most annoying accents are: asians trying to speak english (main offenders are japanese), german and french. Also, do squeky 11 year olds at Xboxlive count?

deathninja:

Try editing a group technical project (degree level) where someone ends every other sentence 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.

I think I'd edit him right out of the project. I didn't realise it was a national phenomenon, I'm in Leicester this weekend and shall keep a sharp ear out.

scumofsociety:

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

Oh my goodness that sounds terrible, I haven't been into London in almost a year so I've luckily not been exposed to that horror. You have my deep sympathy.

NonMagicPoet:
Middle Eastern [Borat made it even worse]

I don't believe he's portraying a middle eastern accent. But, a east european accent.

Deep Hillbilly accents are horrible. Not a fan of eastern Indian accents either.

I dont like pre-pubescent boy voices over the internet, in fact I tend to quit L4D as soon as I hear it on a server. No offence but most tend to be extremely non team oriented, especially the one who shot me when I killed a boomer he was aiming at, to quote "thats for stealing my kill".

I tend to like clean American (as in no discernable) accent as they are easier to understand for me. UK and down-under accents are fun too, especially when they throw in their slang.

Um, I try not to let silly things like DIALECTS get in the way. (accent is the wrong term if you are speaking the SAME language. (i.e. English to Ohio Valley to Appalachian)) If I had to choose a true accent that drives me bonkers, it would be Chinese to English. I had an economics professor from Beijing that was ridiculously hard to understand. It was a difficult semester.

My least favorite DIALECT is the 'Urban' English, however. When people say AXE instead of ASK or LIBARY instead of LIBRARY. Something in me just snaps and I want to scream at the speaker angrily to learn English phonetics. BLAHHHH!!! >:^F

Anyone that speaks pig latin as a primary language.

All accents from Far Eastern languages. Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean- all of them. Nails on a chalkboard for me.

My favorite accent is probably either Swedish, Dutch, or Boston.

Hey Intergral, I think, for us laymen, dialects are variances on the same language, usually meaning that some words have entirely different meanings or there are completely new words. Accent is accepted as the word for the exact same language but with different pronunciation. That's closer to what was meant in this post. Your way may be more technically correct, but most of us wouldn't have known what the OP meant if he'd used it.

Dubiousduke:
Anyone that speaks pig latin as a primary language.

Do people really do that? Surely someone's beat it out of them.

A lot of hate on the oriental accents, I've always thought they were quite sexy, though the only Korean I know speaks with an American accent.
Japanese sounds a lot better from a man, I remember being shouted at by a Japanese guy when I was a kid, and though I should have been frightened or guilty for whatever I was doing I totally failed to and just thought, "damn, that sounds cool".
If you'd like an example of it there's an interesting action, fantasy, film called Casshern you should check out. Half way through, a character who's not spoken before gives one of the most epic speeches I've ever heard. I'd be interested to hear from anyone who understands the language if it's as, or more impressive when you know what he's saying.

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.

They all suck. WE'RE SORRY!

Fake British accents really piss me off.

Anonymouse:
Freaking australians. Their accents are horrible. Steve Irwin deserved to die for that alone.

That's really awful. He was a nice guy. Oh, and i like the English, Irish, Scottish and Australian accents. I hate accents that sound specifically from cities like Boston, New York, ect. which is weird 'cause i live in Boston. But have no accent... or I've been told I have somewhat oh a Canadian accent. If there is one?

Actual:

Oh my goodness that sounds terrible, I haven't been into London in almost a year so I've luckily not been exposed to that horror. You have my deep sympathy.

Well, I moved to darkest Cornwall some years ago, they are just painful memories now.

American children omg. Once you hit 16, the accent is as tolerable as any other. But those fucking American kids on cod5 make me want the terrorists to win.

A foreign exchange student has what I think is a Greek accent which is pretty annoying. I have a love hate relationship with Scottish which varies from fine to incomprehensible (acchh nee and what not). Many asians have what amounts really broken english which isn't annoying per se, but it bugs me when the wierd ones mutter half to themselves.

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.

Don't worry...ALL of our accents SUCK...I wish I was born in the UK...

Whatever that accent Ali-G uses is, I think its a Chav accent, but honestly I'm not sure. Honourable mention to that stereotypical spoiled teenage girl accent, and Newfoundlanders always give me a good laugh.

Parp555:
I would have to say...Valley Girl. It's the most annoying accent I have ever heard.

...yes, I'd mercifully forgotten about that one. Just as annoying to me as the breed of Southern accent I'm already on the record as disliking.

I missed one: Ebonic accents. Sorry, maybe I'm intolerant, but ghettospeak makes me want to light something on fire. Knowhatimsayin, dawg?

Actual:
Hey Intergral, I think, for us laymen, dialects are variances on the same language, usually meaning that some words have entirely different meanings or there are completely new words. Accent is accepted as the word for the exact same language but with different pronunciation. That's closer to what was meant in this post. Your way may be more technically correct, but most of us wouldn't have known what the OP meant if he'd used it.

Actually intergral (which should be spelled integral) was wrong concerning the subject of the original post. Dialect is what wording, contractions, and idioms are used. Accent is pronunciation and the intonation. However, many people are confusing dialect with accent.

If you called a dinner knife a "butterblade" (which I believe no one does) that would be dialect and if you called it a "deener noif" that would be accent.

Jimmyjames:
I missed one: Ebonic accents. Sorry, maybe I'm intolerant, but ghettospeak makes me want to light something on fire. Knowhatimsayin, dawg?

Agreed! I'm really not a fan at all! ><

Lets see...I have difficulties with thicker Scottish accents, nor the very very southern accents here in the US. I'm not sure if it was because I was around 12 at the time (and my first time out of country), but I had a horrible 15 minute discussion with a boy when I went to visit my father in Scotland and we couldn't understand each other half of the time.

I like the sound of some Irish accents, and English as well, and I actually enjoy most Eastern Asian accents...and Swedish. Not sure why, just really enjoy it.

An entire thread bitching about accents, and nobody's specifically called out Essex? I love you all.

I'm hardly in a position to complain here, but I really can't bear the South African accent - simply because it reminds me of a guy I used to work with who caused me no end of trouble. I'm sure there's a proper psychological term for that but I can't think of it right now.

people trying to fake an italian accent. I'm not italian but it pisses me off.

iseko:
people trying to fake an italian accent. I'm not italian but it pisses me off.

IT'S-A ME-YA!

So you must HATE Mario....

Accents don't really piss me off, the people with them do. I get more annoyed by what people say than how they sound while saying it. As for favorite accents, I'd need to say South African and Scottish. Some Russian ones too.

English, id know....i got it.
gets you women but only the stupid ones that watch Hugh Grant films.

Jimmyjames:

iseko:
people trying to fake an italian accent. I'm not italian but it pisses me off.

IT'S-A ME-YA!

So you must HATE Mario....

yea, the little smug bastard :P

heavy british accents i dont like as well as southern accents

Eldritch Warlord:

Actual:
Hey Intergral, I think, for us laymen, dialects are variances on the same language, usually meaning that some words have entirely different meanings or there are completely new words. Accent is accepted as the word for the exact same language but with different pronunciation. That's closer to what was meant in this post. Your way may be more technically correct, but most of us wouldn't have known what the OP meant if he'd used it.

Actually intergral (which should be spelled integral) was wrong concerning the subject of the original post. Dialect is what wording, contractions, and idioms are used. Accent is pronunciation and the intonation. However, many people are confusing dialect with accent.

If you called a dinner knife a "butterblade" (which I believe no one does) that would be dialect and if you called it a "deener noif" that would be accent.

No, it's Intergral. The 'r' is intentional.

According to the Oxford dictionary, dialect is defined as:

a particular form of language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group.

JUST like my examples of Ohio Valley, Appalachian, New Yorker etc. They all speak ENGLISH, it's just variant on how certain words are pronounced and what certain words mean. Coca-cola is called 'pop' in the north, 'coke' in the west and 'soda' in the south. Does that mean that these different groups are speaking a different language? No, because all forms are applicable in our language. These sort of mishaps in language are called vernaculars, or dialects spoken by the 'average man' in a particular region.

Accents are:

a distinctive mode of pronunciation of a language, especially one associated with a particular nation, locality or social class. It is also the mode of pronunciation used by NATIVE speakers (i.e. She never mastered the French accent. She being English and French being the NEW language she is trying to emulate.)

There are a lot of people confusing the two. The main point I am trying to make is the difference between 'mother language' and emulated language. The example you made would be correct if the person who said "deener noif" and were from say Scandinavia and trying to speak English. If it was a person indigenous to the Appalachian area, that would be a vernacular.

Fightgarr:

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.

Remember the episode where his dog died?
I cried for that.

American teenage girls (Californian, usually) always make me want to punch the baby... not literally cause that's mean.

Stephenh Fry's accent always makes me smile.

The accents I hate most are those from children. Their voices annoy me, no matter the culture or accent. When they first start talking as toddlers to the point they get out of Elementary school as little shits, they act as mobile reminders of the fact that the world is not perfect.

And I live in that world. Where I have no money, nothing to drink, no time for sleep, and CHILDREN come by my house to sell things Everyday it's a different thing.

I do not like Mexican accents. They drive me off the walls but Canadian accents take a close second

The French... It's just so... Snooty.

Definitely the Gungan accent.

Meesa hate it sooo much.

I was thinking young british children but pre-pubescent is an equal opportunity offender. If your voice is shrill please understand that I don't hate you... but I want to kill you.