I only know the Newfoundland accent from the film The Shipping News.
It sounded mostly Irish to me and I really liked it. I could listen to it all day with much joy.
I'll have to watch the film again one day, assuming it's authenticity, and listen out for the Scottish and other British influences.
It's interesting that you write Irish, Scottish and British, given Scotland and Northern Ireland are part of Great Britain. There are many British accents: there are many Welsh, Scottish and especially English accents.
I'm less familiar with Irish accents, apart from the Reverend Ian Paisley whose voice often blared from our television screen in the 70's. I am aware, however, that not all Irish people sound like a Boeing 747 taking off having forgotten to check the oil.
I can identify a Southern American accent, but after that I'm at a loss to make any area distinctions. I can pick up on some European influences.
And with a shamed face, I have to admit to being a typical Brit who can't tell the difference between an American and Canadian accent, despite the gift of Southpark.
A Czech student I work with asked me whether British people like American accents.
After qualifying that I couldn't speak for the entire British nation, I said it grates on me when my granddaughter drops in snippets of Americanisms having been watching certain entertainments (My Little Ponies being high on my hit list for the knackers yard and/or glue factory).
I pointed out that my objections seem to center around some media vocalisations. I've heard many of you via vocaroo and have thoroughly enjoyed hearing your lovely voices. There appears to be a difference.
My Czech colleague asked from where in America my friends came from. He said he found the accent from the Southern States aggressive. Cue surprised and confused facial expression from yours truly (I'm hoping I looked more intelligent than the impression that creates in writing).
He further added, with an implication for the rest of the US, that Canadian accents sound the least false to him, and certainly less false than the British. My eyebrows somewhat shot off into my hairline accompanied by what I felt was genuine look of slight affront and amusement. He giggled in the way a young man will, when he knows he's being downright cheeky.
I have to say, I rather enjoyed his perception English(ish) accents. It's provided me with a different perspective for reflection.
Can we agree that you want to be judged by your narrow minded, arrogant, misogynistic thread?
Whether you want to be, or not, you are going to be.
What's that? Your thread isn't the whole of you? There's more to you than just your thread? There's a complex, intelligent, feeling human being behind this thread?
So, you're just trying to get a discussion going; you're trying to interact, learn, grow, make friends maybe?
You want us to see the real you behind your thread...but how are you going to do that without creating more posts, or threads by which you'll be judged?
Certainly, no one's going to know you even exist if you just sit there at home and read the forums.
You've got to play the game with the rules made up by someone else if you want opportunity, interaction, learning, growth, a relationship, friendship...whatever it is you're here for.
And when you do the right thing, the socially acceptable thing of grasping opportunity rather than sit at home accepting nothingness, you'll be judged for it.
If the aim is to increase dialogue between men and women and the method is to demand they remain on separate threads, why are men deemed the logical ones?
I think this might be in Oliver Sachs' book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat.
It's thought that some 94% of the nerves from the eye follow the same pathway to the part of the brain which processes sight. The remaining 6% follow a more diffuse route.
If there is a disconnection in the 94% pathway (due to injury, or disease) people, whilst being totally blind, are able to point to objects on request with accuracy.
If there is a disconnection in the 6% pathway, people can see, but appear to lose some sense of reality. This has been famously exampled by a man who was so convinced his father was an android, he cut his head off to expose the wiring inside.
It was hypothesised that this 6% 'non-seeing' pathway may be linked with the concept of 'sixth sense' and may explain phenomena such as becoming aware when someone is looking at you.
The definition in the op: 'the purported transmission of information from one person to another without using any of our KNOWN sensory channels, or physical interaction.'
Bear in mind the term 'telepathy' was coined in the 1800's before many things had been observed and recorded; before they were 'known' from a scientific, Western point of view.
Example 1: I had some friends round when my daughter was small. As I reached up and got her a toy from a shelf, one of the mums asked incredulously how I knew that she wanted that particular toy.
I said, "Because she told me."
My friend said, "No she didn't. She didn't say anything!"
I just shrugged. It took me a while to work out what my daughter and I had up until then taken for granted - she was looking at me to get my attention and her eyes ever so slightly flicked to the toy she wanted.
To other people the movement may have been imperceptible creating the impression that we were communicating by some form of telepathy.
If you watch small children who are at the developmental age where they play alongside each other, rather than together, you can observe these almost imperceptible body language and facial expression communications going on all the time.
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American Accents...
I only know the Newfoundland accent from the film The Shipping News.It sounded mostly Irish to me and I really liked it. I could listen to it all day with much joy.
I'll have to watch the film again one day, assuming it's authenticity, and listen out for the Scottish and other British influences.
It's interesting that you write Irish, Scottish and British, given Scotland and Northern Ireland are part of Great Britain. There are many British accents: there are many Welsh, Scottish and especially English accents.
I'm less familiar with Irish accents, apart from the Reverend Ian Paisley whose voice often blared from our television screen in the 70's. I am aware, however, that not all Irish people sound like a Boeing 747 taking off having forgotten to check the oil.
I can identify a Southern American accent, but after that I'm at a loss to make any area distinctions. I can pick up on some European influences.
And with a shamed face, I have to admit to being a typical Brit who can't tell the difference between an American and Canadian accent, despite the gift of Southpark.