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What accents do you like and dislike?
I quite like British, Irish, Scottish and Canadian.
Oddly enough (or maybe not) I don’t really like Australian accents, we are very nasal. Apparantly it is a hit overseas though.
I don’t mean to be the accuracy police, but let me be the first to say there is no such thing as a ‘British’ accent. With that said, England is complicated because IMO, some of us sound fine, but some areas of England have the most impenetrable dialects I’ve ever heard…and don’t even get me started on Brummies.
Anyway, I quite like some American accents, especially Midwestern and some Southern accents, but since my girlfriend is from the Midwest I guess I’m biased. However, some of the regional accents around New York and northern New Jersey can be a bit irritating (too nasal).
As for Irish accents, they sound nice, but have you ever tried comprehending a person with a genuine Irish accent? Not an easy task.
Yeah I did think twice before posting that, but as with any country, there is bound to be many dialects.
I do like all of the British accents/dialects, I don’t particularly find all of them attractive, but I do find some of them endearingly hilarious (maybe I’ve watched too much Little Britain).
I don’t mind if I can’t understand the person, the accent alone is usually enough 
Well as for english accents, from what I have been able to listen, english accent is th emost understable to me…
I find american’s way to speak really difficult.
For french accent, I am pretty used to southern accent from Marseille-Toulon. I really like south-western accent. However once you reach the northern (east or west) part of the country, the accent is horrible and hard to understand even for a french!!!!
you have to check “bienvenu chez les chtis” to better understand. It’s a movie based on the accents in Marseille (south) and Lille (north).
I have, and always will find myself disarmed by Irish and Australian accents. It’s like roofies and Kryptonite all rolled into one. There is also a soft spot for Japanese “Engrish”. 
As far as my own, I have a slight Southern accent that’s been tempered by years of German, Italian, and English diction due to my profession. It’s a Southern VA, Eastern GA blend. It’s very “Genteel” Southern which is only slight when I’m fully alert. However, when I’m tired, drunk, or excited, the Belle does show up to the ball.
Most people who aren’t native to the South don’t realize that the Southern accent and dialect changes from region to region. Most importantly, there is a difference between “Southern” and “Redneck”. The latter, I’d equate to the radioactive aural bile that spews from many of the yankees from Philly and NJ.
THANK you doc. there are also the “hick” southern accent.
i tend to have a midwestern way of speaking, but when i am around anyone with another accent of any kind, i usually start to adapt it to some extent. usually that is some kind of southern way of speaking, but that it is also true when i hang around the scottish family down the street, or the russians that own the bar, or the new-yorkers that i was friends with in school.My English accent varies depending to whom I’m talking, at home I have a heavier Hampshire (southern English county) accent but when at uni and lecturing I have developed this almost posh English accent that not a few guys from the States think is common to all of us…..there are some diabolical ones, dare I name Essex ….
Apparently, I have an accent. Well, at least this is what people tell me. So far, I have been British, French, and Spanish. LOL
Since I am none of these things, I find it amusing.
As a Swiss I don’t feel my French and Italian sound original, but I LOVE my socalled ugly Swiss-german accent/dialect! I speak also Hochdeutsch well.
My English accent:
in America I speak with liusiana accent, and I love to switch to the formal British when I speak english out of the state.
Was the question based on the idea of ACCENT IS HOT!!?
You know… accents have never done a thing for me before. It didn’t add or detract anything for me. However, now that I am together with my boyfriend, who’s native tongue is arabic, I am starting to rethink it.
My accent usually goes down well with people not from the UK. People in the UK think I am posh because of it.
I’d say my accent is a well and soft spoken Southern English accent, but not typically ‘posh’ sounding. My voice seems to appeal to people somehow, haha..
I am a Geordie with a great accent but the one I love to hear in England is the Scouse accent.
But I don’t really have a dislike of any one accent but brummie would come close.
As disliking people from around the world first on my list would be the Welsh.
megamark said: _ People in the UK think I am posh because of it._
I know that feeling all too well. I’m well spoken, but most call me posh.And I havent met that many foreigners, so wouldn’t know if they find my voice sexy, though I doubt it. Horrible, nasal squeaky thing. I hate my voice. I want a new one, dammit! One that’s deeper and more cool!
jackofblades said:
I hate my voice. I want a new one, dammit! One that’s deeper and more cool!
bah, you’ve got a great voice yah bugger
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