Accents

[Harvestgoddess]

;D I thought it would be intresting for each of us to find a famous person who most sounds like us , that way we can put a voice to a name
Il go first as there are far to many people who are from cardiff so il have to go for charlotte church

Mind you can have the same as someone else but it has to be a well known person who most sounds like you

[carrickmac]

The nearest person i think i may sound like is Chris Waddle ???only becouse we come from the same place and whent to the same school and he used to live a couple of doors away from me.

[battybetty]

well kirstie, I know we're both from Cardiff but I honestly dont really have a Cardiff accent. Strangely enough, I never did, much to my brothers annoyance when we were kids. They both speak with a proper Tremorfa Cardiff accent.
I think they thought I was adopted, since to them I talked 'posh'. LOL I dont really, but if you dont talk the lingo like dey do, dey finks ure odd like, innit luv. I do catch myself lapsing into a spot of 'cardiff' when Ive had a few glasses of the good stuff, but I notice right away because it doesn't sound like 'me'!

**psst. I actually cant stand the way Charlotte speaks. It makes me wince ** But thats really only because I think it sounds awful on the telly.

In person it doesn't bother me at all how people speak. As long as I can manage to understand them I find it entertaining.
I do have a terrible habit of mimicking the way people speak when Im with anyone with a strong accent for more than a few minutes. I dont do it to take the mickey, its not even done consciously, so it can be embarrassing if the person realises

Im scarily good at it at times and my work mates also think Im totally 'batty' because I have a repertoire of funny voices too, which I have a tendency to burst into spontaneously for no apparent reason. (Dont ask me...Im just batty by nature but it is great for telling stories ) Probably should have been an impressionist, like Ronni Ancona. Funnily enough, she even looks quite a bit like me, even down to the long dark hair and cleavage. LOL but I suspect Im more likely to end up like this if I dont wrap up more often...

**hmm just realised...that pic reminds me of the Bair witch! **

[Harvestgoddess]

Hey maria
I certainly dont think i sound as cardiff as charlotte i grew up in roath but shes the only one i can think of plus she swears alot and i do to

[battybetty]

harvestgoddess said:

Hey maria
I certainly dont think i sound as cardiff as charlotte i grew up in roath but shes the only one i can think of plus she swears alot and i do to

LOL Oh, I never ever swear myself Kirstie. is it just me, or has Charlotte's accent gotten stronger in the last couple of years? I think a lot of it is more to to with attitude than accent TBH. The way she sometimes speaks to her mother is what really put me off her. Id throttle my sons if they ever spoke to me that way.
My sons ex girlfriend comes from the same part of Cardiff as Charlotte and she sounded exactly like her but her accent isn't anything like as strong as my brothers. Its quite weird that I don't have a really strong accent myself when you consider the way I mimic people.
If anything I suspect Ive started to have a touch of Ponty in the way I say certain words. (Yikes !) That's a recent thing because there are so many people from Ponty working in my office. I'll have to watch it or I'll end up sounding like Tom Jones (As long as I don't start to look like him..LOL)

[Harvestgoddess]

I watched a documentary on charlotte a while back and was shocked at the way she speaks to her mother if i spoke to mine like that id be slapped not that i would anyway but still i went off her after that untill i saw her in jumping jacks and we kinda got into a argument in the girls toilets with some other girls so ive liked her ever since

[odm]

I know we dont have to contribute to this thread..at least I told myself to think twice anyway..lol

I have absolutely no idea who I sound like but I know there are a lot of women out there earning a lot of money sounding like me O898 - yes the dirty girls brigade..husky monicas but I put that down to the fact that I smoked a lot in my life and also I have been a singer for many years. And no, once the singing has finnished I dont think I will be picking up the phone... ;D ;D ;D

Who do I look like?? Well this thread is not about that...so Im not telling.



PS. Forgot to mention.. I am now a PROUD non -smoker and have been for the last three months plus... ..and I have a Sussex ladies accent..unless I wanna talk dirty wit ya!!

[Harvestgoddess]

odm said:

I know we dont have to contribute to this thread..at least I told myself to think twice anyway..lol

I have absolutely no idea who I sound like but I know there are a lot of women out there earning a lot of money sounding like me O898 - yes the dirty girls brigade..husky monicas but I put that down to the fact that I smoked a lot in my life and also I have been a singer for many years. And no, once the singing has finnished I dont think I will be picking up the phone... ;D ;D ;D

Who do I look like?? Well this thread is not about that...so Im not telling.

I hear those lines are very lucrative ;D
But i think id rather hear you sing

[juliejuliejulie]

hmmm accent that i may sound like - you know i think i sound just plain jane at times, its just a voice to me, i thought i had an accent from where i come from but i can just switch my accent around - ie if i go down to london or the south i can change or i can do west scotland i think, i like listening to different accents, and love the irish lilt, if i happen to come into your company some day i don't know who i will sound like lol - Im just me.

[carrickmac]

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