?? I love Italian accents. French ones, Latin/Spanish, Slavic, Kiwi/Aussie ones, too.charlesbb, whatever you do, learn to speak English without an accent.
When I was a brand new immigrant to Canada, I was robbed, beaten up and left for dead on the Geraldton (Ont) railroad station by some ever-so-loving Natives.
So, be careful of not just what you say, but how you say it.
BTW, having studied German, Latin and Russian, I found English the easiest to learn.
I would consider 3 years pretty new...^^ I'm not pretty new to Canada . I've been here for 3 years actually . Just can't become a Canadian anyway .
I'm now a junior student of UBC .
I'm Italian . Twila !
ah, so you have that beautiful accent that makes womens clothes fall off. lol.
ah, so you have that beautiful accent that makes womens clothes fall off. lol.
I second that !Well it sure ain't those beautiful Canadian accents that do it, that's for sure.. :lol:
Ahhh, those wonderful European gifts that keep on giving.Too late, CDNBear! All are dead. Most of alcohol poisoning some of AIDS.
Some of both.
You're one of those? 8Oah, so you have that beautiful accent that makes womens clothes fall off. lol.
Not bad, I agree:Last time I heard this much debate over a weird use of the word "campy" was in the Partridge Family...
...Susan Dey was hot!
The past few years, though, it implies effemininity.I posted that too. It won't open properly. The link is deliberately broken.
Pick on the Did you mean ... but here's what it says:
Camp is an aesthetic sensibility wherein something is appealing because of its bad taste and ironic value. The concept is closely related to kitsch, and campy things are described as being "campy" or "cheesy". When the usage appeared, in 1909, it denoted: ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical, and effeminate behaviour, and, by the middle of the 1970s, the definition comprised: banality, artifice, mediocrity, and ostentation so extreme as to have perversely sophisticated appeal.[1] American writer Susan Sontag's essay “Notes on 'Camp'” (1964) emphasised its key elements as: artifice, frivolity, naïve middle-class pretentiousness, and ‘shocking’ excess. Camp as an aesthetic has been popular from the 1960s to the present, and arguably peaked in the decades of the 1970s, 1980s, and to some extent the 1990s as well.