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The English Accent

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ashtanga81

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Hey guys just wanted to get your opinion on the English accent, It was recently voted 'the best accent to close a business deal' weird i know.

But being from England myself i am used to everyone around me sounding the same as me and although i know American women and australian women swoon over the accent i was wondering what you guys (meaning Gay men) from across the water thought of the English accent? (!)
 
I love the Geordie accent, get's me going every time. I think he's referring to the 'James Bond' accent - the non-accented accent
 
I find the accents from the British Isles great in the British Isles - I detest these fake "intellectual" sounding PBS programs in the USA using commentators with BBC accents.

The only time I would consent to such dialects is if the major media fired those millionaire salaried "readers" (Katie baby) and hired news readers at the same pay scale found in England.
 
I find the Australian dialect easier to understand than many of those from England - there have been times when I have been in England and the language is incomprehensible - easier to understand German.
 
josefjosef said:
I find the Australian dialect easier to understand than many of those from England - there have been times when I have been in England and the language is incomprehensible - easier to understand German.
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You must have encountered a regional accent, they vary in range from barely understandable to down-right Impossible. My aunt in LA told me about this 'English' film where the American audience needed subtitles - she said it was set in some town called 'Newcastle'.

I have to speak in a non-accented accent whenever I leave Wales, the Newport accent isn't too disimilar from the Scouse accent, but slightly more drawn out. 40 miles down the road in Swansea they practically sing their words.

Don't ever go to Merthyr Tydfill - *shudder*
 
I love the English language, spoken in almost any accent. But yes, the standard British accent can get me hard.
 
josefjosef said:
I find the accents from the British Isles great in the British Isles - I detest these fake "intellectual" sounding PBS programs in the USA using commentators with BBC accents.

The only time I would consent to such dialects is if the major media fired those millionaire salaried "readers" (Katie baby) and hired news readers at the same pay scale found in England.
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Thanks Joe you took the words out of my mouth.

I've always been a little amused to watch some American programing where there's some dipshit with an English accent mouthing off about something American, as if his accent makes him an authority on something.

Are there any news programs or shows in the U.K. where they have someone with an "American" accent sounding all authoritarian?

Irish Accents, and Australian Accents usually get my attention. *|*
 
Hugh Grant has his own accent - isntantly identifiable so people can switch off, switch over or commit horrible acts of violence on him.
 
Irish and Welsh accents rock.

I suppose I do use my bland Queens English when I'm at work to try and sound more authoritarian but out of work one does return to ones roots and slips into good old Essex speak - innit!
 
Pringle said:
Irish and Welsh accents rock.

I suppose I do use my bland Queens English when I'm at work to try and sound more authoritarian but out of work one does return to ones roots and slips into good old Essex speak - innit!
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Release your Inner Chav...
 
I'll give my to cents as English is not my mother's tongue.
The only correct english can only be "queen's english". All the others are local deformation. Which can be rather cute and pleasant, but deformed all the same. In the States, some people speak so much through their nose, that it is nearly impossible to recognise the words.




The same goes for French. The most correct french is spoken around Tours, on the Loire. And all the provinces have their particularities, as the Swiss, the Canadians and the Belgians have their own.


All the different accents can be very charming but sometimes make life harder for the "non-natives".
 
winterknight said:
Winter's pointless fact of the day:

If you go by the standard "Bow Bells" definition, there hasn't been a true Cockney born since the 40's.
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How so? Did Bow Bells get blown up or pulled down as some kind of cockney-ethnic-cleansing attempt by the outer-londoners?
 
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