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SpaceWeavil
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Oh back on topic: One of the accents I can not stand is someone that isn't southern trying to speak southern. They all seem to be from Great Britian or Aussie's. What is up with that?? |
Try someone that isn't Scottish trying to do a Scottish accent.  That is actually painful. If I hear it in one more film out of Hollywood I will scream. But then I actually heard one of the most dire attempts on a BBC soap filmed, supposedly, in Scotland.
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queenoftheshire
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I have a very nice New Yorker accent, thankyouverymuch.
And no, I don't mean Brooklyn-ese New Yorker.
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The Boston Accent is always really entertaining! 
I love the aussie accent. -melts-
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Amlee
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| SpaceWeavil wrote: | | Quote: |
Oh back on topic: One of the accents I can not stand is someone that isn't southern trying to speak southern. They all seem to be from Great Britian or Aussie's. What is up with that?? |
Try someone that isn't Scottish trying to do a Scottish accent. That is actually painful. If I hear it in one more film out of Hollywood I will scream. But then I actually heard one of the most dire attempts on a BBC soap filmed, supposedly, in Scotland. |
Would the Tom Cruise movie "Far and Away" be a good example of that??? His Irish accent was sooooooo bad! |
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Poor Orlando's Irish (if you can call it that) was no better Poor lad, I suppose thats a hard one to imitate.
Blessedly funny to listen to people try though
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Leilana
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The Boston Accent is always really entertaining!
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HAHA! I had a speech impediment when I was little and everyone thought I was from Boston! I was teased so much by my family (nobody at school cared) that I taught myself to speak properly. This means that my Canadian accent is not quite Canadian sounding, since I tend to articulate clearly. You can still hear the impediment whenever I'm in an emotional high (ie:scared, excited etc.).  Now that I've been in Scotland for a while, I have also picked up some more British sayings.  For example: I called someone a 'bloody tosser' the other day, and gave him the "v's". LAMO! NOBODY at home would have any clue of what I was doing! Well...I suppose the tone and angry look would give it away... |
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BittenBuggy
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| Leilana wrote: | | I called someone a 'bloody tosser' the other day, and gave him the "v's". LAMO! NOBODY at home would have any clue of what I was doing! Well...I suppose the tone and angry look would give it away... |
You're not alone! My mum looked at me like I was mad the other day. I was so embarassed that I had to translate european slang.
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| When I was three, My canadian grandma taught me to read, so all of my teachers thought that I had a real problem...I spoke normally, but read books aloud with a canadian accent. I still do! because, that is how you read by phonics, by what the letters "Say" and I learned in Canadian! I would shrink to the size of a pea when we were supposed to read out loud...what a mess...My brother had issues with R's and L's So his name was Jared Mark and it came out Jawed Mauk I was Kelley and he says it Kewwie! He decided in sunday school that his name was Jim. He could say Jim. Poor kid, now he gets all the girls cuz he looks like Colin Farrell. |
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kayleighTalitha
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English accent, not the London one, but such as Lando makes me melt! Gotta love those accents.
I'm from the Netherlands, have a terrible accent, much like all Dutch actors gone to USA, like Derek de Lint for example. Hahaha.......Funny accent.
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Mmmm...my cousin married someone from around Liverpool. I love that accent, it is so soothing. Of course, so are all brogues, Irish, Scottish, etc. And of course the Aussie and New Zealand accents are awesome.
What grates on me, being from the South, is hearing people who aren't when the try to fake a simpering southern belle accent. It doesnt work. I guess that's is what it sounds like to people from Scotland or England when someone tries to imitate them? |
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Philia
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| Amlee wrote: |
Would the Tom Cruise movie "Far and Away" be a good example of that??? His Irish accent was sooooooo bad! |
I'm definitely not an expert of accents but even I noticed how crappy that sounded! *lol*
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Philia
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I adore the Scottish accent, esp. the Glaswegian. I have a tutor at uni who's from Glasgow and I could listen to her talking for hours  My other tutor's from London and he told us when he was young he spoke pure Cockney... but since he's been to Germany for so long, teaching students Standard English he hardly speaks Cockney anymore. I've never ever heard someone speaking such a clear standard English in my life, it's amazing. (Oh maybe I should mention I do British studies and so have to do classes in Phonetics and Linguistics... hence my interest in accents  ) Nonetheless, I prefer the Scottish one. Yesh *lol*
I think lots of native speakers are making fun of Germans speaking English ... and I admit, it DOES sound weird. I mean, I got peeps in my classes who are some semesters ahead of me and have the worst (stereotypic, really) German accent ever... like 'I sink zis isss a rrrreally good sing....' I know I'm not much better but I try the best I can to avoid it and pronounce the 'th's and so on correctly Whenever I go to Ireland or GB on holiday, I almost don't dare to talk to people there so no one will notice I'm a German.
Though, a friend of mine from Edinburgh called me once and she said afterwards my accent wasn't so bad at all, not annoying but cute actually
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queenoftheshire
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I love the New Zealand accent!!
It's just like this friendly comforting tone to me, and after watching so much NZ films () I always get in this childlike mood when I hear somebody with the accent.
"Hey! That guy's from New Zealand!!!"
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kayleighTalitha
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| Quote: | | I love the New Zealand accent!! |
I totally back you up on that. I watch the show the Tribe from New Zealand alot, and those peeps talk beautifully, I envy them!
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I have to say, that German accent is cute, in my opinion. It's not fair though, moving to Germany in a year, so I'm not being objective
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Philia
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But I absolutely adore Dutch speaking German... it sounds so much cooler!
Oh yo're going to move to Germany? Where to?
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Leilana
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| Philia wrote: | | I adore the Scottish accent, esp. the Glaswegian. |
Too true! I move back to Canada (from Scotland) soon and I can't wait to fly from Glasgow! I can't understand what the heckers they're saying (though since I've been here a while, I'm getting better), but I love it. I think I may have said this before, but in Glasgow, even the cabbies are hot when they talk!  |
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