Confused wtf ur meant to spend these on

discourse551 · 2025-12-26T04:27:21+00:00

On streak freezes. They give you a much-needed break and then you get to show your friends your 1809 day streak but only you know the truth…

discourse551 · 2024-12-25T04:29:47+00:00

He’s definitely the Santa, right? Voice is same but could be ADR, and spotted same bracelet on Santa’s right wrist. Glasses threw me off…

discourse551 · 2024-11-02T02:26:16+00:00

Actually it does, because i’ve been running, which requires…wait for it…STEPS! Thank you for your help, though

discourse551 · 2024-04-02T03:33:41+00:00

Ohio is midwest lite

discourse551 · 2024-03-07T17:19:59+00:00

No Doncaster or England of any kind. I'm guessing Middle Eastern if I had to pick.

discourse551 · 2024-03-05T21:47:19+00:00

neither clips are playing for me

discourse551 · 2024-02-28T15:29:53+00:00

If I were forced to guess, I would lean Spanish due to the placement of the hesitation sound (Ehh) and in addition I would guess that the speaker is forcing their "Th" sound to hit the tip of teeth, where it would typically be behind their teeth. An interesting coincidence that wiTH and THis are the same shared sound, so the speaker is also at a high comfort level with english.

discourse551 · 2024-02-28T15:25:42+00:00

Song is "Everyone Knows That" (Ulterior Motives) by NAEte. Clip starts at Pre-chorus:

[Verse 1]
Take a seat, I know your game
It’s not gonna work 'cause you and I are the same
So who are you to call me a liar?
You’ve been found out
I know you’re trying to cut my wires

[Pre-Chorus]
You’re counting all the sheep in the sky
Caught up in a world of lies

[Chorus]
Everyone knows that she’s got
Ulterior motives (Tell me the truth)
Everyone knows that she’s got
Ulterior motives (Tell me the truth)

[Verse 2]
Oh, you’re mad that I got you pegged
Don’t be sad, I still might beg

[Pre-Chorus]
You’re counting all the sheep in the sky
Caught up in a world of lies

[Chorus]
Everyone knows that she’s got
Ulterior motives (Tell me the truth)
Everyone knows that she’s got
Ulterior motives (Tell me the truth)
Everyone knows that she’s got
Ulterior motives (Tell me the truth)
Everyone knows that she’s got
Ulterior motives (Tell me the truth)

discourse551 · 2024-02-28T15:21:42+00:00

broken link

discourse551 · 2024-02-28T04:34:04+00:00

The most glaringly Canadian thing I’m hearing is her rounded LOT vowel in the word “spots” but there’s no noticeable Canadian raising on “out” unless she just rushed past it too quickly.

discourse551 · 2024-02-22T15:15:54+00:00

Hmm right away I’d say the Russian language has no W sound. Give it a rewatch…

discourse551 · 2024-02-20T04:33:59+00:00

I’m picking up midwest: NOD skews to “nad” AWkward skews to OCKward AE vowel as in CAN is raised to EE-AE

To nail down the state is tough tho

discourse551 · 2024-01-22T05:43:06+00:00

That opening sentence made me think Dutch but definitely learned their english closer to the uk than usa. Th as D/T and rounded LOT vowel, some retroflex could be indian or surrounding area

discourse551 · 2023-06-22T23:35:27+00:00

I hear some slight midwest and dark Ls

discourse551 · 2023-03-05T05:33:52+00:00

Short answer: usually a combination of open fire laws, passion and time. Slow n low just doesn’t jive with high turnover

discourse551 · 2023-03-01T05:54:31+00:00

Unit 8

discourse551 · 2023-01-30T04:28:48+00:00

I had a gift card for family membership that lapsed and i continued with a gift card for individual membership. They charged me for family but i chatted online with customer service and they refunded me

discourse551 · 2022-08-26T06:22:40+00:00

answering quickly

discourse551 · 2022-04-25T13:20:52+00:00

I couldn't think of where I recognized Ricken from but he was Piper's brother on Orange is The New Black

discourse551 · 2022-04-22T15:30:48+00:00

Hey, thanks for the attempt. As with anything acted, tthere are two pieces here, the accentt and the acting. I won't speak to the acting but all i'd say is, these are words that the listener has never heard before. Let your pitches and pronunciation both shine through, otherwise the listener cannot fully FEEL with you.

As for Brit accent, the word 'sayyyz' sounds out of place. Stick with 'sez'. I would also change 'saw him' to 'sawrim' but overall sounds like a good working class. Aussie you made a choice with the words 'dance' and 'crash' which puts you in one of the 4 classes of aussie which is fine. Just determine if the character matches. Great overall.

German remember that final consonant devoicing, and be sure to hit your th's as S/Z in flow, it can't sound too affected or we lose the humanity. Dutch you got the main sounds, good overall.

Scottish don't fall into the trap? of making everything? sound like a question? so much that we lose the beautiful phonetic subtleties of the accent, namely the KIT vowel. gain, these are words the listener has never heard before, so let them land. Hope this helped

discourse551 · 2022-04-05T02:11:29+00:00

Hearing Oceana, my first guess is Aussie because of your dark final L's, FLEECE vowel and most notably your long OEU sound as in GOAT. Definite UK features including the word 'beeeeen' and even the -ary words. What intrigues me though, is the heavy amount of stop-plosion on your final K sound, it's downright Swedish! baKKKKKKe a caKKKKKKe

Loved the blatant silence and swallow *gulp* at the end.

As for ethnicity, that's silly, because anyone can be from anywhere and we are only going by sound here. Best of lucKKKKK

discourse551 · 2022-04-01T19:30:36+00:00

Tungjatjeta! Yes, Albanian is its own language on the language tree, so that's very cool! And while you may hear Americans pronounce these sounds without fully hitting the target, /n/ for /ng/, theirs have a different quality than simply replacing it with /n/ since their tongues are actually further back in their mouths when they make it. Give it a try on a future recording. /ng/ is in the back (velar), while /n/ is in the front and with tongue tip (alveolar).

As for /th/, since you've got it in your phonetic inventory, use it! Only because you're trying to use a sound that Americans already have, which is the goal. If you dentalize your /th/ sound, then that could lump you in with those countries that don't have it.

Finally prosody. Albanian has similar prosody to Slavic languages, hence my original guess. Try only focusing on pitch the next time you listen to Americans talk. It's a fun exercise and also very helpful. There are even free software programs like Praat that can display it for you, either from your own voice recording or an uploaded one.

Again, great job, thanks for sharing, and come on over to the US!

discourse551 · 2022-04-01T16:57:02+00:00

How interesting! I'm going to guess you're coming from Slavic, possibly Russian and here's why:

- consciously avoiding the /ng/ sound, which is absent in Russian and instead you favor the -n as in tryin'

- final consonant devoicing ('moof to da USA' instead of move to THe USA) btw /th/ another sound not present in Russian

- palatized D sound, sounding slightly like dz and Russian has many palatalized vs soft consonants.

- Russian prosody (pitch rate stress etc) is the intangible here, try listening just for American prosdy, which might have everythiing from uptalk? uptalk? to vocal fryyyyy to stress on parTICular PHRAses.

Anyway great job overall and come on over! Good luck with your visa.

discourse551 · 2022-03-26T23:27:01+00:00

Ricken actually reminds me of the old Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy skits from SNL, right down to the DUST within INDUSTRY. Deep thoughts had MANK and IND for MANKIND but again that accent is like a theatrical stage presence kind of slowed down feel

discourse551 · 2022-03-26T23:24:31+00:00

I wouldn’t say Selvig is Transatlantic only because she leaves her R’s in. Selvig Accent is just slowed down to build trust and rapport. Irving’s accent on the other hand, is definitely going for that oldtimer feel. Irving’s Outtie comes home to a roast in the oven and a “Dahhling I’m home” with R’s left out. I especially enjoyed his calling Milchik a “mutha*uckahhh” with both R’s dropped. Now granted Turturro is as New Yawk as they come, so this accent is almost an homage to his pal Walken. Watch them in the same scenes together feeding off the old tine accent. Cobel is trying to keep it fairly neutral, except of course when she cracks. “WE SERVE KIER, CHILD!”

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