elgringobandito:

Speaking German, British and Italian to you gave you a bit of an Irish accent?

No, see, half of my family is pure bred British, and the other half is German and Italian. And i was practically raised by my grandparents during my formative years (0-6), until i started school and my parents remembered they had a son. Because of those accents always spoken around me when i was learning to talk i now have the weird accent.

General American accent here- although I've noticed something incredibly interesting:

People I talk to very often seem to think I'm from the British Isles from the way I talk. This isn't my accent that does this- I don't have a British accent, not in the slightest (although I could try)...

What is it that does this?

I have a nonregional American accent.

I'm from Boston so I guess my accent would be "slightly retarded"

Boston.

I pahk the cah in Hahvid yahd.

Scottish, aye?

Wouldukindly:
Backwater Canadian, alot of 'eh's and slurring of words together. I watch my 'ain't's though.

Where are you from in this vast Northern land? North Ontario and Newfoundland are the only places I know of where you'd get a "backwater" Canadian accent. Otherwise you speak like an Americanadian (Sask, Alberta, BC) or a Torononian (Taranta anyone?) or a non newfie East Coaster (psuedo Irish inflections)

one word... fucked

lol i was born in england but spent the age of 4-14 in the us, so my accent is primarily american however my southern english accent sweeps in every now and again...

Crumpets! I come from Kent, so its kinda a dull accent. I sorta sound posh i've been told by my friend from Manchester.

CrazyBerk:
Crumpets! I come from Kent, so its kinda a dull accent. I sorta sound posh i've been told by my friend from Manchester.

To anybody above beirmingham you'd sound like a toff, haha

I'm from Leeds, in Yorkshire. Ee bah gum! Some people consider the tyke accent it's own language, and sometimes you can see why. Northerners and Scots sometimes have to be subtitled on TV their accents are so strong. Makes you proud, it does :)

According to Wikipedia (I hate saying that) my accent is "(North) Midland American", whatever that means. I'm an Ohioan raised by West Virginians, so it's a miracle that I avoided a hillbilly accent.

Funny story, I used to do voice acting in a short series of internet videos. I always used my natural speaking voice because I'm not that good at altering my voice and accent. After posting a few videos I received feedback from someone who told me that it was the worst imitation of an American accent he had ever heard. I didn't know what to think about that.

Norwegian one, like the extremly well-speaking rally driver Petter Solberg.

Lazy, slurred, midwestern American.

Optimus Prime:
British, middle-classy kinda accent. Dunno how to describe it though.

I think I have that one too... maybe.

The americans think I sound British and the British think I sound American.

What happened is I lived in the US my first 8 years and then my family moved to the UK and I've been here ever since.

And despite being in Britain for something like 9 years now my accent seems to still be stuck in this....inbetween state

BrightDeathFriend:
British accent!

Toodle pip and all that bollocks! haha :P

Ok so you have a British accent, and i have an American one, do we sound strange and you sound normal to you? Like for us the British accent sounds odd and almost alien (ok alien and odd arent the best words but just bear with me) but to you does British sound normal and American sound odd? Do you notice you have an accent? For me i dont think i have an accent and i think most Americans think the same way because of ignorance but to you do we seem like we have an accent and you dont?

When I saw this thread I was think "I don't have one". Damn that would have been funny if I had said that without thinking.

I live in Mid-West USA.

When I'm not tired or have been speaking english for the whole day, I'd say I have somewhat of a north-american accent.

However when I am tired, I usually find myself very much like every other Finnish guy, trying to pronounce every english word with a finnish touch, which sounds horrible.

Minnesotan, apparently mixed with some weird Scottish inflections I picked up living in Musselburgh.

Irish. It is half Meath, half Dublin.

They are two countys in Ireland for those who don't know. I have a mixed accent.

Or so I have been told anyway.

My accent lies somewhere in between Britain and Scandinavia, so i guess I have an accent of the North Sea?

I have a New York accent, not a city accent though, there's a difference between the NYC, and northern NY accents.

mathias53:

BrightDeathFriend:
British accent!

Toodle pip and all that bollocks! haha :P

Ok so you have a British accent, and i have an American one, do we sound strange and you sound normal to you? Like for us the British accent sounds odd and almost alien (ok alien and odd arent the best words but just bear with me) but to you does British sound normal and American sound odd? Do you notice you have an accent? For me i dont think i have an accent and i think most Americans think the same way because of ignorance but to you do we seem like we have an accent and you dont?

There are tens of accents in Britain and Ireland, mainly based on geography but also social class. Accents can develop within only a few generations and if people don't move around much they stay. My family are from the north east of England, and i can hardly understand them, when i'm drunk i sound like a Victorian cockney chimney sweep because that's where i grew up in London, but i have been living in the South West where they talk like pirates (or rather pirates talk like them) and so sometimes this slips in... you can tell a hell of a lot by how someone talks in the UK, its a bit weird because you drive 50 miles and everyone is talking differently all of a sudden ... :o

I have a mid-western American accent, but for some reason it switches to Irish when I get really pissed. I don't even have Irish heritage!

American with a little New Yorker thrown in

faselei:

mathias53:

BrightDeathFriend:
British accent!

Toodle pip and all that bollocks! haha :P

Ok so you have a British accent, and i have an American one, do we sound strange and you sound normal to you? Like for us the British accent sounds odd and almost alien (ok alien and odd arent the best words but just bear with me) but to you does British sound normal and American sound odd? Do you notice you have an accent? For me i dont think i have an accent and i think most Americans think the same way because of ignorance but to you do we seem like we have an accent and you dont?

There are tens of accents in Britain and Ireland, mainly based on geography but also social class. Accents can develop within only a few generations and if people don't move around much they stay. My family are from the north east of England, and i can hardly understand them, when i'm drunk i sound like a Victorian cockney chimney sweep because that's where i grew up in London, but i have been living in the South West where they talk like pirates (or rather pirates talk like them) and so sometimes this slips in... you can tell a hell of a lot by how someone talks in the UK, its a bit weird because you drive 50 miles and everyone is talking differently all of a sudden ... :o

but thats not what i am talking about, what im saying is does anybody with a british accent think that americans have the accent and british people dont. Most americans will say that they dont have an accent but british people do, thats because most americans are ignorant. Do people with a british accent think the same way, that british people do not have an accent but americans do, or are americans just snobs?

Mostly American with a little Trinidadian Patwah mixed in.

Oh. Sorry, got the wrong end of the stick.

No, (well imho i don't think so) because we have so many accents, everyone 'has' an accent. Be it northern, southern, posh, chav, cockney, estuary, west country, midlands, birmingham, geordie, cumbrian, scottish, glaswegian, welsh, east anglian, mancurian, liverpudlian, etc etc.

mathias53:

BrightDeathFriend:
British accent!

Toodle pip and all that bollocks! haha :P

Ok so you have a British accent, and i have an American one, do we sound strange and you sound normal to you? Like for us the British accent sounds odd and almost alien (ok alien and odd arent the best words but just bear with me) but to you does British sound normal and American sound odd? Do you notice you have an accent? For me i dont think i have an accent and i think most Americans think the same way because of ignorance but to you do we seem like we have an accent and you dont?

I think that to everyone, we all have normal accents, but then there will always be different accents in the same country and to everyone else one's accent will sound odd. But to be honest, the American accent isn't one that is "alien" to me. The languages that i'm most used to are in fact American and Spanish so to me they sound more interesting to me than my british accent...people from my own country think that my accent is weird though :S

I would think that I have a neutral American accent, though I might have an inkling of Southern flavor to it.

I've been told I have a New England accent, but it was over the phone and I don't really know what it is. I know I don't have the Boston accent so it's not referring to that.

Southern england accent...dont actaully know if that differs from other places or not...oh well