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Posted : 7/30/2007 9:42:49 PM

ok i decided to start a new thread because Vinia mentioned her love for American Accents but thinks people in her country all sound the same...
but thats what i say about Americans.... besides having northern accents, southern, and midwest i dont think its all that spiffy to have an American accent lol i cant stand the southern drawl... i'm talking Larry the Cable Guy, some southern accents are kinda pleasant to listen to.. but honestly i couldnt tell you where they're from.. certainly not from my neck of the woods..
i met a black guy once that had an amazing southern accent (he was an old racing buddy of my husband's) i asked him where he was from because he sounded different than the locals.. he grinned and said he got it from Sears [8|]

my favourite accent would have to be either Irish or Scottish. my husband does a fairly good imitation of both and i love it lol
i also used to have a Scottish friend i talked to on the phone all the time..... never did meet him in person, but that accent was ... *purr* ..lovely [

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Xerxes

Posted : 7/30/2007 10:15:38 PM

. but honestly i couldnt tell you where they're from.. certainly not from my neck of the woods

I can listen to an accent from almost anywhere and tell you where that person is from. I can differentiate between Southern England and Northern England, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, South Vietnam, Northern Vietnam, and In America I acn figure them out as well.

My favorite accent is that lovely, lilting Mississipi/Louisiana accent (Think the Mom in "Ol' Yeller" It's the same accent my grandmother had. It's subtle, sweet as honey and has a way of making me say "Yes ma'am" before and after every sentence.

I can do passable imperonations of just about every accent as well. I even have a standard Spanish greeting when I answer the phone and it's an unknown caller.[

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DumDog

Posted : 7/30/2007 10:23:26 PM

yeah! the mom from Ol Yeller, that was the accent his friend had lol only.. manly..

i am pretty good with telling some apart. not like i used to be though..

i think Russian accents are fun too lol i have met a couple of Russians while in Tallahassee. they're usually fun to talk to.. but we met a check out girl from the Ukrain and she was kind of moody.. i think because she missed her family.. or maybe she was just course by nature.

scrubsfiend

Posted : 7/30/2007 10:24:52 PM

I am completely nuts for an English accent. How nutty? I bought the soundtrack to Il Postino just to hear Ralph Fiennes read a poem. [sm=crazy.gif] Over and over and over again. Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law, even Hugh Grant gets me all worked up. Le sigh.

As for accents I don't like - French. Can't really pinpoint what it is but ick, they just seem fake for lack of a better word.

Vinia

Posted : 7/30/2007 10:25:15 PM

I looooooove Irish accents. They're so musical and lilty. I could listen to them all day, every day...

Ed- how on earth can you tell the difference between people from Southern and Northern Vietnam? You must have quite an ear! I'd like to hear you try a kiwi accent [

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I didnt particularly like American accents until I heard them in person- then I started to find them rather attractive [

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One thing that is weird is that I never notice the American accents on tv, but in real life they stick out like a sore thumb.

NZ'ers are infamous for saying "fush and chups". I've also been mocked for saying "eeescalator". Apparently, our e's are very ee-ey.

DumDog

Posted : 7/30/2007 10:28:19 PM

lol just the sound of hugh grant's voice puts me to sleep.. though i loved him in Bridgette Jones and Two Weeks Notice.

i cant remember where in England, but they have cool accents.. they say The a lot... in place of You, and some other uniquene things.. if youve ever read the book Plague Dogs... its in there

some French Accents are ok, but i agree with you. a lot of times it seems like a bad imitation. but i do like Jean Reno's accent and he's french [

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Xerxes

Posted : 7/30/2007 10:35:59 PM

Ed- how on earth can you tell the difference between people from Southern and Northern Vietnam? You must have quite an ear! I'd like to hear you try a kiwi accent

See my post in the other thread...I did that just the other day!

South and North VN (and the middle too) used to be 3 seperate countries. The tones differ just a tiny bit, the southern accent almost sounds like one has marbles in the mouth and the northern is very crisp. I had alot of help from friends that were from either area. Plus a favorite game a friend and I used to play was he'd speak english with a thick German accent and I'd speak it with a thick VN accent. (He's Viet, so it was great fun!)

The hardest accent for me to understand in English is the Pakistani cabbies in Austrailia. Yikes, I have no clue what you just said to me, can you write it down please?[

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rwbeagles

Posted : 7/30/2007 10:49:12 PM

I had a German BF for a bit and lived there for about 3 months. To this day the sound of a Deutsch accent from a man will curl my toes and make me purrrrr. I just love it...the brusqueness of it. Yeah....me likee.

I also really enjoy the sound of Japanese being spoken...esp the differences in male and female pattern and "rythm"...

For private reasons similar to the German, I also enjoy Scottish and Irish accents.

I cannot stand French accents...ugh.

For American? Three words for ya....HARRY...CONNICK....JUNIOR.

eta: or Joe Morgan, MLB guy and color man for ESPN baseball...VERY similar to Harry...verrrrrry nice.

miranadobe

Posted : 7/30/2007 10:50:13 PM

i am pretty good with telling some apart. not like i used to be though..

I bet that's from living in FL, where it's such a hodge-podge of people coming and going through the state. A Texan who moves to FL, versus a New Yorker who moves to FL, versus a Minnesotan who moves to FL all create a different sound.

I have yet to hear a genuine southern accent I didn't like. Kentucky, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee and all their regions in between- all good! Although, considering the number of comments about Alabama lately, you've got me wondering if Alabama has ugly accents for real.

DumDog

Posted : 7/30/2007 11:00:05 PM

ORIGINAL: miranadobe

i am pretty good with telling some apart. not like i used to be though..

I bet that's from living in FL, where it's such a hodge-podge of people coming and going through the state. A Texan who moves to FL, versus a New Yorker who moves to FL, versus a Minnesotan who moves to FL all create a different sound.

I have yet to hear a genuine southern accent I didn't like. Kentucky, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee and all their regions in between- all good! Although, considering the number of comments about Alabama lately, you've got me wondering if Alabama has ugly accents for real.

i didnt think of that.. you're probably right. Florida gets a ton of tourists and transplants.. to top it off i live in a College Town..
its a nice little mish mash of people and cultures.

Alabama accents arent all that bad. just depends i guess. my uncle had a DEEP southern Alabamian accent... instead of saying I it's Ah... for example.. "Ah played lead geetar in thuh Suthern Babtist Church laste summer'n dangneer landed a puhsishon in a band. Ah'da been famuss if Ah hadna got murried" [8|]

rwbeagles

Posted : 7/30/2007 11:00:16 PM

I can do you one better Ed.

When I was a club kinda gal...my special talent was picking out European men from the others there for us girls to play with (my friends always loved accents, lol). I could ALWAYS find them and I was never wrong. Sometimes it was easy because they tend to dress a certain way...but other times all you have to go on is a certain cast to the features, forget hearing voices in a loud club!

I think it's all the Hockey I watch [

] I can still do it now, but since I'm a married woman (pfft) I just do it in my head and say EURODUDE! For some reason the DH doesn't appreciate my gift...lmbo.

janetmichel3009

Posted : 7/30/2007 11:01:37 PM

oh yeah, i love an irish accent. so sexy... lol...

and i can't stand a german accent (although i know i do have a slight german accent myself). it just sounds reeaaaalllly lame to me... haha

BEVOLASVEGAS

Posted : 7/30/2007 11:05:09 PM

i cant stand the southern drawl...

As someone who has a very pronounced southern drawl, I find this comment very offensive. Those of us who have true southern drawls are being ostracized. I feel that this entire thread was started to make fun of southern accents, & I will be reporting it to a mod.

jjsmom06

Posted : 7/30/2007 11:06:35 PM

i cant stand the southern drawl..

[sm=eek.gif]wow... I hope nobody on the forum is from the south! [

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I LOVE the different accents actually.. of course that might be because I am from Cali and don't have one myself! lol[

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Vinia

Posted : 7/30/2007 11:08:24 PM

LOL Shelley- to me, a Californian accent is still an accent! [

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ETA:
Ed, maybe you can pick out a kiwi accent, but can you imitate one? [

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Bevolasvegas, it didn't seem to me that this thread was started to criticise any accents at all, but rather to discuss the accents and their diversity- please don't take it personally. (IMO I quite like southern accents [

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