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twistedwillow -> RE: What's your favorite accent? (11/25/2007 2:48:36 AM)

I adore the West Indian\Carribean accent, Irish, and the  Southern accent, someone says 'Ya'll, or Ma'am'  and I'm butter.

twisted



KMsAngel -> RE: What's your favorite accent? (11/25/2007 2:48:56 AM)

i've got a combo of aussie and american midwest. appears to come out irish for some people. MY favourite would be any that was saying, "good girl", lol!

(but scottish, like sean connery, would be my absolute favourite accent)



childoftheshadow -> RE: What's your favorite accent? (11/25/2007 3:13:10 AM)

I love it when people say they like the english accent . . . what one? For such a small country, they have a lot of accents here. It's like saying you like southern, there are plenty to choose from.

Personally, I'd have to go with english from the west sussex area, for the simple fact that that's what my partner has. I quite like my Northern Michigan (boardering on Yooper) accent too.



seeksfemslave -> RE: What's your favorite accent? (11/25/2007 3:47:36 AM)

At the risk of being considered rude I would have to list American Show Biz accents as ones I dont like. In the UK we are so swamped with American shows that it just gets on my nerves.

We are even  getting Americans on Radio 4 which is the serious up market side of the BBC.
By the way I dont like "plummy" Brit accents either.

I have just come across a show on my cable that I like a lot...Becker with Ted Danson.
His speaking voice is not too bad and I think he is a good comedy actor.



Level -> RE: What's your favorite accent? (11/25/2007 3:59:20 AM)

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ORIGINAL: slaveboyforyou

I just thought of this thread, when I read a response to one of my posts.  Someone used some creative spelling when responding in the assumption that all of us from the South sound like Rhett Butler.  It made me smile, because I love to hear people from other areas of the world talk.  I have to say that my favorite accent is when I spent some time in southwest Louisiana.  I love to hear true coonasses talk (coonasses are what we call Cajuns in the South by the way).  Hollywood never gets their accent right, they always give them the New Orleans accent in movies.  They sound like they are singing when they talk almost.  I noticed the same thing among Appalachian folk.  My dad was from West Virgina, and there is a musical tone to the way they talk.  Yoopers would run a close second.  People from the upper peninsula of Michigan just have this voice that draws you in.   


Being Texan (and a Coonass [;)]), I have a thick accent, and enjoy the sound of a southern woman speaking.  I also love most English accents.
 
One of the few that cause me to pause [&:] are the "Brooklyn" accents, like Marissa Tomei in My Cousin Vinnie.



NorthernGent -> RE: What's your favorite accent? (11/25/2007 4:03:23 AM)

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ORIGINAL: childoftheshadow

For such a small country, they have a lot of accents



Very true, and the accents are so strong that I guarantee that any American who stepped foot of London and the Home Counties would not be able to understand the natives......Geordie, Yorkshire, Brummie, West Country, Devon, East Anglia, Scouse, Manc...would pass foreigners by.....Northern accents are unintelligible to the untrained eye. It doesn't help foreigners when they come over and realise that no one speaks the English they are taught in school (queen's English, unless they go to London and the Home Counties)...so they spend about 3 months not being able to understand anyone.

All the English accents are great, some of them are plain hilarious.......the farming accent from Devon, the West Country, East Anglia etc offer first rate comedy material.....the Brummie accent is one I personally think is underrated and undervalued, it's a real down to earth accent..........Scouse is like an Irish/English/Welsh hybrid monster.......Manc is smooth......Lancashire and Yorkshire sound like 18th century mill weavers......but the Newcastle/Sunderland/Durham accent in the North East takes first prize for sheer local pride - we still use old Norse words, which other parts of the country abandoned a long time ago, and we basically have our own dialect that no one else can understand.

I've always liked a disctinctive accent, New York area stands out....I quite like that accent....maybe it was through watching programmes like Heart to Heart, and Cagney and Lacey when I was about 7, but it stuck with me, anyway.

I like the German accent, it's funny......I always have this urge to ask them to stop shouting at me, but they wouldn't see the funny side...'different sense of humour over there..........the South Wales accent is such a warm accent, it's similar to Geordie in that respect......the Welsh are generally salt-of-the-earth types........struggling to think of others......



childoftheshadow -> RE: What's your favorite accent? (11/25/2007 4:09:56 AM)

NorthernGent, I've actually never had a problem understanding people here. I've lived in the UK for just over 6 years, and in London for 4. Now, when my parents come over to visit, that's funny. I'll always remember stopping at a fast food place with my mom and her being asked if she wanted to "eat in or take away", her answer was "what?" "what?" "what?", I let it go on for a few minutes before I had to step in. Also, the first time my father was asked for a fag, the look on his face was priceless.



NorthernGent -> RE: What's your favorite accent? (11/25/2007 4:27:26 AM)

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ORIGINAL: childoftheshadow

NorthernGent, I've actually never had a problem understanding people here. I've lived in the UK for just over 6 years, and in London for 4.



Have you lived in the North?...the accents and dialects are very, very different to West Sussex and London...some would say a different language!

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ORIGINAL: childoftheshadow

Now, when my parents come over to visit, that's funny. I'll always remember stopping at a fast food place with my mom and her being asked if she wanted to "eat in or take away", her answer was "what?" "what?" "what?", I let it go on for a few minutes before I had to step in. Also, the first time my father was asked for a fag, the look on his face was priceless.



Ha! Yeah, I can imagine....between university terms, I worked in bars and fast food places, and we had loads of American and German tourists in Durham...castle and cathedral are world heritage sites (The Venerable Bede is buried at the cathedral), home to the world's first steam engine etc....it's probably the most difficult accent to understand in England........how hard could it be to hand over a beer in exchange for a couple of quid, very hard when the bloke on the receiving end doesn't understand a word you're saying!

P.S. fags is a southern thing, I think. Cigarettes are 'tabs' in the North East.



childoftheshadow -> RE: What's your favorite accent? (11/25/2007 4:34:31 AM)

I will admit I don't often venture further north than London, but I've spent a fair bit of time in Yorkshire and enjoy the accents there. The only problem I've ever had is with my GP who is from God knows where, I don't understand a word she says and she can't understand me.



Raechard -> RE: What's your favorite accent? (11/25/2007 4:36:52 AM)

You can't beat a good Welsh accent, isn't it?[:D]



NorthernGent -> RE: What's your favorite accent? (11/25/2007 4:38:51 AM)

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ORIGINAL: childoftheshadow

I will admit I don't often venture further north than London, but I've spent a fair bit of time in Yorkshire and enjoy the accents there. The only problem I've ever had is with my GP who is from God knows where, I don't understand a word she says and she can't understand me.


lol.....prescribed a course of antibiotics for a broken leg eh....



childoftheshadow -> RE: What's your favorite accent? (11/25/2007 4:41:37 AM)

That's about it too. The last time I was there I spent the better part of 30 minutes trying to get her to understand that I had a ear infection. In the end I had to get the nurse to come in and explain. It was insane, thank God I can see the nurse for most things, she understands me.



NorthernGent -> RE: What's your favorite accent? (11/25/2007 4:44:22 AM)

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ORIGINAL: childoftheshadow

That's about it too. The last time I was there I spent the better part of 30 minutes trying to get her to understand that I had a ear infection. In the end I had to get the nurse to come in and explain. It was insane, thank God I can see the nurse for most things, she understands me.


Well, it all adds to the experience, as long as you're enjoying yourself in England...that's the main thing.



childoftheshadow -> RE: What's your favorite accent? (11/25/2007 5:18:54 AM)

Oh, I love it here. Do have my moments of homesickness, but they're coming further apart now.



DiurnalVampire -> RE: What's your favorite accent? (11/25/2007 5:24:08 AM)

I love a southern accent, both boys are from Tennessee, one eastern and one middle. Nothing quite ike a southern boy saying "Yes Maam". *melt*
I also like the softer British accents (I couldnt tell you the regions, but I can definately tell the sounds), Australian and Irish. And just about any accent is better in a very deep voice.
There are certain people I talk to online all the time whom I would love to hear speak, I have no preconcieved notions of what they'd sound like, but I am sure it would be interesting. (ahem, and one of them already commented... he knows who he is)

DV



batshalom -> RE: What's your favorite accent? (11/25/2007 5:33:34 AM)

Israeli. ~smiling~ Of course.

(As for US accents, I love to hear Californians and Minnesotans talk.)



lronitulstahp -> RE: What's your favorite accent? (11/25/2007 5:54:54 AM)

Glaswegian...definately a fool for the lusty Scottish brogue. (sigh)



lateralist1 -> RE: What's your favorite accent? (11/25/2007 5:57:53 AM)

I like most northern English and Scottish accents.
But as Northern Gent pointed out there is a difference between an accent and a dialect or language.
Scots is a language(still being debated) although it sounds a bit like English. However there are also Scottish dialects and accents with a regional dialect.
It's the same with most northern English dialects as well.
Take the yorkshire dialect it has many accents which can changer every few miles.
I originate from a small town outside Stoke-on-Trent. (North West Midlands of England known as The Potteries)
It has it's own dialect which is very like the yorkshire dialect. Nothing like the Potteries dialect and yet it is only eight miles from the Potteries.
You can understand now why for such a very small country we have a lot of communication problems.
The Welsh have their own language as well. Which sounds nothing like English.
However most I think speak English at home.
I'm not even going to try to discuss Gaelic. I just don't know enough to do so.
I can't speak a foreign language but would think that when people learn one they either speak it with their own accent or the accent of the person they learned it from or a received pronunciation as taught in schools.
I was taught high German in school which was nothing like how most Germans speak so I couldn't understand what they were saying to me.
I'm very lucky though most of the world seems to speak a version of English.
I have to like how a sub speaks probably more than how he looks.






Raechard -> RE: What's your favorite accent? (11/25/2007 6:02:23 AM)

Is it too late for me to say Klingon?



NorthernGent -> RE: What's your favorite accent? (11/25/2007 6:04:21 AM)

People in England value the community far more than the nation, thus maintaining a strong local identity through dialect and accents.



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