South African accents.

I just REALLY hate them. (The accents)

I can immitate it perfectly to, so I use it to piss off angry saffa customers! :D

(I'm evil, I know)

I find Geordie accents annoying not because I don't like them, I find them to be a source of constant amusment, but because I don't understand them. Not useful when I live very close to Newcastle.

But accents I acctualy dislike, well pretty much every English regional accent. Except the West Country accent, and the Brummy accent because they're hilarious. Oh yeah and South African, but that's more of a love/hate thing because they sound so damn weird. I love pretty much any accent from non English speaking countries though, especialy Russian and French.

Bostonians.

KarmicToast:

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)

Think Firefly? Really? Where did you live in the "south?" Nebraska? Go hang in rural Kentucky for awhile and then listen to Nathan Fillion again.

I live in Tennessee, and spent time in many other states. I was trying to use something people could relate to.

lets see... the "Texas" american accent
the "high pitched" american accent
the "new yorker"
the draling brittish
the lower class brittish
yhatzee (lol)
my slightly british accent is by far the worst though

mokes310:

NonMagicPoet:
Middle Eastern [Borat made it even worse]

You do realize that he used a bunch of yiddish for that character?

Ok, i've never seen it, I didn't know what the accent was supposed to be and whatever, you all get what I mean now. Borat. leave me alone.

No I am serious, we do not have accents. I know what you mean when you say that, but I am pretty sure, at least where I live we don't. But I see your point.

darkstone:

YouGetWhatsGiven:
Down in the South, where I live, we do not have accents. Like near the coast, we do not.

yes you do, you may not hear it but that's normal, I'm pretty sure if you came over here I'd be able to hear it in an instant.

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.

Yes, but from what State? That is the question.

Any "Deep South" accents piss me right the hell off. I live in Florida, so it's mostly Hispanic accents, but I make it my job to drag people who sound like they're a part of the Klan into dark alleys, where I do dreadful things to them.
On that note, English accents are great sounding. For example, Yahtzee has a nice one, in my opinion.

A scouse female. Ear drum shredding.

Boston and the South.

axia777:

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.

Yes, but from what State? That is the question.

Nuke and I have done some experimenting. It is, in fact, the Texan accent.

i fucking love british accents. british girls sound so sexy! but i can't stand the mexican accent! maybe because i hear it so much since i live in southern california.

Most annoying has got to be those damn accents you hear on tech support. No, their not Indian but they ALL have the same accent and its annoying as hell because you have no damn idea about what their saying.

Not too many accents that annoy me really.

The Norfolk accent annoys me, it is a difficult accent to describe. I will have to do a few examples.

NORMAL: "Have you got a tractor I could borrow?"
NORFOLK: "Ha' you gort a tracker oi cud borrer?"

"Something" becomes "Suffin" and things like "Jogging" become "Jargin." It's a very lazy accent and as I live in Norfolk, I have to put up with really harsh Norfolk accents when old women talk to each other on the bus.

I love Irish and Scottish accents and I also like cheeky cockney accents like, "Awright guv'nor?" Because they can be amusing.

I didn't read the thread, but I'll bet the most common answer is "American" referring to the Midwestern accent (although it is used throughout North America and refers to a number of specific accents and psuedo-dialects). I guess its qualities of genericness and intelligibility that practically make it a non-accent are not appreciated by others more accustomed to accents that feature such annoyances as consonant dropping, syllable slurring, or vowel warping.

As for myself I find those British accents that drop "h" sounds at the beginnings of words very annoying, especially the one's that warp the sound "aye" into "oi." I won't even attempt to name it as it seems that in Great Britain every settlement and social class combination has it's own accent.

EDIT: Actually thick accents in general annoy me.

EDIT: I've read the thread and found out that I was right. Though it's annoying that so many people don't know the difference between a dialect and an accent. A dialect is what you say, an accent is how you say it. Also, no-one doesn't have an accent unless you speak in a computer generated monotone.

I agree with the Valley Girl accent, or uptalking. It's hard for me to take someone seriously when they talk like this.

Oh, and I grew up in North Dakota, don't have the accent, but not a big fan of the "you betcha" accent when I go back home to visit these days.

I don't usually get annoyed at how people talk, considering most of my family and their friends are made up of people with heavy accents and sometimes just broken English altogether. However, the Brooklyn accent does annoy me after maybe 20 minutes listening to it. It's got this sort of twang to it that's really off putting.

I'm partial to the BC Canadian, it's damn relaxed and not over the top in any way. Whoever said it earlier was right, they sound like they are totally untroubled by life. It's sort of like listening to Air.

South African for some reason reminds me of cinema villains, probably because I've only heard a few, and they have been playing the oppressive white man (to black africans) etc in the movies.

French sounds nice on some people, but I have met almost exclusively obnoxious french people so I have come to associate the male french accent with assholes. Sample group of about 20 french guys I've met, only a few were nice people.

Everyone has an accent, quite frankly anyone saying otherwise is incredibly stupid or stuck thinking they are the very centre of the english speaking world, which is also very very retarded. I would agree that aristocratic english speaking is the closest to no accent in the sense that it deviates the least from the "true" pronounciation of the language, but everyone has different pitch and pacing and so on, and very "proper" english is still an accent.

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 okay, Australian accents make me want to "goer eat eh ding-goers baybee, mate". J/K. lol, good times.

On the other hand, I love a Yorkshire or Chorley accent, like David Thewlis. I will sometimes put one on at a bar for a laugh.

For me the accent which grates me the most is either an excessive "Northern" accent by a girl from England, couple that with idioic grammer and my brain will have a fit as I attempt to unravel the various abbreviations and slang they use to convey simple thoughts.

Behind that it's "American", it's forever positive sweet sounding tone offends my cumpolsary flat and droning English accent; unfortunatly as i'm told by my friends I sound posh and am verging on BBC English apparently...

At least I don't use "init" and "like" in every other sentence...

First, I'd like to scream, AS MUCH AS THEY CLAIM TO BE MICHIGAN IS NOT IN THE MIDWEST, NEITHER IS OHIO OR INDIANA. IF YOU CAN MAKE A DAYTRIP TO THE OCEAN YOU ARE NEITHER MIDDLE NOR WEST.

Sorry had to get that off of my chest. True midwest accents are completely neutral (well neutral for American English) and if you become a newscaster they send you take classes that make your accent, for the most part, Nebraskan.

As for accents that drive me crazy--
-Bahstawn
-New Yawkahs
-pretty much anything south of the mason dixon line
-Valley girls and surfers
-wiggereese
-cockney
Really any of the extreme accents where its speakers are proud to be butchering their language

I absolutely love women with Eastern European or Russian accents.
I am also enamored by the Acadian Louisiana accent. Not the hillbilly cajun accent but the French infused antebellum accent. But strangely I also despise purely French accents.

I'd have to say that JFK's was pretty annoying.

dijital101:

I am also enamored by the Acadian Louisiana accent. Not the hillbilly cajun accent but the French infused antebellum accent. But strangely I also despise purely French accents.

I'm thinking Gambit from X-Men, if he were either not a man or not animated I would totally jump him cause of his sexy sexy voice. Is that the kind you mean? In fact I saw a TV show, True Blood where a guy faked the Cajun accent and am now considering it myself.

Other popular ones are Russian and Japanese because they are both awesome for shouting and sounding righteous!

For context, I'm British and have only a slight Essex accent, which will mean little to most of the colonial readers. My least favourite accent, I'm not sure what it's called, it's spoken by young black and indian Londoners, it's filled with "bruv"s and "innit"s. Best name I've heard for it is ghetto cockney and it gives me murderous rage.

I hate French and Italian accents, I hate the french one because of a bad experience with a french guy that I let rent out a room, don't know why I hate Italians, I'm hoping to get over it sometime, I probably won't, since if anyone even imitates those accents around me I get pissed.

Actual:

dijital101:

I am also enamored by the Acadian Louisiana accent. Not the hillbilly cajun accent but the French infused antebellum accent. But strangely I also despise purely French accents.

I'm thinking Gambit from X-Men, if he were either not a man or not animated I would totally jump him cause of his sexy sexy voice. Is that the kind you mean?

Yes, I didn't even think about Gambit when I was writing that.

dijital101:

Actual:

dijital101:

I am also enamored by the Acadian Louisiana accent. Not the hillbilly cajun accent but the French infused antebellum accent. But strangely I also despise purely French accents.

I'm thinking Gambit from X-Men, if he were either not a man or not animated I would totally jump him cause of his sexy sexy voice. Is that the kind you mean?

Yes, I didn't even think about Gambit when I was writing that.

And now I bet you can't stop thinking about him, who could resist his silky man tones. *mmmmmmmm*

...ahem! Sorry, lost myself a bit there.

I've always had a thing for British accents, Irish, Scottish etc. (Minus Posh British)

And also, while it isnt a "accent" per se, I like lisps :S

Well...
For one that i dont like... i would have to say... im not sure, no one really gets on my nerves by voices alone.

As a dutchman who can imitate a british guy well enough, it hurts my eyes, ears and nostrils when I hear another dutchman say something in English. It's because I know how to pronounce things correctly, but I can't explain it and he/she won't listen!

gamshobny: +1

For those of you who don't get this one, look up Jeroen Krabbe in the Living Daylights. He plays a Russian but that right there is the natural Dutch accent, and it's a light one at that. Mike Myers couldn't be bothered to get a proper Dutchman for his movie and simply made up a load of gobeldygook. We mix a lot of English phrases into casual conversations in Holland, so the cringes come up quite a bit too. It gets especially bad in soap operas.

Saw a documentary on Rutger Hauer where he explained he's got a speech coach with which he trains regularly (and daily during and running up to shooting days) to keep an American accent.

Actual:
My least favourite accent, I'm not sure what it's called, it's spoken by young black and indian Londoners, it's filled with "bruv"s and "innit"s. Best name I've heard for it is ghetto cockney and it gives me murderous rage.

Try editing a group technical project (degree level) where someone ends every other sentance with 'innit'...

Being bombarded with it here in Leicester, and hearing it everywhere I've been from Portsmouth to Newcastle, it's cultural more than regional.

Graustein:

deathninja:
Most annoying, in order:
-Brummie
-Scouse
-Scallie
-Estuary
-Cockney
-French
-Valley Girl
-Deep South (I know there's more than one, but I find the lot of them grating)

Is that in ascending or descending order of annoyance?

Worst at the top.

When your in the UK you hate everybody for their accent

EXPESSIALLY anyone above Manchester !!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

Actual:
My least favourite accent, I'm not sure what it's called, it's spoken by young black and indian Londoners, it's filled with "bruv"s and "innit"s. Best name I've heard for it is ghetto cockney and it gives me murderous rage.

Awful as that is, it's not a patch on teenage girls in London trying to be all 'yardie' and putting on 'Jamaican' accents.