english accent

[MattBrick]

Yes, it still counts! Actually, I work in the UK now and then, so I've gained a better understanding of the variety of accents there. I think a lot of Yanks just think "English accent" the way a lot of people think there is one "southern accent" in the US.

I'm not sure people think that there is just one English and one southern accent - but people understand when they hear one of them what they are.

 

[London_Calling]

I was born in the East End of London and grew up as a kid speaking with a cockney accent but at age 11 I was sent to a private school where all the boys spoke with a 'posh' accent so I tried to adapt to fit in. Because of that I've got bit of a strange accent even now. Half the time people I speak to don't even think I sound English which is a bit scary!

 

[NCbear]

. . . it's handy if I get caught doing anything inappropriate - I can always just play the "dumb tourist" card and get away with it.

This was true for me when I lived in Kentucky for six years. Once I was stopped by a police officer for driving through the parallel parking spots on the side of the road. I acted shocked and told him, "In North Carolina, the parallel parking is marked with painted lines on the road. That's why I didn't know I was driving through parking spaces."

Of course it was a lie--I was trying to use that lane to get ahead of a very slow senior citizen--but he bought it. Result? No ticket, not even a written warning.

Back to accents: I can appreciate most accents except those that contain mumbles, swallowed sounds, or de rigeur asinine posturing.

NCbear (who likes best of all the northern Virginia old money accent, expressed best by the character "van Pelt"--"the President's National Security Advisor"--in the movie version of The Hunt for Red October)

 

[D_golden parachute]

North East England. The Newcastle area. Listen to this

Well I sound nothing like that, at all.

 

[the_rock]

YouTube - British Accents

A lad explaining various brit accents

 

[B_hugelymassivepenis]

My thoughts:
English accents (from the perspective of a foreigner) are sexy : on women
The guys sounds kind of dweeby - sorry guys

As for men, many of the accents from the American south sound affable, open and manly to me. I would be glad to talk like that.

As for me though, I come from the same town as Joe Pesci, if that gives you any indication.

You're saying that from the point of a heterosexual male. You may as well say the same about bras.

Give an American woman the choice to talk to an English person or you and in most cases you'll see her get fizzy knickers with the limey.

 

[Adam875]

lol cockney.

Boltonian accents are the best. Its also a little known fact that Boltonians have the largest penises of all the peoples of all the worlds that have existed, do exist, and might exist in the future.

:smile:

They must be bolted on, then. That can be the only explanation.

When I've been over in the US I've often got the comment (from men, too): "Gee, I like your airc-cent! It's reel cute". I suppose I speak the RP (Received Pronunciation) type. By & large, BBC presenters and announcers use this, but of course you can hear all regional accents and dialects too (lots of Scots!). Yes, Jamie Oliver is a good example of "Estuary".

 

[midlifebear]

Adam875:

Am I to presume you do not live in Darkly Noon? You've no rav chav accent? Shirley Ewejest?

An' don' be givin' me no evils! Jus askin'.

 

[johnson1000]

i dont have a regional accent- thank god because i live in Norfolk (UK) and the accent here is hilarious. so people say that i do sound posh. hasnt attracted anyone yet but i have heard that foreign people like it, is this true, is it worth a trip abroad?lol.

 

[D_Ivana Dickenside]

i looooooove all types of accents! my faves are english, irish, and australian. i'm american so the way we speak here doesn't really do it for me. give me a guy with one of these accents any day and i'll be fired up and good to go!

 

[Adam875]

Adam875:

Am I to presume you do not live in Darkly Noon? You've no rav chav accent? Shirley Ewejest?

An' don' be givin' me no evils! Jus askin'.

No, man! Ah doan', an' Ah sure doan' tark tha' way.

 

[Adam875]

i dont have a regional accent- thank god because i live in Norfolk (UK) and the accent here is hilarious. so people say that i do sound posh. hasnt attracted anyone yet but i have heard that foreign people like it, is this true, is it worth a trip abroad?lol.

Great place, Norfolk. And great accents, too. Being spoilt these days, though, by the invasion of well-looted Londoners with yachts and arty-farty accents. But if there are lots more like the great johnson1000 it could also be the s/s centre of the UK ... and earn LPSG 5-star status.

And BTW, johnson, yes - do head off to the US ... they really do appreciate a bit of decent Brit-talk.

 

[johnson1000]

i will book a flight next week.lol

 

[nay-nay]

I like an italian accent myself...very sexy!

OMG YES! that is my top favorite! whew! :biggrin1:

i also love the australian accent!

st lucian accent.

i just love accents.