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Post by goat on Mar 9, 2014 22:08:12 GMT
Our Kid has been with us for six weeks or so now, and has settled really well. He has a VERY strong Northern accent (which we love), and we are from the South East. Just this week he has started to develop the most strangest accent, where he is subconsciously picking up on the differences between us! Its only words here and there, but its getting more and more daily.... we miss his "old" accent! Funnily enough he asked me why we speak different languages, ha ha. Anyway, he's happy enough, its just an eye opener to others when he sounds like a mixture of Peter Kay, and Dick Van Dyke  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2014 5:52:30 GMT
Hi Goat, Glad to see you back and to hear your Kid is settling in well. Accents are a funny one. He will eventually morph into sounding like a southener, like you and Mrs. Goat. Children do pick up on the accents around them. I'm Irish and still have my accent (thank goodness ), after 30 years living here, although it has changed a little, but my DD's are English and have English accents as we live here. My sister lives in America and her children have American accents, so they do absorb it from their environment no matter where the parents are from. Also it's interesting that although I'm adopted, apparently when were younger people couldn't tell my brother and I apart on the phone, as we sounded exactly the same, despite not being genetically related. People also said we had the same sense of humour, same expressions etc, so you do grow to be like each other. Having said that, myself and my sister are worlds apart. It's like we are from two different planets, so I may have blown my own theory there - chalk and cheese in every conceivable way, (also adopted). You'll have to record your Kid speaking. to play to him when he's older. I'm sure he'll find it amusing/strange to hear himself speaking "Northern". |
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Post by moo on Mar 10, 2014 6:06:23 GMT
Hi goat great to hear from you.....
Must be funny listening to your kid as his tones change..... Think Jmk is right you need to record him before it vanishes....
Love the thought of American accents even tho parents English.... Peer pressure eh!!!
Xx. moo. Xx
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2014 6:13:13 GMT
One parent "Irish" Moo, (not English) and one American - get it right girl!  Although my sister has the strongest American accent I've ever heard LOL!!  And my ex (black British) used to have his cousins in Canada, thinking his English accent was hilarious. They loved listening to him speak and thought it was really funny. |
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Post by chotimonkey on Mar 10, 2014 6:53:57 GMT
Accents are v interesting I've noticed wth our two older, girls who were pre verbal coming home, that they mostly have our estuary accents but there is the odd word that is stored In their memory that is pure FC accents, and a few words they have learnt from my Indian subcontinent dad and northern mum they store them how they hear them! I'm sure everything will get ironed out into their school accent once they start, which is kind of a shame... I love their little composite accents
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Post by loadsofbubs on Mar 10, 2014 8:00:18 GMT
my 'kids' are the same. they were never really going to develop strong northern accents becoz frankly I talk posh, and talk posher at home than I do when out and about (self preservation technique around here, think 'chummy' and tone it down a little and that's my at home speaking voice!). their dad is Chinese so has a strong Chinese English accent, and then we moved around a lot when they were little so they developed Americanised accents. my eldest lost his when he came back to England (again self preservation I think!) and now speaks in a fairly non accented voice. my daughter tho retained her accent though it muted over the years but is now being fed again coz she's living in the states! my youngest didn't speak til he was over 5 and his first word was 'ner' (no), which was accent perfect for here, and I cringed!! he doesn't speak with a particular accent now, and these days I am just grateful he speaks and dont worry so much about how he says it!
it is funny though to hear children speaking in accents that don't quite fit. the children of some friends of mine have some words they pronounce in a Chinese English accent, and some they pronounce in a Scottish accent (mum being the scot) and they have lived in this area all their lives!
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Post by daffin on Mar 10, 2014 9:39:56 GMT
I had a 'school voice' when I was a kid, that my parents only heard when school friends phoned. Again, self preservation. I'm now a bit of a chameleon. Basically RP, but can morph a bit to stop sounding so posh. I'm hoping Monkey Boy and Mouse grow up with our 'home' accent rather than the local one - cos I think it's pretty ugly (probably shows my deeply ingrained snobbish instincts - my Mum used to correct our English obsessively, not even letting us finish a sentence if we said it wrong..... It's how she was brought up by her Irish grandmother in Cape Town, and how she got to sound so English. Useful as a white South African in liberal 1970s England when she arrived off the boat!). Accents and our attitudes to them say a lot about us, and our assumptions about them in class-ridden Britain are hilarious!
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Post by justbserene11 on Mar 10, 2014 13:10:49 GMT
Well, DH was born in the Middle East and lived both in the UK and his place of birth until he was twelve. He has a south east accent, but he does 'morph' into other accents dependent upon who he is speaking to. He hadn't realised this until I pointed it out to him. He was surprised, as he has lived in the UK for the majority of his life but he thinks it was probably a sub conscious defence mechanism from when he was a child. Interesting discussion!
Goat I am glad that things are going well and agree with JMK that you should definiately record him!
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Post by sooz on Mar 10, 2014 13:23:32 GMT
My ds has a whole host of different accents depending on where he is and who he's talking to and how he's feeling!
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Post by chotimonkey on Mar 10, 2014 14:05:47 GMT
My dh and brother always amuse me as they are both in their 40s and are both well spoken and quite softly spoken unless they are with their 'boys' when they both subconsciously get their 'cool' voices with all sorts of slang and dialect they never use in every day conversation  |
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Post by goat on Mar 11, 2014 7:39:54 GMT
Thanks for all the interesting replies.
I am terrible for slipping into accents when talking to someone, I developed a strange , non descript northern twang on introductions, although I did grow up in Shropshire for most of my childhood, so I used that as an excuse! (note to Mrs Goat, Shropshire is still not "up north", it is in the West Midlands)
Thanks also for you kind thoughts about Our Kid, he is really settling well.n The other day he came in and said " Dad, shall we have a chat?" "ok" "well, I think life is good. And I am never moving again"
Sweet!
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Post by kstar on Mar 11, 2014 14:21:21 GMT
When Starlet hears words pronounced differently to how she would say them, she chants them repeatedly, trying to get the new pronunciation right lol. The word of the week this week is beetroot!
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Post by gilreth on Mar 11, 2014 19:00:17 GMT
I have a mixed accent myself thanks to moving around a lot as a child. Basically Cambridgeshire/North London with a twang of the north. I use northern As in words like bath etc. but otherwise it is more southern. I am actually the inly one of the three of us born in the north but both my siblings have much stronger local accents than I do....
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Post by goat on Mar 12, 2014 7:39:49 GMT
KStar, very funny...
Sadly, our word of the week isn't so entertaining, its "Why?"... and I think it might be the same next week, and the week after.... (but it does sound like Dick Van Dyke is saying it thirty million times a day, so thats entertaining!
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Post by moo on Mar 12, 2014 7:51:04 GMT
 ...... Great thread goat.....
just lovin' all the replies.... Great images of chummy meets ant n dec!!!!
xx. moo. Xx
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