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I am aware this is an international site but I don't know how large.

So where are you from and if U.S. or Canada what state/territory?

I remember another thread for this topic. Anyways, Me french but me live in Switzerland.

Iiindia. Zee land of zee elephants.

I'm originally from Bakersfield, California.. most polluted city in the US for many years, woo hoo.  But now I'm living in Santa Barbara, CA, where I go to school and do all of my things. :0

born in Tirane, Albania, 1 year later moved to greece for 2 years,  then moved to montreal, canada.

I live in Spokane Washington once one of the most polluted places in Washington now on elf the cleanest.

Woah! Hugo we don't live that far apart! I live near Seattle

America, lived in Alabama all my life but hopefully I can change that.

I'm from Ohio. 

I wouldn't recommend it.

Everybody in Ohio would agree with this.

St. Louis, but I live in LA.

Iceland.

Gadsden Purchase, North America, Earth, Sol System, Milky-Way Galaxy... 

 

^ I see what you did there :D

Jumpy eh?

Canadia, currently in BC, originally from ON

Ontario? and BC not very good

Yeah, ON = Ontario.

Why is BC not very good? Only real difference I have found is it seems really American.

Hurhurhur 'merry cans!

Hobbiton, New Zealand. 

Well... technically, not exactly Hobbiton, but... eh, somewhere in Middle Earth. 

Sorry typo meant to type what does that mean had a very large brain fart.

I'm from the Philippines, where it's always hot during the summer, which is right now. How I wish I lived somewhere else...

USA has wack-ass weather ATM.

Don't go there.

Just read this.. You'll understand.

 

Yep.. Story of my life, right there.

I thought Mexico was weed capital...

But it's legal in The Netherlands.

I've visited Mexico there was a lot of weed and over priced stuff... 11 U.S. dollars for a plastic bucket, and 2 plastic shovels?!? And fart a lot flamingo's 

Australia - where they drive on the 'wrong' side of the road.

G'day mite!

I suspect you really like annoying people.... So we have a lot of different people on this site... Now what about accent's?

Mine sounds like a Northern Europe accent even though I've never been there.

I have a southern drawl. I didn't really think it was that noticeable until I went to basic training and everybody was teasing me about my "hick accent". I like to think I sound like Scarlet O'Hara xD

Edit: Guess I should add the American part to that statement lol

American accent (there is no such thing as a canadian accent), but not the southern drawl, just plain american accent. I can emulate several other accents fairly well though.

Down south we would call that a yankee accent :P

Why yes, there is such a thing as a Canadian accent.  In fact, there is more than one.

no, no there is not. There is literally no difference between a u.s accent and a canadian accent, unless you're talking about the southern drawl.

In the same way there are dozens of accents in American, there are at least several in Canada which are different. Haha. You are assuming too much to say that a Canadian accent is the same as an American when there isn't just one American accent. Your statement is flawed from start to finish.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_English#Phonemic_incidence

You're wrong, as I've actually had several people point out that I have an American accent (despite being Canadian).

I AM CANADIAN. I WIN.

I'm from canada, and i've been to the states, no difference in tone or inflection on how they talk or how I talk. I've also been to several different parts of canada, still no difference. At least, there shouldn't be a difference if you pronounce words correctly. (i read like, the first three lines of your link, and all it had to do with was incorrect pronunciation)

How about the fact that most of our language(s) derives from Italian? So if we want to be insanely technical we all have different Italian accents. :)

Killa is Canadian too. How does being a Canadian make you right?

One might be more Canadian in some obscure way than the other. That's how! o.O

Actually i'm not exactly sure killa was disagreeing with me. He basically said that people think that his "canadian" accent is the same as a normal american accent, which would actually mean that he was agreeing with me, as this would mean that there is no difference between the us and canadian accent seeing as there is no u.s and canadian accent, just the american accent. 

But the thing is, he replied to my post, which would mean that he was saying that I was wrong.

Hmmmmm.....

You are wrong. Blatantly. The very point of an accent is usually incorrect pronunciation. Read the entire thing before you reply or you look ignorant. You cannot tell me that a Bostonian accent is the same as a Canadian accent or any other American accent.

I can tell you this: I have actually been to the U.S quite a few times, and several palces in canada, and I have never once noticed a definite difference between the way I speak, the poeple from canada speak, and the people from U.S speak.

It is premature to say that i'm wrong, blatantly is it not?  You immediately assume that i'm wrong and yet what proof do you offer, a Wikipedia page-link? I have actually met people of both nationalities, and neither have had any particular or noticable accent, they both spoke more or less in the exact same way. (in any case believe what you want, until I actually hear a canadian with an accent, it won't change my mind, and no point arguing about it.)

No, it is not premature.

In fact the opposite is true, as he was assuming there's no such thing as an accent without first checking it out :P

Haha dude, if I don't even have to leave my school to find that there are people who speak differently than the way I speak, then I can guarantee you that there are people who speak differently than you do :P. It's logically impossible to think otherwise when there are two people speaking in different accents. You can sound like one, or you can sound like the other, but if the two are speaking in completely differently accents then you can't sound like both.

This.

And to reiterate.

"In the same way there are dozens of accents in American, there are at least several in Canada which are different. Haha. You are assuming too much to say that a Canadian accent is the same as an American when there isn't just one American accent. Your statement is flawed from start to finish."

I didn't say that there wasn't anything such as an accent, I was saying that, as a whole, the canadian population does not have an accent that is discernible from the U.S accent.

Yes there are the stereotypes, but for the most parts those don't apply.

If you're willing to go deep into technicalities (as in the very very tiny differences in speaking which, pretty much every individual person has) then yes, there are HUNDREDS of accents , maybe even thousands, but i'm talking about the population as a whole. On a much wider scale, if there are any significant differences between the way the average canadian and the average U.S citizen talk. And there aren't.

I'm sorry, but are you completely brain dead? There are about three different accents, I do mean accents, in Alabama alone. Canadians can not sound like all of them. You have missed EVERY SINGLE POINT made. seriously. I just don't know what's wrong with you. Maybe it is an auditory problem and you just can't hear the differences.

No, I can hear the differences, but I am not talking about small differences.

My example would be this:

there is a field, it has a mix of  tall grass and wheat in it, but it is still a field no? ("canadian" accent(s))

There is another field, it has tall grass in it, but it is still a field no? ("U.S" accent(s))

in essence, they are basically the same thing, with slight differences.

 

ok, not the best example ever, but you see where i'm going right?

That is text, it does not have an accent. I am not talking about the word choice. I am... So ya, you missed the point again.

Yeah, word choice isn't the same as accent, accents have more to do with the actual sounds made.

Actually I missed that point that time! Mostly because the example sucked. Here's the thing, in you example all language would be a field and accents would be plants growing in it. But there are lots of different plants for the different American fields and the Canadian field can't be the same as all of them.

I am not talking about word choice, I am talking about sounds made. For the most part, most U.S ers and candians speak with the same, well, sounds.

This is without considering all other ethnicities of course

"I didn't say that there wasn't anything such as an accent,"

We never said you did, again, you missed the point. Bravo.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080923202819AALlmSf

I am disagreeing with you lol.

The fact that others identified my accent as American (even to the point where they actually thought I was American), shows that they noticed a difference between the "normal" Canadian accent they were used to hearing, and my own. If there was no difference, they never would have identified a difference.

But did any of those people ever actually meet any canadians? It could very well be that they just assumed canadians had an accent.

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Dude, you completely missed the point. The people that were telling him that were Canadian.

^

I mean, I even specified they were USED to hearing the Canadian accent, which means they obviously had heard it before.

Well then, i clearly missed that part. 

Yes, yes you did. You missed it twice.

I am not missing the point, I am simply disagreeing with the ones you are presenting, just as you seem to disagree with just about every one of my points.

 

You haven't made a point yet. You have pretty much just been saying the same thing,

"I personally can't hear the difference/it isn't very big/ all American accents are basically the same as the only Canadian accent/ etc."
 

What the hell are you talking abote?

"Well then, i clearly missed that part. "

"I am not missing the point,"

Nice juxtaposition here.

I'm from South Carolina, USA

The Netherlands

Imagine my accent as a Viking with a mix of Native American.