what kind of accent do you have?

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  • quixoticmantis
    quixoticmantis Posts: 297 Member
    I'm from Kentucky, so pretty darn Southern :)
  • Dreamer1311
    Dreamer1311 Posts: 203 Member
    I got a German/ Australian accent. Interesting huh?

    Whenever I am angry : its more German than anything else though
  • Jorra
    Jorra Posts: 3,338 Member
    I got a German/ Australian accent. Interesting huh?

    Whenever I am angry : its more German than anything else though

    My high school had a German teacher who demonstrated that everything sounds angry in German. When he got angry he would yell, "THE BICYCLE IS RED!" Very terrifying.
  • nakabi
    nakabi Posts: 589 Member
    I got a German/ Australian accent. Interesting huh?

    Whenever I am angry : its more German than anything else though

    My high school had a German teacher who demonstrated that everything sounds angry in German. When he got angry he would yell, "THE BICYCLE IS RED!" Very terrifying.

    Haha, that made me laugh. When people speak German it does sound like they are angry, whether or not they are lol
  • Misiaxcore
    Misiaxcore Posts: 659 Member
    I don't have an accent. But in high school some guy said I sound like I have a Polish accent on some words :huh:
    I live in Canada on the US border and notice "Canadian" accents and "American" accents.
  • SarahMorganP
    SarahMorganP Posts: 921 Member
    I live in Wisconsin, born and raised here. I HATE the WI accent, so I try very hard not to have it, but I do slightly.
  • jennajava
    jennajava Posts: 2,176 Member
    awww, kabi, once again, we have so much in common! stephen calls me darling (i can't say it either) too!

    i would say i have a lack of an accent.
  • karenp84
    karenp84 Posts: 119
    Im irish so i've an irish accent but a lot of people say i sound english for some reason.
  • modernsoul
    modernsoul Posts: 148 Member
    Californian born and raised, so I've never been told I have an accent. If I could pick one I'd want to sound Scottish. :wink:
  • CCSunlight
    CCSunlight Posts: 249 Member
    I have a boston accent at times. :) My dad's from southie and my mom's from revere so it usually comes out when i'm more relaxed (read: drinking or tired) or when I'm around family. When I lived in NC people were always so upset that I didn't speak with a Boston accent when they found out I was from MA.
  • Captain_Mal
    Captain_Mal Posts: 945 Member
    Sometimes I let the southern slip out and have that "Jawga" (Georgia) accent but a good portion of the time it isn't detectable.
  • CoryIda
    CoryIda Posts: 7,870 Member
    I am fairly confident that I don't have an accent. If anything, I enunciate too much.
  • TheBraveryLover
    TheBraveryLover Posts: 1,217 Member
    Kind of like an American newscaster but not as nasal.

    Everyone has an accent depending on who's listening to you.:wink:
  • engineman312
    engineman312 Posts: 3,450 Member
    what accent? fuggedaboutit!
  • deadstarsunburn
    deadstarsunburn Posts: 1,337 Member
    Michigaaaan. haha.
    Ugliest thing ever.
  • heidiberr
    heidiberr Posts: 643 Member
    Wisconsin/Iowa hybrid--I all it pop or soda depending on who I'm with ;)
  • _JamieB_
    _JamieB_ Posts: 417 Member
    from CO, no accent here
  • brunzella92
    brunzella92 Posts: 46 Member
    From Boston here, i've been told i have an accent, but don't feel like i do and no i don't sound like Boston Rob lol ;P

    "Paaaak the Caaaa in the Havaaad Yaaaaad!!!"
  • musicgirl88
    musicgirl88 Posts: 504 Member
    Southern accent here! Yes, I live in Indiana, but with many trips down south for family and vacation, it just stuck on me! LOL
  • shanlynt
    shanlynt Posts: 718 Member
    Canadian. I speak to mainly Americans in my job and a lot of them ask if I am from Minnesota, lol.
  • questionablemethods
    questionablemethods Posts: 2,174 Member
    Sorry to be pedantic about this but, YES, you have an accent!

    "Accent" just means the pronunciation you use. So, unless you don't speak, you have an accent. (And I believe that there are even "accents" in signed languages in terms of there being variations in the "phonology" of the signs.)

    http://linguistlist.org/ask-ling/accent.cfm
    An accent is a way of pronouncing a language. It is therefore impossible to speak without an accent.

    Some people may think they do not have an accent. Or you may think that there are other people who do not have an accent. Everyone has an accent. The term 'accentless' is sometimes used (by non-linguists) about people who speak one of the high prestige 'reference' accents (such as 'General American' or, less commonly, 'RP'), which are associated with people from a fairly wide region and with people of high social class. But these are also accents.

    Okay, carry on. :happy:
  • lglg11
    lglg11 Posts: 344 Member
    I'm a joisey girl
  • zoe4friends
    zoe4friends Posts: 727 Member
    I have a Russian accent
    Oh yes I was surprised to see how people here in US like accents, and I get a lot of "I like your accent" and "where are you from "
    But to me my accent annoys me sometimes :-)
  • boomboom011
    boomboom011 Posts: 1,459
    I speak Texan
  • stayxtrue
    stayxtrue Posts: 1,186 Member
    G'day I have an aussie accent :) aye
  • fteale
    fteale Posts: 5,310 Member
    RP. English. Home Counties.
  • Jennloella
    Jennloella Posts: 2,286 Member
    I'm from California, but people constantly ask me if I'm from Brooklyn or New York. Guess it's all that attitude.....
    side note: Aussie accents....mmmmmm
  • amelie2011
    amelie2011 Posts: 94 Member
    French accent...People think I am Spanish but I am 100% Cambodian but I was born and raised in France. Some people get confused really confused lol
  • SinIsIn
    SinIsIn Posts: 1,865 Member
    I'm from Texas, but I don't think I have your typical Texas accent.

    Aussie, Irish and Scottish accents = :heart:
  • catattack13
    catattack13 Posts: 117
    I gotta tell ya, I got wicked excited when I saw this post. I'm from Massachusetts and I got the whole droppin-my-Rs-thing, and talkin' supah fast.
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