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Michael - The Great Album Debate

love is magical said:
^^lol... I have to call my condo association to see what this "flood insurance" crap is all about. Oh well...

When will Immortal be in Philly? All three shows in NY are sold out. If you are seriously about going to Philly, plan to get tix sooner rather than later.

A debate family get-together sounds great!!!

ADKI, what's the NL helicopter tour about? Who organize the tour?
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Here's some info on the helicopter tour
http://www.channelislandsheli.com/flightsoverneverlandranch.html

And the NY tickets for the Immortal world tour are not sold out because my brother just got his today.
http://www.cirquedusoleil.com/en/shows/michael-jackson-tour/tickets.aspx


@BUMPER SNIPPET Yes S.O.P.A / P.I.P.A the U.S government is trying to make the internet communist (That's how I see it).

If the bill is passed uploading a MJ song can put us in prison for 5 years that is 1 more year than the man who took MJ from us is serving.

Vote against it https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/
 
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Is there some kind of speech strike or what? You're all afraid of summin' o' what?
 
without me this thread is nothing :p

seriously : I think Maryland accent / dialect would be hard. I think that areas is complex with multiple accents.

Delaware is divided between the Midland and Southern dialect boundaries. Wilmington and the north are heavily influenced by Philadelphian, and thus Midland, while Lower Delaware speaks the Southern dialect common to the Delmarva peninsula, which is a rather characteristic dialect and which has remained rather independant from the Virginia-influenced dialects of Maryland's western shore.

Maryland, like Delaware, has Midland speech along its northern border, the chief distinction being that the Midland dialects in Maryland are of the central Pennsylvania type rather than the Delaware Valley type. Further south are two distinct types of Southern dialects divided by the Chesapeake Bay: the Delmarva variety, on the Eastern Shore, and the Virginia Piedmont type from Baltimore south on the western shore.

http://www.evolpub.com/Americandialects/MidAtldialects.html


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with audio samples http://web.ku.edu/~idea/northamerica/usa/maryland/maryland.htm
 
O Holy Ivy, deliver unto us a discussion worthy of the debating deities of old! :D
 
ivy said:
without me this thread is nothing :p

seriously : I think Maryland accent / dialect would be hard. I think that areas is complex with multiple accents.

Delaware is divided between the Midland and Southern dialect boundaries. Wilmington and the north are heavily influenced by Philadelphian, and thus Midland, while Lower Delaware speaks the Southern dialect common to the Delmarva peninsula, which is a rather characteristic dialect and which has remained rather independant from the Virginia-influenced dialects of Maryland's western shore.

Maryland, like Delaware, has Midland speech along its northern border, the chief distinction being that the Midland dialects in Maryland are of the central Pennsylvania type rather than the Delaware Valley type. Further south are two distinct types of Southern dialects divided by the Chesapeake Bay: the Delmarva variety, on the Eastern Shore, and the Virginia Piedmont type from Baltimore south on the western shore.

http://www.evolpub.com/Americandialects/MidAtldialects.html


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with audio samples http://web.ku.edu/~idea/northamerica/usa/maryland/maryland.htm
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Yup yup. Can be very different. In the region where I live, all small cities have different dialects. And I don't always understand what they are talking about. They are that different. But of course, I'm from Holland, not Maryland..:D
 
I've been reading on different accents within the U.S. Thanks for the info, but I really need people from there. Well, actually I could do without them, but it just is going to take me some time.

Of course each region has different accents. The advantage however is that Maryland's accent is the one that kept the original accent of the first settlers. This is what makes it actually difficult to detect, unless other people live in regions where the accent is much "stronger" (off the original).


And Jesta, I see you're lurking, but no, I don't think that the original accent was the one that you are currently using in the UK. :p
 
... Wait, my invisibility has disappeared!!!!! I forgot I had this on! ¬_¬
 
ivy said:
without me this thread is nothing :p

seriously : I think Maryland accent / dialect would be hard. I think that areas is complex with multiple accents.

Delaware is divided between the Midland and Southern dialect boundaries. Wilmington and the north are heavily influenced by Philadelphian, and thus Midland, while Lower Delaware speaks the Southern dialect common to the Delmarva peninsula, which is a rather characteristic dialect and which has remained rather independant from the Virginia-influenced dialects of Maryland's western shore.

Maryland, like Delaware, has Midland speech along its northern border, the chief distinction being that the Midland dialects in Maryland are of the central Pennsylvania type rather than the Delaware Valley type. Further south are two distinct types of Southern dialects divided by the Chesapeake Bay: the Delmarva variety, on the Eastern Shore, and the Virginia Piedmont type from Baltimore south on the western shore.

http://www.evolpub.com/Americandialects/MidAtldialects.html


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with audio samples http://web.ku.edu/~idea/northamerica/usa/maryland/maryland.htm
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Accents don't follow necessarily the administrative borders of a state. However, it is always possible to detect the main dialect (the one spoken by the majority) and all the others are just varieties and different forms of the main one. The phonology for each main dialect can be written down. So it isn't as complex as it may sound.




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Chamife said:
Yup yup. Can be very different. In the region where I live, all small cities have different dialects. And I don't always understand what they are talking about. They are that different. But of course, I'm from Holland, not Maryland..:D
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Yet, despite those differences it is easy to pinpoint a Dutch dialect from the Netherlands and a Dutch dialect from Belgium. This indicates that there are clear phonology differences. All the rest are nothing else but variants.

However, Ducth dialects are quite different one from another compared to American English dialects. I've never met a Ducth, be it in Belgium or the Netherlands, speaking standard Dutch language. You all use your different dialects, which are extremely difficult to understand from one region to another, compared to the standard Dutch language.
 
dam2040 said:
Wasn't it New Spain?
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No

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New Amsterdam in 1664 Credit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_New_York_City

The Dutch named it New Amsterdam, but the British renamed it to New York.
 
I always said this thread is educational. See... We are now turning it into history lesson. :yes:Sorry Bumpy. Can't help you. You know I speak Chinglish. Btw, NY in Chinese. ??
 
love is magical said:
I always said this thread is educational. See... We are now turning it into history lesson. :yes:Sorry Bumpy. Can't help you. You know I speak Chinglish. Btw, NY in Chinese. ??
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Lol. It was unintended.

My daughter (11) just made me listen to a Lady Gaga song and asked me if I knew it. It was 'You and I'. "Yes, I know that", I said :cheeky:. I let her hear the life version you posted, which was the first time I ever heard that song. And we both agreed the life version is even better than the disc version. She was completely in awe about it, lol.

Love that song now too...:D
 
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