Joel, Impulse and Geminitay Hang Out and Talk About Accents

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

[@Darlypants]

Joel does good UK English accents because making fun of everybody else's accent is part of everyday life in England.

[@romy3265]

HHAHA YEAH I wish I was there to make fun of him as well LOLLL I absolutely love this guy

[@Alex-xh9wo]

This is so true 😂

[@otomeomusubi]

I love how the whole "shrimp on the barbie" quote is still a thing when we actually use the word "prawns" here 😂

[@vaalrus]

Hoge’s has a lot to answer for. ;)

[@longislandlegoboy]

Don’t you come the wrong prawn with me

[@cuckoobrain7999]

Then what do you call prawns?

[@whipl_ash]

@@cuckoobrain7999we call them prawns 😂

[@truckerdave8465]

Hey blame your tourist board! I’m old enough to actually remember those commercials. Tbf, they used shrimp to avoid confusing us Americans.

[@JustAFruityFella]

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-

[@poptartzgaming5545]

HAHAHA THAT'S SO TRUE

[@JustAFruityFella]

@@poptartzgaming5545 for the longest time I thought I was the only person who noticed this-

[@CubeInspector]

Just more proof it's a choice and not natural

[@mega_d1016]

Why do gay people add a - at the end of there sentences

[@laurafrakinroslin]

I suspect they may know and are just trying not to get homophobic with it.

[@e10hotrods]

Joel, impulse & bdubs in one spot.. lag city!

[@vaalrus]

Okay, when he pulled out the “Chicken and a can of coke” line, I just aboot died…

[@joshmccarty8800]

Also someone should inform impulse Ireland isn’t to the north.

[@discochaotica]

Okay but counterpoint: Let's not tell him, because it's hilarious.

[@diggoran]

I think he’s used to hearing “Northern Ireland” and it stuck wrong in his head

[@truckerdave8465]

Dude some of us don’t know that Ireland is 2 countries.

[@ADHDlanguages]

​@@truckerdave8465for now

[@horizonpenblade1288]

I mean its significantly further north than arizona

[@barrydheil]

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.

[@1ightcap]

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

[@michaelfourie]

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.

[@mdccxxvii]

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.

[@greenmondaymorning]

​@@mdccxxviiI'm from NL. Even the smallest communities have very little deep accent left.

[@milesparker557]

​@@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 KZbinrs make their accents thinner for that sake.

[@yusaki8064]

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.

[@ShieldToad-mk2rp]

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.

[@barrydheil]

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.

[@yusaki8064]

@@ShieldToad-mk2rp Yeah. I used to try to “fix” it. Now I just own it. Gonna start typing Fanks like Stress.

[@navareeves8976]

that definitely makes sense since multiple hermits from different parts of england all do that, joel, stress, and they also mentioned xisuma.

[@CometWasHere]

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.

[@Purrfect_Werecat]

That was an interesting discussion to get to listen in on tbh

[@SillySyrup]

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.

[@dania4407]

joel seems like he'd be a good voice actor, he's done a couple bits over the years and with training and practice he could do some cool things

[@SliferStreaming]

Ironically i'm from nys and don't seem to have an accent at all? Lol

[@SillySyrup]

@@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.

[@SliferStreaming]

@@SillySyrup no, new york state, lol.

[@AndersWatches]

@@SliferStreamingliterally every single person who can speak has an accent

[@JeffreyFlory]

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.

[@hihihellollo]

& new zealand

[@CharmChampion]

@@hihihellolloI think NZ might fall into the same situation as Canada for this.

[@ltskai]

5:30 just nonbrits realising how diverse accents are in such a small country

[@parzavaal5335]

So diverse even the cows have accents.

[@martijn9568]

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😅

[@ltskai]

@@martijn9568 yeah you are probably right. I’m just speaking from my personal experience of being British, and this is the case for me :)

[@j_edwards6075]

@@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.

[@melonmode4128]

I knew Joel was a northern lad like me. Legend.

[@Shortnamesareoverrated]

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:

[@Shortnamesareoverrated]

"I need to take a baff"

[@Derenyx]

Joel's Scott impression sounds more Welsh than Scottish; and Gem saying banana in a British accent sounds like Aimsey.

[@Random_Always]

Have we ever seen Gem and Aimsey in the same room?

[@Derenyx]

@@Random_Always not a room but they were with Gem in her Twitchcon Vlog!

[@Anzy.99]

​@@Random_Alwaysyes

[@analogbunny]

As a Canadian who is occasionally teased for my own accent, when Gem says "faerm" or "caer" or "haerd" I know I'm hearing one of my own 🤣

[@Holmesy87]

This is the first time I'm seeing Gem with straight hair, and I'm in love 😍 I wish she'd upload the vods more, I can never catch the live streams.

[@am3thysts]

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 😅

[@millystars]

i always knew joel was from yorkshire cus of his accent but its so funny hearing someone talk about yorkshire lolll

[@Nylaria24]

Joel doing a “Scottish accent” when it sounds soo soo wrong. Like Irish/ African hybrid lol

[@gollishh]

I thought it sounded almost Geordie

[@Nylaria24]

@@gollishh I don’t know what they sound like! But I know Scottish and that wasn’t it 😂😂

[@reekahstinks]

I think that's why Scott hates it 😂 he says nobody can do it

[@Nylaria24]

@@reekahstinks as a Scottish person myself I can confirm that he does not sound like us 😂😂😂

[@reekahstinks]

@@Nylaria24 😂😂😂😂

[@pskidmore1986]

Is no one gonna mention how Joel thinks Stress is a northener lol!?!? She has like the strongest Essex accent i've ever heard!!!

[@preachermansam86]

Think he got mixed up...

[@KodaCreatez]

I mean she does say Shire like a northerner but everything else yeah very Essex

[@BananaWasTaken]

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.

[@elvinvillamor472]

Awww gem is so pretty

[@neurospicypisces]

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

[@-butterwannafly-2309]

As an Australian, that crocodile dun dee line from yoel was pretty fricken good

[@natanislikens]

Impulse bringing up "Speech Therapy" reminds me of Mumbo's problem. Anyone know if he's still going through Speech Therapy for his "Ah-ha" problem? 🤣

[@PawsitivelyQuestionable]

He's having aha-rd time

[@neurospicypisces]

Awe Gem looks so good with her hair straight

[@GeneralNickles]

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.

[@cofiddle]

Newfoundland accent fascinates me so much, even though Gem doesnt seem to have much of a strong one

[@danig2847]

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)

[@Scarybug]

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.

[@ScottHart-nu5xb]

The joke here is that newfoundlanders are known for talking one way with each other and different with those outside.

[@willguggn2]

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.

[@jasminebrooks9825]

as someone from essex currently lving in Liverpool... ive never seen anything more accurate haha

[@tisjstme5315]

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.

[@leobiggs8653]

Just makes me think of the ninth Doctor "Lots of places have a North"

[@ChillCubitoClips]

That has just made more and more sense over the years for me. (I'm American)

[@UnknownShiny]

actually the first time i’ve seen gem and she’s super pretty!

[@neptunesgalaxy5123]

Joel and Scott have my favorite accents outta the bunch lol

[@williamjones5334]

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!)

[@PlagueBunny]

Effo

[@katiixx8996]

Scott in chat: "thank you for defending me gem" "nevermind"

[@user-cf9ju1zx2s]

It’s still so funny them doing the accents lol

[@catomajorcensor]

What *is* Xisuma's accent? He has FOOT-STRUT and TRAP-BATH so it's surely southern, but it's not like Mumbo's and Grian's more posh accents

[@AndersWatches]

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

[@watchingaccount]

I think the way he talks might also be influenced a bit by the fact he has dyspraxia.

[@BrightStick14]

1:58 😂😂

[@favretheundead]

the th - f merger is decently common; i have it

[@anhaadevoursyou]

smajor in chat lol

[@AndersWatches]

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.

[@IDrinkleTuce]

I used to have a Singaporean accent and man did i struggle to say "Three" (i say "tree"). took me 3 years after changing to an american accent.

[@giuthais]

linguistics nerds in the chat geeking out 😆

[@colinbrown4562]

Im American and I always struggled with the TH and have been trying to correct myself but slip up from time to Time

[@Astr0_Man]

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

[@itsjust_meman]

Eefo

[@ilexdiapason]

oh hey congrats on the hit video blocks

[@ChillCubitoClips]

Hey thanks, love getting something so wholesome out for once

[@IceMetalPunk]

"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".

[@sisi7304]

yeah! linguistics is so cool, and I figured the "eefo" thing was basically that th-fronting changing to an f in some accents

[@lucianospiers8309]

he smashed the scouse accent he did

[@roses10k]

th fronting!

[@BuzzyBananaBee444]

I can't stop relisting 5:21

[@Taracinablue]

fun :)

[@j_edwards6075]

Would have been nice if Pearl was included in this chat lol.

[@KayleeIkpunobi]

6:25 very accurate from a geordie

[@angeliqcore]

5:15 Joel trying to do a cockney (East London) accent is taking me out

[@Shortnamesareoverrated]

WAIT... at the beginning Smajor subbed/// was he not already subscribed to GEm? Scott! GEM AND THE SCOTTS s u werent subscribed

[@chase9450]

thats a resub lol

[@lckittyqueen]

nooo it’s bc jimmy is from the west country he has a farmer accent

[@stealthhunter6998]

0:22 they not using sodium mod?

[@GSBarlev]

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.

[@stealthhunter6998]

@@GSBarlev Ah well my servers Im on r never as large or long lasting as HC. So it goes relatively unnaffected.

[@gh0stlyd4niel]

I had to go through years of speech therapy as a kid because I prounounced my ‘th’ as ‘f’. 😭

[@thestarfarer]

essex is the valleygirl

[@fargonthebrave]

you guys forget about mumbo

[@Apple_Beshy]

HAHAHHAHA

[@timexgirl]

Did gem say, "new-found-land?" Blasphemous!

[@greatcheese7309]

Wow, its almost like they are actually real people 😳

[@soundsean]

Liverpool is the greatest English city to visit. Genuinely.

[@Vares65]

Germany is like this as well. People from the south can't understand people from parts of the north.

[@ErikErosa]

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.

[@heather_r]

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.

[@martijn9568]

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.

[@dbseamz]

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.

[@abanana]

the scouse accent ...

[@joshmccarty8800]

I can do Yoel accent in text. Oi mate I need some waher.

[@SmileyJeanne15]

I am English and can pronounce th

[@hollyshelton2237]

I want to be your friend,

[@sentfrom_hell]

Joel's scouse accent is so bad I can't 😭😭😭

[@cathemeraltheenby6840]

It's actually pretty good. I can't tell the difference.

[@ilexdiapason]

"england has such a lot of accents for such a small country" yeah we're uniquely very different because we're so obsessed with class signifiers

[@henne2k]

Acually in the 1700dreds the London accent sounded exactly like Americans speak today.

[@gerbilpmc]

Canadian accents are just slightly irish american accents, there’s barely any difference between them.

[@user-cf9ju1zx2s]

THEY DIDNT DO A IRISH ACCENT😭😭😭

[@SunflowerOfWinter]

They’re doing dialects not accents 😭 accents is when it’s not your mother tongue and dialects is a different type of the same language 🫠

[@sisi7304]

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

[@IncongruityDetected]

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.

[@anxiousali3681]

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!