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disciple
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
9071 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-02-17 23:46:16
February 17 2009 23:39 GMT
#1
Russell Peters are one of my favorite performers. His jokes are mostly about out modern multi cultural society, how different ppl speak English, stuff like that. The guy himself has indian origins so some of the things come first hand. In this exact video he actually makes a statement that white canadian ppl have accent as well ...




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XDawn
Profile Blog Joined February 2004
Canada4040 Posts
February 17 2009 23:40 GMT
#2
We actually don't.
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liger13
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States1060 Posts
February 17 2009 23:55 GMT
#3
meh...
I feel like pwning noobs
Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
February 18 2009 00:01 GMT
#4
Well every country seems to have an accent compared to their own country, but we really don't sound any different than americans. The rare times you think you hear them is probably from some hic town people or whatever, and almost every country has those hic towns everywhere. When I went to the US no body for the love of god could tell I wasn't from the states. It's a complete generalization and honestly it really pisses me off. After all, no body mentions anything about Chill's accent or whatever whenever he speaks.
If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
ThE_OsToJiY
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Canada1167 Posts
February 18 2009 00:06 GMT
#5
i love canadian TV also
@ostojiy
Mastermind
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Canada7096 Posts
February 18 2009 00:19 GMT
#6
He is right about the swearing part, but I disagree with the erratic head motions.
3clipse
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
Canada2555 Posts
February 18 2009 00:21 GMT
#7
This is a more indicative of maritime Canada I think. Very few people speak like this in the West.
Divinek
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Canada4045 Posts
February 18 2009 00:25 GMT
#8
On February 18 2009 09:21 3clipse wrote:
This is a more indicative of maritime Canada I think. Very few people speak like this in the West.

Yeah only hicks and rig pigs speak like that anywhere that isnt an island.
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Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
February 18 2009 00:25 GMT
#9
On February 18 2009 09:19 Mastermind wrote:
He is right about the swearing part, but I disagree with the erratic head motions.

I disagree with both... I've never heard anyone swear like that or do those retarded head motions T_T
If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
Racenilatr
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States2756 Posts
February 18 2009 00:26 GMT
#10
indian are fucking asians! not black!
Dgtl
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada889 Posts
February 18 2009 00:46 GMT
#11
I can't tell the difference from an American and a Canadian accent. So if Canadians have an accent American's have the exact same one. OH WAIT THAT IS A NORTH AMERICAN ACCENT!!!!
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Ith
Profile Joined February 2009
Korea (South)5 Posts
February 18 2009 00:47 GMT
#12
American hillbilly accent is very funny.
emperorchampion
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada9496 Posts
February 18 2009 00:53 GMT
#13
On February 18 2009 09:46 Dgtl wrote:
I can't tell the difference from an American and a Canadian accent. So if Canadians have an accent American's have the exact same one. OH WAIT THAT IS A NORTH AMERICAN ACCENT!!!!


What about Mexicans?....
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jello_biafra
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
United Kingdom6641 Posts
February 18 2009 01:04 GMT
#14
Canadians and Americans definitely have slightly different accents, it's quite easy to tell them apart..
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Mannequin
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada131 Posts
February 18 2009 01:17 GMT
#15
Yeah we have some sort of accent different from Americans but not that different, I mean normal Canadian accent not French Canadian accent and normal American accent not southern or that weird New Yorker accent that some Americans have that I find annoying. No offence of course.
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eXigent.
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Canada2419 Posts
February 18 2009 01:40 GMT
#16
I take it none of you fellow canadians have been to Alberta before. He nails about 80% of construction workers perfectly. I work in construction, and I have literally met HUNDREDS of men that use that EXACT same language, and move their heads the exact sameway. 90% of the time, it's when 1 guy is tellin a story, and a couple guys are listening. The guy tellin the story will shake his head along with the story, and EVERY person listening to it, is typically shaking their head usually in "understanding". He literally gets it spot on with the Alberta Construction worker (females included)

As a side note, every jobsite i've ever been to (im a sub contractor), the majority of the workers use the word "fuck" almost every 2nd word in each sentence they produce. Actually just today at work , my brother who also works with me...had to use the washroom, and of course he had to let us know in the typical alberta way. Eg. "Jesus fucking christ I have to fuckin piss sooooooo fuckin bad its making my fuckin safety glasses fog up." And thats pretty mild compared to most things.
fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
February 18 2009 01:48 GMT
#17
WE ARE THE ONLY ACCENT NEUTRAL COUNTRY

really
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Mastermind
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Canada7096 Posts
February 18 2009 01:53 GMT
#18
yeah, I worked in construction for a few years and swears are the most common words you will hear. The job can be pretty rough and stressful though so its pretty hard to not swear constantly.
3clipse
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
Canada2555 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-02-18 02:05:34
February 18 2009 02:04 GMT
#19
On February 18 2009 10:48 fusionsdf wrote:
WE ARE THE ONLY ACCENT NEUTRAL COUNTRY

really

Going on the assumption that this is sarcasm, foreign students taking english as a second language consistently report that Canadian teachers speak clearer, easier to understand english than those from the US, England, etc.

Of course, defining "accent" as a difference in pronunciation, emphasis and tone between seperate regions speaking the same language means everyone in the world obviously has an accept from the POV of someone else. But the above is still worth noting- the region which speaks the language in such a way that it can be clearly understood by the greatest number living abroad and/or is in best keeping with the origins of the language could, by some, be considered to be speaking in a neutral accent.
fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
February 18 2009 02:12 GMT
#20
I was 90% serious
SKT_Best: "I actually chose Protoss because it was so hard for me to defeat Protoss as a Terran. When I first started Brood War, my main race was Terran."
Archaic
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States4024 Posts
February 18 2009 03:29 GMT
#21
Saw this so long ago, and still cracks me up. Russell Peters is hilarious, but this definitely isn't his best section.
soudo
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
603 Posts
February 18 2009 03:32 GMT
#22
On February 18 2009 11:04 3clipse wrote:
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On February 18 2009 10:48 fusionsdf wrote:
WE ARE THE ONLY ACCENT NEUTRAL COUNTRY

really

Going on the assumption that this is sarcasm, foreign students taking english as a second language consistently report that Canadian teachers speak clearer, easier to understand english than those from the US, England, etc.


And you get this information from where?
Lucktar
Profile Joined July 2008
United States526 Posts
February 18 2009 03:52 GMT
#23
Meh, it makes sense that the Canadian accent he's talking about wouldn't be true of all Canadians, just considering how many different accents there are in the US. There's a generic New England accent, then there's a couple variations that are specific to New York. New Jersey arguably has its own accent, as do the Appalachian states. Southern accents morph into the stereotypical Texan accent at some point, which morphs into a kind of general rural western accent. Supposedly, Americans from the northwest speak the most phonetically correct English, IE the least accented, but it's all a matter of degrees.
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Yaqoob
Profile Blog Joined March 2005
Canada3356 Posts
February 18 2009 04:04 GMT
#24
We don't sound like that or at least I don't sound like that.
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Salv
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Canada3083 Posts
February 18 2009 04:09 GMT
#25
On February 18 2009 13:04 Yaqoob wrote:
We don't sound like that or at least I don't sound like that.


For the record; Yaqoob speaks exactly like that.

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