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 Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 1:42 pm
The few times I've encountered kids in similar situations, they've retained the same accents. Granted we're talking Chinese/England, Chinese/America, Japanese/America and Filipino/America, so it's radically different languages each time. I think there was a study done that you have to learn a language by the time you're 7 to not have an accent, but don't quote me. The case with Chinese/England the older brother was 11/12 and still had a Chinese accent, but his little sister had been 6 and she had a perfect English accent.
I'm told my French accent is weird because I learned what little French I know while in Taiwan, so it was learning French from a Chinese language base so I've managed in incorporate both an American and Chinese accent into my French. I have no idea if any of this helps you.
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 1:47 pm
Minty Andee My guess is probably astronauts or armies, people who need tea done quickly before emergencies happen. Gigi of the Ribbons Wow, that's weird. Wonder when they might update that. Any song requests for dancey time? >w> We must gather lots of chocolate, graham crackers, and marshmallows so we have plenty for all~ The one with, "Don't be silly, I love you very much." Dee Dee then breaks things. "I guess I shouldn't touch." I don't need to kidnap to huggles~ emotion_hug Yes, but it's still funny. I like the part of that episode where you can see Spinel getting the food shoved into his mouth from the front. The sweet just sticking out of his mouth and Kero comes back and pushes it in the rest of the way. All the giggles~
No certain requests, just something that is easy.
Store basket time again~
YES xD Hello, dear brother, what have you got there? Nothing, nothing, you only see air.
Yay -snugsnug- <3
I actually watched the Japanese clip and started laughing when Spinel started crying, I don't know if I should feel horrible xD Then Kero laughing when Spinel says his name is Suppie xD
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 1:59 pm
Minty Andee The few times I've encountered kids in similar situations, they've retained the same accents. Granted we're talking Chinese/England, Chinese/America, Japanese/America and Filipino/America, so it's radically different languages each time. I think there was a study done that you have to learn a language by the time you're 7 to not have an accent, but don't quote me. The case with Chinese/England the older brother was 11/12 and still had a Chinese accent, but his little sister had been 6 and she had a perfect English accent.
I'm told my French accent is weird because I learned what little French I know while in Taiwan, so it was learning French from a Chinese language base so I've managed in incorporate both an American and Chinese accent into my French. I have no idea if any of this helps you. I'm kind of going by my mums accent which has faded a bit over time in America, but American's still think it's really obvious while her family thinks she sounds American now. So I'm wondering how Blair's accent will be affected even though she wouldn't have spent as much time in Scotland (she's around 17 or 18 at the start of the story, so about four years at the least, 8 years at the most) as my mum has in America (which is around 29 or so years). That would probably make it odd.
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 2:04 pm
BUT THAT WAS OUR ONLY TEA. NOW WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO? DRINK HOT WATER? I THINK NOT. ASTRONAUT UNNO, YOU MARCH RIGHT OUT THAT AIRLOCK, MISTER, AND GET OUR TEA BACK. emotion_donotwant
On a slightly more serious note, I do like powdered tea in it's inclusion in many punch recipes.It is a bit different when you go from the same language to the same language, you'll start adopting the local accent, but still retain much of your own. You're talking about a character that would be going from French to English though. You could always ask Ooc Prince. They might know someone irl that would be relevant.
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 2:17 pm
Minty Andee It is a bit different when you go from the same language to the same language, you'll start adopting the local accent, but still retain much of your own. You're talking about a character that would be going from French to English though. You could always ask Ooc Prince. They might know someone irl that would be relevant. I know, but I also think that people who all have the same accent would also be more sensitive to someone who has a different one and will almost always notice it no matter how thick or barely there the other accent is. Though growing up speaking another language will likely have a permanent affect on how someones pronunciation and such which likely means the accent lingers far longer. I may ask Prince, though the French is likely what most people will hear in her voice. I think French people may think she sounds somewhat Scottish though like how my Australian family think of my mums 'American' accent, though it obviously wouldn't be as obvious a change like my mums at this point of her life.
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 2:32 pm
But then you also have people like me who has a foreign parent and a native parent to where they live so they have a very subtle accent that most people won't notice except for maybe a few key words. Mine being mum and tomato (which I say like an Australian/British person would). Mine also shows up in other ways, but it's so subtle that people often thing I'm just speaking improperly or 'ghetto' (especially in high school cause the school I went to was in a poorer part of town with lots of gangs and such). Specifically words ending with er cause of how my mum pronounces them, except water for some reason... I say water like an American. But anywho's... I have the 'American' accent in that I speak more with the front of my mouth than the back like a British/Australian accent except for er words where I'll subtly flip to the back of my mouth (more in the middle of my mouth which is why it sounds off to people I think) and make it sound like I'm not speaking properly. ... I guess I have a dominantly American accent with Australian undertones. Though apparently the Australian becomes more dominant the more stressed I am, which seems odd to me. Edit: Sorry for the random ramble, feel free to ignore.
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 2:59 pm
True, a lot of her accent is going to depend on who the listener is. French/Scottish listeners will probably pick up noticeably different things than everyone else. Although it would probably depend on if she's speaking English to a French listener, in which case they might not notice, or French, where I doubt she'd have an accent at all since that's native and it's not like she's going to pick up a Scottish accent on her French because it's unlikely she'll be speaking to a lot of native Scotland French speakers in french.
You also probably have a southern/floridian accent. Keeping in mind regional stuff. Like I've picked up a subtle yooper accent over the years that I don't hear, but sometimes someone else not from the area will pick up on. Probably the most distinctive thing is we tend to talk faster, which might be obvious in the length of my responses to people, or it might not. You'll have to call me and like, read the dictionary or something.
RAMBLING IS 99% OF WHAT I DO AT YOU. AS IF I'M GONNA IGNORE THAT. THE VERY IDEA.
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 3:10 pm
Very true. And it's mostly her English I'm thinking of, native languages rarely seem affected from what I've noticed unless it's moving to a different region with the same language as we've both mentioned. My accent is not what you think of when you think 'southern' in America. We're one of the more 'normal sounding' of the American accents to most people from what I've picked up from tourists. My sister-in-law is from North Carolina so she has a mountain/southern accent. Anyways, my point is that due to my mother being the one that was around me the most as a child I picked up her accent but it's no longer very noticeable cause I spend most of my time surrounded by American accents. I think what we can take from all this, though, is that accents are weird and often confusing. Slight side note, Falinn as a 'New York' accent and I forget she has it a lot. Which means she speaks really fast compared to a lot of people from my experience with New Yorkers.
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 3:56 pm
I dunno. When I was in the keys, I thought you guys talked slower than molasses running uphill in winter. Mostly what I've noticed about the few New Yorkers I've met is they're louder than normal. Well, my normal.
Seeing as Falinn always talks loud in my head, I guess that fits. (from losing hearing from all those explosions I guess, but now New York)
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 4:59 pm
Minty Andee I dunno. When I was in the keys, I thought you guys talked slower than molasses running uphill in winter. Mostly what I've noticed about the few New Yorkers I've met is they're louder than normal. Well, my normal.
Seeing as Falinn always talks loud in my head, I guess that fits. (from losing hearing from all those explosions I guess, but now New York) Really? I didn't think we talked that slow, though I don't really pay attention to speed cause I'm used to varying speeds due to family living all over the place. Falinn isn't capable of losing her hearing anymore due to how her immortality works. She's basically stuck how she was the day she became immortal, at least physically. She can change mentally, though, which is part of why she went insane. You can hurt her but the wounds heal instantly but her mind struggles with that and causes phantom pain that's like a phantom limb for an amputee. Can feel it even though it's not actually there anymore.
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 6:17 pm
So...how much of an evil villain does it make me that I now want to cut of one of her legs to see what happens?
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 6:46 pm
Minty Andee Aw, but I wanna prod the boxer!
That's pretty much what I aim for in all my stories. You know what, I sot of want to poke at him too . . . Not to get punched though. Never magical sparkly eyes? You're so sweet~ *huggles* Fantasy and epic quests for a baby brother to get back, and also glitter. So much glitter~
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 6:47 pm
It will heal immediately after whatever you used to cut it off passes through. And you will likely be dead, however, as that will likely trigger the murderous personality to take over as it's sort of her 'job' to protect Cecilia from harm. Falinn is the mask/shield personality, 'psycho' is the figurative knife or gun.
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 6:47 pm
Gigi of the Ribbons You're so sweet~ *huggles* Fantasy and epic quests for a baby brother to get back, and also glitter. So much glitter~ I have my moments. -cuddles- ... Okay?
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 6:51 pm
There is something about the lug that just makes you wanna interact with him > u <
I don't know? What kind of story would inspire sparkly eyes?So what you're saying is we need some sort of surgically place explosives that will blow Falinn exactly in half, hurtling the two parts of her body apart at the exact moment of their separation and then we could have TWO murderous Falinns on our hands?
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