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Yurie
11953 Posts
On July 25 2012 07:27 turdburgler wrote: its posted by a girl, i was betting on dyke. not implying anything about sussie from this I thought it was Divorce. ^^ Good luck with the responses, I am totally in the wrong demographic so won't do it.  | ||
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Witten
United States2094 Posts
Umm... I lost my survey about half way through, probably my fault. I don't want to say how far I got because it would interfere with anonymity, but is it saved semi-complete? Or would it be ok if I did it again? I dont' want to double up and affect the sample. Edit 2: Nevermind, got it back. Everything should be ok. | ||
DivinO
United States4796 Posts
On July 25 2012 01:19 lilsusie wrote: I'm not too picky, honestly, I know what limitations this study will have. It doesn't have to be very scientific either. Just... do the survey please :D Thank you guys!! I guess Canada is techincally America... North America... We are North American Scum! Good luck. | ||
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Snuggles
United States1865 Posts
On July 25 2012 07:49 farvacola wrote: The girl in the pink shirt throws a mean right jab, Brave ain't got shit on her. I never knew scottish accents were that hard to understand lol. Accents are pretty interesting to learn, the slightest change in your tone or pitch with certain vowels, words, or phrases can totally change your image. Did you guys know that Australians like to say "heaps" as in "lots" or "tons" as an equivalent? When I first found out I had a real kick out of teasing my Australian friend lol. | ||
lilsusie
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turdburgler
England6749 Posts
i suddenly feel so bad for you. how come you are doing a study on american universitys if you live in newcastle at the moment? wouldnt it be easier to do the same subject but on 'foreign' accents for english people? | ||
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SirKibbleX
United States479 Posts
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Parametric
Canada1261 Posts
Overall on the accents, I found that they were understandable and that the last speaker was by far the best due to the emphasis when she spoke. I also realized I love British/NZ/Aus accents and could listen to them all day. | ||
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lilsusie
3861 Posts
On July 25 2012 09:02 turdburgler wrote: i suddenly feel so bad for you. how come you are doing a study on american universitys if you live in newcastle at the moment? wouldnt it be easier to do the same subject but on 'foreign' accents for english people? I'm in Manc, not Newcastle. I'm studying Americans because I am American myself and want to know if others have similar thoughts as I do On July 25 2012 09:27 SirKibbleX wrote: I hope you realize TL is almost certainly horribly biased sample group. Oh, I do. I'll explain it in the "limitations" portion of my paper. No worries I've been on TL a long, long time now, long enough to know to take everything with a grain of salt. So far the responses have been great though, so I am far from complaining. | ||
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TeaGreen
Canada147 Posts
I'm Canadian...sorry I already did the quid though. >_< | ||
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Ack1027
United States7873 Posts
We basically recorded 6 different accents [ italian, russian, french, japanese....some others ] all reading the same exact text. From there, we had different criteria like what education level, income level, time spent in US was to the listener. Results were pretty interesting. But as expected people attributed positive aspects to the more familiar accents. Anyway filled out your survey to help out, GL with everything! | ||
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Roe
Canada6002 Posts
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farvacola
United States18840 Posts
On July 25 2012 08:47 Snuggles wrote: I never knew scottish accents were that hard to understand lol. Accents are pretty interesting to learn, the slightest change in your tone or pitch with certain vowels, words, or phrases can totally change your image. Did you guys know that Australians like to say "heaps" as in "lots" or "tons" as an equivalent? When I first found out I had a real kick out of teasing my Australian friend lol. I'd love for nothing more than to have a month to travel around the UK and take in as many different accents as possible, it certainly is a fascinating thing to look into. While on vacation in Cancun visiting family, I met a large number of South Africans from Namibia, and I loved talking with them. | ||
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looknohands119
United States815 Posts
I find accents to be really distracting and difficult to understand in lecturers sometimes but it's usually not the accent that gets me. Its usually the lack of confidence and command of the English language that often comes with a non-native speaker that makes a lecturer difficult to understand. Things like, "um's", breaks in speaking rhythm, use of contractions, etc... are things that scream bad public speaker and not confident lecturer to me. I think a lecturer should be a good public speaker and I would hold them to, if not the same standards I would hold myself to as a competitive speecher(*sic)/debater, definitely similar standards. That being said, I have definitely had lecturers who have had accents that genuinely get in the way of understanding for someone who is used to Western/uniquely American accents. A good lecture is already a fast moving vehicle with way more information than a person could possibly take in but adding in the mental processing required to decipher an accent or sift through a distracting speech pattern makes it near impossible to get the most out of the lecture. | ||
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Vod.kaholic
United States1052 Posts
Also, by the 5th speaker, wouldn't most people have some idea of what was coming up, and they could sorta force themselves to understand the words if they remembered what a previous speaker said at the same point in the speech? I guess you could have varied the section each speaker read aloud. | ||
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Synwave
United States2803 Posts
I must say for me almost any accent is easily understood once I adjust to it which doesn't take very long. So hopefully that doesn't bias my answers too much. | ||
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Aerisky
United States12129 Posts
On July 25 2012 13:07 Vod.kaholic wrote: Man, I'm not sure how much the accents really had to do with comprehensibility or skill at lecturing, but the last two people spoke with much better diction. Also, by the 5th speaker, wouldn't most people have some idea of what was coming up, and they could sorta force themselves to understand the words if they remembered what a previous speaker said at the same point in the speech? I guess you could have varied the section each speaker read aloud. I think varying the section read aloud would mean that the experiment is less controlled, i.e. different words being read. You can't win D: Was bored to I decided to fill this out as well  good luck with the big D! | ||
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babylon
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BigBadBeaver
Canada272 Posts
"What is your grade level? Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior Super Senior" be? I can only assume this refers to the # years at university...although nobody uses this kind of terminology around here but I'm guessing Super Senior refers to >4 years? | ||
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lilsusie
3861 Posts
Also, for the gender question, I put it that way because I wanted to see if men/women gave different answers. I know it sucks, I should have put a 3rd option, but it was for the sake of making easy graphs, etc. Just choose one that you most relate to. | ||
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