our pure English. Those damn kiwis , its fish, not fiesh or feesh . The Aussies are right, if we cant speak our perfect English language correctly, cant even get the vowels right, make them all speak Maori. :) US English is a different (more sensible) animal, so US English will be considered a separate language from our pure UK English . Even our PC's recognize US English as separate from UK English. After all, who are we to say what he US do with their version . |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1416150 | 2016-02-17 20:51:00 | I like hearing different accents, even in New Zealand I can often identify someone from a certain area. In Britain you don't need to travel far to find a noticeable difference. Yes, some pronunciations/accents can be questionable but I'm not pedantic about it. It depends on the circumstances or whether I am having a bad hair day but I do expect good speech from those in certain occupations, such as television, to set a good example. I have an accent, my friends from other countries say I do so it must be true.:) |
Marnie (4574) | ||
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