The Boys Sounding and Imitating Each Other

libera36 · Post by **libera36** » 15 years ago

Yorkie wrote:
irishoreo wrote:Wow more so than the US? You learn something new everyday, i didn't realize British accents were THAT different

PokutePyon....American? really? I really must travel to England to see just how different the accents are....

So say Yorkie, if you listen to the Angel Voices DVD and listen to Josh, Sam, Liam, Ben and Joe you can almost pinpoint the area where they come from? If so, thats awesome!
Well, yes perhaps my previous statement needed a little more defining - I meant to a particular region or city within the UK. But as you asked listening to their accents I would say:

Josh is from 62 Meadow Bank Lane, Little Whinging

Sam is from The Old Vicarage, Farley Whallop

Liam is from 22 Cold Blow Lane, Sodding-on-the-Wold

Ben is from 156 Blubberhouse Road, Godalming

Oh, Yorkie, what are we going to do with you??

Mini-Ben's accent is quite "posh" though. I don't know much about accents but I can tell that he is probably not from the immediate Norbury area.

irishoreo · Post by **irishoreo** » 15 years ago

PokutePyon wrote:irishoreo: I don't think any of us are allowed to say it even if we knew. They have their own privacy which I'm sure they would like to keep and none of us have the right to break into it. =D

Oh nonono I wasn't asking for addresses heavens no

I wouldn't seek them out either way because 1. i don't want to be arrested and 2. I don't want to be THAT person who is the stalker.

Im was just curious of which areas, not addresses. See i don't know how England is set up, but here we can say they are from "Northern Jersey around the Elizabeth way" or they are "In the Trenton area" Both of these places are huge and I'm pretty sure the boys have common English surnames(like Phillip and Connery) so it would be hard to track down even if i wanted too and way too much effort. I'm sorry if I gave that impression off heavens no, I'm all for them having complete privacy unlike the American Child stars who have none and I feel bad for them

Yorkie · Post by **Yorkie** » 15 years ago

Well, to be fair PokutePyon is right about British accents. There are accents based on area (region or city) and those are very easy to pin point.

But we also have accents based on, dare I say it, class. Those can't really be identified with a particular area. Just about all the boys I've heard in Libera have a middle class accent (although dani told me off the last time I posted that) which makes it hard to pinpoint where they are from.

I do know that some (one?) of the boys lives in Surrey, which is a very nice part of the world.

Yorkie · Post by **Yorkie** » 15 years ago

libera36 wrote: Oh, Yorkie, what are we going to do with you?? Mini-Ben's accent is quite "posh" though. I don't know much about accents but I can tell that he is probably not from the immediate Norbury area.

He isn't

Yorkie · Post by **Yorkie** » 15 years ago

kthomp wrote:woo go regional accents
i sound like farmer (being from the south) where as Nicole sounds posh and kinda american but thats generally not londoner

"Oh I've got a brand new combine harvester and I'll give you the key"

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Just to be fair, this is my often posted clip to show the world about Yorkshire (apologies to those of you who have seen it before):

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JoelinMkt · Post by **JoelinMkt** » 15 years ago

Yorkie, you are a tease...

Sam Coates mentioned on the SOP special that the boys came from all sorts of backgrounds and that "some" came from "lovely, leafy Surrey"

If we have the same person in mind (I think we do) and that is the accent native to Surrey then I have a general idea of how Harry Potter (fictionally raised in Surrey) should really sound.

Minus the treble voice that is...

Yorkie · Post by **Yorkie** » 15 years ago

JoelinMkt wrote:Yorkie, you are a tease...

Sam Coates mentioned on the SOP special that the boys came from all sorts of backgrounds and that "some" came from "lovely, leafy Surrey"

If we have the same person in mind (I think we do) and that is the accent native to Surrey then I have a general idea of how Harry Potter (fictionally raised in Surrey) should really sound.

Minus the treble voice that is...

Little Whinging is in Surrey? I wonder if it is near Godalming?

JoelinMkt · Post by **JoelinMkt** » 15 years ago

Yorkie wrote:
JoelinMkt wrote:Yorkie, you are a tease...

Sam Coates mentioned on the SOP special that the boys came from all sorts of backgrounds and that "some" came from "lovely, leafy Surrey"

If we have the same person in mind (I think we do) and that is the accent native to Surrey then I have a general idea of how Harry Potter (fictionally raised in Surrey) should really sound.

Minus the treble voice that is...
Little Whinging is in Surrey? I wonder if it is near Godalming?

We're definitely on the same wavelength here...

It would be if Privett Drive runs through it or intersects "that road"...

irishoreo · Post by **irishoreo** » 15 years ago

Looks above to every1....I'm still quite confused.....

aaden · Post by **aaden** » 15 years ago

Yeh all I can say on the accents is for us in England we can tell alright wher someones comes from. for mine I live in south London so i speak lik tom c as he is from exactly wher I am from. mid class south london. a few of the guys sound lik mayb they come from surrey nd ben p has always sounded lik hes got american mum nd dad mayb. Or mayb he learnt to speak arund american

heeh91 · Post by **heeh91** » 15 years ago

aaden wrote:Yeh all I can say on the accents is for us in England we can tell alright wher someones comes from. for mine I live in south London so i speak lik tom c as he is from exactly wher I am from. mid class south london. a few of the guys sound lik mayb they come from surrey nd ben p has always sounded lik hes got american mum nd dad mayb. Or mayb he learnt to speak arund american

I think I heard once that Ben p is actually an American citizen and that his dad is as well. Something about his dad wanted his children from the same nationality as he so the philipp kids were all born in the us.

Yorkie · Post by **Yorkie** » 15 years ago

heeh91 wrote:
aaden wrote:Yeh all I can say on the accents is for us in England we can tell alright wher someones comes from. for mine I live in south London so i speak lik tom c as he is from exactly wher I am from. mid class south london. a few of the guys sound lik mayb they come from surrey nd ben p has always sounded lik hes got american mum nd dad mayb. Or mayb he learnt to speak arund american
I think I heard once that Ben p is actually an American citizen and that his dad is as well. Something about his dad wanted his children from the same nationality as he so the philipp kids were all born in the us.

Indeed - see the 'Zak left?' thread near the bottom of the News board - page 5ish iirc.

Yorkie · Post by **Yorkie** » 15 years ago

irishoreo wrote:Looks above to every1....I'm still quite confused.....

I know. It's a right pain when you are the only one not in the know isn't it?

irishoreo · Post by **irishoreo** » 15 years ago

Yorkie wrote:
irishoreo wrote:Looks above to every1....I'm still quite confused.....
I know. It's a right pain when you are thhe only one not in the know isn't it?

Yes it quite is ::looks nervously at Yorkie ^.^::....

PokutePyon · Post by **PokutePyon** » 15 years ago

Yorkie, you are mean! LOL. XD Well, at least I'm not feeling nervous.

Well, one thing you know for sure is that none of the boys are from North London because if they were, it's take them an hour and a half or more to get to Norbury. I would know, because I'm FROM North London, yay! No, it actually sucks.

They are all from South London and the area OUTSIDE of London that is near South London. In fact, the parts of South London most of them are from can't even be reached by Tube! Not easy to travel there at all, even if you live within the area! Buses and railways are mainly used to get there.