People who change their accents.

How the * does it happen?Lulu, Gordon Ramsey, Sheena Easton all changed their accents overnight how the * can you go from this;

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfb3Qc4G2U0"]* Clark Interviews Sheena Easton - American Bandstand 1981 - YouTube[/ame]


To this
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sLHkmwhM7I"]Sheena Easton on Richard and Judy 2001 part 1 - YouTube[/ame]



W**kers

 

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHj4CPTekNc"]Steve McClaren Interview - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhtq1ObGHy8"]Steve McClaren - dutch accent - YouTube[/ame]

 

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Probably because where you live use different words and you end up using those new words with the same accent that everybody is using them. Before you know it your changing the way you said your normal words to their accent as well.

Coming from Glasgow like us every day I talk the same but if I go abroad and someone not from Glasgow says something you start talking like a bawbag so they know what your saying.

Like in Glasgow nobody ever uses the word "yeah" but in America they do, so youd start saying "yeah" all the time like them plus there must be loads of other words we dont use that they do then thats a chain reaction to swapping the way you say your normal words to their way.

 

shame on all of them.

 

I know this is on different scale but i knew a guy common as muck that moved to Mulguy in '10 and now speaks prim and proper utter fandan. Even calls it Millingavie.

 

What can they do though?

Imagine living in LA or wherever that woman at the top moved and going about "Hawl you, dae you know wer the boozer is am * chokin fur a swally been aw our the shoap n seen fuckaw - everycunt a ask disnae no wit am sain"

Confused American....

 

Surely when you come back home you can relax and speak in your own accent.

Any time i've been in England or abroad I speak polite but I don't change my whole accent.

 

Used to do a lot of work out that way and Bearsden, always struck me as just a massive retirement complex but for the wealthy :smiley-laughing002: very prim and proper though, they'd go chalk white if you told them Maryhill was only a 15 minute drive away :smiley-laughing002:

 

Embarrassing * and no excuse for it..

It's put on and false and you only lose it if you try to..

 

I'd love to change my accent the dundionan one isn't plesant

 

Difference is, if an American comes to Scotland and speaks as they normaly would 9/10 you will understand them.

Try and speak glaswegian slang in anywhere apart from Scotland and you get

You do feel like a right fud saying 'yes' instead of 'aye' though :smiley-laughing002:

 

Maybe depends how long you spend abroad though cut off from normality. Like a famous person when abroad they are probably never alone and always talking and doing stuff, maybe surrounded with Americans, English people and others like Canadians or whoever and are having to constantly put on a fake way of talking to be understood. If you spend months doing that and were to end up moving there and living for 20 year rarely returning home your accent or way of speaking would probably totally change.

The scottish way of talking is much different than most others.

If we were to speak to an American and a Dutch, German, French, Italian and Arab were all to speak in English to an American, the American would probably understand all the foreign people easier than us because they probably learned American English and we'd use other words or talk different to Americans so even putting on out posh voices its still different from them.

Some words we dont even use like "are" when do we ever say are, we just say "ye gon to the game", "wit you dain", instead of the English way of saying are you or is what are you doing. So in our posh voices wed probably say "what you doing" or "you going to" missing out the are and confusing americans.

 

I do get the whole toning it down so others can understand it but immediately you'd revert back to normality,if living abroad that's abit different but I don't believe you can lose your accent whatsoever and it's usually people that are embarrassed by what they are trying to change it to fit in..

In other words,total *..

 

Aye that's what I mean, I can't fathom how suddenly your accent is gone forever.

My gran has liven in scotland for like 40 years and her accent is still irish as *.

 

Iv been away from scotland for 16years and i have kept my accent. never had a problem people understanding me.

 

I have a mixed accent due to having lived in England in my early years, unfortunately that has formed the base of my accent, having since lived in Scotland for 10 years+ in Glasgow/Aberdeen my accent is slowly changing, trust me i would rather have a more Scottish based accent.

Its an odd one, Scottish people think i have an english accent, english people think i have a scottish accent, in reality i sound like both.

 

An English boy, actually 2nd time ive mentioned him on here in about 3 days joined my school and moved here when he was about 12. He was from Manchester and spoke with that strong rough Manchester accent like the * in shameless.

His accent changed a lot, after about 6 months or a year it was like 60% manchester 40% glesga now he speaks like 90% hes from glesga but just on some words hes got a wee different sound but nobody would ever know he was English I dont think now. Hes 24 now so lived half his life there and half here.

 

The younger you are the more likely to change and quite quickly.
But i have also met people from glasgow who have not been there for 30years and still have a thicker accent than me....lol

 

I still have my accent, although i say words differently from when i am back home or you have to stand there and repeat until you murder some * :smiley-laughing002: