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jackhammer 01-27-2009 05:03 AM

Accents
 
Crap thread but I'm bored. What accents do you like/ dislike?

I am quite partial to a soft Irish lilt. French is sexy too. I fecking hate scouse and I'm not too enamoured with my part of the worlds accent- brummie! Thank christ I have lost it now I'm not there anymore :D

Britain:
http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/engl...s-dialects.gif

Molecules 01-27-2009 05:39 AM

I'm not just saying this but as far as the British Isles go I am a Manc wannabe and the Brummie accent is more than tolerable... However I wouldn't want to live in Birmingham. My friend got shouted at by a random to 'show her fanny' there last week, lol.

I can be found in the outermost corner of Norfolk, and here you'll find the universal 'combine 'arvester' country bumpkin accent. If you have a generic, middle-class southern accent like me you're fucked really, I hate the way I sound. It's not ultra-posh, but my mum is a repatriated working class Londoner who met my dad and probably had aspirations as a social climber. All that side of my family are essentially cockney.

jackhammer 01-27-2009 05:51 AM

Apparently my accent is'nt anything although if I get angry, a little Brummie burr comes out but when I go back to see the old man he tells me stop talking posh!

Molecules 01-27-2009 06:00 AM

hahaha. If I had a regional accent i'd be parading it everywhere, you need to be proud of your roots, unless you were born in Hampshire. John Peel was Liverpudlian but you'd barely know it. Mind you he was from the posh side...

does anyone know where right-track and urban are from exactly or would they get all weird about disclosing? I got lost in Moss Side once :D

jackhammer 01-27-2009 06:06 AM

Urban was from Swindon but lives in St Peter Port guernsey. RT is a Manc through and through.

I am immensely proud of my roots but the accent is damn bad! I have'nt lost it on purpose, I have been living in Cheltenham for 18 years so I guess that has a bearing on it.

boo boo 01-27-2009 06:12 AM

I love Australian/NZ accents. And I'm also fond of French and Welsh. And German and Norweigian accents because they're the funniest sounding accents around.

I can't stand Boston or Jersey accents for the most part, on on the English said I f*cking detest Manc and C*ckney accents.

Now I'm from Tennessee, so I'm cursed with the Tenn accent, When it comes to southern accents, generally I can't stand them, especially Georgian accents (Paula Dean for example). A hot chick with a Tenny, Texan or Kentucky accent though, that can be really sexy.

Molecules 01-27-2009 06:12 AM

Guernsey? bloody hell i bet he's got some stories. I hope they still have capital punishment haha

i don't think there's anything bad about the Brummie accent but.. then you've got the extreme end of the spectrum...Big Brother guy

Molecules 01-27-2009 06:13 AM

i only just learned to tell the difference between Americans and Canadians after watching hours of Tom Green. :D

jackhammer 01-27-2009 06:19 AM

Yeah I quite like a nice Texan Drawl and Australian accents are cool, except when they call u a spunk lol It means something completely different here :D

boo boo 01-27-2009 06:21 AM

I've heard very few Canadians actualy speak in a Canadian accent.

But I guess that's just because I'm expecting them to put eh? at the end of every sentence.

You gotta love Minnesota accents btw.


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