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Astronomer 03-04-2011 03:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali (Post 1012713)
Speaking of that, I had grown up in Louisiana and always pronounced it "sir-up" (pronouncing like the "er" in "her") then when I began living in different states, everyone else pronounced it "sihr-up" (like pronouncing the i portion of "if) so I automatically assumed that was the correct way, because Southern Louisianians generally pronounce everything ridiculously. But after years and years, I still have to consciously decide to pronounce it as "sihr-up" solely for the sake of pronouncing it correctly... and come to find out in this thread, I've been expending the effort to be incorrect?

Goddamnit.

But with accents, there is no correct or incorrect... I pronounce it "sih-rup." Sih as in sin and rup.

djchameleon 03-04-2011 03:41 AM

Accents do nothing for me. I don't care who it is or where they are from. I know for some people they have like turn ons of different accents but bleh. I don't have some sort of special weakness to a particular accent.

Bloozcrooz 03-04-2011 03:49 AM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon (Post 1013359)
Accents do nothing for me. I don't care who it is or where they are from. I know for some people they have like turn ons of different accents but bleh. I don't have some sort of special weakness to a particular accent.

I like to hear other accents..I get sick of the same old southern draw twangy twang crap. Its cool to hear other people talk sometimes and be reminded there is life beyond b.f.e.

Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra 03-05-2011 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by TheBig3 (Post 1013149)
youtube video?

Talking to online friends through skype.

Paedantic Basterd 03-05-2011 10:20 PM

I get really excited when I hear accents from countries I've been to. It just brings back really good memories and feelings.

Thom Yorke 03-06-2011 12:06 AM

My favourite accents are South African and Australian. They're so cool.

MoonlitSunshine 03-06-2011 03:56 AM

I don't think I have an irish accent, but whenever I go to england, everyone comments on it. It's amusing how relative to your friends you ccan be relatively accentless, but without the stronger comparison you suddenly have more of an accent...

s_k 03-06-2011 04:32 AM

My Limburgian friends told me I sometimes sound really limburgian.
Which is awful, I think. Good to know that they sound waaaay more limburgian than I do.
(I'm not from limburg)
(go google if you don't have an idea what I'm talking about :D)

Howard the Duck 03-06-2011 05:40 AM

shanghainese accent of Mandarin is my fave

cos I can't understand a dam thing and it sounds Vietnamese

The Fascinating Turnip 03-07-2011 06:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Il Duce (Post 1014110)
shanghainese accent of Mandarin is my fave

cos I can't understand a dam thing and it sounds Vietnamese

Oh yeah, that'd have me absolutely confused. A world gone topsy-turvy.

FETCHER. 03-07-2011 07:05 PM

I think accents are well sexy! I swear anybody who possess's an accent I like could probably talk me into bed.

ThePhanastasio 03-07-2011 08:08 PM

The only American accent I really have trouble with understanding is the Cajun accent. I'm not talking about the less severe Cajun accent that you'll hear younger people from Louisiana using, though.

When I was in college, Hurricane Katrina happened, and for some reason, a lot of people from down there relocated to my area for jobs. One really old Cajun woman worked at the Walmart in which the McDonald's I worked in at the time was located, and came in to order food. I could barely get what she was asking for, but figured it out. Then she wanted to chat.

At this point, I was completely lost. It literally sounded like gibberish to me. Then she realized I couldn't understand what she was saying and got frustrated and addressed angry "gibberish" my way. I felt horrible. But I really cannot understand that accent.

She sounded like this woman:



And I mean, I can understand most of what she's saying, but sometimes...I have no clue at all.

Freebase Dali 03-07-2011 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon (Post 1013359)
Accents do nothing for me. I don't care who it is or where they are from. I know for some people they have like turn ons of different accents but bleh. I don't have some sort of special weakness to a particular accent.

Whaaaa?

Man, I find non-American accents to add up to like 10 percent sex appeal to any given female. This can be a deal maker in many cases, but there may be a requirement for dirty talk.
The only ones I'm not really big on are German chicks speaking English. Probably because I heard those the most, apart from Mexicans back in the states.

Freebase Dali 03-07-2011 10:35 PM

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Originally Posted by ThePhanastasio (Post 1014908)
The only American accent I really have trouble with understanding is the Cajun accent. I'm not talking about the less severe Cajun accent that you'll hear younger people from Louisiana using, though.

When I was in college, Hurricane Katrina happened, and for some reason, a lot of people from down there relocated to my area for jobs. One really old Cajun woman worked at the Walmart in which the McDonald's I worked in at the time was located, and came in to order food. I could barely get what she was asking for, but figured it out. Then she wanted to chat.

At this point, I was completely lost. It literally sounded like gibberish to me. Then she realized I couldn't understand what she was saying and got frustrated and addressed angry "gibberish" my way. I felt horrible. But I really cannot understand that accent.

She sounded like this woman:



And I mean, I can understand most of what she's saying, but sometimes...I have no clue at all.

If the video is any comparison, it's probably because she was speaking cajun French at times, like those two folks in the vid are doing at certain points. I don't understand that stuff either, and I was born and raised here. It's mostly the older people who still interlace what we sometimes refer to as "dirty French", into English, and there's also the accent that plays into it, but like you, I probably understood just as much as you did in that video and I'm from the very south south south of Louisiana, which is far more heavily accented in that way than northern Louisiana, who are far more typically "country" sounding up there.

Anyway, I'll translate what she said in actual English..
"He wanna know what I cooked for supper, I tell him; "nothin'".
"He ask me what bed imma sleep in tonight, I tell him; in the back bed, and him in the front bed".

That's the extent of the actual English she spoke, although it's obvious perfect grammar didn't play a huge part in it. Everything else she said was in cajun French.

holly984 03-07-2011 11:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Aurora (Post 1014880)
I think accents are well sexy! I swear anybody who possess's an accent I like could probably talk me into bed.

Ha ha. True, they are quite alluring. I have a friend w/ an Aussie accent, and I love listening to him talk. I've known a few Brits w/ the same appeal. Even Southern US accents. It's like an exotic factor, perhaps?...really I have no idea, lol. But it does intrigue me.


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