[ SECRET POST #2687 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #2687 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.


__________________________________________________



02.


__________________________________________________



03.


__________________________________________________



04.


__________________________________________________



05.


__________________________________________________



06.


__________________________________________________



07.


__________________________________________________



08.


__________________________________________________



09.


__________________________________________________



10.


__________________________________________________



11.










Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 048 secrets from Secret Submission Post #384.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: we don't sound like that dammit!!1

[ariakas]

Pretty much everyone who every tries to affect a "Canadian" accent ends up trying to sound like a Newfie.

Sorry, guys. We're pretty much just stealth!Americans, accent-wise. This is why we've invaded your Hollywood and your Comedy and stole all your signs.

(There are a few differences. We say the "o" in sorry, as opposed to sahrry, and "leftentant" instead of "lootenant", but there are plenty of Canadians who've seen too much American television that don't even do those. There's also Canadian raising, but no one attempting to do a Canadian accent actually does that, they just go 'OW ABOOT THAT HOCKEY EH?? and leave it at that.)

Re: we don't sound like that dammit!!1

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, my dad side of family's Canadian, and while I hear their accent very distinctly (and some of them come close to the fake Canadian accent), it's still more subtle than the jokes.

It's more specific word pronunciations. Using "Zed" instead of "zee", and my dad and his family all say "pasta" and "drama" with a short a, like in cat.

Now, my other side of the family are all Brooklyn Jews, so my grandfather, especially, actually has an accent really damned close to the "old Jewish man" stereotype.

It gets really funny when my mom's around both sides of the family, and ends up with this Canadian-Brooklyn hybrid that I cannot for the life of me imitate.

Re: we don't sound like that dammit!!1

[teaphile]

Yep. It's not that obvious. Only one American ever knew I wasn't one of them, and Aussies mostly guessed my accent was from anywhere but North America.

Re: we don't sound like that dammit!!1

[(Anonymous)]

...and even then they get the Newf accent wrong! People in the outports usually came from the same village on the wrong side of the Atlantic 450 years ago, each of which had their own accent, and there was limited contact between the outports for 300+ years, resulting in local dialects of about 500 different varieties.

What does CBC usually opt for? Cape Breton and/or Irish. Neither of which is even close to accurate. OK. Maybe the latter, but only east of the Overpass (St. John's/townie).