Accents of English-speakers.

Which do you find particularily funny, cool, or annoying?

I personally think Kiwi accents are funny (thank you Flight Of The Conchords). Some English accents are really cool (and Welsh ones). Jeeremy Clarkson's sticks out in my mind. A Lso, there is this cool, Midwest African American one that is also really cool.

Maybe I think about this a lot, because Canadians from Toronto don't really have an accent. We say "ar" funny, and I find myself pronoucing t and tr sounds like ch (I pronounce Toronto "Charanno"), but my voice is very... neutral.

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I think that Minnesotan accents are annoying/funny (think Sarah Palin). My Quiz Bowl teacher talks like that and sometimes when he says stuff it's a million times more funny because of his accent.

Dunno. The variety of southern accents can be rather amusing. Canadian English accents are highly amusing. I have been told I have strange accent in Texas so who knows.

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Welsh accents are awesome.

I had a music teacher once who came from somewhere in... South Africa I think. She had a very posh, very enunciated accent. I think a Zimbabwean accent is like that too.

Speaking as an Australian, fake Aussie accents are painful.

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Singaporean accents are interesting.

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Deep South accents are particularly interesting to listen to.

My favorite, though, is Northern Californian. Anyone who can throw around hella on even a semi-regular basis, has made themselves into snark bait, so far as I'm concerned.

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I've always been partial to the Southern East coast accent, Georgia, Virginia etc., and I find the Boston accent very grating along with the central Canadian accents. Rural Newfoundlanders have suitably amusing accents, though they speak a completely different dialect of English which is nigh impossible to understand so it may not count.

Also, I forgot to mention the Zimbabwean accents, those are beautiful.

edited 15th Nov '10 4:43:44 AM by AwayLaughing

I adore Welsh accents. I'm not sure why, I'm not sure why, I just love them.

I'm not really sure which parts of America the different accents correspond to. I think one of the ones I like is Chicago.

I know a South African man. His accent was kind of difficult to get used to - really posh - but it never really grated on me, and I'm fine with it now.

Mine's rather neutral, as an english southerner. A couple of girls I've met over the years have been from southern counties of Ireland, their voices have had me hanging on every word.

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I love light southern accents. They just sound so... cultured. =d

Heavy southern accents, on the other hand, give me the opposite impression.

My accent is hard to place because it incorporates some New England aspects and some Northwestern aspects.

But I think Canadian accents are really cool, but New Jersey accents are just really annoying to me. I'm so sorry. Please don't kill me.

On a side note, my brother (who has speech problems) went through a phase where he talked with a London accent. My friends would often ask me if we were related. Now he sounds like a Californian.

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This. Especially when it becomes your typical Southern Belle accent.

Other ones I like are Russian accents and most accents from Central and South America, for reasons I'm not entirely sure of. I just think they sound nice for some reason.

Hearing British accents in real life is a very surreal experience for me.

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My favorite accent is probably a deep south American or Texan accent. I just think it sounds really cool. Unfortunately I've never heard someone use one in real life.

I'm Australian and I've heard from a lot of people say that our accents can be very annoying. I guess you really don't notice that much when you grow up here, haha.

edited 27th Nov '10 3:46:02 AM by Jaron

My thoughts. I dislike the majority of accents, since they all tend to make the person speaking sound like an idiot.

It's all relative - there is no such thing as a voice with no accent. I don't think that my fellow Aussies speak with an accent, yet clearly they do to other nationalities. You might not think that you have an accent, but someone somewhere will think you do.

edited 27th Nov '10 4:58:27 AM by LoniJay

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I was wondering how the expression "plum in the mouth" started (the expression describes an upperclass RP accent). I googled it but I couldn't really find anything. My guesses are either it has something to do with elocution or about not opening your lips much, but I'm not sure.

edited 1st Dec '10 4:54:57 AM by Rainbow

Lots of Texan mannerisms have slipped into my vocabulary from when I spent several months there for Basic Training and Tech School. Y'all and Howdy come to mind, and a little bit of a southern twang.

Look up "Military English" as an accent sometime, it's there.

I live in Northern California. I can't recall hearing people use "hella" for at least ten years.

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I grew up in Northern California, and Hella was all over the place. My friends I still talk to who are from there still say it as well. This is in the Turlock/Modesto area.

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It reminds me of 'youse', which is mainly in the northeast USA (NYC, New Jersey, etc)

edited 1st Dec '10 10:48:48 PM by BalloonFleet

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