Happy Holidays

[nightmaremuse]

1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?
Um... oh got a B+. Thus ends my A streak. Not that I'm too bothered, I did 11 papers this year! University is hard.

2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?I don't really make resolutions, though I would like to start going to the gym more often and

Comments

[lycan_master750]

Mind if I borrow this?

[lycan_master750]

I've been reading on accents and my own American one. I also been reading on your native accent, here's an excerpt:

The New Zealand accent is most similar to the South African accent, the accent of Victoria, Australia, although it has many characteristics also found in the accents of southeastern England, notably Estuary English. The most distinctive traits of New Zealand pronunciation are the vowels /ɪ/ and /ɛ/. The vowel /ɛ/ (as in dress) is pronounced [e], so that set sounds closer to sit to Northern Hemisphere ears. The vowel /ɪ/ (as in kit) is pronounced [ɘ] which is marginally more central than the vowel used in Northern Hemisphere accents and much more central than the vowel used in Broad Australian. The difference between this vowel in Broad Australian [i] and New Zealand English [ɘ] is so distinctive that New Zealanders hear Australians say "Seedney" (instead of Sydney) and Australians hear New Zealanders say "fush" (instead of fish).

[nightmaremuse]

Hey sorry I thought I'd replied to your first comment with "sure, go ahead".

I suppose someone who is not South African or Kiwi could possibly think the accents are similar if they were unfamiliar with the accents. To us they are vastly different. The same with Australian and Kiwi. They are so different.

An easy way to tell the different between the three is to ask them to count to ten. If they get to six and say "sex" - Australian. "Sax" - South African. "sucks" - Kiwi.

[lycan_master750]

I only know how to speak my Northeastern US accent. I saw shit, the Brits Shiite or...is it the Irish?

But you are right, I was listening to this actor who's a Kiwi like yourself and a South African Journalist, they sounded different.

If your wondering who this actor is, he appeared on Lord of the Rings! :D Craig Parker.