which accent really irritates you when you hear it?

for me it would have to be a high pitched whiny ten year old american lad on a headset mic

or what's your favorite accent? be it for impressions, laughs, or any other reason

in that case, South African purely because of my old head of year at school, such a joker

No offense to Americans, but your accent tends to grate on me for some reason.
Disclaimer: I'm fully aware that there is no one "American" accent. I don't know what the one I hate is, but it's distinctly American.

Even though I'm asian i hate chinese accents (just chinese, not japanese and korean etc.) yes there is a difference... (I'm korean btw)

I like russian accents, they make me wet.

Middle Eastern [Borat made it even worse]

Graustein:
No offense to Americans, but your accent tends to grate on me for some reason.
Disclaimer: I'm fully aware that there is no one "American" accent. I don't know what the one I hate is, but it's distinctly American.

I agree.. I dont know what mine is either.. Maybe we have them same, who knows?

I am however particularly partial to Irish, Scottish and pretty much all English accents.

Brooklyn accents are like nails on a chalkboard.

Southern (as in American South, but not South American) and cockney accents are incredibly grating for me. I simply cannot stand them; they bring about a primal urge to kill that I can otherwise suppress.

Some Southern accents can be the equivalent of having one's fingernails removed.

Some Scottish accents really piss me off, don't know why, considering, for some reason Fish Food Carl's doesn't piss me off but most of others do.

Graustein:
No offense to Americans, but your accent tends to grate on me for some reason.
Disclaimer: I'm fully aware that there is no one "American" accent. I don't know what the one I hate is, but it's distinctly American.

Southerners tend to have a more relaxed speech, same with western. (Think Firefly)
They also tend to use y'all and ain't.
Northern and midwestern accents tend to be tighter and a bit more nasal.
I'm somewhere in between, close to a west coast accent (I say west coast because those are the only people I can listen to without hearing significant differences.)
EDIT: the only accents that really get to me are the deep, deeep south. I mean DEEEP, like NASCAR,south won the war, civil whatnows deep.

Haliwali:

Graustein:
No offense to Americans, but your accent tends to grate on me for some reason.
Disclaimer: I'm fully aware that there is no one "American" accent. I don't know what the one I hate is, but it's distinctly American.

Southerners tend to have a more relaxed speech, same with western. (Think Firefly)
They also tend to use y'all and ain't.
Northern and midwestern accents tend to be tighter and a bit more nasal.
I'm somewhere in between, close to a west coast accent (I say west coast because those are the only people I can listen to without hearing significant differences.)

It'll be Northern or Midwestern then. It has a distinct nasal quality that I dislike.

Different Southern accents and Brooklyn accents get to me

Graustein:

Haliwali:

Graustein:
No offense to Americans, but your accent tends to grate on me for some reason.
Disclaimer: I'm fully aware that there is no one "American" accent. I don't know what the one I hate is, but it's distinctly American.

Southerners tend to have a more relaxed speech, same with western. (Think Firefly)
They also tend to use y'all and ain't.
Northern and midwestern accents tend to be tighter and a bit more nasal.
I'm somewhere in between, close to a west coast accent (I say west coast because those are the only people I can listen to without hearing significant differences.)

It'll be Northern or Midwestern then. It has a distinct nasal quality that I dislike.

yep thats the thing that gets on my tits

Worst: Californian. Weird, because I live in California.

Best: Australian. G'day mate!

Yeah, Southern accent is easily the most annoying.

But I have fun with them all. I can do almost any accent, the only one I haven't really mastered is the stereotyped African accent. Here, I'll list the ones I can do because I feel like it:
- British (with variants, regional and otherwise)
- Irish
- Scottish
- Australian
- Southern
- "Yankee"
- Boston
- German
- Russian
- Mexican (traditional and Speedy Gonzalez-esque)
- French
- Italian
- Brazilian trying to speak English (hilarious)
EDIT: Californian

I can do more, but they're more like "voices" and not accents.

East coast Aussies. It reeks of AQI (Australian Questioning Intonation) i.e. when everything sounds like it's a question. And their 'i's are pronounced 'oiii'. AAAH, it's like nails on a chalk-board to me. Perfect example - current Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=qINsVDFcn_8 (ignore the introduction, just an interview)

Anonymouse:
Freaking australians. Their accents are horrible. Steve Irwin deserved to die for that alone.
Also WoW's Drenai russian accent annoys me.

Whoa, whoa WHOA. That was like the holocaust to us. Not really, but it was sad.

The most hated accents for me are...

Liverpool (Scouse) - Every sentence is preceeded with a high pitched "ermmmmmmmmm"
Louisiana 'Drawl' - Lots of omitted letters and slurring
Birmingham (Brummies) - No.... just no.

Puppeteer Putin:
East coast Aussies. It reeks of AQI (Australian Questioning Intonation) i.e. when everything sounds like it's a question. And their 'i's are pronounced 'oiii'. AAAH, it's like nails on a chalk-board to me. Perfect example - current Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=qINsVDFcn_8 (ignore the introduction, just an interview)

I never noticed this before, but Julia Gillard kind of sounds like she's from New Zealand. Listen to how she pronounces ever.

I'm an East Coast Australian, and now I feel very self conscious.

British accents can be pretty damn annoying some time.

My accent is made ironic by the fact that I spent the first several years in the North/Midwest (Michigan and Minnesota), never spent a day west of the Dakotas, and now reside in Tennessee. I despise most of the south (but gorramit they make good food) and identify best with the North.

Mid-western accents (Michigan and that area) are annoying to me. It's similar to a Canadian maritime accent but... more annoying somehow.

I like some Australian accents a lot. Others are really hard for me to understand.

Anonymouse:
Freaking australians. Their accents are horrible. Steve Irwin deserved to die for that alone.
Also WoW's Drenai russian accent annoys me.

1: Hardly any Australians that I have ever met sound like Irwin

2: He was great! He did so much in Australia in regards to animal conservation and I cried the day he died... Dont judge me.

r4ndom:

Louisiana 'Drawl' - Lots of omitted letters and slurring

That would be because they are drunk most of the time.

I would have to say...Valley Girl. It's the most annoying accent I have ever heard. and yes, there is a valley girl accent. I also hate pretentious australian accents. Regular australian is okay, but pretentious australian is evil

I've always loved accents from the UK. British accents (and most of their variants) click with me for some reason, as does Russian and Japanese. Scottish just sounds awesome, and Irish just sounds cool (yes, there is a difference between awesome and cool).

My least favorite has to be either Chinese or Tennessee southern.

Also, I must make a mention of the Welsh accent.

It's great, as Wales itself is great.

Cahlee:
1: Hardly any Australians that I have ever met sound like Irwin

2: He was great! He did so much in Australia in regards to animal conservation and I cried the day he died... Dont judge me.

I was also very sad that day. He was a great man.

Cahlee:

Anonymouse:
Freaking australians. Their accents are horrible. Steve Irwin deserved to die for that alone.
Also WoW's Drenai russian accent annoys me.

1: Hardly any Australians that I have ever met sound like Irwin

2: He was great! He did so much in Australia in regards to animal conservation and I cried the day he died... Dont judge me.

I think alot of us cried when Irwin died, he didn't deserve it.

Middle Schoolian

Razor Fang:
Indian accents it gets kinda annoying sorry no offense

though Russian accents are awesome

could i just make a point
nothing on this thread counts as racism so you neednt apologise for the indian remark, nothing else has been followed with an apology and i wouldn't any political correctness to spoil the fun :D

Cahlee:

Puppeteer Putin:
East coast Aussies. It reeks of AQI (Australian Questioning Intonation) i.e. when everything sounds like it's a question. And their 'i's are pronounced 'oiii'. AAAH, it's like nails on a chalk-board to me. Perfect example - current Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=qINsVDFcn_8 (ignore the introduction, just an interview)

I never noticed this before, but Julia Gillard kind of sounds like she's from New Zealand. Listen to how she pronounces ever.

I'm an East Coast Australian, and now I feel very self conscious.

Quite true. The odd thing is Western Australian's are meant to sound more like New Zealand because of our "laid back" linguistics.

Don't be! I'm sure you hate the West Australian accents... which is just a surfy, take-a-million-years-to-get-to-the-point kind of accent. Or the Cockney London accent, whoa that is a bitch to understand.

Puppeteer Putin:

Cahlee:

Puppeteer Putin:
East coast Aussies. It reeks of AQI (Australian Questioning Intonation) i.e. when everything sounds like it's a question. And their 'i's are pronounced 'oiii'. AAAH, it's like nails on a chalk-board to me. Perfect example - current Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=qINsVDFcn_8 (ignore the introduction, just an interview)

I never noticed this before, but Julia Gillard kind of sounds like she's from New Zealand. Listen to how she pronounces ever.

I'm an East Coast Australian, and now I feel very self conscious.

Quite true. The odd thing is Western Australian's are meant to sound more like New Zealand because of our "laid back" linguistics.

Don't be! I'm sure you hate the West Australian accents... which is just a surfy, take-a-million-years-to-get-to-the-point kind of accent. Or the Cockney London accent, whoa that is a bitch to understand.

I have nothing against the Western Australian accent (mostly because I'm not really sure exactly what it sounds like). However I dont like the Northern Territory accent where they all sound like drongos.. And now I feel like one for saying that word ><

Parp555:
I would have to say...Valley Girl. It's the most annoying accent I have ever heard. and yes, there is a valley girl accent. I also hate pretentious Australian accents. Regular Australian is okay, but pretentious Australian is evil

Valley Girl and Surfer Guy accents rank second to southern accents on my annoyance list. (I had to live in South Carolina for 4 years I get to complain about their accents, all y'all, seriously someone said it, although not as bad as y'all's)