accent meme

[finluithiel]

While waiting for people to send their parts in for me to compile and synthesize, I've decided to do this instead of being productive and finishing two other papers. It's the meme that's been going around for the past couple of weeks. Gakked from hells_half_acre:

What I was supposed to record:

Your name and/or username
Where you're from
The following words: Aunt, Roof, Route, Wash, Oil, Theater, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Water, Sure, Data, Ruin,
Crayon, Toilet, New Orleans, Pecan, Both, Again, Probably, Spitting Image, Alabama, Lawyer, Coupon, Mayonnaise, Syrup, Pajamas, Caught, Orange, Coffee, direction, naturally, aluminium and herbs
What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?
What is the bubbly carbonated drink called?
What do you call gym shoes?
What do you say to address a group of people?
What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs?
What do you call your grandparents?
What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?
What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
What is the thing you change the TV channel with?

Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids. She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station.

Comments

[hells-half-acre.livejournal.com]

Cool stuff!

We have something slightly in common: I didn't explain it in my audio-recording, but what I called my paternal grandparents, "Aiti and Poppa", is basically just other words for "Mum and Dad"....the Finnish word for grandmother means "old mother" and my father's mother didn't like being called "old" so we just called her "mother". None of my friends spoke Finnish, so they didn't know though :P