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Post subject: Re: Accents-your favourite
Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2011 9:25 pm
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My favorite is the American Southern accent,and it's being lost to the influence that TV and the internet have over young people here :? .


being in Tennessee you realize that not only every region/state in the south has it's own subtle accent, but also from city to city & rural areas within each state.......a person in Memphis/Covington isn't going to sound like somebody from Johnson City/'Lizabethton.
same here in Alabama, a city dweller from Montgomery will sound NOTHING like a "country bwah" from Piedmont (my area).

my all time favorite accent is the Charleston S.C. "Southern Belle", scented with magnolia and dripping with fresh clovah honey.....

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Post subject: Re: Accents-your favourite
Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2011 11:51 pm
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My Irish brogue comes out sometimes when I'm around family or other Irish and I love it. I trained myself to lose it at a young age after moving to the US after being made fun of.

I hate the American southern accent though, it drives me up a #$@*&!% wall.

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Post subject: Re: Accents-your favourite
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 6:35 am
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I love the southern Louisiana and Cajun accents; it has a lilt and a poetry to it.
I like the NZ accent and the Scottish accent--especially when a woman has it.

I hate how people lump all southern accents together, and how (on TV and in movies especially) they think a "southern" accent is the same as a Texas accent...there's a pretty marked difference. I also hate how people degrade southern and Texas accents by attributing redneck/white trash-speak as the norm.

Even within Texas, there are several accents. I have the typical Fort Worth accent (I could make a good cowboy voice over for a commercial or movie), but I have a friend from the Hill Country (near Austin) and his accent is more urbane. My wife's Mexican+Fort Worth accent makes for an interesting combination. People in the Valley have a completely different accent (kinda Native American and Mexican inflections with a Texas twang) as well as the more genteel accents of East Texas--they sound more like Tennessee.

I don't like the accent of the Jersey Shore cast; I know some of that is played up for the show, but that whole cadence and slang bothers me.
I cannot stand the accent of ignorant white trash.

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Post subject: Re: Accents-your favourite
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 4:37 pm
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Personally 'like a bunch of accents. In the central midwest USA, many, many people speak with the clarity and precision of talking heads on TV.


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Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 7:05 pm
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women with Australian accents

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Post subject: Re: Accents-your favourite
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 9:30 pm
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For me:
I like Chinese accents and some British accents the best.
Peter Lorre (Hungarian?) is funny "That is thee third time you have laid hands on mee!".

I wonder if people in other countries (speaking from a USA standpoint) think our American accent sounds nice, or dumb. Somehow I don't see a man in France melting over an American girls's accent. Or a Brit swooning over a Yank's accent.

I find all accents interesting. I am learning Spanish now, and trying hard to eliminate my gringo accent. But I like when foregners to the USA speak with an accent, so maybe it would be cool to speak to native Spanish speakers with my Baltimore area , USA accent. As long as it is not making it hard to understand.


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Post subject: Re: Accents-your favourite
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 11:39 pm
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radio_friendly_unit_shifter wrote:
so i'm guessing that you've met someone from another country or atleast heard them talk.

so whats your favorite?

its a toss up for me; the irish accent, or the new zealand accent. it'd be pretty cool if i could talk with either one of them 8)

Riley, I met someone at an intersection in a quiet suburb outside of Chicago her car needed a jump so I had jumper cables and slowly worked on the cars. I had seen her before, Cheri a dancer at a club called Heavenly Bodies, wearing tattered daisy dukes and a torn wife beater on a 100 degree day and she sounded like a baby when she talked a big baby for sure I was hypnotized. So, what would that be? A different galaxy? or more east west, more regional ?

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Post subject: Re: Accents-your favourite
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 4:39 am
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I guess out of all the accents out there, my favorite would be the Irish accent. It just has a nice tone to it. 8)


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Post subject: Re: Accents-your favourite
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 4:50 am
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english like from england english not american english.

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Post subject: Re: Accents-your favourite
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 5:54 am
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radio_friendly_unit_shifter wrote:
so i'm guessing that you've met someone from another country or atleast heard them talk.

Hi Riley: I'm guessing you're right.

I like the Kirkcudbright accent. And if you ever find out where that is don't try to pronounce that name. You will definitely get it surprisingly wrong.


lungimsam wrote:
For me: I like... some British accents the best.

Good. Thank you.


lungimsam wrote:
I wonder if people in other countries (speaking from a USA standpoint) think our American accent sounds nice, or dumb. Somehow I don't see a man in France melting over an American girls's accent. Or a Brit swooning over a Yank's accent.

Au contraire. For example, to my ears one of the many delights of hearing Doyle Dykes talk about his incredible guitar technique is listening to his rich, thick, drenched accent. If banoffee pie could talk that is what it would sound like. And I mean that in a very good way!


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I find all accents interesting.

Exactly. That's the key to the thing: they're all good and variety is what makes it fascinating.

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Post subject: Re: Accents-your favourite
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:48 pm
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Ceri wrote:
radio_friendly_unit_shifter wrote:
so i'm guessing that you've met someone from another country or atleast heard them talk.

Hi Riley: I'm guessing you're right.

I like the Kirkcudbright accent. And if you ever find out where that is don't try to pronounce that name. You will definitely get it surprisingly wrong.


lungimsam wrote:
For me: I like... some British accents the best.

Good. Thank you.


lungimsam wrote:
I wonder if people in other countries (speaking from a USA standpoint) think our American accent sounds nice, or dumb. Somehow I don't see a man in France melting over an American girls's accent. Or a Brit swooning over a Yank's accent.

Au contraire. For example, to my ears one of the many delights of hearing Doyle Dykes talk about his incredible guitar technique is listening to his rich, thick, drenched accent. If banoffee pie could talk that is what it would sound like. And I mean that in a very good way!


lungimsam wrote:
I find all accents interesting.

Exactly. That's the key to the thing: they're all good and variety is what makes it fascinating.

Cheers - C



I heartily agree with you my friend. Doyle Dykes has a wonderful sounding voice, :wink: , but in that sort of accent, I don't believe it would classify as thick. Thick in that genre is unintelligible. :lol:


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Post subject: Re: Accents-your favourite
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:52 pm
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New Orlean's patois.....followed by Cheech Marin chicano :wink:

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Post subject: Re: Accents-your favourite
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:31 pm
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I like my New Zealand accent.

However, people in the UK think we're saffas. Canadians and Americans think we are australians.. Canadians whom I have met didnt even know where NZ was, and one American thought we lived in grass hutts.

When I was overseas, I noticed my accent stuck out like a sore thumb. I like the Australian accent though, I loose my kiwi accent so I can 'blend in' and not be the butt of all sheep jokes... :cry:

Besides, being the only 'Kiwi' in my family, it's rather fitting.

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Post subject: Re: Accents-your favourite
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:34 pm
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Blertles wrote:
I like my New Zealand accent.

However, people in the UK think we're saffas. Canadians and Americans think we are australians.. Canadians whom I have met didnt even know where NZ was, and one American thought we lived in grass hutts.

When I was overseas, I noticed my accent stuck out like a sore thumb. I like the Australian accent though, I loose my kiwi accent so I can 'blend in' and not be the butt of all sheep jokes... :cry:

Besides, being the only 'Kiwi' in my family, it's rather fitting.

totally agree that people think NZer's talk like aussies.

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Post subject: Re: Accents-your favourite
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:58 pm
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radio_friendly_unit_shifter wrote:
Blertles wrote:
I like my New Zealand accent.

However, people in the UK think we're saffas. Canadians and Americans think we are australians.. Canadians whom I have met didnt even know where NZ was, and one American thought we lived in grass hutts.

When I was overseas, I noticed my accent stuck out like a sore thumb. I like the Australian accent though, I loose my kiwi accent so I can 'blend in' and not be the butt of all sheep jokes... :cry:

Besides, being the only 'Kiwi' in my family, it's rather fitting.

totally agree that people think NZer's talk like aussies.

Just like people think Texans sound like southerners or that all southerners sound like they're from Georgia...(each of those assumptions are wrong).

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