Lol, interesting plan.
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Xcstacy — 18 years ago(February 05, 2008 09:14 PM)
I was raised in Toronto, Canada however my background is lebanese/turkish and I was born in Sierra Leone, my accent I have been told is very unique noone else in my family has it.
On a repeated basis I have been mistaken for having a strong new york(brooklyn), or boston accent from the way I speak. I have also been mistaken for british, aussie as well, I don't really know why.
This one time I was filling gas at the station and when the cashier asked me if I was from around here (I had lived in that region for over 15 years) I said what do you think, he responded you sound Austrailian so obviously my response was, "I'm visiting for the week"
it's fun as well my looks can pass as several different ethnicities so I play around with people hehe.
Back on topic, an accent I really enjoy is from central Minnesota it sounds so very homie and kind
Another thing when I visited seattle this past summer I didn't really hear much of a difference in the way people speak, it was little stronger sounding and much louder emphasis on some words than in canada, and I was asked by a resident what I was doing on the west coast, she assumed I was from new york east coast.
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Xcstacy — 18 years ago(February 06, 2008 06:49 AM)
Haha thanks dude
The people in seattle(west coast) actually sounded more like the people in toronto(east coast) although as I said they emphasize some of their words with more umph as if they are making sure you are hearing them. Vancouver was more of a calmed down tone very very relaxed and slow talking.
Like you said later in life I'm 23 now and when I retire or even before I would love to move to Vancouver city to live, it is such a beautiful city compared to toronto, and not everything is fast paced like it is here, it's a sensational place I'd love to visit their again when I get a chance. -
l_aschoolgirls — 18 years ago(March 18, 2008 05:46 PM)
I have a lazy west coast accentI'm from a small town in the valley. Basically I sound a little drunk. Most kids from here sound the same. But the adults don't since they've been out to the real world. LOL
I don't like British accents since I sometimes have a hard time understanding what they are saying! I'm like "wtf??" whenever they speak. My favorite accent is an Italian-Brooklyn. Oh, and Californian. Besides that I don't like muchnot even mine. -
say_y — 17 years ago(June 12, 2008 04:41 AM)
I have the californian accent but for some reason I got a slight southern drawl on some of my vowels and my r's are a bit off and I can sound very black sometimes with my t's and th's. I think it's weird. I like it though, I wouldn't want any other voice, but I like that I found a fellow california-mix although I've been a native all my life, but I guess moving up and down the state I have friend from the south who lost her accent after a while living in massachusetts but I think she sounds a lot like me, so you might sound a bit like me too!
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ward_ku — 17 years ago(October 17, 2008 11:20 PM)
The normal "clean" accent that the majority of Americans have is called the Midwestern Diction not the California diction. I can tolerate most of the world's accents with the exception of two. I really can't stand a Brooklyn/Lomg Island accent. Many people have already discussed that some accents affect attractivness. In my case if a woman has this type of accent, I'm severly turned off. The second is a Scotish accent. A good example of this is Craig Ferguson and that guy who does those documentries on the Science and Discovery channel (not Bear Grylls).
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little-miss-chocolate — 16 years ago(May 03, 2009 12:12 PM)
As a straight girl, the only female American accent I've found at all attractive was the girlfriend of the guy who died in the film "Shooter"
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leyther — 16 years ago(May 05, 2009 08:32 AM)
never really heard an american accent that stops me in my tracks (although i could listen to eliza dushku all night long :o). the american accent doesnt do it for me, but i have met a few from the states who loved to hear me speak. when speaking to a few female friends over there i was told to keep talking, when i said, what about, the answer was, say anything but just keep talking!! even swearing was music to their ears (actually educated them on the correct pronounciation of a couple)
one thing i did notice was that i never had any trouble understanding any accent i encountered, but i had to repeat myself quite often as they had trouble with mine.
i remember in an old cheers episode they had on an english cleaner, who when she spoke had such a cut-glass accent you would think she was related to the queen - at least they dont do that anymore
i spent a bit of time working in france and i've always had a thing for the female french accent. there's just something about that accent that hits the right spot. i think if i was told to take out the rubbish and clean the toilet with a toothbrush it would still sound sexy done in french!
a question; do the americans know how varied the english accent is? although we're a small country the number of accents and dialects is massive in comparison; scouse, geordie, yorks, lancs, manc, brummie, black country, east anglian, cockney, cornish, bristonian, etc etc. i would guess that most who say they love an english accent would consider the southern-based accents as the ones they mean. -
xela23 — 14 years ago(January 08, 2012 10:50 PM)
Yes, we know how varied the English accent is, but definitely couldn't give you the names of the different types beyond maybe cockney. It makes sense that you guys have so many accents (more than us) - your country is much older, so people had time to settle in places and form their own unique accents. We honestly love all English accents (and Irish and Scottish ones as well) - not just the Southern-based ones. You all just sound so educated and sophisticated to us.
I don't blame you for not liking our accent
I agree that it is usually ugly. I agree with you on the understanding accents thing too - as an American, I really have to focus when I hear British people speak, but I don't think British people have a hard time understanding us. Probably because we pronounce words very much how they are spelled (almost too clearly), whereas you guys sometimes seem to leave off the "r" sound and in general blend your words together a bit so sentences flow better. -
aerodo — 14 years ago(January 19, 2012 05:19 PM)
I love how Welsh is just generally forgotten by most, while it's probably one of the ones most imitated by us Angles.
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Ithilfaen — 16 years ago(October 22, 2009 04:37 AM)
It's funny because I spent a lot of time in France and most people there have a disastrous English and everyone kept telling me how they loved THE British accent better than THE American accent because Americans chewed their words and I was trying to make them understand that there are dozens of 'British' accents and more than a few 'American' accents and that they'd be hard pressed trying to understand a cockney or Scottish accent. It's like in French, there are many different regional accents that can leave the foreign French speaker perplexed but for some reason they think when you speak English you just have either THE American or THE British! lol wait til they hear THE Aussie! lol
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