Can you hear the difference between Canadians and Americans?

[[T]BludShoT]

If she said that to me I'd be pissed off too. We hate being called Americans haha. Anyways, yeah you can only tell the difference between certain Canadian and American accents. Americans from the south, or new york, or I guess several other areas have a certain kind of accent. Canadians from the east or west also have an accent. But people from major centers like LA, Toronto, Miami, they all sound roughly the same. There are differences sure, but it's more subtle. People from California talk faster and a bit more .. simply than Ontarians, imo.

But I've hung out with different people from different parts of the states and generally the only way you can tell it apart is certain words or expressions that people use (like "eh"). Although for some reason the americans seem to think that we say "About" differently than they do, which completely cracks me up because we say it the same way. I just stare at them like they are on drugs...

[[R-MOD]Wasteland]

Nah man, hosers say it differently. And a lot of people from smaller towns, especially in the prairies.

Newfies are the only really distinctive Canadian accent though. Working in the oil patch you meet a lot of really accent-heavy Newfies.

[Sturnn]

I think i've got some kind of accent though, cos my families name is irish and i can do an irish accent perfectly...yet im from cheshire in the uk..its very wierd! =S

i mean even germans have accents too...they're like us, like coming from up north or south...i think thats how people have different accents..same with farmers..they sound like that cos they are from around the countryside....

[The_motivator]

Well, i suppose i'm a rare breed, much like ADA. Born in Cali, raised from day 2 in the NYC area. Everywhere I go, I've been told I sound native to the area (atleast in the CONUS, perhaps excluding some podunk southern towns.

I am Accent-less, and I'll be damned if I don't use it to my advantage lol.

[ZaZZo]

Originally Posted by [R-PUB]MrD

Upwards and downwards convergence. Where you subconsciously (or consciously) alter your speech to come closer to who you are talking to.

The Queen actually has Cockney in her accent!

Hm, yeah.

At school in English lessons it's really hard to do talk proper English, it can be done but it's wierd :/

However on TS/VoIP I always do it properly

[puglous]

Honestly, the only time I can tell Americans from Canadians is when they say "about". (Americans pronounce the "ou" like "ow", like in the word "how", while Canadians pronounce "ou" like "oo", like in "spooky") Feel free to stare at me like I'm on drugs...

[Brummy]

Brits are way cooler anyways And yea, I mostly can distinguish them from each other.

[danthemanbuddy]

There is a huge range of american accents.

The northeast has the "boston" accent coupled alongside with the "new york" accent
Probably from pennsylvania to the midwest down is considered "normal" american accents

There is probably 3 different southern accents. Texas/ark one which I have is highly recognizable. The missippi to georgia one is twangy. And the carolinas/virginia one is just wierd

Californians i think speak normally...

[CareBear]

reminds me when playing with Jaymz, somebody thought his irish accent was wither scottich or sweedish!
couldnt stop laughin in his face

[[HI]DrDNA]

Originally Posted by puglous

Honestly, the only time I can tell Americans from Canadians is when they say "about". (Americans pronounce the "ou" like "ow", like in the word "how", while Canadians pronounce "ou" like "oo", like in "spooky") Feel free to stare at me like I'm on drugs...

You realize only a small percentage of Canadians speak that way, right ?