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Post by helwin tins on Mar 26, 2010 21:11:10 GMT
what ones do you like? which ones do you not like?
my favourites are probably northern irish and southern californian, maybe canadian too. alton brown has a very attractive voice.
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Post by husbandwifeheroin on Mar 26, 2010 21:18:21 GMT
My favourite has to be Hull due to my favourite teacher Mr. Penny was from Hull.
I don't really have a least favourite. Maybe the Northampton one?
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Post by jadeface on Mar 26, 2010 21:35:17 GMT
The Londonish accent that this woman had yesterday made me find it really easy to listen to her? I'm not sure if she was 'from London' but her accent was slightly different to anything I've heard. I think she just spoke in her own way, but I liked her accent.
And yes, weirdly I'd never met ANYONE Irish until I was in France last month, I really enjoyed listening to him speak because it sounded nice and because it was new.
Some scottish accents are really lovely, but it is the accent I most find really difficult to understand on some people. Mostly boys with super strong ones. I feel embarrassed to be like 'Sorry what? What? sorry?' loads of times.
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Post by idreamofcherrypies on Mar 26, 2010 21:36:40 GMT
I love this topic!! There are no accents I dislike overall (ohhh except an American one) but a few specific pronunciations irritate me sometimes. There seems to be this pretty specific northern variety that does this strange diphthong I'm not a fan of on the 'ou' sound as in 'round' so it comes out a bit like 'rewnd' and 'anniversary' is 'annivis'ry', but I think they're my only dislikes (Maxine from Shameless is a decent example). I like how Brummies say 'slide' sounds as 'sloyde'. I love Liverpool accents, Geordie accents, Scottish accents, Irish accents, Yorkshire accents, and a few Welsh accents. Some American ones annoy me (the ones where they talk really slow) but I like the NY (traditionally 'lower class') accent, the faster CA accent and the ones that sound like Johnny and June Cash. I also quite like the east end accent with an AAVE influence, I know a girl that says 'veil' that same as 'vow' and 'psychology' and 'like' are 'saa-kology' and 'laahk'. I'm a big fan of foreign accents too, there's a Polish girl in my seminar group that has the most beautiful pronunciation/intonation. She says 'I don't think that they' as 'I dowwwn't tink tat tey' and things like 'books' are more rounded, I can't type it because we don't have that vowel I don't think. I also really like German accents. I just like listening to people in their own language really, I love it when I'm in the flat and can hear people on the phone to their family. I got too carried away as usual I love accents so much I end up mentally Henry Higgins-ing people sometimes and trying to think what they say in the IPA. There's a really cool thing here on the British Library website where you can hear different accents/dialects across the UK.
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Post by wakefromthysleep on Mar 26, 2010 21:45:42 GMT
As I don't live in the UK I don't know every accent there but generally I can say that I prefer every british accent to american ones.
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Post by jadeface on Mar 26, 2010 21:48:18 GMT
There is a certain American accent that can grate on me, but I have no idea of where it originates. But mostly because I hear them say things like;
"When she escapes, to a beautiful place, it's her survival' and other pretentious and cheesy things said aloud for all to hear. You're not being poetic mate, shush it's embarrassing. So maybe it's more saying really cheesy things that they want everyone to hear, not the accent.
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Post by helwin tins on Mar 26, 2010 21:52:22 GMT
I love this topic!! There are no accents I dislike overall (ohhh except an American one) What sort of American? Teeexaan, Noo Yawwwk? I don't really like either of those. I'm not much of a fan of northern (UK) accents either, or Welsh.
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Post by idreamofcherrypies on Mar 26, 2010 22:00:54 GMT
I love this topic!! There are no accents I dislike overall (ohhh except an American one) What sort of American? Teeexaan, Noo Yawwwk? I don't really like either of those. I'm not much of a fan of northern (UK) accents either, or Welsh. Haha nooo I love those two. Err, I'll see if I can find a clip of someone doing it, but basically it takes them about a year to say a sentence. Like this girl . Every woooooord gets streeeeetched and the intonaaaaation is so over dooooone and everything's a questionnnn...
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Post by irrelevant on Mar 26, 2010 22:07:04 GMT
i like the traditional 'southern belle' accent of the south. otherwise the american southern accent can get pretty brutal. i love most of the british ones...josh's virile northerner accent had me swooning into paraplegia when i met him. i've long suspected the australian accent to have the least potential of being sexy of all the predominantly english-speaking countries. and i think i like the argentinian accent.
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Post by wakefromthysleep on Mar 26, 2010 22:11:02 GMT
I also really like German accents. haha.. I really don't like the saxon accent and when someone from bavaria starts to talk I don't understand a word. Quite funny that they are serious about calling it german. I live in an area where it's common to speak with rolling r. you could get the impression that we're an american colony. That's what one of my ex teachers said when he moved here. Besides the 'rrrrr' we have our own vocabulary. There even is a dictionary existing for that. My uncle has one. An example: The Devil - Der Teufel(German) - Dr Deibel(siegerländer Platt, the dialect you speak around the city Siegen)
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Post by idreamofcherrypies on Mar 26, 2010 22:13:34 GMT
I also really like German accents. haha.. I really don't like the saxon accent and when someone from bavaria starts to talk I don't understand a word. Quite funny that they are serious about calling it german. I live in an area where it's common to speak with rolling r. you could get the impression that we're an american colony. That's what one of my ex teachers said when he moved here. Besides the 'rrrrr' we have our own vocabulary. There even is a dictionary existing for that. My uncle has one. An example: The Devil - Der Teufel(German) - Dr Deibel(siegerländer Platt, the dialect you speak around the city Siegen) Haha ooh I'll have to listen to those now! Ahhh and I forgot New Zealand! It used to annoy me a bit but I love it after Flight of the Conchords ;D
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Aly
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Dunque is a very unflattering word
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Post by Aly on Mar 26, 2010 22:23:18 GMT
I don't like southern accents, unless it's a 50's suave one. I think the Liverpool accent is pretty cool. But Jamaican accents all the way.
I'm from Brooklyn, but I don't have a Brooklyn accent.
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Post by husbandwifeheroin on Mar 26, 2010 22:24:11 GMT
My grandfather is Jamaican and I cannot understand him at all.
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Post by lastgoodbye on Mar 26, 2010 22:25:05 GMT
I met a guy from Philedelphia the other day and he had such a great accent, I just made him say stuff over and over again. Including the Fresh Prince theme tune.
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Post by jadeface on Mar 26, 2010 22:26:47 GMT
I find Jamaican accents really friendly but I also find them hard to understand sometimes.
Once this 'Australian' family came to dinner with my grandparents. SO NOT AUSTRALIAN. I couldn't hear what they were saying, they were all husky and mumbly, I had to get my mum to translate. I don't get how ANYONE could understand them. It just sounds like 'wuhhuhuhuhshcuhcmumumaaahaha?'
I'm not that into South African accents. I quite like some African accents actually I find them really endearing because it's so different to how I speak, accent and the way things are worded and emphasized.
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Post by wakefromthysleep on Mar 26, 2010 22:30:45 GMT
Haha ooh I'll have to listen to those now! I think we're well known for star trek parodies.. at least in germany. search on youtube for siw (sinnlos im weltraum/senseless in space). Here they discuss coffee, black or with milk?: at 00:50 he says 'woa'. Example(English): it's quite funny, isn't it? The word 'woa' can be used for the 'isn't it?' at the end of one phrase: ''Ist schwer lustig, woa?'(German). I often use it. In the ruhr area you would say 'ne' instead of 'woa'.
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Dunque is a very unflattering word
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Post by Aly on Mar 26, 2010 22:32:04 GMT
My grandfather is Jamaican and I cannot understand him at all. I wish I had a Jamaican relative.. I like to ask Philadelphians to say "water" it's great. Who doesn't love the Fresh Prince opening? I'm not very fond of south african accents and middle eastern accent, at least the ones towards South Asia
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Post by helwin tins on Mar 26, 2010 22:35:23 GMT
Oooh! I forgot I like South African accents. Well, usually. Not Australian or NZ though.
French and Italian are quite sexy, as long as they're not too strong. German and Spanish I find too harsh.
I don't really like any strong accents though, I have problems hearing/understanding people enough as it is.
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Post by husbandwifeheroin on Mar 26, 2010 22:35:28 GMT
My grandfather is Jamaican and I cannot understand him at all. I wish I had a Jamaican relative.. I have hundreds, take some of mine. I am not fond of South African either...
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Post by lastgoodbye on Mar 26, 2010 22:37:13 GMT
I like South African accents! I had a teacher with one (he was from South Africa ya see) and it sounded funky.
But Jade you've reminded me, I love African accents.
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