"Way'll get togethah toomorrah, at that may'in'. All raht. Bah."
Aw, I love a drawl. The courtly Southern gentleman is so much fun. It doesn't happen at work, but in regular life, I just love being called darlin'.
[ July 27, 2004, 03:03 PM: Message edited by: katharina ]
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Hmm... I would file southern under "accents I hate." Not all southern, just Texan, really, and it all has to do with bad associations with my redneck relatives.
I really like the New Zealand/South Pacific accent. It's like Australian, but somehow softer and with weird Es. I also like South African accents.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Snicker.
I live in Atlanta and I've yet to hear a deep, deep accent.
-Trevor
Posted by J. Alfred Prufrock (Member # 6732) on :
I really can't stand southern drawl. There's no specific reason for this, I suppose; it just doesn't ring right in the taste buds of my ears.
The Irish, on the other hand, have voices I'll never get tired of listening to. Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Oh, I really enjoy the southern and texan accents. Half of that reason is probably because *sooo* many movies and TV shows have tried to teach me that everybody with an accent like that is either ignorant, stupid, or mean, and I know that it just ain't true.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
*Confused* I don't get it, Annie doesn't have an accent.
Hobbes Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
Scottish. When we landed in Edinburgh, my friend and I nearly fainted because the bus driver had such a wonderful accent. You can imagine how the rest of our trip went...
Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
French.
*swoon*
I'm partial to a good thick Glasgowegian accent because it reminds me of Dad.
Posted by Mr.Gumby (Member # 6303) on :
When I read the thread's title, I immediately thought of Famke Jameson role as Xenia in Goldeneye.
Edit: Hey, that was my 100th post
[ July 28, 2004, 01:13 AM: Message edited by: Mr.Gumby ]
Posted by Azile (Member # 2312) on :
English. Whether it's a guy or girl, I don't care. I can just listen to them forever.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Hah!
Ordering a big mac in Paris was a treat because of the young lady's accent.
Of course, I would be hard pressed to pick a favorite accent.
-Trevor
Posted by Happy Camper (Member # 5076) on :
I like different accents on different genders. For instance I really like the Irish and English accents on guys, but not really on women. But I love French and southern (Georgia-ish) accents on women, but not so much on guys.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
I love British, Scottish, Irish and Welsh accents.
On guys, I love an Oklahoman drawl...
Farmgirl
edit: (corrected for Bob's sake. That's what happens when I type too fast)
[ July 27, 2004, 05:16 PM: Message edited by: Farmgirl ]
Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
Scotch?
You like your men liquored up, eh?
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Irish, Scottish, English accents... They are rather nice. And German and French ones as well. Haitian accents are pretty too.
Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
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Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
I love the accent of the peeps in the rual areas of the Midwest... a cool cross between southern twang and northern. So cool!
I also love the Swedish accent. YAY! And of course british... yum... Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
We have yet to hear yours, Kama...
FG
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
A dismissal of southern accents as ignorant merely displays the opinion-holder's own ignorance. My Texan English professor - with as thick a drawl as I've ever heard - would tear y'all to pieces.
My two Latin professors, my favorite English professor, and my first love were all from the South, and I simply love the voices. It's like music.
Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
I really like all accents, except those that people exaggerate or undertake on purpose. That always sounds wrong. I can't stand the sound of my own recorded voice, though, and part of it is that it sounds way more southern to me when I hear it on tape than it does as it leaves my mouth.
I love those very cultured old southern accents like my grandmother's and great aunt's.
Whenever I travel, I quickly come to love the accent where I am, and start imitating it without intending to. Language just begins to play in my head that way, and so it spills out of my mouth too, I guess. Still, nobody's ever mistaken me for a native.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Sorry Kam - I haven't heard enough Polish to recognize the accent.
But I will cheerfully volunteer to hit the first person to say your accent is horrible.
-Trevor
Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
You forgot the final "a" in my name Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Nah, I nickname everyone.
Sorry.
-Trevor
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
That's okay, TME.
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
Southern accents? Uhg. I can't stand them, they sound so horrible. (Living in the south doesn't help, either. )
I love Scottish accents (Billy Boyd!), Irish, and Aussie. For that matter, I like british accents, too. Posted by maui babe (Member # 1894) on :
I always think folks with really thick southern accents are putting me on. I LOVE Irish and Scottish accents.
Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
Don't worry, Kama. My boss is a Wodzinska -- I'm pretty sure I know what to expect accent wise Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Eruve, why is that? Have you had some bad experiences with people with Southern, and some good with the British?
In other accents that I love, I don't know if it is the country of origin or just his own sexy voice, but Antonio Banderas as a CARTOON CAT had me melting. That's one powerful accent.
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
Katharina- No, not really. I just don't like southern accents. The grammer (or lack thereof), slang, and "twangy" sounding voices. *shudders* I was dissappointed when someone told me recently that I was finally starting to get an accent.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Bad grammar isn't part of an accent, and it's also not exclusive to any region. I think that's part of the stereotype. That's too bad that's how you think of it.
I figure it's culture. One of the most foreign-culture experiences I've had in a while was when I drove down to a friend's ranch in East Texas and stopped in a little two-stop-light town. The town diner, the local beauty shop, knick-knack store, and that hardware store (all operated by their local owners) circled the town square in the center of which a flagpole and a gazevo lazily kicked back. On a little side street was the tiny local art museum housed in a converted Victorian home. They were having a garage sale of frames out in front, and the curator of the museum was talking over the fence to the eye doctor with her office in the frame house next door.
It was so different, and so picturesque. It looked like something out of a book, and the horses and trucks lining the streets didn't dissipate that impression. I liked it. I like that we have it. I like that there are still parts of the US that don't look and sound like an LA strip mall.
If it was the sound of Indian or Turkish people or folks from the Australian outback like in A Town Like Alice, it'd be considered romantic. Since its Southern, though, it's not. I wonder why that is?
[ July 27, 2004, 04:17 PM: Message edited by: katharina ]
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
quote: Bad grammar isn't part of an accent, and it's also not exclusive to any region. I think that's part of the stereotype. That's too bad that's how you think of it.
That's true. I guess I've just found that often bad grammar and southern accents are related. Now the old southern accents, for example in Gone With the Wind, they were actually kinda cool. But so many people now are almost uninteligable, and sound like Boomhower from King of the Hill.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Boomhowser doesn't have an accent that I love, but I do think it's picturesque. Isn't it cool that in this age, where accents are dissapearing more and more, we can still stumble across some uniqueness?
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
Yes, it's just too bad nobody can understand what he's saying. Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
btw Farmgirl it is Welsh not Welch too.
Welch's makes great grape juice though.
I read Welch as Wench the first time and was very confused... AJ
Favorite Accents: Australian and New Zealand
[ July 27, 2004, 04:32 PM: Message edited by: BannaOj ]
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
Everything's pretty much been covered, but I'll throw my opinion in.
I like Russian and Irish accents, mainly on dudes. I have to really agree with Annie on the South African accents. I was watching TV on Saturday and I caught about ten minutes of some show called "Scout's Safari". There was a dude on there that got knocked out, and when he came to he said, "Deed anybodeh cotch the licenze numbuh of thot veeldebeast thot hit meh?" It was such a weird mish-mash of sounds put together, and it was excellent to listen to. But I pretty much like any African accents.
Southern......yikes. There are too many feelings associated with that one. When my relatives use it, it sounds like home...but that's only a good thing half of the time. I also despise any accent on myself.
Posted by Zevlag (Member # 1405) on :
I love TTT's Kiwi (New Zealand) accent, it's great!
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
I like polynesian accents.
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
Clarifying the Australian accent further.
NOT the Crocodile Hunter.
I'm talking the accents of the Wallabies (Rugby) or in The Man From Snowy River, or the surfers being interviewed after competitions.
hmm... maybe hottness is a large factor in my inclination for Australian accents.
AJ
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
oohhh...The Man from Snowy River. I completely agree.
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
Yeah just the way he says "Jessica" makes you want to change your name so you can pretend he's talking about you. AJ
Posted by Lalo (Member # 3772) on :
I melt for French accents. Holy crap.
And judging by Sean Connery's total sex appeal, I think ifwhen I go gay, Scots are gonna be high on my calling list.
And British! Whoo damn, that's so hot. You just keep talking, Tony Blair and Keira Knightley. Aw yeah.
Southern never really did it for me. Just, gah. Neither do most Latin American accents, but I know some guys who pull it off with real sex appeal -- female Latin American accents seem fairly neutral, in my experience, though they can still sound appealing as hell. French-Canadian tends to annoy me, but then, maybe I hung around with the wrong Canadians.
Have I mentioned I'm a total sucker for French accents? You fox, Pepe LePeu...
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
I do a rather convincing Irish accent, and though I speak French with only the smallest of English accents (I'm often complimented by native speakers), I can't for the life of me do a good impersonation of a French accent in English. Why do you suppose that is?
I also have a very dear friend who's German and remarked to me that no one ever seems to find her accent cute. I thought about it and realized that while she herself is very cute, something about the intonation of her accent is a bit grating. Why is that? Are there people who like German accents that could clear this up for me?
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
I have a friend who had a mission companion when he was in Germany who was from Texas, and my friend does an impression of his companion speaking German with a heavy drawl. It's hilarious.
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
I know why, Annie. The French accents on TV don't sound like real French accents, so when you try to do one you have to pull from a source other than your actual knowledge base.
That's what I decided anyway. My father-in-law has a heavy accent and can't understand the people on TV who talk with fake french accents.
edit: Syntax seemed wrong.
[ July 27, 2004, 05:16 PM: Message edited by: PSI Teleport ]
Posted by Taalcon (Member # 839) on :
quote:That's true. I guess I've just found that often bad grammar and southern accents are related.
You're confusing accents with dialects there, methinks.
While not generally fond of 'Southern Accents' in general, the only one I can single out that I think can sound quite stately is a gentlemanly spoken Virginia Accent.
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As I've said before in general, most European accents make my Nondescript Standard American English accent (what most americans mean when they say someone 'has no accent') sound quite boorish.
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
I've been thinking a lot about how American accents sound to other language speakers. I've decided they sound really bad. Every syllable sounds really hard. The Southerners probably have an advantage over the rest of us there.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
AJ -- You would think I would know that since I'm of Welsh descent. It is just a bad day for me to be trying to type and think at the same time. Too busy here at work for me to be on Hatrack at all, but I can't resist...
FG
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
Accents that make me grin are New Zealand, because it reminds me of Lord of the Rings, North of England (like Sean Bean, for example) just because it has a multitude of connections for me, and Welsh because it sounds really nice.
Being accented myself, I try to look beyond accents, but that doesn't seem to stop me from finding them interesting and cool.
Posted by Zotto! (Member # 4689) on :
I go just a little bit crazy in a melty-twitterpation kinda way over a certain New Zealand accent.
Ohman.
[ July 27, 2004, 06:34 PM: Message edited by: Zotto! ]
Posted by Lissande (Member # 350) on :
Some British accents are nice, but others are just annoying. I seem to come across mostly the grating kind here. Among native speakers, my favorite is probably northern England and up into Scotland. For husbands I prefer a slight Slovak accent. Like just enough to occasionally (but not often) say "wiolent."
In myself, I'm trying to cultivate an accent. Not, obviously, in English; I'll stick with what I've got. But I am forced to accept the fact that I will most likely never speak Czech entirely like a Czech, due to the combined factors of: 1) I'm a foreigner, and 2) I will have a very bad example at home. By the end we'll probably both speak Czechoslovak. Since I will therefore always have at least a slight accent, I have determined to develop a sexy, endearing accent. Endearing in the sense that when I make a mistake, people think, "How cute! What a charming accent!" instead of "Doesn't she know that verb takes the sixth case, not the third?" Maybe a touch of mysterious and exotic thrown in. That may sound impossible for an American, but sources say my current accent doesn't sound American - just foreign. My main method of pursuing this goal is to periodically ask people if I have a cute accent yet.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Top 3 favorite accents:
Scandinavian(particularly Norwegian) Scottish Irish Boston(can't help it-married man with one)
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
I love hearing accents that I am not familiar with. I love Delenn's accent on Babylon 5. I also love Lando Molari's, what Porter and I call, "non-human" accent.
I was also just watching the Dune miniseries that were put out on the Sci-fi channel a few years back. They were very good about being consistent with the Fremen accent. I am pretty sure they were all people from a specific country/ethnicity/language/whatever, but I can't prove it. Whatever the accent was, I loved it!
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Many people have said that southern accents sound fake to them. To me, Irish and Scottish accents always sound affected.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Especially when it's Colin Farrel. The longer he's in the States, the more extreme his Irish accent gets.
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
quote: For husbands I prefer a slight Slovak accent. Like just enough to occasionally (but not often) say "wiolent."
Like Count Von Count?
"Sewen! Sewen is dee number of dee day! Ah, ah ah!"
[ July 27, 2004, 07:50 PM: Message edited by: PSI Teleport ]
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
Org a nicka norg borg, org a nicka noo. Yea borschnick uhm deedle doo bork bork bork!
Or something like that....
[ July 27, 2004, 08:04 PM: Message edited by: beverly ]
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
Scottish.
Preferably accompanied by a pair of blue eyes.
*swoon*
When I was in high school, I went to this world debating championships, and we came up against the Scottish team. It was really hard to concentrate on what they were saying because I was too busy basking in the accent. I think they did it on purpose.
Though I am pleasantly suprised by the number of mentions the Aussie accent has garnered. Posted by Space Opera (Member # 6504) on :
I don't think I'm in *love* with any accents in particular. What I'm really hoping now is that I have no trace of a southern accent, since so many people seem to hate them. Oh well, y'all can tell me at KamaCon.
space opera
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Are you kidding? I'd totally pull mine out, except...*sigh* I don't have one. Not usually. It flashes out occasionally, but I sound fairly bland as well. It's so sad. *sad*
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
I am pleased to speak unaccented english. However, whenever I hear the Queen's English coming from the mouth of a beautiful woman I pretty much keel over and die of happiness.
When I get back from New Zealand I'll tell you how I feel about the Kiwi accent. Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
I love Southern accents. There are so many different ones.
I also love a French Canadian accent.
But most of all, I love to find out how accents came to be accents, and where they originated.
Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
Mostly? Scottish. Highlands variety. (I know. No imagination.) Irish and Welsh.
On occasion, Harley.
Preferably coupled with the long hair, leathers, tatoos and minor crimes rapsheet.
Posted by tt&t (Member # 5600) on :
quote:When I get back from New Zealand I'll tell you how I feel about the Kiwi accent.
You're coming here? Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
Whatever Alan Rickman's accent is, I like it. (I would say British but may be mistaken). I like the accent of the Weasley twins in the Harry Potter movies too. Annie, as for French accent imitated by non-French people... Quite hard ! I can't find any convincing one (John Malkovitch in Johnny English was not THAT bad but still not very good). If you want a good exemple of a French making no big effort to not have an accent in English, try the Merovingian in Matrix II (the actor's name is Lambert Wilson). Quite horrible, uh ?
[ July 28, 2004, 05:56 AM: Message edited by: Anna ]
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
I actually like listening to all accents. I don't find all of them pleasing to the ear, but I do find them all interesting. I like to listen to the way people talk and try to guess where they're from. I don't often do a very good job, but I get reasonably close sometimes.
What I really like is listening for those accents that are almost not really accents. For example, I've noticed that, while people from different parts of California may speak in different ways, most of the Japanese-Americans (second-generation and up) I've met speak in a way that is very similar and just a little different from everyone else. Not so much that you'd notice it if you weren't paying attention, but if you're looking for it, it's there. Sometimes I hear it when listening to recordings of my own voice.
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
Hopefully. For 4-6 weeks in September-October.
With my father.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Wow, really twinky? That's wonderful! I'm so happy for you. Posted by Mrs.M (Member # 2943) on :
Accents I Love (in no particular order):
Israeli
British
Parisian
Italian
Icelandic
Minnesota
Korean
Vietnamese
Portugese
Russian
Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
Scottish and Irish are definitely sexy. But Yorkshire is impossible to understand. Latin women have sexy accents. Aussie is hot, too.
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
I probably won't get another chance to go with him, so I'm taking the one I've got.
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
Never quite understood why everyone is so in love with the Scottish and Irish accents. I don't much care for them, myself, though I don't mean that statement to be against anybody.
I like most English accents, though that's hardly an original thing to say. I'm pretty good at faking some of them. Like my Beatles impression, which is just enough that I can sound like I might be from Liverpool without being so much that I'm obviously just an American doing a Beatles impression.
I like the Japanese accent. Probably because I know some of that language and have an affinity for its sounds.
And there's something about a long-haired girl with a Russian accent that is just beyond sexy. Posted by suntranafs (Member # 3318) on :
OZZIE OZZIE OZZIE OOK OOK OOK! Oh I like Irish too. Actually I like a lot of accents. Home is best though. *is homesick*
quote: When I get back from New Zealand I'll tell you how I feel about the Kiwi accent. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
You're coming here?
Well I'm already here and have been for over a week and you didn't ask me! humph Posted by suntranafs (Member # 3318) on :
"And there's something about a long-haired girl with a Russian accent that is just beyond sexy"
Oh yeah I agree with that, course that could have something to with the fact the russian girls are just plain drop dead gorgeous. I wonder if Australians and russians are related somehow, nah I guess it's not quite the same way...
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
I don't know about Russian girls, but something about Eastern European with cheek bones...
-Trevor
Posted by suntranafs (Member # 3318) on :
tt&t, what part of NZ are you from? I'm Dunedin today.
Posted by tt&t (Member # 5600) on :
What is WITH all the people coming to NZ?
I'm in Wellington, will you be in the North Island at all? Posted by Little_Doctor (Member # 6635) on :
I can't beleive this hasnt been said, unless i missed it.
SEAN CONNERY!!!!
Come on?!? Who doesn't love that guy's accent?
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Um, Liz?
quote: Top 3 favorite accents:
How many?
Posted by Little_Doctor (Member # 6635) on :
haha good catch rivka
Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
Hums: Oh she's my dear, my darling one, her eyes so full of sparkling fun, no other, no other, . . .
Oh yes, Sean Connery. Young, mature, aging.
Can you imagine him singing that to you . . . ?
*sigh*
*Runs off to pop in Darby O'Gill and the Little People*
Posted by suntranafs (Member # 3318) on :
"What is WITH all the people coming to NZ"?
We are looking for oil and things we can call WMD's got a problem with that? Your so called "antarctic research" program is looking awfully big and suspicious these days, and don't try to fool me with that "we've only got three thousand people in our military" bs, we know your countries greedy eyes have been looking at violating the international treaty and taking over Antarctica for quite some time now, or at least that's the only possible place near that you would have any probability of imposing your tyranical wills upon that's remotely worth conquering... unless... oh of course, now I understand, New Zealand and ally Australia plan to annex Indonesia and move in to deal with their countries' serious overpopulation problems... Well maybe not, but we'll be watching you!! Posted by tt&t (Member # 5600) on :
Oh rats, you caught me.
Posted by suntranafs (Member # 3318) on :
I fear I shall not make it to the north island, and so we will pass each other as ghosts in the wind, alas. Unless of course I decide to hop on the ferry up there if it's cheap, that's the beauty of having no plans and the trouble with having no money rolled into one. Posted by tt&t (Member # 5600) on :
It's about $50NZD, on the Interislander.
How long are you here for? Just holidaying?
Posted by graywolfe (Member # 3852) on :
I love accents as well, and to tell the truth, I think I pretty much like every single one I've heard save two: Can't stand Fran Drescher's, and can't stand the accent Rosie Perez has. I suppose NY/Long Island or something in that general area just rubs me the wrong way. Beyond that, there's very little that I dislike.
Have also always wondered what, if any, accent Californian's have like myself (and West Coaster's for that matter). I've heard from actors that American non-specific accents like those of people from the West Coast or California are very difficult to get right because they're rather bland and colorless, unlike a Southern or NorthEast accent. I've heard others say that Californian's have accents like everyone else. What do you think?
[ July 29, 2004, 02:40 AM: Message edited by: graywolfe ]
Posted by suntranafs (Member # 3318) on :
"It's about $50NZD, on the Interislander.
How long are you here for? Just holidaying?"
Ouch. I suppose I shouldn't bother asking if that's round trip? I could maybe do 50 but I don't know about a hundred. Heheh as I say I've got no plans, but yeah it'd be immigrating illegaly if I decided to stay I'm thinking probably 5 weeks all told, 4 to 7 anyway.
Posted by Tzadik (Member # 5825) on :
I like the southern US accent - like the sound of it. And agree with Farmgirl that OK accent is very nice, have many friends in OK and I love the way they talk.
Although I try hard, I don't think I ever get rid of my Slovak/foreign accent in english. But when I say short senteces, I think I can fool a person Earlier this year I was asked whereabouts from OK I am from (this coming from an OKie) - needless to say I was very proud *is proud, still*
But I absolutely love my finacee's accent - standart mid-west english. Very nice and sexy Posted by Mr.Funny (Member # 4467) on :
Well, these are some of the accents I like: á, é, í, ó, ú, and many more! Posted by suntranafs (Member # 3318) on :
HAHAHA not Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :
accents are nice.
squeemishness is apt.
save for domestic redolence.
fallow
Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
The actors obviously didn't mean "Valley girl", right, Greywolfe?
Like - gag me . . .
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
And YAY for Russian Brides R Us! Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Snicker.
Ya know PSI, that's just a little...I dunno...creepy.
-Trevor
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
Hey. I just wanted him to explore all his options.
Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
I think everyone thinks the way they talk themselves is unaccented, while everyone else in the world has an accent, don't they? It broke me up when our neighbor from New York City who had this very heavy Bronx accent was worried that her child would grow up with a southern accent. "Can't you hear it?" she asked.
When I replied the girl's speech sounded fine to me and it was her mother who struck me as having a strong accent, she was astonished. I guess she thought that we hear ourselves talking southern, as though we lay it on on purpose or something. <laughs> I thought that was really funny.
(Of course one of the things that some New Yorkers seem prone to do is believe the universe consists of mainly New York, with a few minor outlying areas. Once on a plane a young girl who was very into the NYC clubbing scene looked out the window at all the greenery and said, "What do you guys have down there? Cows?" I was tempted to tell her that yes our nightclubs were filled with cows and instead of dancing we preferred bull baiting like the ancient Minoans, but I was afraid she might believe me. <giggles> )
[ July 29, 2004, 02:39 PM: Message edited by: ak ]
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
quote:I can't beleive this hasnt been said, unless i missed it.
SEAN CONNERY!!!!
Come on?!? Who doesn't love that guy's accent?
That would be scottish. Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
I think Californians have an accent. Friends I've met from SoCal have a slightly Spanish intonation to their vowels.
Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :
does anyone around here speak Mandarin? The tone thing is a killer. My chinese coworkers sometimes sound almost "deaf", like they learned how to speak English but can't hear what they are saying? Perfect grammar, if you listen close enough, but odd monotones.
fallow
Posted by Eduardo_Sauron (Member # 5827) on :
So...doesn't anyone love brazilian accents? Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
Since there are several different tones that a word can take in Mandarin, they probably view our language as somewhat monotone. It can be difficult to learn that our tone and inflection comes from word placement and meaning. But I'm guessing that the opposite can be true, too: A native English speaker in Taiwan probably sounds flat, not to mention they probably aren't even saying the correct word.
Considering that the word "ma" in Mandarin can mean either mother, hemp, horse, or scold dependent upon the tone, there can be serious problems in conversation.
Posted by Happy Camper (Member # 5076) on :
I just thought I'd bring this thread back to point out that the Polish accent is now among my favorites. Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
Seconded.
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
No point in flattering her yet, she can't read it at the moment. Apparently they are running around Chinatown somewhere with my printer.
I would also say Kama has the most delicate and refined Polish accent I know.
AJ
Posted by Happy Camper (Member # 5076) on :
*looks innocent* Flattering? I was merely making a statment of fact based on a sample size of 1. Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
Yeah I'm sure you want to take Kama's standard deviation...
Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
Ha! Mathematics humor! Gotta love it.
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
Tick your mind isn't far enough in the gutter.
Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
:: polishes halo ::
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
Hmm...I just thought of an American accent that I like. There's a guy I know who is originally from Chicago, but has been other places enough that the accent isn't too strong. I could just sit and listen to him talk...he smells really good too...
Posted by Speed 2: Cruise Control (Member # 6765) on :
I'm glad that people here can understand different accents. I was at work the other day. Someone called and said that they needed to speak with the person that they were talking to earlier. They described the person as a "woman with an accent." There happened to be three women working that day. One was from Columbia, one from Saudia Arabia and one from Bosnia. I asked whether the accent was Latin, Slavic or Middle Eastern. They said, "I don't know, it was just an accent."
I was blown away. I hate to sound like a cultural elitist, but I didn't think identifying the general area of the world that an accent was from was too difficult a skill.
Posted by Rhaegar The Fool (Member # 5811) on :
Monty Pythons French accents
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
If you have no experience with the nuances of accents, generally speaking it's difficult to pick it out, never mind identifying the location of the accent.
Brit, Scot, Irish, Australian - each has a unique twist, but if you have no basis by which to evaluate an accent, it's harder to define it.
-Trevor
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
I talked on the phone today with a guy from Houston, he had an adorable Southern accent, a little thicker than a traditional Texas accent though I realize it varies by location.
I gave him more of a lecture on chemistry than I meant to, but basically solved his problem.
At the end he said something like "Thank you little lady" (It wasn't that but I can't remember what the actual compliment was) and managed to pull it off in a sincere non-condescending manner. I was left feeling like I'd recieved a compliment rather than wanting to reach through the phone cord and strangle him for sexist bias.
It was actually pretty sweet.
AJ
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
I'll admit that I wish I had the variation on the Boston (really Eastern MA) accent my dad has. So soft, almost British in some ways.
All I have left from when I had it is the occassional o -> u transform in a few words ('hot' becomes 'hut', 'hospital' becomes 'huspital'). I'll break out wicked on rare occassions (it was unlearned in college my freshman year, because I used it so much, that my friends would thwap me when I used it), and very rarely drop/add 'r's.
Some forms of the Boston accent (like the Southie accent publicized in Good Will Hunting) I find rather obnoxious though.
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