I phoned the US a couple times today - you americans are cute

[HEyHEY]

With your funny little accents.

[Book Lover]

1. Hey, so here's a question

only slightly tangentally associated with your topic. Sorry, but I must know. When one dials overseas, there's a + in front of the phone number sometimes. Is that something you actually dial?

[supernova]

2. No

It just means you dial the country code, city code, then the number.

[crispini]

3. Yeah, you just dial the + button on your phone.

:evilgrin:

[HEyHEY]

5. And you get whoever you want

You guys don't have that technology in the US yet

[Book Lover]

6. Yeah, thanks, smartass

Which I truly do say with all love :silly:

[crispini]

16. Hee hee hee hee hee.

:silly:

[HEyHEY]

4. Overseas? I live in Canada

Not sure about that A+ I don't have it on my phone

[Book Lover]

8. Apparently neither do I

But it could have stood for something!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

7. So that was YOU!!!!

THis guy kept saying he was calling a boat and I kept saying this wasn't a boat it was an office and he kept saying "NO I AM CALLING A BOAT" and I cut him off right there and said "NO BUDDY!!! THIS IS AN OFFICE!!" and he said, "No, I AM CALLING A BOAT!!" SO I hung up.

[HEyHEY]

11. LOL, you should send that to a sketch comedy show

[girl gone mad]

9. Do you find our accents sexy?

In particular southern female (Susan Sarandon-esque)?

I've been honing mine to use when I get a bit older.

[HEyHEY]

12. No, not really

To tell you the truth they make you sound dumb. ;-)

Actually I called California and Washington... so I got no southern ones in there

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

10. You guys have cute little accents, too

My Estates & Trusts professor is from Nova Scotia, and he says "shedule," "oot" and "aboot!"

[HEyHEY]

14. Nova Scotia is WEIRD territory for accents

He should also say "Ker" for "Car"

[kikiek]

13. What you talking about ey?

[asthmaticeog]

15. What's this all aboot?

:shrug:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

17. Well, listen to this then.....

http://hegel.research.att.com/tts/speech/346809d78ce80d8214b80a5bb09fe5ec.wav

[crispini]

18. I had a project with a Canadian company ....

every week on the conference call we'd keep a tally of how many times they said "about" and "project." Yes, my coworkers and I are childish. :P

We later found out they were doing the same thing when we said "ya'll." :rofl:

[HEyHEY]

19. hmmm

How did they say "project"? I think we say it the american way in bc..being "Pra-ject"

[crispini]

20. they said PRO ject, the same sound as "about" in Canada.

this was Toronto.

[ScreamingMeemie]

21. What are you talking aboot? Eh?

:hi: