SandRider wrote:yeah, I put up the "waking life" thread specifically for his opinion ....
hope he ain't in canuck jail or somthin...
Not likely. I think he'd be free by now. All you have to do is say you're sorry and politely ask the guard to let you leave.
Re: Where is ....?
Posted: 01 Oct 2009 18:21
by Futar
really? i had always thought you were supposed to start singing "O Canada" then slip away while everybody is distracted
Re: Where is ....?
Posted: 02 Oct 2009 00:54
by SandRider
Drunken Idaho wrote:
SandRider wrote:yeah, I put up the "waking life" thread specifically for his opinion ....
hope he ain't in canuck jail or somthin...
Not likely. I think he'd be free by now. All you have to do is say you're sorry and politely ask the guard to let you leave.
tryin to figger out how to type "sorry" phonetically w/ typical Canuck accent ...
sury ? no.
chig ? little help here buddy, knowwarramean ?
edit:
soar-ee ?
Re: Where is ....?
Posted: 02 Oct 2009 05:15
by chanilover
How do you say 'sorry', Rider? Is it 'sarry', or 'sahree'?
Re: Where is ....?
Posted: 02 Oct 2009 06:45
by inhuien
Then it's true, it is the hardest word.
Re: Where is ....?
Posted: 02 Oct 2009 08:09
by SandChigger
Ba-DOOM-pah!
Whose sari now?!
Re: Where is ....?
Posted: 02 Oct 2009 09:34
by Drunken Idaho
The Canadian accent you're thinking of is probably a Maritime accent (so goes the stereotype, anyway). In which case, I believe Chig has it right.
And if I were to guess at the Texan pronunciation, ah'd say it's sumthin' lak "so-ray."
Re: Where is ....?
Posted: 02 Oct 2009 11:47
by SandRider
Drunken Idaho wrote:The Canadian accent you're thinking of is probably a Maritime accent (so goes the stereotype, anyway). In which case, I believe Chig has it right.
I was thinking more of an old friend of mine, from Saskatoon ...
puts more of a "soar" in it .... and Michael J. Fox, in interviews
when he's not "acting" ...
chanilover wrote:How do you say 'sorry', Rider? Is it 'sarry', or 'sahree'?
not a word I actually say outloud much,
but I guess it'd be like "Wail, ahma sar-ree",
stress on second syllable, two "r" sounds
what's that called, Chigger, writing phonetically to mimic an accent ?
I remember seeing some print ads along time ago, I think for Foster's,
that had a series of phrases with fairly common words that didn't make
any sense together, but if read aloud produced a meaningful statement
in a very deep Australian redneck accent.
I do this mentally, as well, when mimicking my cajun buddy -
His gumbo, f'instance, "be rail good" - you have to see the word
"real" as "rail" when you say it
Re: Where is ....?
Posted: 02 Oct 2009 16:26
by SandChigger
SandRider wrote:what's that called, Chigger, writing phonetically to mimic an accent ?
Local colorful?
(These are the same for me: color collar caller. Mary merry marry. Sorry & sari are the same, but saury is different. 'Course, I wouldn't know a saury from a minnow even if it came up and bit me sorry ass! )
Re: Where is ....?
Posted: 02 Oct 2009 16:55
by A Thing of Eternity
SandChigger wrote:
SandRider wrote:what's that called, Chigger, writing phonetically to mimic an accent ?
Local colorful?
(These are the same for me: color collar caller. Mary merry marry. Sorry & sari are the same, but saury is different. 'Course, I wouldn't know a saury from a minnow even if it came up and bit me sorry ass! )
Wow, you have a weird accent. For me:
Colour is pronounced cull-er, collar is pronounced call-er, same as caller. Mary merry and marry are almost the same, might be slightly less "a" in merry though, or maybe I just don't stress that vowel as much when I say merry. Sari is saw-ree and sorry is saur-ee / sore-ee.
About is about. Not aboot!
Re: Where is ....?
Posted: 02 Oct 2009 17:13
by SandRider
sore-ee aboot that, eh ?
Re: Where is ....?
Posted: 02 Oct 2009 19:06
by SandChigger
A Thing of Eternity wrote:Wow, you have a weird accent.
Now I KNOW I've lived TOO long, that I should see the day when a Canadian could say THAT to me.
Re: Where is ....?
Posted: 02 Oct 2009 19:45
by Freakzilla
The true test is how you say "fire".
Re: Where is ....?
Posted: 03 Oct 2009 02:44
by SandChigger
If I'm speaking "proper", I say [fie-uhr] to rhyme with higher, sire, sigher, hire, buyer, dyer, etc.
If I'm back home or talking to relatives or old friends on the phone, it rhymes with far, car, bar, mar.
(One summer many years back when I was home I was giving my cousin the mason a ride after work and he told me he was going to have to get him a new trowel. I asked him what the hell he had had to go to court for in the first place. )
Re: Where is ....?
Posted: 03 Oct 2009 04:53
by Drunken Idaho
A Thing of Eternity wrote:
SandChigger wrote:
SandRider wrote:what's that called, Chigger, writing phonetically to mimic an accent ?
Local colorful?
(These are the same for me: color collar caller. Mary merry marry. Sorry & sari are the same, but saury is different. 'Course, I wouldn't know a saury from a minnow even if it came up and bit me sorry ass! )
Wow, you have a weird accent. For me:
Colour is pronounced cull-er, collar is pronounced call-er, same as caller. Mary merry and marry are almost the same, might be slightly less "a" in merry though, or maybe I just don't stress that vowel as much when I say merry. Sari is saw-ree and sorry is saur-ee / sore-ee.
About is about. Not aboot!
Sounds like you and I talk the same. I don't think I've ever met anyone who said "aboot." It's a-bout or uh-bout, like trout or scout. But not Sca-out.
What amazes me is how many Americans seem to pronounce "roof" like labeouf. For me, it sounds like aloof or the double-o sound in tooth.
And "fire" is Phi-er, but the "e" is very minimal, depending on how quickly I'm saying it.