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I heard the "Raise" doesn't manifest in Canadian children until they hit 15-16 and start displaying signs of it. Before that they sound relatively normal. However the onset can be even earlier.
What age did it start for you? Do you remember the day when you went through the change.
I don't really feel anything personally about this as I don't really have the accent people are talking about. (I have more a French Canadian accent.)
But I can understand that it is annoying for some people.
I mean, who the f- cares if people speak with a (slightly) different accent?
You don't remember that lady who got banned asking Americans why they think Canadians have an accent? she got banned and now all of a sudden all these posters with 10 reputation are making threads about Canadian accents..... to the point that there is now a sticky thread about accents.
Given that I make a few dollars recording voiceovers for American ads and whatnot, and have never studied "American voice," I think it is safe to say that "Canadian raising" is overblown. If I had to pin my accent down, I'd say that I speak "American newscaster," much like Peter Jennings and Morley Safer--both of whom were Canadian.
Seriously, why is a Canadian accent of such interest to Americans?
I actually notice Canadian lowering more, like saying "melk" instead of "milk" and "op" instead of "up". Even Canadians who don't say "eh" and "aboat" will invariably do the lowering no matter how Americanized their accent is. Then again this is also prevalent on the West Coast and in the upper Midwest so it doesn't necessarily give away that someone's a Canadian.
Canadians flipping out over their own accents?Something you may not have considered is we dont hear this linguistic anomaly.
Its Americans that seem to be obsessed with the way we evidently say out and about.
in fact oot and aboot would be more attributable to a Scottish accent.
Welcome to the forum eh!
The Canadian accent has noticeable English and Scottish influences, probably due to lots of immigration from there in the 19th and 20th centuries.
I actually notice Canadian lowering more, like saying "melk" instead of "milk" and "op" instead of "up". Even Canadians who don't say "eh" and "aboat" will invariably do the lowering no matter how Americanized their accent is. Then again this is also prevalent on the West Coast and in the upper Midwest so it doesn't necessarily give away that someone's a Canadian.
The lowering?
The raise?
Is there an anti Canadian cult happening and these are current buzzwords?
If you really want to discuss accents America has em all from New England,to the hillbillys to inner city to the latino and just about every minority that moves to the USA . yet American after American starts topics on how Canadians say a few words differently making the pompous assumption that the American dialect is correct and the Canadian dialect is in some way inferior.
With thousands of posts from Americans on the ramifications of how Canadians evidently say oot and aboot instead of out and about ya gotta wonder just how vacuous the American intellect has become.Is there any Canadian linguistic abnormalities in the term "Get a life" ?
The lowering?
The raise?
Is there an anti Canadian cult happening and these are current buzzwords?
If you really want to discuss accents America has em all from New England,to the hillbillys to inner city to the latino and just about every minority that moves to the USA . yet American after American starts topics on how Canadians say a few words differently making the pompous assumption that the American dialect is correct and the Canadian dialect is in some way inferior.
With thousands of posts from Americans on the ramifications of how Canadians evidently say oot and aboot instead of out and about ya gotta wonder just how vacuous the American intellect has become.Is there any Canadian linguistic abnormalities in the term "Get a life" ?
Easy now, jambo101. She's just a young gal. I don't think valsteele means any harm.
Although I'll freely admit that her participation in this thread and her odd comments about the "Canadian accent" are somewhat suspicious.
Errr ... his participation ... his comments ....
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