George Mason University Speech Accent Archive 191
JT Olds writes "Apparently George Mason University is running a project to document differences in speech and accents from different backgrounds and the like. They have a paragraph that 306 sample readers have read and recorded, and all of these sound files are categorized by background, gender, age, and other things. They say that this is primarily for teaching and learning, and is especially useful for any linguists out there, but I just thought it was cool. The sound bytes are released under the Creative Commons license. Of course, the Google cache of the main frame is here.
As a side note, I did get the link to this from Penny Arcade's Jerry Holkins."
What??? (Score:5, Funny)
George Mason (Score:4, Funny)
Re:IRC; afternet; #gamedev (Score:1, Funny)
Sylvester Stallone got English right. Let him be our definition of true English.
Accents (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Am I the only one... (Score:0, Funny)
My southern-ese (think jeff foxworthy) has gotten me into trouble... well, maybe it was because I was driving around yelling it out my window... with a bullhorn... in the south... at 3 am... by some yuppie apartments.
Hey I though it was heeelarious!
Re:Accents (Score:3, Funny)
Not at all, it was an acute [wikipedia.org] mistake...
I just got back to Oz from NZ (Score:3, Funny)
A foreigner was at a sheep farm watching them shear the wool off the sheep. Knowing a better way he said "Here, let me show you how to shear your sheep"
The Kiwi replied "I'm not shearing with anybody!"
Never let it be said that Kiwi's don't know how to laugh at themselves! (and for this instance we'll forgive them their rediculous accents
Re:What??? (Score:5, Funny)
Meanwhile on YRO.slashdot .... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Very curious methodology (Score:3, Funny)
I can't recognize southern France accents through english. It's very well known that the "singing" rolling accents found in the south of France just isn't compatible with pronouncing english properly, so either someone from there will speak english so badly you won't get a word of it, or he'll speak english properly and his native french accent will be filtered out by his very act of speaking english.
"He had a minkey."
(obligatory Clouseau quote)
Re:IRC; afternet; #gamedev (Score:5, Funny)
As someone who moved from the US to the UK [colingregorypalmer.net], let me tell you that the British people here don't consider the language I speak to be English. It's American, and I better not forget it. : )
Don't forget these resources (Score:3, Funny)
Serious oversights... (Score:2, Funny)
Bill Shatner
Christopher Walken
Dana Carvey's Ross Perot
James Stewart
Massachusetts (Score:3, Funny)
Doc "Ok, open your mouth and say 'R'"
patient "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
Doc "Good!"
Re:IRC; afternet; #gamedev (Score:1, Funny)
Pirates ? (Score:3, Funny)
Does the study show if software pirates say "arr" more often than other people ?