ACCENT

Accent is a combination of three main components: intonation (speech music), liaisons (wordconnections), and pronunciation (the spoken sounds of vowels, consonants, and combinations).Accents are influenced by a people’s geographical region of origin, their age, social background and education, and whether they have moved away from their home area. Nowadays it may also be influenced by external factors such radio or television. Amongst speakers of English as an additional language accent is often influenced by the pronunciation and intonation patterns of the first language.Contrary to popular belief, grammar and accent are completely different, unrelated terms. Part of the difference is that grammar and vocabulary are systematic and structured— the letter of the language. Accent, on the other hand, is free form, intuitive, and creative— more the spirit of the language.



accentism

by Mushu19 on Nov 07, 2011 05:03:06

Similar to racism or sexism, it is discriminating based on someone having an accent, usually a particular accent.
Example:
I realized I had a problem with accentism when I immediately assumed the person was unintelligent upon hearing their southern drawl.


accent

by Gumbo man on Apr 11, 2009 17:35:56

What you and people who talk like you swear you don't have, but eeeeeverybody else does have.
Example:
Guy from California: Accent? What accent? I have no accent.

Guy from South Carolina: Shit, you got a cold? Cus you sound like your nose is all stuffed up.


reader's accent

by seveneightn9ne on Oct 29, 2012 13:26:59

When you pronounce words funny because you've never actually heard them out loud before, you just read a lot of books
Example:
Person 1: That was a great "seg-you" in the conversation
Person 2: You mean segue?
Person 1: Yeah, please excuse my reader's accent.


airport accent

by Muthecow on Feb 02, 2007 19:14:00

An airport accent is best defined as an accent that is hard to place. A person with an airport accent may pronounce some words with a British accent, while other words may be spoken with an American, Australian or any other accent you care to think of.

The reasons behind this may be as a result of having parents from different countries from the one the person was brought up in. Or it could be as a result of having lived in a variety of different places as a child, or a combination of the two. Either way the person may well have spent much of his life in airports, flying between the different countries.
Example:
"You have a very strong airport accent"
"Well I was born in Lebanon, but moved to England when I was 7, and then when we were 15 my family moved to America, but now I live in Paris"
"Oh wow"
"Yeah - and my parents are Russian and Brazilian - so we used to spent our summers in Moscow and our winters in Rio"
"That must have involved a lot of travelling"
"Yeah - I spent a lot of my youth in airports - my handwriting now resembles Frutiger."
"Shit a fucking brick"
"Yeah"


Soccer Accent

by Mira!!! on Jun 13, 2010 04:14:10

The tendency to speak with an accent while commenting or cheering during a soccer game. This accent usually resembles a British one, but it is usually not intentional.
Example:
Joe: (in soccer accent) What a goal!

Tim: Why are you talking with a British accent?
Joe: Sorry, that was my soccer accent. I was carried away with the game.


Elsewhere

  1. Bali Hotel Finder
  2. My Homepage
  3. Kode Pos Indonesia

Latest Searches

the mix, OH SHIT, MOANING, TOFER, The boy, pull a Sadg, Scientific, fifty, boomerang, yeah, right, confuddled, poet, violated, LG, Live with, server, Derry, war machine, moving forward, INA, Hamsters, SECTS, Lakita, I ship them, Broski, Cherry Pop, the Bust, dikhed, the bozo, dinee, gay cunt, super M, cunter, Panchos, broke, Alpaca, voyeur, iguana, fruited, simulation, dungeon master, receive and leave, lasso, Give-ups, gingers, ratherly, sermon on the mount, knocked, zebi, punked, rim job, DVD, Minnesota, roxxors my boxxors, soiled, Quiet Riot, Stealers, Prominent, late bloomer, What it do, Kangaroo Jack, pole, Go go go, Clutch, Jim Crow Magnon, flippin, Tracksuit, megahurtz, theatre, midterms, Drop your pants, Satan, seabassing, park, Kate, pulling up, PUBG mobile, DENCH, A smile, Fucking, a name, puter, reach, Jill, Gbe body eh, masses, don’t act, animate, end up, the wood, smack, main, court martial, The Plan, Nanea, Jesse, powered armor, miss you, the blend, rent, stance, baffled, Best leader, Oh Man, The next level, taday, Chicago IL, beer belly, bad mood, Kung Fu, smoothie, your dad, bmt, content, throating, will it, Chronic Dick, broad shoulders, Lifeless, routine, spear, caption, not slang, reasons, gigged on, laundry, Shin Megami Tensei, a single, 9001, skank bitch, muscle cars, nose ring, the Honda, Breathe Carolina, consequently, My son, your place, Nacker, high tide, oh dear, suits, skid mark, 22lr, The strongest, cats, airbender, the dumb, the Bush, Levi Jones, GIRL, Ivo, 25th of December, Bloodz, boo bear, Definetley, George Lucas, Marquon, respectful, applausal, horseshit, Doctor who, keyboard, Yh, eatin, tufts, Wya, close your eyes, CAF, the script, cracking jokes, Lee Dongmin, find your mojo, huger, how gay, Radical, dirty girl, Joe, Bang Tidy, public pool, V-shape, let me spit, ANG, Benghazi, Soulja Boy, emo boys, up and coming, San Fernando Valley, puckered anus, things, Retain, enhancement, young in, bunz, Benbrook, no one, Stand By, five guys, never, hoffman, nause, accent, the mix, OH SHIT, MOANING, TOFER, The boy, pull a Sadg, Scientific, fifty, boomerang, yeah, right, confuddled, poet, violated, LG, Live with, server, Derry, war machine, moving forward, INA, Hamsters, SECTS, Lakita, I ship them, Broski, Cherry Pop, the Bust, dikhed, the bozo, dinee, gay cunt, super M, cunter, Panchos, broke, Alpaca, voyeur, iguana, fruited, simulation, dungeon master, receive and leave, lasso, Give-ups, gingers, ratherly, sermon on the mount, knocked, zebi, punked, rim job, DVD, Minnesota, roxxors my boxxors, soiled, Quiet Riot, Stealers, Prominent, late bloomer, What it do, Kangaroo Jack, pole, Go go go, Clutch, Jim Crow Magnon, flippin, Tracksuit, megahurtz, theatre, midterms, Drop your pants, Satan, seabassing, park, Kate, pulling up, PUBG mobile, DENCH, A smile, Fucking, a name, puter, reach, Jill, Gbe body eh, masses, don’t act, animate, end up, the wood, smack, main, court martial, The Plan, Nanea, Jesse, powered armor, miss you, the blend, rent, stance, baffled, Best leader, Oh Man, The next level, taday, Chicago IL, beer belly, bad mood, Kung Fu, smoothie, your dad, bmt, content, throating, will it, Chronic Dick, broad shoulders, Lifeless, routine, spear, caption, not slang, reasons, gigged on, laundry, Shin Megami Tensei, a single, 9001, skank bitch, muscle cars, nose ring, the Honda, Breathe Carolina, consequently, My son, your place, Nacker, high tide, oh dear, suits, skid mark, 22lr, The strongest, cats, airbender, the dumb, the Bush, Levi Jones, GIRL, Ivo, 25th of December, Bloodz, boo bear, Definetley, George Lucas, Marquon, respectful, applausal, horseshit, Doctor who, keyboard, Yh, eatin, tufts, Wya, close your eyes, CAF, the script, cracking jokes, Lee Dongmin, find your mojo, huger, how gay, Radical, dirty girl, Joe, Bang Tidy, public pool, V-shape, let me spit, ANG, Benghazi, Soulja Boy, emo boys, up and coming, San Fernando Valley, puckered anus, things, Retain, enhancement, young in, bunz, Benbrook, no one, Stand By, five guys, never, hoffman,
×

Our website is made possible by displaying online advertisements to our visitors.
Please consider supporting us by disabling your ad blocker.


I have disabled the ad blocker! Show me how!