Hmmm. I have lived in Minnesota all of my life so I wonder if I have an accent. Huh I have been to Sweden and nobody called me out on it while I was there, oh well.
Anyhow the only accents I really can't stand are French and Southern accents.
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 ><
I honestly haven't heard a Northen Territory accent so, I guess were even.
I really can't claim to have a WA accent as both my parents are English, so people tend to think I'm an Englishman with a strangely similar accent OR that I'm a slightly weird Australian... or perhaps a New Zealder.. one and the same really :P
Down in the South, where I live, we do not have accents. Like near the coast, we do not, but near the center of the state, it gets really bad. I also agree that those little kids on the headsets are the most annoying. Then they try to be cool by cussing all the time, which makes them sound even more like fools. Also there is nothing cooler than hearing a British or Australian a microphone.
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.
that's what i hate. we as Americans don't have an accent, and I've been trying to tell this to people for a while. if an American were to, say, imitate a British accent, we have to pretty much change the sound of almost every letter. Whereas the American (non)accent it pretty much all of the letters in their plain pronunciation.
and i spend a lot of time telling people that we don't speak English. We speak American. because the way we speak is much different than the way British people speak.
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.
that's what i hate. we as Americans don't have an accent, and I've been trying to tell this to people for a while. if an American were to, say, imitate a British accent, we have to pretty much change the sound of almost every letter. Whereas the American (non)accent it pretty much all of the letters in their plain pronunciation.
and i spend a lot of time telling people that we don't speak English. We speak American. because the way we speak is much different than the way British people speak.
It's still the same language, we have American accents but we speak English. Just because someone in Jamaica pronounces something different doesn't mean they're speaking Jamaican, they still speak English. It all depends on your point of view. I agree with your first point though.
the southern american accent is like a screaming child in the back of my brain if that's the one you're talking about. i'm an american without an accent and the southern accent just AGH
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 ><
I honestly haven't heard a Northen Territory accent so, I guess were even.
I really can't claim to have a WA accent as both my parents are English, so people tend to think I'm an Englishman with a strangely similar accent OR that I'm a slightly weird Australian... or perhaps a New Zealder.. one and the same really :P
I know what you mean! My dad's Irish and I grew up in a house with my English grandfather. I can't remember the amount of times that I've been at work or I've met someone knew and I get 'How long have you been in Australia for'. They get confused when I say 'My whole life.'
Some English accents are annoying beyond anything I've ever heard. I've met toothless hillbillies from West Virginia who don't drop as many consonants as the average London teenager does. No offense England, but if that's what real English sounds like then I'm proud that Americans are butchering it.
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.
that's what i hate. we as Americans don't have an accent, and I've been trying to tell this to people for a while. if an American were to, say, imitate a British accent, we have to pretty much change the sound of almost every letter. Whereas the American (non)accent it pretty much all of the letters in their plain pronunciation.
and i spend a lot of time telling people that we don't speak English. We speak American. because the way we speak is much different than the way British people speak.
I'd argue that considering the British invented the English language that they pronounce in their 'plain pronunciation'. Well.. One of them at least. And that American like Australia, pronounce it incorrectly.
I'm unsure if I'm making sense or not, but I know what I'm talking about.
I think all women sound awesome. A Chinese, Indian, or Latin accent on a girl? Great, cute, beautiful. On a guy? Sounds retarded.
I love the accent of a black man from Africa. My Uncle is from Ghana and has the deep, paced voice that sounds down-right awesome. Sadly, the only examples of this accent I can give are horrible dictators.
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)
Wow you had to live four years of valley girls? the fact that your sanity still exists is a miracle, I can barely stand to listen to that "valley girl" song.
The French are endowed with the best accent ever, the jerks.
Being American i absolutley love all of you guys' British/Australian accents. That being said i find it very frustrating to speak to you guys because it is rather difficult to understand you at times. If their are multiple British people around me in one game it just sounds like a incoherent jumble of sounds.
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 ><
I honestly haven't heard a Northen Territory accent so, I guess were even.
I really can't claim to have a WA accent as both my parents are English, so people tend to think I'm an Englishman with a strangely similar accent OR that I'm a slightly weird Australian... or perhaps a New Zealder.. one and the same really :P
I know what you mean! My dad's Irish and I grew up in a house with my English grandfather. I can't remember the amount of times that I've been at work or I've met someone knew and I get 'How long have you been in Australia for'. They get confused when I say 'My whole life.'
People often mistake me for American.
I've been mistaken for a Canadian before. That was interesting. and I do enjoy the "been living here for 12 years" and and the baffled look reply.
In England they always ask whether I'm a New Zealander, as the rule goes you always ask whether someone from the region is a New Zealander because 1) if you're right you get uber kudos and 2) if it's an Aussie, they really couldn't care less, but the New Zealander's are hugely offended :P .
Yes, I will stop insulting New Zealandish people. Just a bit of fun ^_^
Living in New York I get exposed to a lot of accents in daily life and the only ones that really bother me are those that make it nearly impossible to discern and thing like coherent thought from the person speakin, sterotypically cab drivers come to mind.
And for the record I have been accused when very sleepy of slipping in to a more Boston accent i.e. streached out "ah" sounds
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.
that's what i hate. we as Americans don't have an accent, and I've been trying to tell this to people for a while. if an American were to, say, imitate a British accent, we have to pretty much change the sound of almost every letter. Whereas the American (non)accent it pretty much all of the letters in their plain pronunciation.
and i spend a lot of time telling people that we don't speak English. We speak American. because the way we speak is much different than the way British people speak.
How very self-centered. Everyone has an accent. Of course it sounds like plain pronunciation to you, you've been growing up around it. People don't notice their own accents most of the time. By the way, which American "non-accent" is the "proper" one? Or do all Americans speak the same now?
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)
That is more Queenslanders and Adelaidians. I know in Melbourne we do not have that much and only a bit in Sydney.
I like most accents, especially african ones but the Californian accent can get realy annoying especially in music.
Easter European accent on women. I mean honestly. I see this new girl at my schoo, she's pretty hot so i go up and say hi and in the manliest voice ever she replies, "Hello, I'm from russia"
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.
that's what i hate. we as Americans don't have an accent, and I've been trying to tell this to people for a while. if an American were to, say, imitate a British accent, we have to pretty much change the sound of almost every letter. Whereas the American (non)accent it pretty much all of the letters in their plain pronunciation.
and i spend a lot of time telling people that we don't speak English. We speak American. because the way we speak is much different than the way British people speak.
How very self-centered. Everyone has an accent. Of course it sounds like plain pronunciation to you, you've been growing up around it. People don't notice their own accents most of the time. By the way, which American "non-accent" is the "proper" one? Or do all Americans speak the same now?
Without wishing to sound pretentious or self-congratulating, the West Coast accent seems to be the widely-accepted "proper" accent with Americans, simply because most actors in Hollywood speak that way. That accent has received the most air time and publicity, so I think it's considered the "proper" one. Also, it's very easy to understand someone with a West Coast accent. Some southern accents are nigh impossible to decipher for people who don't/haven't live(d) there.
I would compare the West Coast accent with the "proper" British one-it's (generally) easy to understand and places an emphasis on enunciation.
Oh, and I think the sexiest accent for women is either French or Norwegian.
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.
Most midwesterns have a western accent, but a few (The northern parts) have that midwestern accent.
Southern American accent. I can understand any accent just fine, but when I talk to someone with Southern accent I have to ask them to repeat what they've just said, even several times in a row sometimes.
Ex: I called Dell support once and instead of your standard Indian Guy, I got a southern middle aged cowgirl. I was such a pain to understand her. 20 minutes in I said: "Im really sorry, but can you transfer me to someone else? I have a hard time understanding what your saying." That was right after I asked her 7 times to repeat previous sentence. She was asking me to get a flashlight, only problem is she pronounced it as flas-laa...
I have medium strength Russian accent myself, but so far no one ever asked me to repeat anything I've said and no one has complained about my accent.
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Anonymouse: Freaking australians. Their accents are horrible. Steve Irwin deserved to die for that alone. Also WoW's Drenai russian accent annoys me.
Drenai have a heavily integrated midle-eastern accent (as in have lived in US/UK for years), for sample of Russian accent turn to Dwarfs.
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.
the one that i cant stand the most has to be the "ghetto american" accent. my favorite accents has to be Australian, British, and Latino (women with latino accents omg :D)
that's what i hate. we as Americans don't have an accent, and I've been trying to tell this to people for a while. if an American were to, say, imitate a British accent, we have to pretty much change the sound of almost every letter. Whereas the American (non)accent it pretty much all of the letters in their plain pronunciation.
Uhm, yes, you do. The only native english speakers to not have an accent are the english aristocracy, as they enunciate the language in a proper manner. Hate to break it to you, but there is no such language as "American". Just like how down here, we speak in a fast, clipped drawl that while distinctly australian, is still english (just a very bad form of it).
Most of the americans I've run across (mostly just navy peoples when they bring one of those big floating penis compensators into port) have a nasal whine to their voices. I am rather partial to the southern american drawl though. I dated a girl from texas waaaaay back in my university days, and damn I loved hearing her speak.
All that said, I think russians have the coolest accent when speaking english. Nothing is vocally sexier than a russian girl flirting with ya.
The Mississippi/Alabama "twang" really bugs me. Some (American) Southern accents can make a woman sound sultry, but that one has the opposite effect.