Hope everyone's weekend is going well! Took kids to Kids festival today. Had a great time, kids rode a camel.... a freaking camel! :P
Work now, kinda slow, but working with someone so should be good. :D
Nekkid Swiss German you mean?! :P
Nekkid Swiss German you mean?! :P
There are some things that are too horrible to contemplate - this is one of them.
Nekkid Swiss German you mean?! :PThere are some things that are too horrible to contemplate - this is one of them.
I don't like where that ball is going. But if he's a politician or bureaucrat...
He's the head of FIFA - and a corrupt bastard of a bureaucrat.
Just saw the movie trailer to BATTLESHIP on the USA network.
AWESOME!
It looks better than the Avengers.
I saw both trailers before John Carter today.
Man, they both look flippin sweet.
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Well, this blows. I get back to the hotel, and barely have time to get even half way through my beer when the power goes out because of the damn rain. Now normally it wouldn't bother me, since I was gonna go to sleep anyway. But no power means no AC, which could make for an uncomfortable night.
Shit on a stick!
What about Swiss German?dialects here in germany are slowly fading away, too.
the local tv stations use one form of a dialect 50 years now and slowly the hundreds of variants in that state start to sound more like this, maybe people beeing more mobil does it's part, too.We have lost a lot of unique and great words and phrases through that :-(
but still, there are hundreds of dialects, some completly incomprehensibly even for us germans.
Kölsch, spoken in Cologne, i don't understand a word of.
it is ok to understand for me, as a matter of fact, it is the dialect I am best at imitating
fine sunny sunday morning here.
we will most likly go to a easter-market somewhere, it's like a christmas market, only with easter bunnies instead of santa claus :-)
I have been asked if I was Australian when I lived in California. I have a relatively thick Boston accent (which I actually think is quite moderate compared to some I have heard.)
This recent commercial is a pretty good rendition of many of my compatriots' accents
I have met Patrick Curtin irl and I didn't even notice an accent. Compared to my co-workers from Southie and Chalestown, he speaks the Queen's English.
I think it is moderate. I also found that the more people mocked my accent when I lived elsewhere, the more prounounced I would make it. It's the contrarian in me.
Well you will be happy to know, I have a midwestern accent and only sometimes slip into the cajun one if I get real upset or occasionally it just randomly pops out.Not really, we get a lot of American TV-shows and movies (including independent ones) on TV in Sweden, and these days our news cover the American presidential elections almost as closely as our own. (Plus, SAAB, which used to be the main employer in my town, used to be owned by GM - so I've even had American neighbours for a bit. That said, I remember someone with a really broad "southern" accent being interviewed once and being surprised someone actually spoke like that in the real world.
Edit: Strangely enough (or not so strangely when you sit down and think about it), the version of English that sounds most natural to me, are the dialects spoken in Scotland and northern England.
Not that I've noticed so far - although I recall a feature Swedish Radio did about the Fugees, back in the day, where one of their roadies spoke in some half-creole, half-cajun accent - that was bleeding impossible to understand.
Not that many more, although listening to podcasts has certainly widened the range. I'm still better at differentiating British accents, though - a side effect of growing up in a home where the two main forms of cultural discussions were about soccer and pop-music. ;)
I have, according to my first g/f, a "midwestern flat". Other people who meet me think I "talk white" or "sound educated", which earns a sneer from me. The old one from back in the AOL days was "WOW, you sound/look nothing like what I expected!!!" which earned a grimace.
I have been asked if I was Australian when I lived in California. I have a relatively thick Boston accent (which I actually think is quite moderate compared to some I have heard.)
This recent commercial is a pretty good rendition of many of my compatriots' accents
I loved living in Texas, where folks would come up to me and say, "Yew shure dew tawk funneh."
I love listening to my friend from SC talk. I love her accent.
Hope everyone's weekend is going well! Took kids to Kids festival today. Had a great time, kids rode a camel.... a freaking camel! :P
Work now, kinda slow, but working with someone so should be good. :D
Did you give them a lance and tell them to charge at other kids? Cuz that's what I would have done.
Just saw the movie trailer to BATTLESHIP on the USA network.
AWESOME!
It looks better than the Avengers.
That's not hard to do. ;-)
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So, I did end up wandering the darkened hallways of the hotel while the power was out last night. I had a flashlight, but tried wandering without it on as much as possible. That's how I ended up scaring the crap out of some young people who came around he corner using their cellphones to light their way.
Sometimes, being me is so f**&ing awesome.
It's the contrarian in me.
There's a cream for that.
Saw The Hunger Games yesterday. Of course some things different from the book, and some explanations skipped, a bit rushed, but decent overall.
Maybe someone should make a spin off, The Hungry Gamers
Saw The Hunger Games yesterday. Of course some things different from the book, and some explanations skipped, a bit rushed, but decent overall.
Maybe someone should make a spin off, The Hungry Gamers
Maybe I'll give it a look. I'll do my best to avoid getting all critical due to my love for Battle Royale.
Back story points, missed in the movie-
Wouldn't mind hearing your thoughts if you see it. The book was the 1st one I've read since my recovery.