Chado; I'm a buckeye and come up to FRENCH RIVER about every fall to fish a spell. Great country, but do to health issues I don't think I will make it this year. I do get a kick out of the cana language though. AHE
caddy 53 chuck

 

I am from in the middle, Northern Virginia, and I am pretty sure that I have the anti-accent, mainly beacuse there are so many diffrent accents in that area I just talk fairly flat. Even the people down here in Alabama where I go to school seem to think I have no accent. but northerners think I have an accent just because I say y'all. I think the mid-west has got the wierd accents. But I know some southern ones you can't understand with out playback.

 

Does Southern California count?

 

dumptech: No.

Don't get me started on that state. LOL

I just got a new Oke truck driver. Everyone else thinks he talks weird. And some of the words he uses confuses everyone. I understand him. Good to have some "southern class" on my crew at work now. Tired of the "city" boys.

 

Ok,


Thought this was funny and I'd share.


Last night at the casino me and my buddy were playing roulette and there was alot of people, well one of the people we were talking with a bit (ok I was playing roulette for a long time *1hour+, long time for me* and I was talking to most of the people at the table) and this guy was from IL, USA. Anyway, we were talking about the rules as its a little different up here and my buddy was joking saying this is the Canadian version...so all the #'s have EH after them. So your betting on 36EH ? or 22EH? or blackEH?

Lol. anyway the guy is like well where I'm from its 35y'all. 36y'all. anyway nice guy maybe everyone was drunk but it was pretty funny at the time


Meet so many different people living in a tourist town...oh how I cant wait to move...probably about a year and I get to go country.


Chado

 

I work in a call center and have the same required forgetfullness but being located in Texas and getting calls from about 30 states makes ya realize. Alaska isn't horrible, they're not fast, nor slow but it's got a hint of something different, and it's called eskimo. South Carolina and North Carolina are terrible but wait till you hear Mississippi. My job is actually in the middle of calls for deaf/hard of hearing/mute people so I hear calls to other customer service personel ... you'd be amazed how many of them speak worse than taxi driver's in New York. I get a lot of spanish callers that have to ask us to transfer to spanish, therefore, I now have a working knowledge of "uno momento por favor" and then click, they're gone. I, luckily, have never had a french transfer but we do provide service in "french creole." Anyway, if you think Texans are bad, just get ahold of those other southern states. Texans have more of a twinge of the spanish while Louisianans have that french thing goin' on like the Canadians do. It's crazy! We just started taking calls from Hawaii and I can't wait to hear what they sound like over there. I had a person in Cali tell me that I had a funny accent and to slow down becuz they couldn't understand me. I said "I have an accent????" I'm one of the fast talkin' Texans and I've been told to slow down by people in Cali, Connecticut, and New York. That surprised me but slow Texans, SC, NC, etc don't ever need me to slow down... whatever! What's bad is our mics are bad about echoing in our headsets and I catch myself sounding sooo backwards hickish.. I turned to someone next to me once and asked if I sounded like a hick and she told me, yeah worse the some but better than others. What's funny is we are actually supposed to type using the accents of the people we're on the phone with so the deaf people get a feel for what the other person sounds like. It's weird so I apologize in advance for typing like an oddball... :-)

 

haha that is funny.

Well when I take calls from North West Territories (theres an interesting place...in the winter I ask them how cold it is and sometimes its -35C which is COLD. They work in diamond mines, alot of them are eskimo's (inuit whichever you like) But what really shocked me was how much of Canada is French. I wasn't brought up thinking of Canada as so french, but New Brunswick / Manitoba and obviously quebec (but thats a given) are all very french.

It's too bad I don't get calls from Americans other then the people that live half a year here due to the service we are offering I really liked talking to Americans at my last job. I had a conversation for about an hour with this guy from New York city once. Interesting fellow.

Oh btw, I was looking at the Toby Keith concert listings and the only one on the list atm that I could make it to would be texas but plane tickets to texas are 500$ each from air canada and I can't afford that for a one day trip to see toby heh. NYC tickets are only 90$ but thats because its so much closer...I'll wait till it's not prime season and try again for lower fare.


Chado

 

Yeah plane tickets are expensive. Toby Keith will actually be in the town I work in on August 21st. It's all over the radio's here and I've been trying to win tickets. I might break down and spend some money to actually go but I don't know.