I tend to enjoy British accents (I think I can thank David Tennant for a lot of that, but Catherine Tate helps too). On the other hand, American Southern accents I tend to find somewhat annoying.
They see me troll'n
Hella is all over the place.
You know what accent I find hilarious? Jewish accents. Jon stewart is so funny when he does those.
My girlfriend is from Philly, I don't know what kind of accident that is but I like it!
My other signature is a Gundam.
My favourite accent has to be Australian, specifically the Brisbane area. Doesn't take long to get used to, and sounds cool. Closely followed by South African, Russian, and Dutch.
My own is an amalgamation; it's mostly a very neutral American (from my school years) but my slang and phrasing is often British/Australian. Never even had a German accent to start with, thank goodness for that.
Having been raised in Kansas City I have that Midwestern "nonaccent" for the most part. For the rest of it... well.. I spent 4 years at a college in the middle of farmland. The Hickspeak can be strong in this one. "Purdy", "widja", "dunnit", etc are all common words in my oral vocabulary when I slip into Hickspeak. As well as slurring a good portion of vowels into an "er" sound ("I don't know" becomes "I dunner"). Hickspeak generally occurs when I'm either angry or nervous.
Hickspeak makes interviews go very poorly.
edited 14th Dec '10 9:31:47 AM by Bur
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NO PLACE TO HIDE
Using "Hella" is hella common in Alaska.
Also, nobody here sounds like Sarah Palin. We have no idea where she got that accent.
Eye'm the cutest!
Bit of a Rocky Mountain accent here with a lot country mannerisms in speaking such as "weed whipper" and "spicket".
edited 14th Dec '10 5:40:40 PM by MajorTom
"Allah may guide their bullets, but Jesus helps those who aim down the sights."
I thought "hella" was a high school thing. I didn't realize it was part of the general Northern California accent.
"War doesn't prove who's right, only who's left." "Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future."
Bibliophile.
Dunno what my specific accent is called, but it's the one where you drop the letters "G" and "H"; pronounce "T" as "D"; and pronounce almost every vowel as "Uh/A" (first vowel of Banana, or last vowel of "Florida").
edited 16th Dec '10 6:31:34 AM by AlirozTheConfused
Never be without a Hat! Hot means heat. I don't care if your usage dates to 1300, it's my word, not yours. My Pm box is open.
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@Aliroz: That sounds like a mix of some American speech characteristics and some English ones, as dropping h's isn't really an American thing (so far as I know it's more something found in England than in other English-speaking countries). What kind of dropping h's do you mean? At the beginning of words or something else?
Bibliophile.
Yeah, dropping "h" at the beginning of words.
edited 16th Dec '10 6:32:11 AM by AlirozTheConfused
Never be without a Hat! Hot means heat. I don't care if your usage dates to 1300, it's my word, not yours. My Pm box is open.
@ Yongary: I think Sarah Palin is from Minnesota, they all talk like that there.
I like British and educated Australian accents, but I'm not very fond of American accents, especially the stronger ones.
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