Speech pattern and typographical variations across Canada

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

More dorky than LBJ or Jimmy Carter?

Similarly so.

Reagan was fairly neutral. As was Obama.

[Architype]

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

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When you get Dave Cochrane excited, or he's conversing in an interview, his accent gets stronger and surpasses your "refined" threshold.

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Everybody sounds different when excited.

I think I like the term "cultivated accent" now, rather than refined, there is a difference, I think some Nflders have that.

[wave46]

Originally Posted by lio45

I also try not to judge anyone, but it's kind of hard to resist the association with intelligence based on accent. Can't help it, personally. I find it almost hard to believe you wouldn't favorably judge a standarsized overseas French accent while getting a bad impression from the thickest rural Québécois accent... in the latter case, the person is kinda outing themselves as a hick right then and there.

Jean Chretien was the wiliest old dog of a politician (figures, as he shoveled Pierre Trudeau's shit for the longest time), but he spoke like someone from the boonies of Quebec.

George W. had a unabashed Texan accent too and made it to the Presidency.

Both of them got elected to the highest offices in their lands. There's a certain honesty to a less sophisticated accent that people can find endearing. It humanizes them. It also leads people to underestimate them IMO, which can be quite an advantage.

[wave46]

Originally Posted by Acajack

Like John F Kennedy sounded dorky to me?

Kennedy knew how to deliver speeches that could inspire though. You miss the accent if you get swept up in the feeling of the speech itself.

[lio45]

Originally Posted by wave46

Both of them got elected to the highest offices in their lands.

Sure, but we were talking about intelligence, and that's completely unrelated to managing or not to get elected at least once to the highest office in the land. (Dubya and Justin Trudeau are both pretty clear evidence of that.)

If you sound uneducated, it can be an advantage for a populist politician. I don't disagree with that. But that's not the same thing as claiming that sounding uneducated doesn't make you sound less intelligent.

[Loco101]

Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

Good question. It's hard to remember. He certainly had a similar accent, but I don't recall the intonation being as big a factor as it is wth DoFo. Perhaps it's a learned (and failed) rhetorical device on DoFo's part?

Watch the last minute and a half of this video and Russell Peters explains the Canadian white guy accent well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh8K75o5sGQ

[SignalHillHiker]

Originally Posted by Architype

Everybody sounds different when excited.

I think I like the term "cultivated accent" now, rather than refined, there is a difference, I think some Nflders have that.

"Cultivated" is perfect.

Sometime he lets himself completely go. When he calls in to VOCM to talk about the latest racket in our House of Assembly, he's pretty hardcore NL. But so is that Powers guy (not the host of Q since Jian was canned, who is also a Newfoundlander, a different guy). And his natural, wake him up in the middle of the night with a gun to his head, accent is Canadian. I'm not even convinced he's actually from here. Not just the accent, but his WAY of thinking about things... but anyhow. lol Cultivated is a perfect word.

[harls]

Originally Posted by Sarah89

That intonation I have heard before. An awkward, halting lilt. It's a staple of a the accent. I don't think Canadians realize how strong our accent really is and how it sounds to other people. Doug Ford's accent is actually quite common in a lot of men I have met in Ontario.. not all of them, but quite a few.

I think he believes he's Orson Welles.

Yet when he speaks from a script, he sounds like he's reading a speech from a toilet.

And sweating.

[Architype]

Originally Posted by harls

I think he believes he's Orson Welles.

Yet when he speaks from a script, he sounds like he's reading a speech from a toilet.

And sweating.

Some politicians have been unduly influenced by evangelical preachers.

[vid]

Finally learned how to put my You on the Tube.

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Me: I– When I first heard the banging I thought it was gunshots.

Man being fucked in the ass by a male prostitute while another man, who was high on crystal meth, laughs at them and applauds: Fuck me! *indescernable* me! Fuck! Me!

Me: I wonder what street they're gonna go down—did you tell 'em Hardisty?

Man being fucked in the ass: Fuck!

My brother: I didn't say Hardisty.

Man being fucked in the ass: Queer!!

Me: Shit.


So basically I thought someone was being murdered and we called 911 and it was just a guy being fucked in the ass etc. etc., they drove away after EMS drove by and the police arrested them down the street for god knows what.

So basically this is my representation of Thunder Bay thank you for watching don't forget to hit the bell~

There is another video of us talking as we drive by them being arrested, I'm uploading it now!

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[megadude]

Few examples of GTA lingo. These guys are comedic and editing geniuses by the way. They work with Much Music now.


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Okay as I go through this thread none of the videos are previewing for me. Am I the only one?

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Middle one doesn't work. Other two do. Check the code. If you have scriptblock, check that.

The other video:

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Man, the sounds are horrifying.

[Sarah89]

You know what they, every time a Canadian says ''aboot'' an angel gets its wings.

[rousseau]

Is "jazz hands" specifically British, or do North Americans use it too?

I recently came across the term in several different British shows and contexts, but hadn't heard it before. Then it showed up in an American context and got me to wondering if we're adopting it or if it's always been a term that's been used here.

[SaskScraper]

^^ Same meaning on both sides of the pond, but it really depends how you are using the term 'Jazz Hands'. Usually means fake razzle-dazzle enthusiasm by splaying fingers and moving both hands together back and forth, like as if in an over zealous musical.

If you've ever seen Book of Mormon, you'll know exactly what I mean by looking at some of the hand movements for the song 'Turn it Off' from the musical, (which I'm seeing again, last week of September in Regina)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTgQ...OxQlP7&index=5

I think 'Jazz hands' can sometimes mean the need for a bikini wax for some women wearing panties or thongs... but I wouldn't know about any of that

Then of course if you really mean 'Jizz hands' then you mean something completely different yet again
'Jazz Hands' has lots of sexual contexts...

[esquire]

I have been hearing jazz hands for years... I thought it was a musical theatre term that has leaked out into popular culture.

[kool maudit]

It is, it's American in origin too. It's like a stage direction.

[kwoldtimer]

Originally Posted by rousseau

Is "jazz hands" specifically British, or do North Americans use it too?

I recently came across the term in several different British shows and contexts, but hadn't heard it before. Then it showed up in an American context and got me to wondering if we're adopting it or if it's always been a term that's been used here.

I would have thought that it originated in the USA. The term has been in use for decades, no?

[rousseau]

Well, blimey. Funny how cultural myopia works. In all my years I've literally never heard it used anywhere outside of a few references in British TV shows.