Oh, none taken and I agree that people do say that. Growing up in the pretty insular and homogenous culture of Denmark, then choosing to become an immigrant to the US at age 26 has given me lots of opportunities to challenge my own ignorant assumptions.
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I guess over here, we are much more condensed and the difference in regional accents can change over a few miles.
It’s 6 miles to Scotland from here, prety much as soon as you get over the border there is a pronounced change. 35 miles easy you get to Hexham, and that’s where signs of the north east accent realy show. 60 miles south and Lancashire “twang” becomes apparent… and then you could travel a little further and get to a Mancunian Or Liverpudlian Accent.
There are areas in the uk that have a fairly flat, non descript accent. You would be hard placed to say where a person had come from.
Rob
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Definitely not! The current British royal family have a very unique accent that is instantly recognisable and distinct from others.
I know what you mean about people who think they themselves have no accent. I once met a sloane who affected to find my accent very interesting, adding that it must be wonderful to have an accent. All this delivered in a very strong nasal accent she had probably picked up at school.
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I’m sure my entire framework for understanding this issue can be teased out of this set of video clips:
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1st Name Not voluntarily given, I prefer Esopus and I once was known around conventions Fumu.
City, Country. New York, NY, US.
Rough Job. Failure.
What do you drive… Bipedal humanoid form is my main and New York City Subway is my side.
Musical talent None, ambient, glitch, rhythmic noise.
Electronic Tallent. Reading everything related to building Kosmo format modular synthesizer made me feel I’ve absorbed the most skill at something. I can believe and be filled with ideas despite having failed to demonstrate skills, I don’t feel that’s all I have.
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I dunno, it’s fairly grim. My entire childhood was in black and white because my dad didn’t earn enough in the grime factory to pay for a colour licence. When the rent man came we used to hide behind the sofa. That was until the debt collectors came to repossess the furniture. Then we hid the sofa.
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Not heard that one in a long time, was a fan of the KLF. I have a copy of the white room, probably the most valuable CD I own.
You can hear Bill Drummods scottish roots in his pronunciation of the towns ( his home town is not too far from here).
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This has to be the quickest way to wind up anyone not from the home counties (basically the area around London for the americans) haha.
Obviously no one has no accent, but you can get pretty indistinct. As someone who grew up on the Dorset coast but has now lived in Manchester for 7 years with a mancunian partner and a circle of friends almost all from cumbria and the north east, I’ve developed a weird accent that all northerners identify as southern and all southerners think is northern. We’ll have to go to the third judge of the midlands!
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Tim
Melbourne, Australia
IT Business Analyst
Ford kuga (escape)
Little
I had both a 60 in 1 and 200 in 1 electronics kit as a kid.
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Welcome 
think your our 1st Australian ( or at least declared it here )
Rob
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Shame on Australia! And thanks for the warm welcome. (:
(although I’m sure the “lurking” Aussies will come out of the woodwork soon enough)
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I’m sure there’s at least one more.
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@Caustic and @fredrik how would you guys feel about breaking the map out into another thread and locking off comments (possible?) so that it’s easier to find and doesn’t get lost in a sync/scrolling?
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I second the idea . plus a few extra characters for the twenty .
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Yeah! And lets get a GPS tracker on Sam too!
Up for that @lookmumnocomputer?
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hahaha I mean!!! maybe a gps module is something we should look into haha. it would be a rather boring gps tracking! just in and around margate for me!
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oh nice!!! I have finally got internet after a month or two without much at all. just checking stuff out thats awesome! how do we add ourselves to the map?
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I just use the replies to this topic
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aaah well! here we go then!!!
SAM
MARGATE UK
SOLDER FUME INHALER
VW SCIROCCO MK2
MUSICAL ISH. WHISTLING MAINLY
BACKYARD ENGINEER
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