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Personally I love the typical British accent (London). Skottish is really cool. And maybe East Coast American. I don't like Australian. Texas is horrible, not at least because it reminds me of Bush.
leopard said:Personally I love the typical British accent (London). Skottish is really cool. And maybe East Coast American. I don't like Australian. Texas is horrible, not at least because it reminds me of Bush.
matthyaouw said:Which London accent is that then? An example would be good.
There is no such thing as a typical British accent as far as I'm aware.
D H said:Which Texas accent?
epenguin said:Yes there is, perhaps, about 10X more variety in British accents than in American.
There are some I think of as rather ugly. They tend to coincide with industrial regions, well now post-industrial. Some might therefore impute me snobbery but on the other hand I like the West Country accent which other snobs consider yokelish country bumpkin. My favorite accent is the Welsh. But it is also a spirit and way of saying things and there is more than just sound involved in all these accents, and personal history also in one's likes. Welsh accent would not do if everybody spoke it because it involves, so say phoneticists, a 'phonetic simplification' with respect to standard English.
The regional accents were in decline but have made a comeback. The last ten or so years have seen the diffusion of something called 'Estuary English' which, nearest description I can manage, has a base of a kind of lazy diluted Cockney after diasporisation through South ('Sarf') London and Essex () with various additions including American plus whatever mid-Atlantic publicityspeak is imagined as such, Caribbean, borrowings from Geek acronymised and txted; the salad cream smothering this mishmash of linguistic fastfood is the desire to at all costs sound streetwise.
offtheleft said:i absolutely love the english/australian accent. especially on girls, i think its so enticing and attractive. i seriously melt when i hear it lol.
epenguin said:I like the West Country accent
Umm, no. Here is where General American is spoken:jms5631 said:The U.S midwestern accent is probally the blandest in my opinion(it's mine, Detroit area). Doesn't seem to have any real distinguishing charecteristics.
jimmysnyder said:Although English is spoken with an accent in all other places, we here in South Jersey speak with no accent at all. That's best.
D H said:Umm, no. Here is where General American is spoken:
leopard said:Is Stoke and/or Warwickshire representative for Black Country accent?
jms5631 said:Now that you mention it, I can recognize a little bit of Canadian in our dialect.
Well, sorry aboot that, eh? You bet you going to sound like us if you live near us eh? You can try to take-off but the accent will follow you around like a hoser eh?
Never heard of that one, Evo. Must be cutsie-talk for a pot-luck supper. Maybe your cooking mentor Rachael Raye will pick up on it and add it to delish! and veggies!Evo said:I have a client in Boston and it cracks me up to listen to their auto-attendant when I call them. Got to love people that have social gatherings they call a "potty".
Evo said:I have a client in Boston and it cracks me up to listen to their auto-attendant when I call them. Got to love people that have social gatherings they call a "potty".
Yes, ear = eah. And for turbo, party = potty, car = Kah. Ah pahked mah kah neah the potty.lisab said:
My mom tells a story about a friend of hers who was from Boston. This friend once asked my mom, "Do you have PSDS?" My mom asked what PSDS was. Her friend pinched her earlobes and said, "You know, PSDS!" (pierced ears!).
jimmysnyder said:Although English is spoken with an accent in all other places, we here in South Jersey speak with no accent at all. That's best.