Gem's stream, Feb 19 2024 / 2067525762 @SmallishBeans @impulseSV @GeminiTayMC 00:00 Chillin' with the homies 01:56 - Accent talk begins 05:06 - Beginning of Joel doing a variety of English accents 08:02 - Why Joel say Eefo
I find it interesting that whenever someone tries to mimic Scott they never take for account that he most definitely has a gay voice and that’s why his accent sounds like that- as a fellow gay I know a gay voice when I hear one-
Gem has an exceptional Canadian accent of Newfie. You hardly ever hear it on Canadian television except for Andrew Younghusband. Even among other Atlantic Canadian accents it's difficult to replicate. Like with Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, they all sound very close to the New England accent with additions of Irish, whereas you get other elements in the Newf accent that just doesn't sound like that. I also never realized how much Joel's accent sounds similar to Scouse, which makes sense, given Yorkshire is just west of Liverpool, where the scouse accent is most often found.
I don't hear much of a strong Newfield accent to Gem? It definitely doesn't have that pseudo Irish lilt that you get with older/more rural Newfies. I'd get a kick if she adopted some some newfie-ism though, throw some buddys and b'ys in there
Never would have guessed she was a Newfie, thought maybe P.E.I. or Nova Scotia but not Newfie. Though I guess it doesn't help much that most of the Maritimes accents I do hear where I am, are more of the stereotype accents, especially for Newfies.
Gem doesn't have much of an accent to my ear. I'm from Western Canada and I rarely notice any accent when she speaks. I think it's because she's young and university educated so she likely learned a less accented dialect than might traditionally be spoken in the maritimes.
@@mdccxxvii Gem has more of an accent in her older videos (she was in high school, I think?). She even comments on it when she reacted to them. Either she lost it in university or she tries to have a more neutral accent in her videos so that people understand her better. I know some RU-vidrs make their accents thinner for that sake.
When I was an intern for the Chicago Botanic Gardens, we had to attend a week of training with presentations. One of the topics they discussed was how the origin of a species is indicated by having a large diversity of genetics present. They compared this with accents. An area where the language has the highest diversity of accents indicates where that language originated. English developed first in the UK and was then transferred to the US and Australia. The UK has the most accents in that language due to it being the origin of that language where it has resided the longest that gave it the most time to diversify.
The TH to F sound thing is most often associated with class more than a specific area. I do it too but by Nan who’s much more middle class always tried to “correct me” on it. Where I live everyone is working class and I would describe myself as working class. Joel’s from Yorkshire, I’m from the South of England. So it’s not really a geographical thing.
Yeah I do notice there is a weird class thing, I live in the south as well. I definitely think a desire to speak “proper English” from upper and middle class people has had an influence but there must be more to it.
I have noticed it as well as a Canadian with family from the UK. My family is mostly from the Hertfordshire area, which is mostly an essex accent and some pronounce th with a sound like the nordic thorn and theta sound, whereas some would pronounce them as v's and f's. Like Vuh baff instead of the bath.
I’m a Canadian and I actually do this, although it was just a problem with how I pronounced it because nobody else I know ever did it. Went to speech therapy when I was younger and was good after that, though I definitely have regular slipups still. So it could always just be pronunciation.
6:51 Joel, for an Englishman, is surprisingly good at doing a New York accent - this clip sounds almost out of Joel's vocal range, as if it was a different person speaking.
@@SliferStreaming As a former Boston area resident, I know that a lot of people in northwestern American cities don't actually have those thick accents, so I totally understand. In the comment I was referencing the "stereotypical" New York accent and more focusing on the fact that Joel broke out of his English accent so well.
I wouldn't call the UK small😉, nor is it limited to the UK. It's probably a European thing. In some areas you can travel for an hour and just not even understand the accent anymore😅
@@martijn9568 It kind of is in comparison to other countries. I could travel the width of the UK twice over in my own country and still not even reach the nearest town.
joel dropping his t's are the funniest, he cant even talk. "Hi Eefo, lets talk about FREE things, i feel like youre FREATANING me with your defenses. Fanks." :P:
I live in Missouri. If you drive an hour in any direction, you get: - Hellow, Ah’m frum Ohklahoma and sound kahnda hick. Theyres ah lahdah “ah” souwnds in are speech. - Narh down in Arkansas goes along lahke Joe’s speech. Kinduh this sweet souhthern drawl. Lots of “uh” sounds in ouhr speech. - Down heare in Tehxus gets more of uh deep suble drawl. It’s kinda a mix of “uh” and “ar” sounds, spoken nayce and deap and slohw. But this almost doesn’t exist in Missouri, we sit on top of the southern accent boarder line that bleeds over ever so slightly 😅
At 5:39 agrees that Stress as an Essex accent. And I couldn’t hear it all but I think in his next sentence he mentions her being a southerner. Then he says Grian’s southern as well, implying he said Stress was from the south.
Lol Gem's accent is what you'd call "telecaster Canadian" hahaha it's like Telecaster American, but there is the slightest Canadian way of pronunciation compared to the American way. As someone who grew up in Ontario and has lived in Newfoundland for over a decade, Gem doesn't sound Newfoundlander at all until you hear her talk about what she does in her lifestyle 😂 Canada, in general, has a little more of a Scottish way of pronouncing vowels which is why you have the assumption that Canadians say aboot, but that's very regional to Northern Ontario and Manitoba lol. Canadians in general have a specific way we pronounce vowels but it still differs depending on region which is why you get your "sarry" and your "SOHrhy" lol and about it more like "ah-bow't" ah- bow, like the bow of a boat- t. Abowt, and house is the same way as about lol
England has so many accents because they spent about 2000 years in a state of utter isolation. And I don't mean the British islands. I mean the people of England as a whole. Going from one end of the country to the other was absolutely unheard of for most of British history. People lived there entire lives without ever leaving there own little village. Whereas here in America, most of American history was nomadic. The expansion westward had people moving almost constantly. This meant they would be forced to interact and even live alongside a vast array of different people, because north America was being settled by the British, the French, the Spanish, and the Italians all at the same time. And the variety of people is what lead to the American accent.
Even though American accents don’t always changed based on geographic location, I’ve noticed that they change based on class. I live in a city with a lot of upper class people, and I’ve noticed that their accent tends to be different from those of the working class (including myself)
In rural areas and small towns you get more regional accents; like the Wisconsin, Upper Penninsula (Yooper) and Minnesota accents are really obvious unless you're in a city like Milwaukee, Madison, Minneapolis etc where accents kind of merge because so many people move from all over the country.
Everybody does that. When all the Brits clumped together in the life series for example, their accents grew stronger -- even though they speak in different British accents.
And I'm here in Australia, where we only have 3 accents (seriously; linguists only recognise 3 Standard English Australian accents, and one of them's shared by 90% of native speakers!)
I watch a vid and the girl is Aussie. She's from SA and uses F/V for TH in some words and TH for TH in others. Like Fanks, The, Fought, Vis, Fing, etc.
The accents in southern England can vary dramatically. Xisuma’s accent sounds like Estuary English to me, so I would assume he is from somewhere around London
"I'll have a chicken and a can of Coke." I see Joel is a man of Jimmy Carr culture 😂 Also, nerd fact: replacing "th" with "f" is called "Th-fronting" and it is, in fact, a feature of several English accents. Nothing to be insecure about! (Or should I say... nuffink to be insecure about? 😁) If you've ever watched the Catherine Tate Show, her character of Lauren Cooper is known for that, with her catchphrase being "I ain't bovvered".
Accents in uk can vary between neighbouring villages, I think it’s pretty cool. I don’t like my own accent though. Potteries accent is… unique. 😅 not the worst though.
its funny bc sometimes i will say a certain word w a certain accent and w ppl who jus met my theyre like " wtf" but my friends r all like "yea it happens" XD also my Australian accent sounds like a terrible British accent except i can do a p decent British accent usually
Dude, I've got Sodium, Lithium, Entity Culling, More Culling, ImmediatelyFast etc. and _even with Shaders off_ the entity / lighting lag is *bad* in 1.20.4.
I saw the title and though about them talking about people's voice accents. Then the video started with them criticizing Joel's palette and thought "oh, that kind of accents". But then they started doing impressions… Man, this video was a rollercoaster.
I have to disagree with Impulse about having to go far in the US to get an accent change. As someone who has lived in multiple different places in New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts I would say that yes, it’s farther then the UK(not a hard because the UK is pretty small landmass wise) but not really that far. Maybe a 2 hr drive between most of the places I lived, and even a few places I’ve just visited regularly, and I’d the accents were pretty different.
It probably varies a lot in the US. Keep in mind that most towns in Europe have a history of about 1000 years. In the US the oldest are about 400 years old and the further west you go the oldest get even younger.
My mom's family, who live about an hour away in the same state as me, have fairly thick New England accents (the "extra R sounds" stereotype) and Mom herself has a bit of one. But she's the only one in my immediate family with that accent, the rest of us sound "generically American" despite my dad's side of the family coming from the next state over.
There is no such thing as a British accent! Joel has an English accent! It annoys me so much when people say British accent when there are 3 different countries in Britain all with completely different accents and even different languages! That's like saying a Mexican accent is American accent as its in North America!
technically it's both because a lot of influence on British/UK accents & dialects are from Scottish, Welsh, and Irish accents which originally wasn't English speaking
No, that’s not quite right. A dialect of a language includes its unique grammar and vocabulary that is different from the “standard” - it’s not just a difference in how someone says words. An accent is basically how someone forms sounds - that can be due to regional differences in the same language, or because it’s not their native language.