ok say i had to pretend to speak chinese.. i'd say hyahh ching chong or some shit like that. right? but if you ask a chinese guy to pretend to speak english, how does it sound? or you know, any one from any other language that cant speak the other.
it made me think what do they say maybe its a real word. you never know maybe i say a chinese word by accident. maybe they just say coke texas mcdonalds. so if you know, let me know.

I don't know the answer to your question, but it's always intruiging to observe just what's going running through your mind Bats. Well, alongside...



...obviously.

I don't have any answers for your OP bats but I do have a wonder of my own that I thought I'd take the opportunity to raise

My wonder is, why do old ladies suddenly decide one day that they'd like to go from being grey haired to walking into a hairdressers and asking for a blue rinse.... blue hair! Why does this happen?

psketti wrote:
Me too allways wondered wtf happened in their heads one day to wake up and want a tight short blue rinse perm

You may find out one day girls.

jhado wrote:
My kids are already under instruction to shoot me if i ever do it

It'd probably sound like something from the movies they watch "yo bro wat up dawg, ya hit mcd's, feel me?"

I reckon they would say "Good morning! Jolly fine weather we're having today isn't it! I would love to stop and chat old chap, but I'm afraid I must run, I'm taking my darling wife out to lunch, good day to you sir!"

Nah they'd probably recite some Beatles lyrics or something

Interesting question though.

I wonder about blue rinses too...why? My nan had one...WHY?

Stars, that's 'American', not proper English!

Anyone for croquet, and a spot of tiffin?

Lmao... yes Gilly... it's American, but point me in the direction of a rap song or movie that doesn't sound like a foreign language and I'll change what I think they'd say.

psketti wrote:
Yes - just what the hell?

I was hoping that by my mum's age (73) she'd be senile enough for me to get revenge for putting me in all those silly woollen hats, as a child, that made me resemble a dahlia, and the crooked-fringe haircuts she inflicted.

She's got all her faculties though, and won't let me dye her blue.

Still can't think of one, but friend who i worked with in France who couldn't speak much English would impersonate, the english by saying" wroast beuf", He said it was due to the english's love of the sunday roast, and also like we call them french frogs their lame come back was roast beef

I used to work alongside a group of nice Italian men, who made me laugh, because whenever they spoke to me in English, their voices went all sing-song & high pitched. I used to say, 'Ciao' to them, and they'd say, "'Ello Mrs," in silly voices - but you could tell they didn't realise they were silly voices.

weird that cuz i often used to think when i spoke french that my voice sounded all singy

I said this very same thing to my folks a while back and i don't think they had thought of it before. How do we sound to others from another country (to their ears and mind)
That afternoon we went for a walk and met some Polish folk and my mother asked them what she sounded like when speaking. They said we sound posh!
On the other hand I asked the same question to a polish guy who worked at our factory and he said we all sounded gay!
Barstard

Drude wrote:
Posh does sound gay

That's just inverted snobbery.

Gilly wrote:
If you live in a castle and wear a crown then fine, posh suits, but for the rest, get a life

Speaking nicely doesn't equate to not having a life. I'm not talking about the Royalty accents though. They speak with so many plums in one's gob as to distort the English language beyond all comprehension. That's just snobbery. Somewhere between their snobbery, and your inverted snobbery, is a happy medium.

Balls, i worked in Lambourn and for days off went off to some local towns here and there, but round that area, and fook me side-ways, the workers in every shop i went in made me sound like a gutter snipe. I rebelled very young, was sent to elocution lessons to speak properly, etc etc. I didn't like being manipulated. I still don't