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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!
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Many people have said that southern accents sound fake to them. To me, Irish and Scottish accents always sound affected.
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Especially when it's Colin Farrel. The longer he's in the States, the more extreme his Irish accent gets.
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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. Posts: 4393 | Registered: Aug 2003
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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.
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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*
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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. Posts: 10886 | Registered: Feb 2000
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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 ?
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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.
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Scottish and Irish are definitely sexy. But Yorkshire is impossible to understand. Latin women have sexy accents. Aussie is hot, too.
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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. Posts: 1814 | Registered: Jul 2004
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OZZIE OZZIE OZZIE OOK OOK OOK! Oh I like Irish too. Actually I like a lot of accents. Home is best though. *is homesick*
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Well I'm already here and have been for over a week and you didn't ask me! humph Posts: 1103 | Registered: Apr 2002
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"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...
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"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!! Posts: 1103 | Registered: Apr 2002
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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. Posts: 1103 | Registered: Apr 2002
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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?
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.
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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 Posts: 102 | Registered: Oct 2003
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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> )
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I think Californians have an accent. Friends I've met from SoCal have a slightly Spanish intonation to their vowels.
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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.
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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.
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