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I just thought I'd bring this thread back to point out that the Polish accent is now among my favorites. Posts: 609 | Registered: Apr 2003
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*looks innocent* Flattering? I was merely making a statment of fact based on a sample size of 1. Posts: 609 | Registered: Apr 2003
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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