Most annoying accents?

[Atlas14]

Ok then, don't say that there is a "British" accent.

What what would the stereotypical "British accent" be called then?

 

[Rossiya]

Its just that us americans cant tell different british accents apart.

I only recognize irish, scottish, and the british thats not scottish (welsh?).

I only recognise the rural and Yank accents.

 

[Rossiya]

What what would the stereotypical "British accent" be called then?

No idea, it's you Americans who have coined the term. It means nothing.

 

[Atlas14]

No idea, it's you Americans who have coined the term. It means nothing.

Oh, darn then. Im with Xanikk, I can't tell any British accents apart, but then again I've never been to the UK and I don't typically watch British films outside of Monty Python movies.

 

[GenMarshall]

I dont see any American accents annoying. I am pretty much used to it and can linguistically translate them to Standard American English.

(Well, Since I am studying Japanese. I really cant Translate Southern American English into Japanese directly. So I must translate Southern American English into Standard American English and THEN to Japanese )

 

[bhsup]

That's disappointing, I may be picking that one up as time goes on.

(I can drop it the instant I land at Logan, though.)

Sorry, didn't mean to offend. I guess it's probably not really 'bad' when spoken by a male, but a female Georgian accent is so beautiful that anything seems bad by comparison.

 

[Rossiya]

Oh, darn then. Im with Xanikk, I can't tell any British accents apart, but then again I've never been to the UK and I don't typically watch British films outside of Monty Python movies.

That's fine by me, I only really can identify two American accents.

In Britain I think there is:

West Country
Cockney
South-Southeastern (mine)
Urban Welsh
Rural Welsh (not separate Welsh language)
Southern Irish
Northern Irish
Urban Scottish
Highland Scottish
Yorkshire
Liverpudlian (scouser)
Birmingham
West Midlands
Jordie

 

[Bugfatty300]

So the whole of the USA is a city? Sorry, I don't think your country is that developed.

No. You don't understand what I'm saying.

There is no "rural" accent because they differ from each other from region to region.

When you say "rural accent" I have no idea what your talking about. Do you mean rural Alaskan accent? Rural Maine accent? Rural Alabama accent? They're about as different a light and day and some are so similar that you can't tell the difference.

Hence there is no "rural accent" in the US.

Anyway. I assumed you were talking about the "Southern accent" which ISN'T RURAL. It can be heard in major Southern cities and suburbs as much as the backwoods.

 

[Rossiya]

No. You don't understand what I'm saying.

Have I misunderstood you, or have you been unclear in what you are saying?

 

[Irish Caesar]

Sorry, didn't mean to offend.

If I was easily offended, would I be here at all?

I guess it's probably not really 'bad' when spoken by a male, but a female Georgian accent is so beautiful that anything seems bad by comparison.

No comment.

 

[GenMarshall]

That's fine by me, I only really can identify two American accents.

Strange, I can identfy a whole lot of American accents.

Standard American English
African American Vernacular English (Ebonics)
Southern American English
New Yorker/Manhattan English
Bostonian/Massachusetts/Boston English
Central New England English (Cross between New Yorker and Bostonian, My native accent)
American Midwestern English
American Texan English
Baltimorese
California English
Chicano English
Hawaiian Pidgin English
Maine-New Hampshire English
Pacific Northwest English
Pittsburgh English
Utah English
Yooper

And many more that I did not listed

 

[Bugfatty300]

Have I misunderstood you, or have you been unclear in what you are saying?

Maybe but what you were talking about is the Southern accent.

 

[Rossiya]

Amended List:

West Country
Cockney
South-Southeastern (mine)
Urban Welsh
Rural Welsh (not separate Welsh language)
Southern Irish
Northern Irish
Urban Scottish
Highland Scottish
Yorkshire
Liverpudlian (scouser)
Birmingham
West Midlands
Jordie
African-British
Muslim_British
Balkan-British
Indian Subcontinent-British
Fareastern-British

Strange, I can identfy a whole lot of American accents.

Please, don't be sarcastic with me. You're American living in America, I am English in England. No wonder I can only identify two American accents.

 

[GenMarshall]

Please, don't be sarcastic with me.

I was not in anyway being sarcastic . Sorry if I was.

 

[Irish Caesar]

Bostonian/Massachusetts/Boston English

Which is a ton of different accents itself.

 

[mangxema]

What what would the stereotypical "British accent" be called then?

I think the London one... Cockney maybe? I don't know... The one I'm thinking of never pronounces h's.

 

[Rossiya]

I think the London one... Cockney maybe? I don't know... The one I'm thinking of never pronounces h's.

I live in Kent, the southeast of England, and we don't pronounce the "h"s either. Neither do we pronounce "th"s properly.

Cockney is just coarser than Kentish.

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

I was not in anyway being sarcastic . Sorry if I was.

He probably got confused with your accent

 

[Elta]

Rural Maine accent?

That is the funnyest accent - with the largest % of french speakers (5%) - If you recall when Conan used to take clips from this one am trade show in Maine.
-Random people would call in and leave a message with thier contacts - I yam lookin to trade me old cah fo jacuzies o a tree man tun of any kined. *looks for youtube clips*

As someone from Vegas I would say there are 5 "rural" sounding accents that are easy to point out (even thou I've never been to the south)

Southern accent in general - Atlanta, all of the major citys in the south probably (I know alot of people from atlanta, you can see a few of the people in headline news trying to hold this accent back)

Texas accent - you know

Apalachin accent - West Virginia etc etc

Louisiana - see the water boy

Good ol boy - Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall, and Ron White for example don't have this accent - Larry the Cable Guy* does, in general if you can see them saying HELL YEAH SKEETER!!!! then thy have it.


*Yes I know it's fake - he even adimited it in his book.

 

[Lotus49]

That's fine by me, I only really can identify two American accents.

In Britain I think there is:

West Country
Cockney
South-Southeastern (mine)
Urban Welsh
Rural Welsh (not separate Welsh language)
Southern Irish
Northern Irish
Urban Scottish
Highland Scottish
Yorkshire
Liverpudlian (scouser)
Birmingham
West Midlands
Jordie

Nobody cares. It's a British accent.

Just like I try to explain that I'm not a "Yank", you don't care. So, there we are.