Accents-split topic

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

Awww he’s Dave’s friend, he’s AUSTRALIAN too with an accent!! *drools*

[jerseygirl]

Thought same Angelina!  Also think Australian accents are atrocious! That is, whenever I hear it amoungst non Australian accents. Makes me cringe.

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

No way they are HOT LOL I’d love to have an accent heheh

[Cassi&Charlie]

Ha! Australian accents are not hot! They’re completely bogan…is bogan used anywhere else?

Welsh accents….now they’re completely drool-worthy!

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

LOL I’ve never heard bogan before! But I have to disagree australian accents are hot!

[jerseygirl]

Yep, no worries, whaddeva ya say Mate!

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

LOL heheheh *sigh*

[Ang]

Oh no what did we start! lol kidding i think any man with ink is hot regardless of their accent they dont need to talk! j/k thats bad insnt it. joaking i agree australian accents are somewhat hot. depending if they are drunk and talking or sober and talking if they are drunk its just a bunch of spitting.

[Cassi&Charlie]

Edited to say: nothing

[Deleted User]

Those real ‘oker’ (the Aussie tongue) is terrible … extremely rough …particularly if a women opens her mouth!

Personally the Aussie guys are a nice bunch of fellows … I would not say that most Aussie men are drunk though … that is a bit below the belt.

 

 

 

[Cassi&Charlie]

I repeat – ‘in my experience.’ I am a young uni student so my experience is not going to be everyone’s experience.

[jerseygirl]

You forgot about the Kath’n’Kim accent. That one’s ‘Noice’, a bit ‘Unusssual’!

It’s the contrast that gets me. Like on tv if you hear an Australian speak on an American program. That’s when it sticks out like a sore thumb. Funny how the other accents sound more normal in this situ. Must be from all the o/s tv we get. I actually don’t mind the variety of accents we have, and enjoy listening to them in the right context I guess. Like if your speaking to someone from the bush, you expect to hear a certain accent. Like I said, it’s when it’s in contrast that I cringe. Must be a pride thing!

Oh, and those ‘put-on’ accents irk me!

[jerseygirl]

Wow, we’ve certainly sidetracked this thread! he he!  I’ll try remedy that by finally posting a pic of my mug here.

No apologies for the size. I’m GLAD

 

[Cassi&Charlie]

Finally, a picture of you!

Dun worry, mine is really small too (deliberate)

[Lisa_43]

I agree with Dawn. I don’t know to many men that love drinking more than anything else.

[BinkyBunny]

I really like Australiian accents. Tons of character in the accent even just at a normal speaking level that always seems to sound a bit upbeat even during anger or sadness. Far from a drone sound that many accents sound like to me.

[MimzMum]

I have this terrible…well I wouldn’t call it a habit…just a quirk…when I hear an accent, I have this tendency to start speaking like the person with the accent. I don’t do it to mock anyone, which is what I think winds up coming across…but for some reason I can’t hang on to my normal mode of speech around someone who speaks with an accent.
One of the most embarrassing moments I’ve had is when my son’s friend’s mom came around and, as she spoke (she is an Alaskan native) I would begin this involuntary mimic of her speak pattern. I had to seriously focus on how I was talking so she wouldn’t think I was making fun of her. It made me really uncomfortable. I do the same thing with my husband’s step mom. She is German and speaks with a very heavy accent and I will find myself using her inflections and diction without thinking…I feel bad about it all.

However, my French teacher in junior high school loved me because she could say something and I could repeat it flawlessly and she felt I could easily go to France and pass for a native. Too bad I can’t remember hardly a single thing from that class now though! ^_^

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

Hahah Mimz-ME TOO I am so terrible for it-within a matter of minutes I start speaking like people, laughing like them, picking up sayings, drawls, the way they laugh…And it’s so not on purpose but!!

[Cassi&Charlie]

Hahaha, you guys should work as spies! That’s a great talent to have!

I pick up vocab really quickly from other people but picking up an accent…that’s amazing! Very spy-worthy!

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

Actually on this topic, my mom was learning some other languages in school when she was younger…no matter what langauge she leanred, she spoke it with an accent that was from the enemy country!!

It’s quite embarassing picking up accents and stuff, you feel they may think your making fun of them or copying them.

When I worked in a refinary lab, I was being trained all week by a chinese woman. Spoke like an ESL chinese woman for a month afterwards…Always kept my trap shut around her though! Sweet thing probably would have been offeneded!!!

[Erbear]

I’ll have to put another vote for Welsh accents. Cassie&Charlie is right, there will be drool if someone shows up with that accent.

I have a really really really bad Minnesotan accent, my whole family does. Now that I don’t live with them it’s getting watered down a bit but whenever I get excited or talk to one of them on the phone for a while it comes back. I end up sounding like someone from the movie Fargo. “Oh for cryin’ in a root beer now… wait a gosh darn minute…”

It’s embarrassing but I do like it when I’m giving a tour to people from another region of the country and they point it out. I always point out that I sound normal in Minnesota.

For anyone who hasn’t seen Fargo… here’s an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBSTRK6PUjQ&feature=related

[Cassi&Charlie]

I’d really like to be able to see USA for the whole accent thing. People say “She’s got a strong Boston accent” or “He sounds like a New Yorker”. To me there are two types of USA accents, 1st is a Southern Drawl and the other is everyone else. When I actually go to US I’m sure it’ll make a lot more sense!

[Beka27]

i am from Ohio, therefore i have no accent. i speak the “correct” way… lmao.

there was this online thing where you could answer questions (i think just for the US) and it can pinpoint where you’re from based on your responses. i am absolutely a “Great Lakes” girl…

 

edited to be clear… i am from Northeast Ohio.  southern Ohio has an accent…

[babybunsmum]

ooooo…. i love accents.  any kind will do.  lol.  i’m with you beka… i don’t have an accent.  local slang aside, i think i sound just like, say, tv announcers on shows like E! or Entertainment Tonight.  i can’t hear a difference in how i talk from that.  i don’t hear the stereotypical “oot and aboot”  instead of “out and about” that canadians are suppose to say.  eastern canadians definitely can have an accent.

[LittlePuffyTail]

I LOVE accents! Makes any man suddenly more attractive

My fave is Scottish. I want to go to Scotland and just walk around listening to peoples conversations Australian is second.

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