OmniscientOstrich:
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Are you from Bristol?
I live in Bristol which is why i'm asking

Some do, yes. Others...not so much. Take cockney for example. Cockney makes you want to insert a tiny, sharp clawed, highly agitated creature into your ear canal.

Well i'm from Yorkshire (or Up north) and i don't really consider my accent to be posh at all. Also i do tend to do the stereotyped yorkshire thing of Converting The into T' but thats comes with the accent its like instinct :P

Tipsy Giant:
Are you from Bristol?
I live in Bristol which is why i'm asking

Close, I actually come from around Bath, more speficially in a village just outside it, though I'm currently living in Dorset during term times at Uni, though I go back home to ol' Somerset in between terms. Kinda surprised to see at least two other people on this thread from the South West. :3

OmniscientOstrich:

Tipsy Giant:
Are you from Bristol?
I live in Bristol which is why i'm asking

Close, I actually come from around Bath, more speficially in a village just outside it, though I'm currently living in Dorset during term times at Uni, though I go back home to ol' Somerset in between terms. Kinda surprised to see at least two other people on this thread from the South West. :3

I love Bristol, Best music in the country which has the best music in the world.
I love the underground Hip Hop scene here.
What ya studying at uni, I finished my course last year and realised the only jobs going were temp jobs, it sucks, I miss uni

Two things:

There are a lot of "dumb brits" and they sound just as bad as Americans, accent or not. There are also a lot of dialects, like in the states.

However, point two is that the British education is far greater and more complex than the US form of Education, from my experiences anyway. To those who aren't aware of what it is, simply Google IB, that's the acronym for the system. Most of my schooling has been from IB schools, like the one I'm nearly finished with.

You know, I was watching the newest Harry Potter when I realized I could barely hear their accents.

I've never really been around many people like that so I can't say for sure. But from the few English sounding people I listen to on TV they sound somewhat more sophisticated than I do.

Tipsy Giant:
I love Bristol, Best music in the country which has the best music in the world. I love the underground Hip Hop scene here. What ya studying at uni, I finished my course last year and realised the only jobs going were temp jobs, it sucks, I miss uni

Interesting, can't say I'm all that fond of hip hop, but different strokes I guess. Yeah, I like the idea of living near a big city without actually living in it y'know? I'm a more reserved kind of guy, so I liked having a bit of greenery, not being in the hustle and bustle all the time, but being able to get into that kind of thing within a short bus ride if I wanted to. I'm studying Scriptwriting for Film and Television in the hopes of becoming a screenwriter though I realise chances are slim of being able to get in that line of work especially in the way things are panning out for me at the moment in the course. But yeah, I can understand things being rough in the job market given we're in the fallout of a recession, my dad in particular had a tough time finding work over the past few years. So anyway, what did you get your degree in?

OmniscientOstrich:

Tipsy Giant:
I love Bristol, Best music in the country which has the best music in the world. I love the underground Hip Hop scene here. What ya studying at uni, I finished my course last year and realised the only jobs going were temp jobs, it sucks, I miss uni

Interesting, can't say I'm all that fond of hip hop, but different strokes I guess. Yeah, I like the idea of living near a big city without actually living in it y'know? I'm a more reserved kind of guy, so I liked having a bit of greenery, not being in the hustle and bustle all the time, but being able to get into that kind of thing within a short bus ride if I wanted to. I'm studying Scriptwriting for Film and Television in the hopes of becoming a screenwriter though I realise chances are slim of being able to get in that line of work especially in the way things are panning out for me at the moment in the course. But yeah, I can understand things being rough in the job market given we're in the fallout of a recession, my dad in particular had a tough time finding work over the past few years. So anyway, what did you get your degree in?

Yeah I live on the outskirts too and love the countryside round here.

I studied Creative Sound & Music and learnt that most experimental music is pretentious and boring and most pop music is the equivalent of a placebo when it comes to human expression.

Something i'm sure will be mirrored in your course!

But got some good mates from the experience and an album which i'm glad is almost finished

Tipsy Giant:
Yeah I live on the outskirts too and love the countryside round here.

I studied Creative Sound & Music and learnt that most experimental music is pretentious and boring and most pop music is the equivalent of a placebo when it comes to human expression.

Something i'm sure will be mirrored in your course!

But got some good mates from the experience and an album which i'm glad is almost finished

Well sure, there's the odd impenetrable arthouse film and a slew of vacuous, homogenous blockbuster flicks to wade through, but when executed well I think both have their place to a degree. But yeah, sounds like an interesting course and glad to hear it's paying off if you've put something to disc. As for the social aspect of things, well...in the words of the immortal Yahtzee Croshaw I have 'the social skills of a nervous badger' so that side of things isn't going too swimmingly but you kind of have to roll with the punches I guess.

Well, as a Yorkshireman, I feel obliged to post here and find a way of saying "oh good God fuck no" in such a way as to meet the minimum word count for an acceptable post.

That should do it. Just in case, though...

Oh good God fuck no.

WHICH ONE?! There is no one 'British' accent.

Yes, yes it does. Which is why Top Gear UK is so much funnier than Top Gear US.

Well, the standard British does sound posh but if you heard other dialects of UK, they are very different (I'm studying varieties of English). And since I'm not a native english speaker, when I first heard other dialects, I was like - what is this I don't even, I don't understand a single word xD

DrunkPickle:
In my opinion, they are. It seems to me, British people sound much more intelligent than Americans when speaking. What do you think?

Also, this isn't meant as an insult, I don't want anybody to take this the wrong way haha...

I guess you've never heard an Essex accent then.

But anyway, yeah I'd say I consider RP (Queen's English, aka what Americans generally consider a "British accent") to be sophisticated.

We sound sophisticated even though we would probably give you a Glasgow send off (Obscure reference that is not a threat but a reference).

There's a lot of British accents. When Americans, Canadians etc. say "British accent" you tend to mean Received Pronunciation, or Estuary at a stretch. Trust me, there's nothing sexy or sophisticated about a Birmingham accent.

Listening to a Geordie speak at length can and will shut down every operating synapse in your entire body. True story.

Geordie Shore is actually the world's first televised euthanasia service.

it depends on the region that the accent is from.
but usually things do sound nicer to me. not so much sophisticated.

A stereotypical British accent certainly sounds more sophisticated, but as Britain is made up of three countries each with a variety of accents I don't think it can be summarised quite so simply.

OmniscientOstrich:

Tipsy Giant:
Yeah I live on the outskirts too and love the countryside round here.

I studied Creative Sound & Music and learnt that most experimental music is pretentious and boring and most pop music is the equivalent of a placebo when it comes to human expression.

Something i'm sure will be mirrored in your course!

But got some good mates from the experience and an album which i'm glad is almost finished

Well sure, there's the odd impenetrable arthouse film and a slew of vacuous, homogenous blockbuster flicks to wade through, but when executed well I think both have their place to a degree. But yeah, sounds like an interesting course and glad to hear it's paying off if you've put something to disc. As for the social aspect of things, well...in the words of the immortal Yahtzee Croshaw I have 'the social skills of a nervous badger' so that side of things isn't going too swimmingly but you kind of have to roll with the punches I guess.

The trick is to go to the campus bar when everyone has gone to a big clubby student night, the people just hanging at the bar then are most likely nice people just looking to avoid the masses of idiots that go out drinking all the time

JayElleBee:
If you're talking about the fancy English accent commonly found in London, then yes.

Personally, I have a Mackem accent. It doesn't sound sophisticated at all.

Wow, another Mackem on the escapist. While there's nothing wrong with our accent it definitely doesn't sound very sophisticated. Once you get down past the midlands intonation and diction start to become a little more formal and fancy/annoyingly snobbish.

Yeah, them Cockney folks are truly sophisticated sounding.

Though I hope its been pointed out before, There is no such thing as a British accent, no more than there is a "European" one. Britain, like Europe, is a collection of countries with recognizably different accents.

It does get on my tits when people (usually Americans) equate "British" to "English", and then equate "the english accent" to either Victorian-esque, chimney sweep cockney or a poor impersonation of the Royal family (that is, the real Royal Family, not the sitcom)

Honestly I don't think that a posh accent makes you sound sophisticated, I think it makes you sound like a Spoiled shit. There's something to be said about a neutral-English accent but that, again, is different to "Posh" or "Upper class".

MOST English accents make you sound like a fucking idiot, Scottish accents make you sound angry (and gloriously so) whilst Welsh accents make you sound placid and confused, like a lost dog.

I think it's more pleasing to hear but sophistication is something that I merit towards the use of proper grammar and vocabulary.

Well if you're a posh person with bags of money and have never had to be exposed to the poor sure, maybe it does.

But being from Cumbria (the North and such) then no, I do not sound sophisticated. Nor do the vast majority of accents you can find in the UK.

I've known too many people with heavy southern drawls that have a doctoral degree in law or experts in their field, and Brits who I swear I wonder if they have two functioning brain cells.

The midlands are where sophisticated accents go to die.

Depends what exactly you mean by "British" which is probably the London south east England type of accent pretty uncommon really - no Scots, as a Scot there is not just one Scottish accent either or Geordie or Welsh.

It's not really sophisticated just kinda boring.

Oh and I have an ayrshire accent, not incredibly strong.

Zack Alklazaris:
Its hard to say, anyone can sound more sophisticated by actually using words that are more complex that "got" and "cuz". I'm sure a British accent can sound sophisticated to some people, but for me I seem to start smiling whenever I get into a verbal argument with someone whose British.

Something about how they swear just makes me laugh.

It's also a scientific fact that nobody else (apart from the Antipodean colonial cousins) can use the word "bloody" as a swear word without sounding bloody ridiculous.

thaluikhain:
Define "British accent", though.

An Irish accent isn't the same as a Welsh accent, which isn't the same as a Scottish accent, and they aren't limited to one each.

England, with 50+ million people (though almost no land mass) has any number of accents.

Now, various upper class British accents tend to sound sophisticated to me, doesn't really matter what part of Britain.

64 million and rising!

The problem is most of the world think of the British accent as "STiff upper lip, tea and cruppets" or Dick Van Dyke "Mawy Poppens!"

I'm from Yorkshire and speak with a Yorkshire accent, which is lovely and warm and most of the country don't understand!

EeveeElectro:
h.
Also my accent is this:

I find that really offensive, just as I'd expect a scot to find my impersonation of a scotish accent to be offensive.

Cheesus333:
Well, as a Yorkshireman, I feel obliged to post here and find a way of saying "oh good God fuck no" in such a way as to meet the minimum word count for an acceptable post.

That should do it. Just in case, though...

Oh good God fuck no.

Sophisticated fuck no
down to earth fuck yes

There's so many different forms of British accents though. The stereotypical ones sound more 'sophisticated' but take any average person and I don't see why you'd think that from their accent. Britain encompasses 3 countries and there are many variations even in those so...