The Accent Debate

[vukenmuven]

Having been in the UK for close on 4 years now, a common comment is the accent I have. Geez, I've even been told I sound like an American by some dumb :smiley35: .

Anyway, as of late we've been in contact with somes mates back home ... and man, I can really "hear" the accent now!

What do you guys think of our accent?

[Shayne]

For one thing, i am sick of the ignorant "Where in Suff Africa" are you from. Zim accents rock!!

[vukenmuven]

Couldn't agree with you more!

[sally]

I love our accent, although alot of people tell me that i have a bit of an ozzy, new zealand, english twang in there too!! mind you saying that i did live in the uk, and i hang around alot of NZs and aussies here in dubai!! zimbo accents are the sexiest!!!!

[Poison]

The Zim accent is the best and I never want to loose it..
I'll make sure I don't...

[chantillylace]

Sometimes I'm aware of the fact that my accent is changing - I can hear it myself! But 5 mins with a Zimbo and my accent is back!

[Shayne]

Chants. Did you just say 5 minutes with a Zimbo and you are on your back?

Disgusting.

[chantillylace]

Hahahaha - you make me laugh! NOT!

[Poison]

Hahahahahahaha Is that true...:smiley36: :smiley36: :smiley36: :smiley36:

[calmc]

5 minutes?? Since when did Chants play hard to get?:smiley36::smiley36::smiley36::smiley20:

[Shayne]

OOOooooo! ha ha! fight! Fight! Fight!

[Aboriginal]

Good thread started. Likewise I would love to keep my accent but alas it is weaker until the next time I catch up with mates. Its just too hard to keep explaining words like 'lekker' and "just now' so I just drop them and adopt ozzy saying like 'it gives me the shits' which to me meant I have diaorreah but over here means your cross (what the???). Makes life easier unfortunately. Ozzy girls do like an acent though so can come in handy. (only the ones who have not been overseas and lived with saffa's/Zims and are sick of it). This forum is good for just hearing some expressions I have'nt heard in a while so keep it up guys!

[chantillylace]

One rep for aboriginal for keeping the theme of the thread going! As for the rest of you filthy minded bastards :smiley35: :smiley35: :smiley35: ..........I'd make you wait 6 minutes now!:smiley2:

[Poison]

Where's my rep..:smiley36: :smiley36: :whistling: :whistling:

[vukenmuven]

Here I have to explain that by saying "Robots" I mean traffic lights ... and even a simple thing like the pjrase traffic circle baffles the intelligent, here its a round-a-bout and thats that.

[Kirsty]

People are morons.

Shit, I'm so confused, with all my mates all over the world. I hear they have an accent from the place they live. They tell me I sound so america, but who the hell are they to talk, shit man they sound like pommies, aussies, rocks. The list goes on, and they are ripping into me about sounding american. Cracks me up.

Americans think I have an accent, they always ask me if I'm from Britian or Australia.

I've gotten so tired so explaining to people here where the continent of Africa is. When they have grasped that concept then explain to them where Zimbabwe is. And they can't grasp what born and raised in Zimbabwe means. They still think I've traveled form England to live in Zim. F@#king idiots I tell you.

Then if they grasped where Africa is, and Zimbabwe, and they know what born and raised in Zimbabwe means, I explain that I'm not the only white person born there - that there are actually tonne sof us that were born there.

The geography lesson was hard enough I don't even attempt to get into the history of the migration of the british to all over the world. I'm actually just thankful that they can say my name. Who though Kirsty would be difficult, but these yanks always come up with Kristy, or costy or some stupidness. So I mangle their names on purpose when they butcher mine the way they do.

Then I get asked "how long it took me to learn english". IDIOTS. My accent sounds british and you ask me how long it took me to learn english. My goodness. The idiot questions never end.

I want to hit their heads with a brick when they ask me to speak English because they can't understand me. I am speaking f@#king English you yankee arsehole.

As you can see I have a lot of pent up rage concerning thsi topic.

So I'm confused becasue American think I have an accent, yet my friends say I sound American. Well, what the hell is it then?

[Kirsty]

If Chantillylace is on her back after 5mins with a Zimbo, it's ok, she won't be on her back for long - 5 pelvic thrusts is par for Zimbo men.

[chantillylace]

:smiley20: :smiley20: :smiley20: Thanks Kirsty! :smiley20: :smiley20: :smiley20:

[vukenmuven]

5 pelvic thrusts ... mmm ... but it's the 5 hours of foreplay beforehand that counts. By then the nuts are ready to crack ... :smiley2:

[Poison]

I couldn't have put it any better.. hahaha

[FerrariSucks]

I am trying very hard to keep my Zim accent, but on my recent trip to NZ, it was made quiet clear that it is slowly slipping. I did notice the NZ twang creeping into a couple people in NZ also.
We need to arrange a "Back to Zim week" once a month across the world

[Shayne]

If Chantillylace is on her back after 5mins with a Zimbo, it's ok, she won't be on her back for long - 5 pelvic thrusts is par for Zimbo men.

You've been out with Poison havent you?

[Aboriginal]

Five hours of foreplay coz were too pissed to find the vagina might ring true for some?? but Zim woman still get in the sack with us though huh?

[chantillylace]

Five hours of foreplay coz were too pissed to find the vagina might ring true for some?? but Zim woman still get in the sack with us though huh?

That's only because white Zimbabweans are already an endangered species - we're just doing our bit to save the planet!

[biffon]

well if you cant beat em join em i say.......
thats the accent i mean.
Although i would like to keep my accent and im sure most of it will stay i know im well on the way to sounding like an ozzie... well not to an ozzie that is, but to the other zimbos that havent taken the gap yet. I actually find i have two accents, one for when im at work and one for when im at home... its easier that way...
these aussies are mad
maroon is pronounced marone
project is pronounced pro-ject
milk is pronounced meelk
bream is pronounced brim

ayayayayai !!

[RustyBear]

Nothing beats an irish accent on a good looking woman, oh my god that just rocks my world.

[vukenmuven]

Nothing beats an irish accent on a good looking woman, oh my god that just rocks my world.

Grrrroooowwwwlllll! :smiley36:

[biffon]

this thread appears to have been done before...
http://www.thechiefbaboon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=395&highlight=accent

and yes my favorite accent is irish too :smiley36: :smiley20::smiley32:

[izabokkeman]

:smiley36: I I agree i have two accents too, and you have to say bbq instead of braai and coz most of my friends are english i completely stopped using braai at one stage. the best I heard here what kaak, but pronounced kack. (hope you get this jist), tho when i got to zim all this pommie shit goes away and i got back to the gold old zim slang and shit. 'innit bruv'. I must admit my accent has had a few women on there backs in five seconds all i siad was 'hi' two hours later i had here take-away, my pizza and was a down a condom, fare trade I say. :smiley36: :smiley2:

. I actually find i have two accents, one for when im at work and one for when im at home... its easier that way...
ayayayayai !!

[dallas]

I think I still have my accent but sometimes I can hear myslef slipping because of the slang that I use now is very different to the zim slang...but love catching up with zimbo friends cause then your accent just gets so much stronger and I just love our twang!!! best in the world I think!!!!

[Futilimbo]

Zim accents are the best. I remember my mom repremanding me on occasion for sounding like a "Scarp."

Having lived in the US for such a long time - I perk up when I hear someone from Zim talk. How I miss that familiar sound.

Last week I had a conversation with someone about accents (of course) and he is studying them - he said once you have reached a certain age (15-18) you will always have your original accent. Long ago I read something, I think it was about Rhodesian accents, is that people who grow up there are greatly influcenced by the African languages they are exposed to - that also makes the accent unique.

Have a great day and I hope I run into one of you so I can hear you speak.

[barto11]

I love my accent...even though I know it sounds something similar to a Saffa one, and I kinda accept the fact I'll always be called one, supposse I cant gripe too much seeing as I have a Saffrican passport and Saffa heritage (now try explaining that to the poms!!!).

[sally]

i am a pure bred zimbo with a damn sexy accent!!!

[Sam Edwards]

ZIM ACCENT RULES...SEXIEST IN THE WORLD!!! Anyway I have a bone to pick with the Pommies, Zim is bigger in land mass than England by a long shot and the accent is more or less the same through out Zim. In England you drive down the road for 2 min and you cant understand a word they saying the accent is so diffrent, they have a huge range in accents for such a small country I will never understand it.

I have had the stupid quesions and statments from the pommies..."you cant be from Africa ..you not black" at that point I just want to clup them. Then the normal crap, " how long did it take you to learn how to speak English" ect ect...I have worked with some girls for 2 years I am always talking about Zim yet they still say I come from South Africa I have frog marched many of them to an atlas to show them..they still find it very hard to grasp. I worked with one lady who said to me she had always wanted to own a rhino as they are so cute, when I stoped howling with laughter and asked her exactly how big she thought a rhino was she pointed at about knee high (I could not belive it). Same woman was asking about the snakes when I started rattling about the diffrent ones and she asked about the diffrences I said some are back fanged and some are front fanged, she asked why they have fang's I asked how she thought the poison went into the blood stream and she said with the thing that flicks out their mouth, YEAH RIGHT!!! How did we survive without running water and electricity. ECT ECT!!!

Last time I went back to Zim we went to Matopos National Park and I got a photo of a mud hut, a bit old and neglected but a standing mud hut with a roof on. I then convinced the pommies that is how we started out when we left home we had to build one of them and had to work our way up to afford running water, electricity and brick walls, to keep the lions and elephants out and a hell of alot of them fell for it hook line and sinker.

They can be a big bunch of Idiots!!! But it is sometimes alot of fun. I have no intention on loosing my accent if I can help it! With me, What you see is what you get.

[dallas]

I love it sam!!!!!! so so funny!!!! I will try that pone day but I am hanging around with people who actually watch the news so they know we dont come from mud huts!!! bugger!!!

[zimajays]

LOL - I hate the whole you are from South Africa bit as well - my answer to that - "in that case you must be French" They dont like that....
They also dont get that I can use a computer...

I find that I have two different accent - one for work and one for home. It just makes it easier to be understood!

[lurchandpasta]

The only thing that beats a Zim accent is a sexy chick with an Irish accent.

[dallas]

or sean connery!! swoon!!!

[boards]

i anticipated the zim accent to be a major draw card in pulling chicks over here in UK - ummmm i dont think its working??

[dallas]

boards honey is it not because you are so eager???? shame you have been in the middle of nowhere and now have been let loose, just calm your passions and be you and you will get some action!!!(dont quote me tho)

[lurchandpasta]

i anticipated the zim accent to be a major draw card in pulling chicks over here in UK - ummmm i dont think its working?? Be careful of those chicks, they have attitude. There is no discipline in the UK like there was in Zim.

[boards]

ah thanks Dal - i am coming right... just didnt think id have to use charm and wit as well as lengthy stories to lure unsuspectings into an amourous embrace - was hoping to be ravished immediatly after i opened my mouth to say hi!

[dallas]

I am shocked it isnt working....you need to go to essex....I have heard they are .........well I dont want to be rude..... but the rumours say........easy???? could be wrong and wouldnt want to paint them all but......thats what I heard through the grapevine!!!

[boards]

popped down to sexeter this weekend and couldnt go wrong with the lady friends from poland who cant speak english!!!!! them i like!

[zimajays]

apparently its not just hi you gotta do... its the hiya darlin' where you been hiding! So my bros tell me and they are just slutts!

[Mullah]

popped down to sexeter this weekend and couldnt go wrong with the lady friends from poland who cant speak english!!!!! them i like!

You see Boards, your reputation proceeds you!!!!!







Chasing the camels in the Sudan has done you no good. All the lessons you learnt growing up.............................. What a waste!!!!!:whistling::whistling::whistling::whistl ing:

[dallas]

you gotta watch out for the poland speakers my boet inalw tried it and she was a hooker......damn that has gotta hurt, nearly got lucky till she said i charge this!!!!!

[igundwane]

Very happy with my Posh English Home Counties Accent thank you ..... None of this course .. aaagh Mannn, hoik spit and gob the word out !

[Kirsty]

Chants. Did you just say 5 minutes with a Zimbo and you are on your back?

Disgusting.

I think what Chants means is that she is still on her back getting her jeans off and the Zimbo dude is done. Party over. :D

[dallas]

kirsty good to have you back!!!!!

[barto11]

The only thing that beats a Zim accent is a sexy chick with an Irish accent.

agreed!

[Angelshark]

i anticipated the zim accent to be a major draw card in pulling chicks over here in UK - ummmm i dont think its working??

What you talking about willis. They are the easiest things to pick up. You should stop shopping at the wrong shops dude.

[Angelshark]

I think what Chants means is that she is still on her back getting her jeans off and the Zimbo dude is done. Party over. :D

Not true, Zim boys are great lovers, all the women leave Zim and end up with a Zim guy anywhere in the world, tell me another one

[Chick]

all the women leave Zim and end up with a Zim guy anywhere in the world,

Ha ha ha - I did.

/me in Zimbabwe: Always asked "Where do you come from?"
/me anywhere in the world: Always asked "Where do you come from?"

Can't win.

[Angelshark]

We are Da Men

[Mullah]

We are Da Men


Even when we are getting old grey and bald......................................





We still be men among men Head and shoulders above the rest of those wanking wallers out there:smiley32::smiley32::smiley32:




But there is something else that we also forget..............................






Us men always end up with those beautiful women from Zim too. Must be because
1. They think we are special
2. They know we are good................................ at everything
3. They understand that we are survivors of the ultimate and can do what the rest cant. Seen too many Zimbos cross country marriages fall apart because of a lack of understanding between the couple. Not that I have room to talk!!!!

[Nyala]

I never thought of the Zim accent as sexy until I'd been here for a few years. Now when I hear a Zimbo talk I get goosebumps, especially if it's unexpected. I love our accent and really hope I never loose mine.

[dallas]

I was lucky to end up with a zimbo!!!

[Angelshark]

I have a Polish girlfriend so boards you in good company here mate and you know they are fantastic. I love Zim chicks and their accents but I left Zim to find out what the other nationalities had to offer.

[SpaRHawK]

I have a pom accent... with a slight zimbo one that escapes when I am in the company of other zimbos...

Spent my formative years in the UK due to pappy dearest having to gap it due to getting involved in security force stuff that led to certain gents in Land Rover Sentanas being very interested his/ our affairs....

Have a tape (remember those) of me as a lighty talking and I had a proper boer accent of note....

I personally love the zimbo accent... but, as already mentioned... the Irish one is a killer on the ladies.

Had a big debate with my little cousin from Mvuma many moons ago.. she was about 14 at the time and a complete farm girl, she was adamant that I had an accent as did anyone else from outside Zim... but people from zim, including herslef, didn't have one as she / they spoke normally.. ??

Moral here.... never argue with a teenager...

[lurchandpasta]

ah thanks Dal - i am coming right... just didnt think id have to use charm and wit as well as lengthy stories to lure unsuspectings into an amourous embrace - was hoping to be ravished immediatly after i opened my mouth to say hi!

I am shocked it isnt working....you need to go to essex....I have heard they are .........well I dont want to be rude..... but the rumours say........easy???? could be wrong and wouldnt want to paint them all but......thats what I heard through the grapevine!!!

Maybe those british chicks are getting used to the Zim accent, seeing as there are so many Zimbos there.

Even when we are getting old grey and bald......................................





We still be men among men Head and shoulders above the rest of those wanking wallers out there:smiley32::smiley32::smiley32:




But there is something else that we also forget..............................






Us men always end up with those beautiful women from Zim too. Must be because
1. They think we are special
2. They know we are good................................ at everything
3. They understand that we are survivors of the ultimate and can do what the rest cant. Seen too many Zimbos cross country marriages fall apart because of a lack of understanding between the couple. Not that I have room to talk!!!!Well done Mullah, we are just so good at everything, these first world people have one skill, whereas we have many, comes from always having to "make a plan".

[Chick]

Of course, if you are not in the mood to answer the 'where do you come from'? question. You reply - 'from the end of my fathers d**k!' Shuts people up, once they have figured it out.

[sally]

i am with a zim man, and i tell you one thing for sure

A. zim men know how to treat women
B. Zim men have respect
c. zim men are great in bed
d. Zim men know how to have fun

nuff said, zim men rock!!!

[Mullah]

i am with a zim man, and i tell you one thing for sure

A. zim men know how to treat women
B. Zim men have respect
c. zim men are great in bed
d. Zim men know how to have fun

nuff said, zim men rock!!!

Well Sally What more can I say!!!!! You appreciate the fine men and things of life. :smiley32::smiley32::smiley32::smiley32::smiley32: :smiley32: You see there are some women on this site who actually appreciate us ................... Like a fine wine, good cigar or a great whiskey.................. to be savored on a daily basis

[igundwane]

Well Sally What more can I say!!!!! You appreciate the fine men and things of life. :smiley32::smiley32::smiley32::smiley32::smiley32: :smiley32: You see there are some women on this site who actually appreciate us ................... Like a fine wine, good cigar or a great whiskey.................. to be savored on a daily basis

Or choked upon and spat out if to much is taken in at once .......... :whistling:

[dallas]

ergh had that happen once or twice!!! yuck

[Nyala]

Zimbos are survivors. We have put up with so much cr*p from governments, shortages, lack of essentials, etc, that only a Zimbo can fully relate to another - thats my theory on why we all end up finding each other anywhere in the world. I adore my Zimbo man, he's strong in every way and no Aussie I have met can even slightly measure up.

[igundwane]

, he's strong in every way and no Aussie I have met can even slightly measure up.

Been to a few swingers parties then ................. :whistling:

[Nyala]

Hehehe...no, they're just a bunch of wooses here.

[Mullah]

Been to a few swingers parties then ................. :whistling:

How did we get from accents to Swinging parties??????? Was just wondering:smiley20::smiley20::smiley20::smiley20:

[barto11]

How did we get from accents to Swinging parties??????? Was just wondering:smiley20::smiley20::smiley20::smiley20:

With Iggy, anything is possible

[dallas]

Nyala well said hon!!! that is the absolute truth!!!

[biffon]

what gets my goat is when I get a south African on the phone, and when he realises my accent isn't quite normal the first thing he says is - "so..where in Jo-burg are you from?"

for #@$!#@% sake!! if you're going to presume about where I'm from get it right! A zimbo accent is as unique as any on this planet so if you cant pick it.... dont @#$@$#ing guess!!

[Nyala]

I often get asked if I'm from the North Island or the South Island??? I'm a Zimbo from one of the biggest 'islands' in the world...not a Kiwi!!!

[boards]

quite right people! at last - with hours to leave the Uk i finally got told I love the accent.... too f**king bad i was en route to the airport!

[Mullah]

quite right people! at last - with hours to leave the Uk i finally got told I love the accent.... too f**king bad i was en route to the airport!

Boards I was about to send you a message asking when are you going back to work.

And this is called MURPHY'S LAW. Just when you cant do squat about:smiley36::smiley36::smiley36::smiley36: Welcome to the Real World!!!!

Safe trip back to SUNNY SUDAN

[Angelshark]

I get asked here 'so what part of SA you from' I just ask back so what part of Scotland you from and then the bun fight starts. I worked for a Scottish guy married to an Aussie, she kept putting my nationality as Zimbabwean for all the important docs. One day I asked her why and she told me that there was no difference between Zim and SA so I asked her if she was from NZ and she went off at me, Aus, NZ no difference.

[dallas]

shame boards!!! Next time hun!!!