LoL Kat I completely read your posts wrong for some reason!!!
Anyway I love Jersey accents... I think they're cute heh... also love the south.. and Aussie... Aussie accents make me wet *blush*
LoL Kat I completely read your posts wrong for some reason!!!
Anyway I love Jersey accents... I think they're cute heh... also love the south.. and Aussie... Aussie accents make me wet *blush*





Favorite:
Polish-had a hot teacher with a Polish accent.
Manchester (UK)-one of my best friend's from there. I try and make her say 'looovely' all the time.
Spain Spanish
Least favorite:
Rhode Island-GAH! They butchered my name constantly.
Pittsburgh-Kaylin I so feel you on this-thank you for never asking 'How 'bout dem Stillers?'
Funniest: Probably New Hampshire, it's just cute.
I just realized these are pretty overly specific. Placing accents is a hobby of mine.





Favorite-I LOVE German accents. They remind me of my dad (the one who raised me), so they are really comforting.
Least favorite-West Virginian accents bug me for some reason. I want to play 'Dueling Banjos' every time I hear somebody speak with that accent. *Yes, I know my accent is bad, but their's are worse!*
Funniest-Brits, Canadians, and Boston accents all make me giggle.
Bah im totally gonna scream if someone else pokes fun at a Canadian accent!!! I do NOT have a damn accent!!!!!!!!! *cries*
Ginger im about to damn well call you on the phone to prove my point![]()
"She has written so well, and marvellously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer...But this girl, who is to my knowledge very unpleasant and we might even say a high-grade bitch, can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves as writers"
Ernest Hemingway on writer, aviation pioneer and horse trainer Beryl Markham
Wait, Cally, we have accents? WTF? When did this happen?
My favorite accents? Southern definitely tops the list. Nothing sexier to me. British and Irish are good too, I guess that stems from my family roots stretching back that way (it's weird, but you can tell. I'm half-chinese, but a lot of my facial hair grows in red. wtf?)
Least favorite: Don't really have one. I just don't like when people have an accent so thick you can't understand a damn word they're saying.
Ones that I find amusing? Again, I don't really have one. It's more the way things are said, usually by people for whom English isn't their first language, that amuses me. French-Canadians are some of my favorites for things like this. To quote a comic I saw on TV whose name I can't remember...(said in a fake French-Canadian accent) "Ey, can we hurry dis up? I am double-parked, two times twice." or "I go hupstairs to get my boots, I hopen the closet and dere dey are. Gone."





To Nina and Jade: Manhattanites DO have accents; that is, the ones that actually grew up there. Growing up in Jersey and moving there or moving to Jersey when you were little does not count!
True New Yawkers do drop their "r's" as anyone who was at SFNYC can attest to. It takes a lot for me to prounce "watah" as water etc. But when I drink, I lose my 7 second delay and start dropping r's all over the place!!!
Other words that I mispronounce to this day are dawg instead of dahg (dog) and awf instead of ahf (off).



Noo Joissey =
I've also got a soft spot for the Irish accent. There was once this hot chick at my club who would litter her sentences with a cute "emmmm" everytime she stuck for words, and I swear I wanted to cuddle her to death and take her home with me each time she did that.
The Canadian accent's pretty cool too, even if it's not a real country. jk! "sorey"![]()





Sorry, I didn't mean that to offend anyone.
I've had plenty of people tell me I sound funny with my southern accent, which to me doesn't sound as southern as others. I love Ginger Lee's accent but if you head both of us talk i wouldn't sound southern at all.
Everything sounds weird when you're not used to it.
I do that. I don't mean to, but my speech just adjusts on its own depending on who I'm around or what I'm talking about. I even speak differently around my family in Mississippi versus my family in Tennessee; when I was in Australia I picked up an Australian accent, and when I'm in California people tell me I don't have any accent at all (which I assume means west-coast-neutral). I really don't do it on purpose though!





I hear you, Yek!
What you're describing is your "dual dialect," which is actually a chameleon-like trait indicative of a high degree of social adaptability. Many African-Americans consider it crucial to success in mainstream corporate America.![]()
Although I typically speak with a SoCal/Black drawl, I sound more British around my parents (I had a Lancashire accent when I moved to the States 35 years ago), and tend to mirror my client's speech patterns depending on their background. I can also speak English with a West African accent (usually to entertain friends, these days) because of five childhood years spent in Nigeria.
What we do is not a matter of "on purpose", Yek; it's the innate ability to shift gears socially and linguistically in order to interact with maximum effectiveness. 'Tis a gift, indeed...![]()
Swedish. A tad of the accent....i Hate it on me. Kind of a mix with USA/Sweden. I have lived here since a child but ALL my family has a string accent, so living with them all my life you get it.
I don't care for the slowwwwww southern drawl.
Minnesotan accents are hella cute. I wish I had one.
My favorite is German though, the language sounds so sexy.![]()
I love my Newfoundland/Canadian accent! Haha. I never knew I had an accent until I moved to Ontario and they all said I talk weird.
My Favourites would be French-Canadian (which I can easily start doing around my Dad's family) and also the English accent from Nigeria/Zimbabwe.
I wouldn't say I have any least favourites. Last time when we were shopping in Niagara Falls NY, we ate at Applebees and my little cousin said "Everyone here talks like Bobby's World!" Which was so funny and true!!





I met two ladies from Green Bay, WI on the plane and I like their accents!
"Have you ever been to American wedding? Where is the vodka, where's marinated herring?" - GB
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Least favorite: Indian accent. I have a very very difficult time understanding them... and I think you guys know exactly the type I'm talking about (coughcustomersupportcough).
Favorite: Australian or a subtle British, or subtle Southern US accent.
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I really like Wisconsin accents...Like Luckyone--- oh my god, so cute. I also like London accents and France-French accents. Canadian- French accents I'm just too used to. German accents are funny sometimes. They say "super" a lot...heh, "soouu-pah!". Russian accents are sexy.
It's funny because just yesterday I was talking to my dad, and I said "oh my god, you just said the Canadian about! abooout...hahaha!!" I totally hear it on the radio and from people here...I say it like they say it on TV. Then I told my dad and brother that I don't have the Canadian accent, and they agreed. They said I sound like I'm from New York state. Whatever. I say "trot", not "trat". I sound like nothing from nowheresville.
I have no unfavorite accents. An accent means a person speaks one more language...Or comes from a totally different place than I do.
Faves- United Kingdom accents, "Minnesota Nice" and New England regional accents (USA), all Slavic accents, and Latin American accents.
Being in the Twin Cities, you don't hear a lot of "Yah, shoor, don'tcha know" "Fargo"-like accents. I mean, you *do* hear people using it, but that accent is strongest in the Iron Range (northeastern quarter of the state, near Lake Superior), and the people who have that accent either grew up there or had family from there. In the Cities, you generally get a flat, typical Midwestern accent like you'd hear from a newscaster, with some emphasis on the "ohs" and "ars".
A friend of mine who's spent the last several years living in California says he can hear it a lot better when he comes back to visit, but that most people (including me, apparently) only have a hint of it.
I'm an army brat and I've lived in upstate NY just shy of Canada, the midwest (Kansas and Oklahoma), and Ohio. Yet I never, never picked up an accent until I moved to Texas. I had no control--it just invaded my system and took over!
Mmmm there are so many accents I love.
Just for the beauty of the sound: Southern like Gawgia or Virginia, French Creole, and many African dialects. Also I really like British, especially if it's not a white person speaking it. Dunno, it just seems so very exotic and delicious to have a black or asian person speaking with that British accent. Mmmm Tricky!
Tapping into my perverted self: deep white trashy aka Larry the Cable guy (I know I know I'm pathetic!), German, and Scottish.
Hardest to understand: Indian and heavy Jamaican/Caribbean.
The Hubby and I love to play "Drop Dead Gorgeous" and laugh at the Mt. Rose, Meenehsohta stereotyping. But I don't hate. It could've been me.
Umm... all these people saying they don't have an accent...
You realize EVERYONE has an accent right?
Heh my french accent comes out when I drink.... normally though I just sound very 'maritimeish'
Cally knows French? ken we make out?
Funnist:
--Texas
--South Jersey/Philly/MD
--Indian.
--Minnisota def has me lmao @ times, gotta hear more tho...
I don't have a Jersey accent.
My man is from TX, I'm from NJ....how atrocious would that be if we both had full on accents!
Im from Newfoundland!I don't have the newfie accent tho. I'm from St.John's not around the bay and I use to live in Ontario and Montreal for awhile. And whenever I use to tell a custy up away I was from Newfoundland they would say, Well wheres You'r newfie accent? (l0l "newfie")... Only moved back here in Augest. But shit, alot of the times I can't even understand the accent and at work I'm alway like, what? sorry? can You repet that!l0l ..
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