Are accents universally awesome?

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  • YoungDoc2B
    YoungDoc2B Posts: 1,593 Member
    British!
    East Coast
    Southern (Louisiana, Texas...more specifically New Orleans)
  • jrknotts
    jrknotts Posts: 45 Member
    Southern Accents; I especially love women's accents from the deep south (GA, Alabama, Carolinas etc).
    English and Australian

    I'm from Texas, and have been told I have more of a 'Dallas' accent, whatever that means..
  • Velum_cado
    Velum_cado Posts: 1,608 Member
    LOL Saying "British accent" is kind of like saying "North American accent". It covers soooo much.

    It's kind of funny, you don't think of yourself as having an accent until you're around people with a different one and they point it out. I have a generic, Midwest American accent and where I live in the UK people love it. I've been told so many times that American accents can sound quite grating, but mine is nice to listen to.

    But I've been living here 4.5 years now and a couple people have told me they can hear a touch of a West Country accent trying to sneak in on some words, so maybe I've got a bit of a hybrid thing starting to happen.
  • RunsOnEspresso
    RunsOnEspresso Posts: 3,218 Member
    Being from the upper mid-west I don't think I've ever heard anyone say a Northern Wisconsin or Northern Minnesota accent are attractive or desirable. haha! I sometime cringe when I hear people from my area say certain words and phrases. I really dig southern accents...especially around Louisiana... it's just so different from what I'm used to hearing.

    My BF likes to make fun of me when I say "bag". Sometimes it can be heard on about but that's pretty much it. LOL

    My accent is not as heavy (never has been) as some WI/MN accents though.
  • Ladyinwaiting4
    Ladyinwaiting4 Posts: 202 Member
    I love the british accents!

    there is one accent that drives me crazy on the food network cupcake wars one of the judges can't speak English and you can't understand what he says.

    I have a hoosier accent mixed with some Arkansan.
  • UrbanLotus
    UrbanLotus Posts: 1,163 Member
    Oh no, there are plenty of bad accents! I like South African, Boston, NY, French

    I have a generic mid-atlantic American with a teeeeeensy bit of Southern thrown in.
  • jmc0806
    jmc0806 Posts: 1,444 Member
    Yep, though I don't have a thick Boston accent but it can show up sometimes

    Southern accents and South African accents get me everytime though
  • LauraMacNCheese
    LauraMacNCheese Posts: 7,173 Member
    I could listen to someone with an Irish accent read the phone book & be completely enthralled. :love:

    Scottish, English, Australian, & a Southern twang/drawl are some of other favorites.
  • twinkiemon
    twinkiemon Posts: 216 Member
    Scottish accents are hot. I hear David Tennant speak and I just wanna....well...that's probably not an appropriate topic to discuss. ^.~

    Also, English accents (if I had one I'd never shut up - although, that's not much different than how I am now), Australian and Southern.
  • nicola1141
    nicola1141 Posts: 613 Member
    I must be one of the rare ones - accents generally don't do it for me. I think maybe it's because I've had a few of them? (Southern, two kinds of Irish accents, English and now the non-accent (Canadian)).
  • bregalad5
    bregalad5 Posts: 3,965 Member
    Aussie, Scottish, Irish, English (most of them), NZ, South Africa

    I actually cringe when I hear Bahstin and Lang Eye-Lind accents (just don't confuse all of us from New York STATE for having an accent like them! I sound more Canadian than Long Island...)
  • xvxCelticWandererxvx
    xvxCelticWandererxvx Posts: 2,890 Member
    ^^^ Oh ya, South Africa accents are nice too :)
  • mariapuhl
    mariapuhl Posts: 529 Member
    I love Irish accents... and Scottish.... I'd even settle for a British accent....

    Also, despite the fact that I'm from Oklahoma, a good southern accent coming from an educated person really gets me going.

    I can't stand the sound of the Boston, Jersey, or New York accents though... they drive me nuts.
  • sleepingtodream
    sleepingtodream Posts: 304 Member
    Being from the upper mid-west I don't think I've ever heard anyone say a Northern Wisconsin or Northern Minnesota accent are attractive or desirable. haha! I sometime cringe when I hear people from my area say certain words and phrases. I really dig southern accents...especially around Louisiana... it's just so different from what I'm used to hearing.

    My BF likes to make fun of me when I say "bag". Sometimes it can be heard on about but that's pretty much it. LOL

    My accent is not as heavy (never has been) as some WI/MN accents though.

    Yup. That's one of the words:) And "flag". My accent is definitely not as noticable as some but that's probably because I talk with alot of people from different regions (for work) and recognize things more?

    I can't help but giggle inside when I actually hear people say, "Yeah der hey! Don't cha know?"
  • missmidge84
    missmidge84 Posts: 100 Member
    I love lots of accents, just not the one that likes to sneak into my voice. Minn-eh-soooo-ta, dontcha' know.

    I have family that live in Ireland and it's interesting to hear how the accent varies when you travel around the country. I love them all; some of them are just harder to understand!
  • Ladyslippers
    Ladyslippers Posts: 186 Member
    I love accents of any kind. Being Boston born and raised though, it bothers me when actors in movies are "coached" into a fake Boston accent. Not sure how it is with other accents, but it seems that it's not something that can be coached properly. You either have it or you don't. ;)
  • Cameron_1969
    Cameron_1969 Posts: 2,855 Member
    British, French, Italian.

    American-Southern Belle. .

    yep. . me likey.
  • Marion_
    Marion_ Posts: 56 Member
    I love European accents.

    LOL do you mean Italian or Finnish? Not quite the same ;)
  • LankyYankee
    LankyYankee Posts: 260 Member
    Yes! Southern Twang, Irish, Danish, I could go all day.....
  • lausa22
    lausa22 Posts: 467 Member
    God it drives me crazy when I see people say 'British' accents haha, I can assure you that someone from Glasgow does not sound like a person from London.
    I'm from Liverpool, my accent isn't that strong but I can assure that most people who say 'I love English accents' aren't on about the scouse ;)

    Accents aren't a 'thing' for me, I mean some of them sound cool and I will make people say words that sound funny but other than that!
  • SarahBeth0625
    SarahBeth0625 Posts: 685 Member
    I grew up on the Minnesota/Wisconsin border. I have a reeeaaaallly strong Minnesconsin accent. I hate it, but what can you do? You can't change your accent. My friends from down south just love it and tell me it's adorable!
  • sewerchick93
    sewerchick93 Posts: 1,438 Member
    accents are awesome, and I say that because I'm a midwesterner and we have no accent. We are the plain boring dialect which newscasters are taught to speak like. :ohwell:
  • Mumbles83
    Mumbles83 Posts: 626 Member
    Seems the Scottish accent is a popular one ! .. wonder which part though we sound and speak so different :) ... im from Glasgow and i have no idea what people in Aberdeen are saying to me there

    i like Irish accent
  • traceytwink
    traceytwink Posts: 538 Member
    I love the Irish accent and Australian on too some accents drive me insane lol but I'm not saying those cos well you know????
  • sleepingtodream
    sleepingtodream Posts: 304 Member
    I grew up on the Minnesota/Wisconsin border. I have a reeeaaaallly strong Minnesconsin accent. I hate it, but what can you do? You can't change your accent. My friends from down south just love it and tell me it's adorable!

    "Minnesconsin" love it!:) Glad your friends like it!
  • SarahBeth0625
    SarahBeth0625 Posts: 685 Member
    If you have ever seen "New in Town" or "Drop Dead Gorgeous"... I am really not that far off...

    This is me, from over a year ago. I am not dressed up or anything for it and look terrible, but you can just minimize it and listen to the sound. LOL!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL6Li2vSl1Q

    TERRIBLY strong accent.
  • wadedawg
    wadedawg Posts: 315
    Being from Georgia, I loved people in Los Angeles being fascinated by how I sounded when i visited there.

    I personally love Scottish and English accents, as well as Aussie/New Zealand.
  • nas061
    nas061 Posts: 256 Member
    I'm English - I don't think I have an accent :)
  • YoungDoc2B
    YoungDoc2B Posts: 1,593 Member
    accents are awesome, and I say that because I'm a midwesterner and we have no accent. We are the plain boring dialect which newscasters are taught to speak like. :ohwell:

    No kidding. It sucks :-(
  • xvxCelticWandererxvx
    xvxCelticWandererxvx Posts: 2,890 Member
    Seems the Scottish accent is a popular one ! .. wonder which part though we sound and speak so different :) ... im from Glasgow and i have no idea what people in Aberdeen are saying to me there

    i like Irish accent

    Ya, there are so many. I prefer the Glesca and Highland accents. Aberdeen sounds harsh and well the southern accents are too mild.

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