Accent

[jamiethearcher]

Which accent (of english speaking people) do you like/dislike?

My personal favorite is my friend Sarah, who is from South Africa. I could listen to her talk all day long.

The accent I cannot stand is Western New York - and wouldn't you know it? I get stuck in Buffalo!

 

[Babbler]

I don't like English accents. So high and arrogant. You almost believe they thought they invented the language!

 

[Secular]

The stressed A of people from Boston just grates on my nerves like nails on a chalk board. Cajun accent is pretty annoying too.

 

[Irish Caesar]

Boston is awful. New York is torture.

I'm partial to the Irish brogue, myself. The accent, not the shoe.

 

[bhsup]

Favorite (for females) - Georgia, USA accent.
Least favorite (both genders) - Boston, MA USA specifically, the whole northeast in general.

 

[MattJek]

The accent people from England have... its sound fake

 

[Irish Caesar]

Favorite (for females) - Georgia, USA accent.
Least favorite (both genders) - Boston, MA USA specifically, the whole northeast in general.

Any wonder a Massachusetts boy went to school in the Empire State of the South?

 

[bhsup]

You like peaches??

 

[Phlegmak]

Loathesome accents:
Valley girl
New York
New York Jew
Boston
New York Italian mobster
New Orleanian black American
Bay Area black American

I don't dislike English accents from other countries, except a few accents I've heard from Britain. Overall, I like the British accent tremendously, but some people from there sound really bad.

 

[downtown]

like others, i cannot stand the northeastern accent. Most of my school's students are from there (or worse, New Jersey, the worst state ever)...and it hurts to listen to them pronouce certain words. I'm allowed to make fun of people's accents in America. People from Central Ohio have almost no accent.

To make matters worse, for reasons that we are unable to fathom, my sister picked up that same stupid accent in colelge...in cleveland! I guess most of her friends are from Boston.

I'm partial to the English accent, the Jamicanian accent and the Brazilian ones.

 

[MattJek]

New York Italian mobster

You mean: "Meh! Shee here, I'll pump you fulla lead, coppa' Meh!"?
I didnt know they still talked like that

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

I love Aussie accents.

 

[SoCalian]

Ebonics
10 cahr

 

[MjM]

Ebonics
10 cahr

Fo' sho'. .

 

[Hundegesicht]

I'll second the South African accent - it's the most natural, soft, easy flowing accent in the English language. I can't listen to my friend from South Africa talk for long without finding myself imitating his accent. (I'm not the only one, either, almost everyone I know that he knows starts subconciously mimiking his accent whenever they're around him - something he must find very very strange)

 

[CaptainF]

I like:

Southern United States accents (especially with the ladies)
General American accent (or as americans would say, no accent).
European English accents (German, French, just continental european in general.)
Northeast United States accents (Yeah thats right.)

ahh screw it. I like all accents so long as they can speak freaking english. The ones above I'd prefer especially I guess.

 

[bad_ronald]

I like all accents; it's interesting to hear someone from a region on the border between two dialect areas speak to hear which peculiarites they've adopted from each (the Baltimore region is a good example). If I were forced to pick one that I like least, it would have to be Central Ohio, though . I like the English accent best.

You mean: "Meh! Shee here, I'll pump you fulla lead, coppa' Meh!"?
I didnt know they still talked like that

Just you fuhgedabouddit.

Ebonics
10 cahr

The proper term is AAVE (African American Vernacular English).

 

[SoCalian]

The proper term is AAVE (African American Vernacular English).

sorry, but it's still just lazy.

 

[Simon Darkshade]

My favoured accents are the Queen's English, Strine, Texan and thick South African, in that order.

 

[Sahkuhnder]

An English accent like Elizabeth Hurley has is beautiful.


To know correct English and to deliberately not speak it just to gain group acceptace is the worst.