Accent

[Bozo Erectus]

I like a mild Scottish accent, but I stay away from the harder stuff though

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

I like Southern or Mexican accents in women, English accents in general.

 

[Arachnaphobia]

The French accent I think is pretty cool, as are the Australian and South African accents. I can't stand most English accents though (as in ones spoken in England). Too irritating or difficult to understand.

 

[BCLG100]

To all your brummies i hate your accent so i apologise, otherwise there arnt many which annoy me.

 

[Odin2006]

Like:
New England (Harvard = Hahvahd)
NYC/New Jersey (Forget about it = Fagidahbadit)
Upper-Midwestern (the accent in the movie Fargo)

Dislike
Ebonics (Whaz up'n shitz yo?)
Cockney (hotel ='otel)
California "valley girl" (thats Tyoooo Kyooool)

 

[Mongoloid Cow]

( I know a girl that's natural accent was that "fake" sounding accent)

Trust me. No Australian talks like the fake Aussie accent. It sounds almost Cockney or American.

The most annoying is the Chinese.

Oh yeah, that one's a shocker. When you hear that one, you almost think they are telling people how they are going to brutally butcher babies, or something else psychotic.

 

[Irish Caesar]

You like peaches??

If that's what you call them...

 

[CoolioVonHoolio]

is there a chicago accent? ive been told i have one...

 

[Yeeek]

I don't like listening to english people speaking in french with a light english accent.

 

[Che Guava]

I met someone a little while ago who is an egyptian palestinian who grew up in Jordan. His accent was about one of the coolest I've ever heard...

 

[sysyphus]

Manchester, gets on ye nuvs after a while doesn't it then?

Of course, nobody has a more boring way of speaking than Canadians do. It's just so plain and dull.

 

[slip79]

Well my gorgeous girl has a soft South African accent. Not an Afrikaaner one but and English SA one. Very hot.
She likes my soft Kiwi accent and says it isn't too strong. *shrugs*

 

[jamiethearcher]

Manchester, gets on ye nuvs after a while doesn't it then?

Of course, nobody has a more boring way of speaking than Canadians do. It's just so plain and dull.

Funny enough, when I was growing up in Ontario, I always though "we don't have an accent, everyone else does" - i never understood why my family in the US made fun of Canadians for saying "aboot" instead of "About" etc, until I moved to buffalo, which is a VERY different accent. After being immersed in it for a while, and not talking to many people from Canada, when I did go back for a visit, the "canadian" accent blew me away, because I had never noticed it before. - Trust me, it exists!

On another note, my classmates here in NY teased me everytime i said "eh" (which turned out to be ALOT more than I thought I was doing it) - anyways, I rarely say "eh" now, and when talking to a Canadian, its one of the first things i notice. - There is actually a girl who transfered in this year, who is also Canadian, and I want to rip her tounge out everytime she talks because she says "eh" every third word, and it just makes all Canadians look like a bunch of goofs!

 

[Irish Caesar]

You think that's bad, wait'll you see the looks you get when you use "wicked" as a synonym for "really" south of the Mason-Dixon line!

 

[Phlegmak]

Funny enough, when I was growing up in Ontario, I always though "we don't have an accent, everyone else does" - i never understood why my family in the US made fun of Canadians for saying "aboot" instead of "About" etc, until I moved to buffalo, which is a VERY different accent. After being immersed in it for a while, and not talking to many people from Canada, when I did go back for a visit, the "canadian" accent blew me away, because I had never noticed it before. - Trust me, it exists!

On another note, my classmates here in NY teased me everytime i said "eh" (which turned out to be ALOT more than I thought I was doing it) - anyways, I rarely say "eh" now, and when talking to a Canadian, its one of the first things i notice. - There is actually a girl who transfered in this year, who is also Canadian, and I want to rip her tounge out everytime she talks because she says "eh" every third word, and it just makes all Canadians look like a bunch of goofs!

Interesting. I used to be made fun of for saying y'all, which I think is the only word I retained from growing up outside of New Orleans. By the way, nobody in New Orleans (before and after Katrina) ever says "Where ya at?"

 

[Danghis Khan]

Of course, nobody has a more boring way of speaking than Canadians do. It's just so plain and dull.

Actually, I was going to say that one of my favorite accents is Quebecois english. It's like a France french accent, but replacing the 'zee' sounds with a 'de'.

I'd also give an honourable mention to BBC english.

 

[Der Sensenmann]

I probably like Cockney accents the best, but maybe that's because I can actually understand their slang.

Middle Australian also sounds OK (probably biased there), but I don't much care for Broad, it just sounds dumb.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I always though "we don't have an accent, everyone else does"

I think it's like that for everyone to the accent they speak.

 

[Bartleby]

Most accents are acceptable until they become too thick. Usually I'm more interested in what is being said. I have a time-diluted Geordie (NE England) accent.

 

[mitsho]

If we are speaking of accents here, I think I got to mention the German accent of the Wallis. As astonishing as it is, even we Swiss have big problems to understand them, let alone the normal German or Austrian, no chance out there. There was a few time ago an advertisement for Raclette (which is Wallisian) in Wallis-German here in Switzerland, the funny thing is that they wrote the translation in normal German below...

mitsho