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your favourite accents?

I was just wondering what everyones favourite accents were on here, and i wasnt all that sure where i should put this so appologies if its wrong.

i particularly like the irish accent, but i hate the male irish accent... dont know why.

 

and so you guys know i have a scottish accent!


Daren's picture

Scottish? How cool! I love

Scottish? How cool! I love RP British accents, definitely my number one. And then French, although depending on the person speaking, it could sound pretty ridiculous. Middle eastern accents also fascinate me. Indian is fun... I'm all over the place, really!
BerryHead's picture

accent mark!

love me the british and french accents! =D
桜's picture

accents = hot

I think I said it all in the line above. Lol.

But I do find women with (any) accents attractive.

Rachel Shelley and Andrey Tautou. Well they attract me to watch any movies they're in because I wouldn't mind hearing them speak..AT ALL..I'll willingly sit through it even if it was SUPER long. Well that and the fact that they're both very attractive.

Everince I saw Amelie, Audrey gave me the French fever. I seriously started to learn the language on my own.

danieware's picture

  haha :D 

 

haha :D  agreed. 

Audrey is like the perfect woman 

Anitsirhc's picture

audrey!

omg i'm totally with you on audrey tautou... now i'm going to france for a semester so i'll get to enjoy the french accent even more!  my other favs are british and australian, so rachel shelley definitely fits in that category, too...
Ash's picture

Accents in general

But I would be partial to whichever accent someone I loved had. Hearing people with the same accent as her would perk my ears right up! 

 

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music.is.everything.'s picture

accents...

...are my favorite.

if you have any type of accent, I will most likely want to learn more about you. my personal favorites are south african, australian, and british.

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IndieMango's picture

where did you hear the south

where did you hear the south african accent?
music.is.everything.'s picture

accents...

double post   :p

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and in our honesty, together we will rise, out of our nightminds and into the light at the end of the fight...

mymaryjane87's picture

i like them all, but I'm

i like them all, but I'm gonna go with French

dutch being second

Penny Winterr's picture

Dutch Girls

Woooo!

I tell you this in all sincerity.  The single sexist girl I have ever met in ALL my life was Dutch!  She had the most wonderful, languid, velvety, honeyed accent.

My heart's beating fast now just thinking about her!

Swoon!

Macarena's picture

Well, I think that accents

Well, I think that accents are sexy in general. I like the British and Australian accent. And in Spanish, it's got to be the one from Spain. It has something that makes it completely hot and irresistible to me.
Dez's picture

yo have to hear the accendt

yo have to hear the accendt from venezuela much better than spain lol
blabbermouth's picture

Aussie accents

are hard to resist....

and a woman who speaks to me in Spanish with an accent from Argentina, is, well, inexplicably delicious. 

 

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Mags's picture

I really love all accents

I really love all accents that I've heard except for the US Southern accent. I also don't find the Massachusetts accent particularly attractive, but I don't dislike it. I really love the British accent, but I don't want to generalize, so I'll just say I could listen to Lena Headey all day and not get sick of her.
Michie87's picture

Accents = yummy!

I love any accent! but the ones that have got me drooling are the British (irresistible!), Scottish and South African accent!. Southern accent is cute too, just a slight bit. 

People say I have an accent...I dont know how o_O . Is there a particular californian beach girl accent?  hahaha. Ive been told is sexy  haha, what a weird fetish really but who am I to speak :D 

 

 

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桜's picture

fetish?

Can it be counted as one...because I'm damned! For sure. We should all start a club!

About the california beach girl accent...I think they do have one.

Cain's picture

oh the california beach accent

my friends and i were talkin about accents earlier- and we definitely concluded there is a so-cal beach accent. Being from the midwest...woot chi-town and da region!....oy vey....i'm incredibly sensitive to accents since i don't have on (seriously I'm tired of people from NY or CA or all the places I've been saying I have an accent when i clearly do NOT....although the only remarks i've gotten were really funny..." oh what a beautiful accent, where are you from?"... which made me laugh. But I digress...

So-cal accent- has a flippant tone to it, the emphasis is also at the end of the sentence it seems.  every ends like it is a question. but of course not every so-cal kid has the accent- which is true of all places.

But personally I ADORE british accents-  begin to melt- british accents includes all places evr owned or colonized by the brits: i.e. Australia, S. Africa, etc.

Only accent I HATE is the southern accent in America- it always sounds so dumb to me- a hard-core northerner....no offense meant though.

桜's picture

oh snap!

Everything the British touch...turn Brit.

About the southern accent...hmm. I think some people will get offended by that. But you are entitled to your opinion, this is a forum...

(cricket noises)

Lol. But, I do wonder why everything they say... seem to sound like a question. (?)

Cain's picture

stupid crickets...

this is a strange time of year for crickets to be mating....(cricket noises recommence)

....yeah I really have nothing against southerners...its just their accents don't sit well wth me- at all. I do enjoy the cali accent though- theirs is just funny.

Partida's picture

hmm...

being from the south, texas to be exact, i dont really know if i was offended by her comment. i mean, i myself dont particularly enjoy listening to a southern accent because it is a bit annoying (just my personal opinion). and southern accents, unfortunatly, are usually tied to ignorance and close mindedness. 

i do have to say that there are different southern accents though. for example, southerners from texas, east texas especially, have a thick twang. and people from louisianna have an accent with a slight twang with a mix of cajun flavor in it. they're really identifiable by their accents. and by all means people from arkansas do not sound like any other southern in my opinion. 

so all in all, yes southern accents can be unappealing. but honestly all people from the south don't have that accent or that thick of an accent anyway. 

I'm having delusions of granduer.....

Partida

Sinthia EmVee's picture

Them are fightin' words! (haha j/k)

What?! how do Arkansans have diff Southern accents? I live in Arkansas, but don't have an accent because i was raised elsewhere, and i really hadn't realized the Arkansan accent was any different than that of other southern states in the area. ...Louisiana of course is diff, and i think i like their accents. It's got a bit of a Southern Belle touch to it...

**With FLARE!**

Partida's picture

no harm ment

if that came off offensive to you im sorry, i honestly did not mean for it to be offensive. just in all of my times visiting arkansas it seemed to me that their accent was slightly different from all other southern accents i had heard. not bad different just distinctively different. just to clarify 

I'm having delusions of granduer.....

Partida

Tallon's picture

Cal accent

Yes, Californians do have an itty bitty accent. Actually, I think it's West Coast-ers in general. Particularly, you guys say "Oh my God" differently.
Jen's picture

australian

i am obsessed with australian accents although british is a close second. hopefully i'll get to visit either country one day!
Linds's picture

accents

Hey, I agree with your choice in accents.  By the way I like the pic ;)
JustLikeHeaven's picture

definately

Agree :D aussie accents are hot. 

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Nat2008's picture

Accents= drool !!!!!!

I love Australian, South African, British and Spanish.  Holy Moly!!!!!!!!!

BTW, I am French-Canadian :)

 

 

icanwaitforever.'s picture

Canadian

Omg i love any accents.. seriously.. probably Canadian accents are my Favourite or any sort of American accents.. too hard to pick! i love them all!!
i rock the avies's picture

Whatever Penelope Cruz has.

Whatever Penelope Cruz has.

And Irish. And Australian. Possibly Canadian.

Jaguar's picture

Penelope is Spanish and

Penelope is Spanish and from Madrid, where I live, although I´m Scottish, my girlfriend is Spanish too and has a lovely thick Madrid accent just like Penelope. Nice to see so many people appreciating the Scottish accent here!! Hmm dont think I have a fav accent, Spanish I suppose, I´ve always been surrounded by different accents so I dont notice that much any more. My least fav is Northen Ireland, sorry anyone from NI.

 

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Lo's picture

oh my goodness accents

i absolutely melt for anyone with a British, Kiwi, Aussie, or South African accent. like Rachel Shelley or Lena Headey, i could listen to the two of them talk for DAYS and never get tired, EVER! and ditto w/ the above post Penelope Cruz's accent is AMAZING too. not that i'm discriminating at all, pretty much any accent is guaranteed to make me go week in the knees :]
Carone's picture

I watched Penelope Cruz on

I watched Penelope Cruz on the tonight show the other day and her accent is so cute. Im very fond of the accent my current has and she's from Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Independent's picture

Wow ! We're very linguistically biased !

It's not surprising to me at all that most people here just adore the British accent and despise the southern or boston accent. having studied linguistics, I'm pretty sure it has to do with class and a deep abiding prejudice. The British accent(although there are many-but precisely the upper class accent) is considered to be proper and intelligent sounding. However, all Southerners are pronounced dumb just because of their accent. Have you noticed this ? In tv, movies, etc. the dumb character is always the one with the southern accent. That's the one thing that's OK to make fun of. They even did it on Will and Grace. Said Grace : " I don't care if you're an astronaut. If you're from the South, you just sound dumb." Even though I'm a yankee, having studied languages and ethnicities, I appreciate all accents. Personally, I am not a fan of the upper class posh Brit. accent because it sounds stuffy, distant and overbearing whereas the southern accent is welcoming, hospitable, down to earth and warm. The working class and Cockney accent in Britain is endearing as well. I would say my favorite is the Irish accent- very, very pretty.
moony's picture

The much maligned southern accent..

Unfortunately, we're used to it.  Still, this Southerner appreciates your post.  Thanks kindly.  ;)
Partida's picture

thank you...

this southerner thanx you as well. 

I'm having delusions of granduer.....

Partida

Sinthia EmVee's picture

Woo Woo!! i second that.

Woo Woo!! i second that.

...and thanks from down here in AR. ;)

**With FLARE!**

Sinthia EmVee's picture

Woo Woo!! i second that.

Woo Woo!! i second that.

...and thanks from down here in AR. ;)

**With FLARE!**

Sinthia EmVee's picture

Woo Woo!! i second that.

Woo Woo!! i second that.

...and thanks from down here in AR. ;)

**With FLARE!**

MaKalynn's picture

Fondness

I have a fondness for soft southern accents someone calls me Mame and I loose it. I think it's really cute and my fave with Spanish and French not to far behind.

I have a typical American accent I moved around a lot and used to get annoyed with people telling me to repeat things because I had an American accent thought I can immitate almost any American accent I hear.

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Jaguar's picture

I totaly agree with you

I totaly agree with you about the posh Brittish accent thing, sometimes I think everyone in North America thinks we all speak like this because of the 3 weddings/love actualy etc. films and every other Brittish chatacter on American TV. We dont. Thats just a posh-I´m from money- accent and I personaly think its horrible, there are so many different accents and most of them are endearing and colourfull.

 

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Jaguar's picture

Haha! Cant believe I spelled

Haha! Cant believe I spelled British wrong..twice!! Gah!!

By the way, I have quite a soft Scottish accent because I have travelled a lot in Europe but no one understood a word I said in America when i visited New York last year!! I have no problem understanding Americans though, must be all that American TV, do you think Americans have trouble with UK accents?

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Anonymous's picture

Blast...

I suppose my pathetic west coast usa accent isn't hot. *tear*

Guess I'll have to work on my spanish. ;)

Any "foreign" accent to me = hotness

"It's like a star fell out of my zodiac, and I'm not quite sure just how to act" - Myself on my unintelligable behavior

Valkyrie's picture

lessons

I'll give u Spanish lessons ;-)
Anonymous's picture

Ow-Ow ;)

I would gladly and most appreciatively...take Spanish lessons from you anyday, senorita. =D

 

"It's like a star fell out of my zodiac, and I'm not quite sure just how to act" - Myself on my unintelligable behavior

Valkyrie's picture

accents...

well I'm Puertorican and I love Spanish accent, Argentinean... and from the English speaking people well... English, Scottish and some Australian...
zorro's picture

wow

wow, i started quite a varied thread.  altho i have to say i dont have the "posh" british accent, its mostly associated with london anways.

i wasnt even aware that i had an accent until i moved north to go to uni and people couldnt really understand me...

 

i like the american accent to altho i have to say i find the bostonian and texan acccent a bit annoying.

 

Zorro

Malo20's picture

doesnt anyone like a german

doesnt anyone like a german accent? come on...
 
:D hehe
Anonymous's picture

On the contrary

The German accent is extremely hot--but you know...it gets less exposure. Get it out there I say! Let it be heard. :)

 

"It's like a star fell out of my zodiac, and I'm not quite sure just how to act" - Myself on my unintelligable behavior

Anonymous's picture

hell yeah

Sometimes if I wake up early enough I watch the German news.  I have no idea what they are saying but that's not the point:)