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Exactly? What did he call it? Australian Questioning Intonation? It's, like, sooo annoying? But I've noticed that not only, like, Australian, like, talk that way, but also, like, northern English...

I have tried to acquire both a Scottish and an Australian accent (not simultaneously), to mask my Dutch one. In Australian, I've only managed to believably say 'manpower' and 'spider'. :D Oh yeah,...

No, as in English. I'm not that stupid. :wink:

I know why you sound stupid pronouncing the 't' as a 't': you don't change the vowel preceding it. The first was pronounced as 'waa-dur', the second as 'waa-tur'. The first vowel should be more of an...

You know? I can't really put my finger on it. It may have something to do with the nasality, though I don't think that other Americans who talk through their noses sound Asian. Also, very slightly,...

So, finished my German. Now I can waste my time for half an hour before something interesting on telly starts.

Call me discriminating (or in this case quite the opposite, fa-fah), but I couldn't...

Where did you run this test? I will admit freely (as I have done) that if I hadn't known your background, I wouldn't have noticed it. But there IS something Asian about the first 2 samples. Tomorrow...

Instead of that role by Tom Hanks you could insert any Texan gentleman. I was just displaying my knowledge of popular culture there.

Untill quite recently, I thought 'hyperbole' was pronounced...

Exactly. Maybe if I saw you being Asiatic-like I'd notice it as well, but if I knew absolutely nothing about you and couldn't see you, I'd have thought you were an American and think no more of it.
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That's weird, to hear you talking... I always imagined you had a far nerdier voice. You know, maybe if I didn't know your background, I wouldn't have noticed, but for some reason the first two...