Regional Accents

[GottaBigOne]

DAYYYUM TEX, that is a very nice ass you got there, your name does not lie.

 

[Pecker]

Originally posted by GottaBigOne@Sep 14 2005, 01:31 PM
Australian accents really get me going, and it started just recently because of this. Tonight I have a date with an australian girl, and I'm very excited.

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Gee, GBO, all them Australian girls got tits.

 

[GottaBigOne]

Most girls have tits, i don't think its just the australians.

 

[B_DoubleMeatWhopper]

I have a hard time picking a favourite. I think Italian, especially as spoken in Tuscany, is possibly the most beautiful language, but the Tuscan accent used when speaking English is often quite absurb-sounding. I like many Celtic accents, especially Welsh as spoken in western Wales. French ... sorry, but no. The French dark vowels and harsh uvular r just don't do it for me. Swedish and Norwegian accents are too sing-song for my liking. Now the accent of an Afrikaaner speaking English is rather pleasant: mostly RP English with just enough Dutch to make it interesting.

Southern accents can be fine, but they are such a mixed bag. There is no such thing as a standard Southern accent. Take someone from Georgia, from Virginia and from Kentucky and listen to them: the accents are nothing alike. Where I live now, the accent is outright redneck. I'm not fond of it. Interestingly, the usual accents of New Orleans natives are not Southern at all. The typical accent is a modified Brooklyn accent, while those who lived in the garden district sounded like they were from Boston. I guess those accents will be largely lost in the post-Katrina diaspora.

My own accent is still a bit generic Hispanic with a bit of Southern drawl. The faster I speak, the more Latino I sound. I'm not particularly fond of my peculiar accent, but others have told me that they like it. The word sexy has been used to describe my voice, but I somehow don't find that to be an apt description when I hear a recording of my voice. I guess sexiness is in the ear of the beholder.

 

[madame_zora]

I find it positively horrifying to listen to my own recorded voice. I have spent a long time trying to erradicate any accent, but I have no idea if I have done it.

Jacinto, your voice is beautiful, and it does change as you speak more rapidly, but I think that's true of a lot of people. I got a real kick of hearing you impersonate the southern drawl!

Dr. Rock, I was told you have the voice of a proper English gentleman, which is what I would have expected anyway. Despite your witicisms, your intelligence would simply not let you speak otherwise.

I've never heard an accent I didn't find interesting, I am so drawn to language, I love hearing anything that is different from myself. Austrailian accents are cool, asian Indian accents are positively musical (they sound so funny when they're mad&#33, gutteral German accents are a fav, they're just so brash. I like the differences. I've now heard a native from Zimbabwe speak, and his accent had a British English tone, it was amazing. I even love southern redneck accents, as long as I can COME HOME after a while.

 

[absinthium]

Originally posted by Dr Rock@Sep 14 2005, 10:58 AM
I don't got any accent to speak of...

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Everyone has an accent, sillybuns... I'm cursed with a nasal Midwestern thing that makes me sound like I have a perpetual headcold, for instance. Besides, I've heard you speak, you definitely have a dignified, and quite beautiful, British influenced accent. It was different from what I was expecting... I figured you'd sound like some kind of snide, barbaric, human flesh devouring mongrel.

I was a little disappointed, honestly. (I kid.)

I think females with thick Scottish accents can be most charming. Shirley Manson is wonderful to listen to in interviews. I also knew a girl from Germany with a light, sing-song quality to her accent. It wasn't guttural or harsh in the least. I used to imitate it for her, which she found infinitely amusing. Because of Bjork and Jonsi Thor Birgisson, I've become enamoured with Icelandic accents (as well as the language, obviously). In general, you can't go wrong with an English accent. I find the more genteel accent common among folks in the deep South (not nasty KY or WV) can sound quite refined, and certainly adorable.

 

[D_Barbi_Queue]

I am SO going to have to get used to living closer to so many members. It's funny for me to hear about someone living in Queens when that is only about 30-45 minutes from me. I'm used to living out in the middle of nowhere.

 

[dcwrestlefan]

Originally posted by Irvy@Sep 14 2005, 01:42 PM
I have a very deep voice too, which women seem to find more attractive than men.  I guess it's the whole "find a man like daddy" thing you hear about.

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Uh buh buh bup. Hold on there. A deep voice is high on my list of things that I find sexy about a guy. And last time I checked (looking down), yep, I'm a guy.
Haha. I think gay men *do* notice voices. Alot.

Can't think of too many accents outside the USA that don't sound cool to me.
Give me a nice Aussie lifeguard mate.

As far as the domestic ones, New Yorkers may rank highest on my list. I don't like the upper Midwest accent. Ruff=roof. Kerr=car. I spent a month in Minnesooota once and don't miss the voices at all. Southwest Virginia is my favorite southern accent. Its cozy sounding, like the narrator for the Waltons years ago. House=hoase.

My hometown, Baltimore, has kind of an annoying accent, though it seems to be disappearing. Its different from one neighborhood to the next, but the stereotyped one sounds unintelligent to my ears. Hon. Oil=ool. Baltimore=Bawdimore or Balmer, depending on the hood you live in. Ahm gewwin downey ooshin = I am going to the ocean. Ammalampse=ambulance. Chimley=chimney. Wooder=water. Buhskeddies=spaghetti. (ok, this is a kid thing but it seemed prevalent, at least where I grew up)

Oh, and while we are talking regional stuff. Its SODA or COKE, not POP. K?

 

[Pecker]

TAG's ass speaks my kind of language!

 

[prepstudinsc]

Originally posted by Axex@Sep 14 2005, 08:37 PM
Whoah whoah whoah...I DO NOT have a jersey accent...DO NOT DO NOT DO NOT DO NOT. ....Do I?

Accents as a turn on? Well Southern accents are fucking HOT. I used to get annoyed by them when I was younger but now I think they're so cute and adorable and if you're like someone I know who secretly has a 1-900#, well they can be totally steamy.

Also most English accents I've heard are pretty darn hot too.

Any voice that doesn't sound like where I come from I think it attractive in its own unique way.

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Julian doesn't have a Jersey accent. I mean the kind from Northern New Jersey that is that god-awful way of talking like up around Newark, NJ. I lump the accents of the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Northern New Jersey all into one pile--annoying to my ears. It seems as if when you get into central and southern NJ, it tones down and is less abrasive. I've got friends from the Philly area and they don't have that NJ accent and haven't hear Julian have it, either. There is a definite northern twang, but not anything like NY or NJ.

As to Southern accents, it's interesting to hear the accents change just in different areas of a state. My accent is fairly light, but it gets heavier if I get excited or angry...words get drawwwwwn out and vowels suddenly get all sorts of dipthongs.
As cities become much more metropolitan and not so provincial (as they have been for years down here), the regional accent is being lost or being blended into just a general "Southern" accent and not traceable to a particular county as it was before.

 

[SpeedoGuy]

Lots of different accents light my fire. Scots and Australian probably the most.

SG

 

[Dorset]

Originally posted by madame_zora@Sep 14 2005, 11:40 PM
I've never heard an accent I didn't find interesting, I am so drawn to language, I love hearing anything that is different from myself.

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I think this is true of most women, it ads a bit of mystique to the man. I think you'll find a lot of hansome foreign strangers in womens literature

 

[BBB2.5]

Hands down ..Australian..... :evilgrin:
:hi:

 

[MisterMark]

Originally posted by DoubleMeatWhopper@Sep 14 2005, 01:53 PM
Interestingly, the usual accents of New Orleans natives are not Southern at all. The typical accent is a modified Brooklyn accent, while those who lived in the garden district sounded like they were from Boston.

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I'm glad you mentioned this! I've noticed it from time to time and could never figure out exactly what I was hearing. I don't know if you're familiar with a political strategist named Donna Brazille, but when I first heard her speaking, I would have bet BIG bucks that she was from somewhere in the Northeast U.S., but then I found out she's from Louisiana! :shrug:

 

[MisterMark]

I really like hearing accents from the Northeast U.S. As with so many things, my political orientation influences the accents that I like and dislike. When I hear someone from the Northeast, I assume that person is probably more open-minded as opposed to Southerners, who I assume to be less open-minded. Broad generalizations, I know - but most of the time, they're accurate.

For some of the same reasons, I also like accents from the Upper Midwest.

Guys from Chicago, like guys from the big cities of the Northeast, can sound kind of "tough", and I like that. :bigsmile:

 

[Dr. Bubbles]

I like Australian and British accents.....


BUT....


there is nothing more charming than an eloquent, articulate southern gentleman with a charm and twinkle in his voice...

Oh, and Jules, I agree with you about that "particular person" doing the 1-900 number thingie... I told her we could make a fortune if she would just do it... Wake up girl!!!!

Sing the song... MONEY, MONEY, MONEY....... MONEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Oh, southern has my vote.

 

[prepstudinsc]

I'd be calling the 900 # if that person that we know started it...can we say "sultry"?

 

[DC_DEEP]

What an interesting thread!

As an Arkansas native, I suppose mine tends toward a southern accent, but I have been told that mine is less so than most.

I find many different accents to be attractive, and some to be a bit humorous, and some downright abrasive; but often, it depends upon the speaker, and his own variation. For a total-immersion cinema experience, and also a darkly hilarious movie, check out "Fargo." Some truly excellent Minnesota work there.

Just as a personal observation, the worldwide accents I have heard seem to follow a trend - in general, the colder climates tend to produce harsher, more gutteral vocal trends, and warmer climates tend to produce lighter, more lyrical sounds. Any comments?

And my final note - the hillbilly accents, especially from the Ozarks and to some degree from the Appalachians, seem to get the most negative responses from people of other areas in this country. The interesting part is that these dialects appear to be the last remaining vestiges of the English language from the Shakespearean era. Creature=critter, victuals (food)=vittles, the list goes on... these pronunciations were common, proper, and accepted in London at the time.

 

[Alley Blue]

Originally posted by Irvy@Sep 14 2005, 02:02 PM
Let's hope some other people can do this too. Here's my voice, and therefore accent. It's a poem I wrote and recorded so I could send it someone a while back.

My accent

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Great British accent.


"The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain" :+

 

[Shelby]

One of my parents is from the coast of Maine and the other from Mississippi. We'd spend summers in one place and the school year at the other. I used to could switch between the two accents at will.

Now I have some kind of fucked up hybrid.

as to what I like - Russian girls speaking English get me hot :evilgrin: