Of Canucks and kiwi's...

[Louis VI the Fat]

Australian sentences will also have a higher tendancy to sound like questions or surprise. The pitch rises towards the end of the sentence.

Ah, the dreaded question mark pronounciation. It never ceases to confuse me.

'I'm from Canberra? I'm backpacking Europe? I work as a bartender?'




What? Are you trying to tell me or ask me something? Are you confused, don't remember who you are? Been enjoying that European beer too much?

[R'as al Ghul]

Ah, the dreaded question mark pronounciation. It never ceases to confuse me.

'I'm from Canberra? I'm backpacking Europe? I work as a bartender?'




What? Are you trying to tell me or ask me something? Are you confused, don't remember who you are? Been enjoying that European beer too much?

Exactly. It's driving me mad, too.
Don't the US Americans do it also to a certain degree?
Maybe according to their place of origin?

[Mouzafphaerre]

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Brits do that too. I remember a listening class from forgotten times...
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[Justiciar]

Brits do that too.

Ayup. Tends to be middle-class teenage lasses that use it though.. not many other people do.

[Duke Malcolm]

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Brits do that too. I remember a listening class from forgotten times...
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Not many do it hear, though it is quite a habit over in Glasgow...

[doc_bean]

Ah, the dreaded question mark pronounciation. It never ceases to confuse me.

'I'm from Canberra? I'm backpacking Europe? I work as a bartender?'




What? Are you trying to tell me or ask me something? Are you confused, don't remember who you are? Been enjoying that European beer too much?

What ? You don't do like all other frenchies and just pretend you don't understand anything of this 'english' 'language' ?

Can you pick out Belgian accents too ? Besides the numbers thing.

[Louis VI the Fat]

What ? You don't do like all other frenchies and just pretend you don't understand anything of this 'english' 'language' ?

I get away with it by pretending my interest in the Anglosaxon races is strictly anthropological.

Can you pick out Belgian accents too ?

Yes and no.

The political and linguistic borders do not coincide. Several regional French dialects simply extend into Belgium. I can distuingish a Picardian accent, but I can not tell the difference between Picardian French from France or Belgium.

There are some peculiarities that all Belgian variants share though, like septante and nonante, and all those German or Dutch constructions and words.

Then there is Walloon itself, not to be confused with Belgian (variants of) French. It is radically different from standard French and unique to Belgium and Luxembourg. It is mainly spoken in the Ardennes and near the German border. The adjective is often placed before the noun, as in German. Most bizarre. It is totally unintelligable.