For some reason that voice post didn't show up on my f-list, else I would have replied to it straight away. Your son sounds sooo cute. I wish Nathan was old enough to put on the phone. He loves grabbing hold of the phone, but unfortunately his words aren't that coherent yet. You'd just get a lot of heavy breathing and cooing.
You'd just get a lot of heavy breathing and cooing.
But that's an awfully cute stage, too! You should do it.
And when he gets older, he'll have that cool British accent. I've been working like crazy to keep Sebastian from picking up a Rhode Island accent. It's hard work, I can tell you! :D
I'm going to try to get him to do more of them, playing on the "magic" aspect of the whole thing: he thinks it's really funny that he can sing a song into the telephone downstairs, and then hear it upstairs on the computer. It totally surprised Teri, too.
Sebastian has been talking for three and a half years now, of course; to tell you the truth, he can sing a lot better than he did here. But the phone intimidated him a little bit. Which I think is understandable. :)
It'll be equally as fun stopping Nathan from getting a Portsmouth accent. People hear are always saying words I can't stand like 'innit' and 'mush' and they always drop their t's. Water because 'wa-er' and heater becomes 'he-er'. It really is dreadful.
Whereabouts are you originally from? I can't place your accent, and I'm usually quite good with American accents, because of all the american LJ and pen friends I've had.
The Rhode Island accent is pretty close to the Massachusetts (or "Boston") accent, and is therefore part of the New England family of accents.
In Sebastian's case, the most common element is the loss of terminal R's, and the addition of them to words that don't have them. Yesterday I kept telling him "It's soda, not sodeR. There is NO such word as 'soder'!"
And then I remembered, and added "Except for the Island of Soder, of course." That damned Thomas the Tank Engine! :D
Whereabouts are you originally from?
I was born in Stamford, Connecticut. I spent my early years there and in Belmont, a suburb of Boston. When I was half-way through second grade we moved to Connecticut, and I grew up there in Westport, an extremely wealthy town. I went to college in Pennsylvania, and temporarily picked up a bit of a Pittsburgh accent. After college I moved to the Boston area again.
I'm very aware of accents, and have been watching British TV on PBS since I was a baby, so my accent is probably what they call "Mid-Atlantic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_English)". Or at least, I hope so. :D
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For some reason that voice post didn't show up on my f-list, else I would have replied to it straight away. Your son sounds sooo cute. I wish Nathan was old enough to put on the phone. He loves grabbing hold of the phone, but unfortunately his words aren't that coherent yet. You'd just get a lot of heavy breathing and cooing.
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But that's an awfully cute stage, too! You should do it.
And when he gets older, he'll have that cool British accent. I've been working like crazy to keep Sebastian from picking up a Rhode Island accent. It's hard work, I can tell you! :D
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Sebastian has been talking for three and a half years now, of course; to tell you the truth, he can sing a lot better than he did here. But the phone intimidated him a little bit. Which I think is understandable. :)
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It'll be equally as fun stopping Nathan from getting a Portsmouth accent. People hear are always saying words I can't stand like 'innit' and 'mush' and they always drop their t's. Water because 'wa-er' and heater becomes 'he-er'. It really is dreadful.
Whereabouts are you originally from? I can't place your accent, and I'm usually quite good with American accents, because of all the american LJ and pen friends I've had.
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In Sebastian's case, the most common element is the loss of terminal R's, and the addition of them to words that don't have them. Yesterday I kept telling him "It's soda, not sodeR. There is NO such word as 'soder'!"
And then I remembered, and added "Except for the Island of Soder, of course." That damned Thomas the Tank Engine! :D
I was born in Stamford, Connecticut. I spent my early years there and in Belmont, a suburb of Boston. When I was half-way through second grade we moved to Connecticut, and I grew up there in Westport, an extremely wealthy town. I went to college in Pennsylvania, and temporarily picked up a bit of a Pittsburgh accent. After college I moved to the Boston area again.
I'm very aware of accents, and have been watching British TV on PBS since I was a baby, so my accent is probably what they call "Mid-Atlantic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_English)". Or at least, I hope so. :D