Has anyone successfully dropped their Singaporean accent
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Talk to different ppl my accent will change accordingly. Or else ppl wont understand what u talking about. lol
Anyways.. as for massive dust n desert in Australia... like how the earth's deserts are increasing in size. Its highly probable. But doesnt mean technology cant rememdy it.
But anyways.. ya.. its going to suck if ur faith in technology fails u when the shit hits the fan.
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If you can, you'd have dropped it years ago. Accent change is a skillset that some people have and some people don't have - it belongs amongst the better actors in Hollywood out there. I say don't worry about.
I have 100% australian accent and 100% singaporean accent, and 80% american, 95% british, 40% scottish (very hard to do), can switch on command. even my wife was shocked and thought it wasn't me when I speak to others in different accents for fun or business..
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Wah lang... dun have to go oversea to drop sg accent... the SPG can do that years ago without gg out of sg...
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if there's one accent i wanna pick up, it will be the new yorker accent. "Hey Yall"
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Ive gotta say.
Accents do change overtime, in a diff env. But you WONT notice them.
Ya. you wont. unless you do it intentionally then thats diff.
You'll only realise that you sound different when someone notifies you on it. (well, unless as what i stated as above)
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Originally posted by spade1:
If you can, you'd have dropped it years ago. Accent change is a skillset that some people have and some people don't have - it belongs amongst the better actors in Hollywood out there. I say don't worry about.
I have 100% australian accent and 100% singaporean accent, and 80% american, 95% british, 40% scottish (very hard to do), can switch on command. even my wife was shocked and thought it wasn't me when I speak to others in different accents for fun or business..
Hahaha.. kewl,
how bout picking up some aus slangs. My friends talk with shit loads of them. Esp if you've got friends who are bogans. Try talking to them.
Bet you 101%, you'll have a headache deciphering the meanings.
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i speak with a french/yiddish accent...dunno how the yiddish part came...
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we acquire our accent by the age of 6
and i dun think we can just drop it and pick up a new accent
those are all faked
but tt doesn't mean we have to speak singlish
we are able to code-switch according to our environment -
Originally posted by viciouskitty74:
I pronounce accent as "A Cent".
People been correcting me to pronounce as "Act Sen"
Correct me if I am wrong..
Accent if pronounced as "A Cent" means agreement/approval/emphasis (to accentuate the curves, Royal Accent, etc)
if pronounced as "Act sent" means the accent as in the topic of this thread.
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Originally posted by angel3070:
That's because most Singaporeans are chinese. chinese language is mono tone.
You pronouce words in a mono tone way. One sound one sound.
Ni - Hao - Ma?
That's three tones.
But english is not mono tone.
You don't eng - and then - lish
It comes out in one complete tone - english.
That is why chinese speaking english has a what they call ching chong accent.
Some chinese that have lost all their chinese culture or raised on english; know nothing about chinese language won't have this accent, like some ABCs or our own Lee Kuan Yew.
It's natural for chinese to speak english with chinese accent.
Just like it is natural for westerners to speak mandarin with western accent. They don't really speak mandarin using mono tone like chinese do. That is why it sounds weird to us chinese.
They don't say Ni - Hao - Ma, but NiHaoMa.
Why?
Because they cannot control the tone. They are used to the singular tone as in their own native language.
Same goes for us chinese.
How do you explain Malays then if their language ain't monotone but speaks the accent similar to chinese
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Its syllable lah, not tone.
"Ni - Hao - Ma?" is three syllable.
"Eng lish" is two syllable.
"Apa khabar?" is 2 + 2 syllable.
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Originally posted by 4sg:
Guys, I don't want to sound like a party-stopper. But have anyone read some (or any) reports on global warming?
With climatic change and with global warming, Australia's desert, in time to come, will expand wider and wider. The frequency of flash flood and desert fire will increase. These factors may (I say, may not will) culminate with mass migration out of Australia.
Do you guys still want to migrate there?and why not? U think global warming is not going to affect Singapore?
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In my opinion, it really depends on the person. Some people are naturally better at languages/accents than others.
Example: my mom is a Beijing native, my dad is a Taiwan native. They both moved to the US for college, so roughly a few years apart only. My dad has an almost flawless American accent when speaking English, but can also speak Chinese flawlessly. My mom can speak Chinese flawlessly but her English has a strong Chinese accent, even after like 20-30 years.
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I also had an Indian friend who spoke English with an Indian accent with his family but spoke with an American accent when talking to me and his other friends.
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Originally posted by Ponders:
Correct me if I am wrong..
Accent if pronounced as "A Cent" means agreement/approval/emphasis (to accentuate the curves, Royal Accent, etc)
if pronounced as "Act sent" means the accent as in the topic of this thread.
for agreement/approval - "assent" (the opposite is dissent, which is to disagree)"accentuate" is correctly spelled
as for the 'act sent', i guess the 'sent' should rhyme with "medicine"?
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Originally posted by 2cansam:
if there's one accent i wanna pick up, it will be the new yorker accent. "Hey Yall"
that's southern drawl u narc, no new yorkers say y'all
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People around the World would understand you better with a singlish acccent.If you need to drop the Singapore accent that is fine but speaking Ozzie style is just as bad
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Originally posted by Gedanken:
I agree with ShrodingersCat. Under normal circumstances my accent can't be pinned down (although I've been mistaken for French Guyanan, God only knows why), but my wife notes that the Singaporean accent snaps right back in when I talk to other Singaporeans.
Yeah, I simply cant resist speaking Singlish when I meet South East Asians or when I am super pissed off with the Ang Mohs>LOL
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Originally posted by kench-an:
for agreement/approval - "assent" (the opposite is dissent, which is to disagree)"accentuate" is correctly spelled
as for the 'act sent', i guess the 'sent' should rhyme with "medicine"?
This is confusing....
I just checked...
Royal Assent...and Royal Accent.. seems to be both acceptable. But more commonly Royal Assent. But i don't know how the different spelling came about..
Official Canadian documents shows the Sovereign giving Royal Accent.
Royal Family uses Royal Assent
BBC uses Royal Accent.
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Originally posted by Arapahoe:
and why not? U think global warming is not going to affect Singapore?
Global warming will affect everyone in the future. But the negative effect will be greater on some countries than others.
Not all countries will feel its impact in an equitable way or suffer from its impact in an equitable way.
Bangladesh will have the Ganges's delta disappearing altogether with 20 millions people having to move or migrate. South Vietnam will also disappeared. The interior region of Australia will get hotter.
However, some countries may be impact by it in a postive way. The temperate regions can become more inhabitable.Enough said.
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global warming is for hippies. im going to rev my engine and burn more gas
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Originally posted by vito_corleone:
global warming is for hippies. im going to rev my engine and burn more gas
Hey, I see we both share a common goal of achieving the largest carbon footprint possible!
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Originally posted by 4sg:
And which part of my statements are histrionic?Flash floods and "desert fire" (whatever the hell that is) = mass migration? That's so far out from left field it isn't even in the same suburb, junior.
Your line of logic is so thin you don't have to turn it to see the other side, and on top of that you're making up rubbish like "desert fires".
I've been living here long enough to see bushfires coming my way, and I ain't going nowhere, sonny Jim.
I suppose you're going to bullshit and tell me now that bushfires are what you meant all along. Pardon the hell out of me if I can't take you seriously when you can't even get simple terminology right, much less the implications of the jargon you're unsuccessfully trying to spout. Here's another news flash, booster - bushfires have been around a helluva lot longer than thermometers, much less this newfangled global warming humbug, and we haven't had a mass migration yet, so there.
Only a fool would make up hysterical stories about "desert fires" and turn it into some rubbish prediciton of the Apocalypse with everyone bailing out.
Just because the slightest thing makes you run about like a headless chook doesn't mean that other people are as flimsy as you are.
As for global warming, I've read the research on which the Kyoto protocol was based - have you? Do you realise that it's based on absurd premises like third-world economies running like Los Angeles by 2035? And then, of course, the flaming idiots who wrote that tripe stand side-by-side with the protesters who say exactly the opposite and demand that the same third-world countries are going to be broke well before then, but nobody seems to notice the glaring contradiction because they're all too busy going wah-wah-wah.
The pointyheads who wrote that crap are as bloody histrionic as you are, sport.
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Originally posted by Meia Gisborn:
Hey, I see we both share a common goal of achieving the largest carbon footprint possible!
stick it to the cocks who drive priuses!
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Originally posted by 4sg:
Global warming will affect everyone in the future. But the negative effect will be greater on some countries than others.
Not all countries will feel its impact in an equitable way or suffer from its impact in an equitable way.
Bangladesh will have the Ganges's delta disappearing altogether with 20 millions people having to move or migrate. South Vietnam will also disappeared. The interior region of Australia will get hotter.
However, some countries may be impact by it in a postive way. The temperate regions can become more inhabitable.Enough said.
You know... ...u probably watch too much movies . And infact if we reach the stage where 20 million people havce to move. Do you honestly think Singapore is still relevant?