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What is your favourite AND your most hated accent?

Cornishman said:
Would love to have a girlfriend with a proper American Hick accent. Would be hilarious albeit highly unlikely to happen in this country.
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What's funny is I was watching a documentary show last night. This lady was from North Carolina and I could understand her fine yet they had subtitled her like it was a foreign language. I've lived in the deep south for more than 25 years but my accent is stubbornly mid-western-ish. (If you've seen the movie "Fargo" that's the best comparison or "Prairie Home Companion" radio show)

People down here don't get it and have accused me of being Canadian. The tricky part about South Florida there is no real dialect to detect. It's very rare to hear a Southern accent in Ft Lauderdale because most people that live here come from someplace else. Mostly you hear either English or Spanish (the latter being more common)

The accent I had most trouble deciphering is Haitian/Creole. It's embarrassing when I have to ask a person "pardon?" more than once because the accent is so thick. I'm getting better at it though. The only thing that I hate is when people start speaking Spanish to me and I have no idea what they're saying.
 
As others have mentioned, it's not so much the accents I object to as the intensity of 'em sometimes. Even Brummy and - dare I say it - Scouse can be kewl if it's toned down enough. Nothing could possibly kill the mood more effectively and completely as seeing a fine, fine, mightyfine ladygirl, going up to introduce yourself and being greeted with "Orlroight, yow!" or "Ahyayayayayayayaa, laaaaaaa!" 8(

Most accents can be sexy if not too thick. I do struggle with Norn Oirish accents sometimes though. Have probably never come across a mild enough version to make it sound less harsh and borderline threatening. I did once spend a few quality weeks seeing a rather sexysweet, elfin, cute as a very cute button, Celtic-looking, kung-fu film loving (and actual martial arts practicing) Scottish gal who had spent large parts of her life in Saff Efrica. Turned out to be a mightily sheckshee accent in that case. Shame I was so lacking in confidence that I felt the need to take shitloads of speed before seeing her each time so consistently managed to utterly scupper myself when it came to demonstrating my state of ardour and arousal in more concrete terms :\8):!

Occasional Mrs Shambles is from Brum but the accent isn't overly pronounced so is fine... but I can't help taking the piss just a bit at her pronunciation of some words. Is just a fukkin funny accent :D

Proper thick accents can be hilarical which - in itself - can be pretty goshdarn shexxyshweet. A lass who can raise a smile regularly enough tends to also be quite good at raising other things. Therefore, I could be said to like such accents for a number of reasons. I wouldn't veto any form of friendship or association with peeps with strong accents... but am actually really rather dull - possibly even somewhat prejudiced - when it comes to such things. With accents, less is sometimes more. Does add character though.

Which brings me to my own accent. Is horrid. No character whatsoever. Not strong - bet nobody could place it - but does sound vaguely posh (lotsa peeps assume I must've been to public school 8o) which irks me. Posh and - not accent as such but related - also a bit droning and dull. Horrible combination. Fortunately the rest of mind, body and spirit are made of pure, unadulterated, hardcore duttyfilthysexywin so carry it off better than most ;)
 
T. Calderone said:
What's funny is I was watching a documentary show last night. This lady was from North Carolina and I could understand her fine yet they had subtitled her like it was a foreign language. I've lived in the deep south for more than 25 years but my accent is stubbornly mid-western-ish. (If you've seen the movie "Fargo" that's the best comparison or "Prairie Home Companion" radio show)

People down here don't get it and have accused me of being Canadian. The tricky part about South Florida there is no real dialect to detect. It's very rare to hear a Southern accent in Ft Lauderdale because most people that live here come from someplace else. Mostly you hear either English or Spanish (the latter being more common)

The accent I had most trouble deciphering is Haitian/Creole. It's embarrassing when I have to ask a person "pardon?" more than once because the accent is so thick. I'm getting better at it though. The only thing that I hate is when people start speaking Spanish to me and I have no idea what they're saying.
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They sometimes put subtitles on for Scottish people on TV here in England.
I think it's needed more than someone from North Carolina though!

Also where I'm from in the southwest U.K, alot of people don't have the local accent.
When I was in America a woman told me I sounded like I was from the BBC.
 
Murkins think everybody from the UK speaks like the queen though. It's all just different shades of upper class, evil colonial overlord to them.

Have noticed the trend for subtitling many Seps for ease of understandation by their fellow Seps in several US shows of late. Some of 'em are pretty thick but hardly inscrutable mysterious utterances utteranced by strangers from arcane lands really. Even I can understand 'em. Although I would quite <3 to see the subtitled version of Trainspotting they released over there just to see how they translated it :D

In my mind's voice, I always read your posts in a broad poirate accent, Cornish moi luvver. All wenches and proapa jaaaabs. I have no idea how accurate this is. But pretty accurate, I suspect. Somebody needs to resurrect that "record your own voice" thread.
 
Shambles said:
Although I would quite <3 to see the subtitled version of Trainspotting they released over there just to see how they translated it :D
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I need to see this. I feel strangely proud when a Scottish person has English subtitles for some reason. My dad had to write a whole Scottish to English dictionary in the back of Trainspotting before his English girlfriend could read it.
 
I rather prided myself on being good at Scotch accents. Read Trainspotting with nary a need of any translation. Admittedly there are probably a few words and phrases that are lost on me but in context you generally get the gist... and they still look (and sound) excellent =D

However, my pretensions of being secretly Scotch were scotched upon meeting the Glaswegian in its native environs: the pub. Loved the fact that people seemed to chat to me - and anybody else around - just cos they were there to be spoken with. Hated the fact that I've never in my life sounded quite so much like a soft, southern, foponce before and had to ask for clarification of what was being said so often it was just plain embarrassing so gave up and had to resort to just nodding and pretending I had a clue what was being said. Less than ideal when confronted with what appeared to be a question though :!
 
haha @ shambles kung fu scotch lass


lovin the saffer accent at the moment, if only for the die antwoord girl


and despite growing up with jamaicans, listening to reggae for as long as i can remember and associating with gunshot-scarred, yardie drug dealers for a large part of my time here on earth (including one who offered me cash to burn some cunt's house down)

....i still get bemused by deep patois. you can think youre up on it, discern a few words here and there - but when that phone rings or fellow jamaican-born walks in and a conversation ensues, i defy anyone non carib.. jafakin or otherwise, to have a clue what the fuck is exactly being spoken about :?



i just smile, nod.. and hope that covers all the likely, not-likely-to-cause-immediate-offense anyway. bases. worked so far
 
Glad we have that sorted. I quite like a proper essexy /east-end accent. After all, that's where all the cockneys went during the war.
It's a shame cockney's now been replaced by the ear-piercing-jafaican-Ali-G accent
 
Saffa accent, by which I presume everyone means white Saffa accent, usually makes me want to spontaneously urinate on the person. And not in a sexual way.
 
StoneHappyMonday said:
Saffa accent, by which I presume everyone means white Saffa accent, usually makes me want to spontaneously urinate on the person. And not in a sexual way.
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I love love love it! Cousin's boyf is saffa and he speaks afrikaans. My mum lived in cape town for years so speaks afrikaans too, it weirds me out when they speak it at each other. Sounds painful, bit like Dutch but not as hilarious sounding.
 
Mmmmmm watching a programme just as background noise as all the people talking are from South Africa. There's something about it I luuuuurve <3
 
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