Is Sebastian the crab Jamaican or British?

[Applespider]

Could you folks correctly identify a New York accent from a Boston accent from a Jersey accent from a Philly accent? Heck, they're all within 500km of each other.

Boston from New York - yes.
Jersey from Philly - probably not unless one was wearing an Eagles hat.

It can be tough but Brit and Aussie are pretty far apart sound-wise. How do you guys do on South African v Aus v Brit v New Zealand?

I can tell the difference between Aussies and Kiwis usually but I have occasionally offended Canadians

 

[Chundles]

Boston from New York - yes.
Jersey from Philly - probably not unless one was wearing an Eagles hat.

It can be tough but Brit and Aussie are pretty far apart sound-wise. How do you guys do on South African v Aus v Brit v New Zealand?

I can tell the difference between Aussies and Kiwis usually but I have occasionally offended Canadians

Suth Efrican, Strayan, Brit and Nu Zulunder are completely different. There is really no similarity at all. Except of course for the Kiwis who don't have the Kiwi accent, South Australians who all sound a bit British and some of the regional British accents that sound like nails being scraped across a blackboard.

South African is just a diabolical accent though, they can make anything sound evil.

 

[MrSmith]

Speaking on behalf of "the rest," the filter would block me from giving you the obvious two-word retort, but I bet you can guess what it is. America is not Texas, nor Texas America, no matter what Texans might tell you.

Is the second word 'off'?

There's also the one where a 'boyd' is one of those feathery flying things. Is that the Bronx?

 

[Drumjim85]

pfft... women aren't always right. They just think they are.

a wise man once said, "you can be happy, or you can be right" ....

pick you battles carefully ...

American accents are easy for us English folk: there's Texan and then there's the rest. Y'aaaallll.

I've traveled a lot of America, and quite a few people, other than Texans, saw "yall" ... and I very rarely, if ever, hear "y'aalllllllll"

 

[mgargan1]

a wise man once said, "you can be happy, or you can be right" ....

pick you battles carefully ...



I've traveled a lot of America, and quite a few people, other than Texans, saw "yall" ... and I very rarely, if ever, hear "y'aalllllllll"

haha, i'm going to let her continue to think she's right... so i don't have to keep up the debate...

I'm from the Washington, DC area... I have what people call the "tv accent" where as, nobody would be able to say where I was from... yet, I say "ya'll" in conversation, albeit, not everyday conversation.

 

[devilot]

So silly.

I didn't think British folks were in the habit of saying, "Da" for "the" as in, "Da seaweed is always bettah, in somebahdy else's lake."

 

[iBlue]

... but I have occasionally offended Canadians

Same here though, unless I hear the canadian say couch, (or some other such similar word) it's an accent easily mistaken for american... even BY an american. All things considered, I think I'm pretty decent at distinguishing accents, but then I've lived in the UK for 18-ish months now and hear loads of various ones.

 

[shampoobambu]

He's supposed to be jamaican, but i dunno exactely why, could u help me to find the specific characteristics of his way of speech?

thanks
xxx

 

[Mavimao]

South African accents can be rather scary. I agree.

There are actually a lot more accents in American than people overseas tend to realize. Not only South versus North, but there's New York, Boston, Philly...even southern Ohio has an interesting way of speaking. They'll say "warsh" instead of "wash" and "tar" instead of "tire". Then there's the Minnesota/midwest "you betcha!" accent (think of the movie Fargo). In Louisiana, they speak with a long drawn-out southern accent.

So yeah, it's rather diverse in the States.

 

[mgargan1]

South African accents can be rather scary. I agree.

There are actually a lot more accents in American than people overseas tend to realize. Not only South versus North, but there's New York, Boston, Philly...even southern Ohio has an interesting way of speaking. They'll say "warsh" instead of "wash" and "tar" instead of "tire". Then there's the Minnesota/midwest "you betcha!" accent (think of the movie Fargo). In Louisiana, they speak with a long drawn-out southern accent.

So yeah, it's rather diverse in the States.

Don't forget Simi Valley (like, totally), New Jersey (f'ing jaeger bombs), Texas (not southern), Chicago (da bears),

 

[Nicolecat]

pfft... women aren't always right. They just think they are.

Nope...we just reserve the right to let you think you've won.

 

[Mousse]

pfft... women aren't always right. They just think they are.

Of course women are always right.
The one thing I've learned in all my years of being hitched is that a woman always has the last word in any argument. That's because anything we say afterward starts a new one.

 

[MuzeBl]

I can't believe there's a forum on this. hee-hee-hee.....anyway, I found this thread because I was channel surfing....stopped on Little Mermaid and decided to update my Facebook. On Disney's Little Mermaid...."In all of the (American) 'Christendom', they couldn't find a REAL Jamaican to do the voice of Sebastion?""
And in case it happened that the voice was really a Jamaican...but he'd have to be a Jamaican twice removed from Dallas or somethin', I had to check and make sure.

Kinda makes me wish I'd used this insomnia spell doing something a little more productive.

 

[0098386]

And you didn't say hi to last year, tsk tsk.

 

[Peterkro]

Actually it's an american doing their impression of a Jamaican or Caribbean crab. which may be why it sounds a bit weird. Americans are typically not the best at putting on accents that are not their own.

it doesn't sound like an authentic anything accent.

Very true, hopefully it's a very bad American actor or the industry is in even worse shape than I think. What's with the Mermaids accent surely humans don't talk like that?

 

[MacVixen]

I'd say Bermuda... That has all bases covered

+1
Bermuda accents are all over the board - can be lilting "carribbean" sounding, can be Proper English sounding, etc. I have boatloads of relatives in Bermuda and for such a little island, it's amazing how many different accents you can encounter!

 

[Melrose]

It's Disney's fault. They shouldn't have called him Sebastian. His background would have been a bit easier to figure out if they called him "Crabba-ranks" or something really stereotypically Caribbean.

Or Bob Marley. That would've left no doubt.

 

[dmr727]

Don't forget Simi Valley (like, totally)

Are you sure you're not referring to the San Fernando Valley?

 

[wtf2444]

He IS Jamaican

He's my neighbor and he is Jamaican you haters

 

[DreamANightmare]

Why on earth would she say he's British? He doesn't have anything close to a British accent - any of them.

He's definitely Jamaican or one of the other Caribbean nations with the cool accents maan.

You know nothing about history I see. Jamaicans actually have a British tongue, seeing as though we did speak that language long ago, and is now reformed into Patois. It's broken up English now-a-days, Jamaicans and Britains still use a lot of the same terms until this day.