Non-american forum ppl: what's your stereotype american accent?

[lip]

Still learning english, but I just passed the important moment when I finally can think in the new language and not have to translate every sentence first in my brain.

But my accent still is as heavy as the faults and wrongs in my writings. I sound like a young Schwarzenegger. And If I try to speak "real american" english without my swiss/german accent, I sound like Ross Perot.

Greetings, lip

[Hidden_Hunter]

Originally Posted by lip

Still learning english, but I just passed the important moment when I finally can think in the new language and not have to translate every sentence first in my brain.

But my accent still is as heavy as the faults and wrongs in my writings. I sound like a young Schwarzenegger. And If I try to speak "real american" english without my swiss/german accent, I sound like Ross Perot.

Greetings, lip

"real american" english isn't english at all

[swek]

Originally Posted by lip

I sound like a young Schwarzenegger.

Don't listen to the others. That accent is dead sexy.

[Vette Boss]

Originally Posted by Hidden_Hunter

"real american" english isn't english at all

American "English" is a diseased language. Completely and utterly removed from the original language. I think the founders of the language would be rolling around in their graves, if they knew what the septics have done to it.

My family is British and we keep correct English, and boy have I copped some flack for it. You'd be surprised how rude some Americans get when someone doesn't use their version, it's almost as though I'm a terrorist.

This is the conservative Southern US, though. I'm not sure if other bits of the country are better.

//Sorry for rambling on.. I'll stop now.

[narin]

Originally Posted by Vette Boss

I think the founders of the language would be rolling around in their graves, if they knew what the septics have done to it.

i think they would be rolling around in their graves no matter what version of english they hear

[BlaRo]

Originally Posted by Vette Boss

American "English" is a diseased language. Completely and utterly removed from the original language. I think the founders of the language would be rolling around in their graves, if they knew what the septics have done to it.

Or they'd laugh their asses off seeing some guy from Arkansas trying to talk like them and using their big words.

[watisdis]

Originally Posted by Vette Boss

I think the founders of the language would be rolling around in their graves, if they knew what the septics have done to it.

These "founders" you speak of wouldn't understand any modern form of english period. English is really a Hodge-Podge of many other, older (some extinct) languages. Every culture that has ever contributed to the English Language has undoubtedly left their mark. English has never really stopped changing so therefore, any English speaker ("septics" as you have eloquently put it) of any period and place could be charged with "not conserving" the language. The very fact that English changed so much when it arrived in the Americas, just goes to show that the language hasn't stopped doing what it does best: changing. Get used to it. A couple hundred years from now, English will have transformed into something unrecognizeable to us today. Afterall, it was your ancestors penchant for colonialism that that started the whole 'septic ingleesh' disease.