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Why do Americans like 'British' accent

evanrick said:
Americans dont really know the difference between british accents, I think people assume all brits have the same accent. I think you have to live in a country to understand its different accents.
Its not really the accent im attraced to, its english men who I find so appealing, so if a guy has an obvious brit accent, then I know hes English, and then its sexy. Hope that makes sense!
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Not so true my fellow american, i know there are many accents in the UK/GB..|
 
Jeffs0418 said:
Canadian English? In my experience, Canadian English sounds like California English. Which for me is no accent at all.
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The only way I'm able to discern a Canadian accent from an American accent is through the use of 'ou' words, like 'out', and 'about'. I assume it's much easier for Americans to see the difference, though.

For some reason though, the only thing hotter to me than an American, is a Canadian. :help:
 
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Yep .. that's the Bristolian accent. :rotflmao:

I can speak with an RP (posh) accent if I want to, but generally I tend to sound like a Bristolian version of Kenneth Williams.

'Oooooh Matron, Awrite moi luvver'.
 
It's purely psychological. There's no such thing as a 'better' or 'worse' accent in any language in this respect.

Usually we are attracted to an accent because we were attracted to a person/place with the accent at some point in the past.

The opposite holds true as well. If we associate an accent with someone/someplace we dislike then it's a turn off in general.
 
it's like a variation on a theme - it's different, but not different enough to be incomprehensible.

same goes for Irish, Austrailian.NZ and US regional (southern, Boston, etc....)
 
Adrock-JD said:
There's no such thing as a 'better' or 'worse' accent in any language in this respect.
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Ever heard Welsh?

It's not so much an accent, more like a speech impediment.


It can't possibly be right that they have words like this in their language, 'Llanfairpwllgwyngyll-gogerychwyrndrobwll-llantysilio-gogogoch', ... but that's the phlegm-garglers for you.
 
HoodedRat said:
Ever heard Welsh?

It's not so much an accent, more like a speech impediment.


It can't possibly be right that they have words like this in their language, 'Llanfairpwllgwyngyll-gogerychwyrndrobwll-llantysilio-gogogoch', ... but that's the phlegm-garglers for you.
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I remember a documentary about the Basque kids who were brought to Britain during the Spanish Civil War, and who have spent the rest of their lives there: one of them was cheering and commenting a football match somewhere in England, and native British spectators would take that they were sitting next to a Welshman as a matter of course.
 
It isn't just Americans. British is the #1 choice for English teachers abroad.

I know a lady who was born and raised in Britain, moved to Canada a few years ago, then met and married an American and got US citizenship. She is an English teacher by profession, specializing in ESL abroad. Suddenly she could not secure any contracts because her passport says America.

Accents sounds different to different cultures. We use different harmonics and tones when we speak, and the accents are a good indicator.

British is the #1 choice, Canada follows closely behind. I forget who #3 is, probably Australians.

Americans are not desired as strongly. Apparently a lot of the accents sound 'harsh' and 'rude' and 'crass' to foreign ears, whereas British sounds dignified and appealing, even if they don't understand what you are saying. That's just how it goes.
 
BearBoi said:
It isn't just Americans. British is the #1 choice for English teachers abroad.

I know a lady who was born and raised in Britain, moved to Canada a few years ago, then met and married an American and got US citizenship. She is an English teacher by profession, specializing in ESL abroad. Suddenly she could not secure any contracts because her passport says America.

Accents sounds different to different cultures. We use different harmonics and tones when we speak, and the accents are a good indicator.

British is the #1 choice, Canada follows closely behind. I forget who #3 is, probably Australians.

Americans are not desired as strongly. Apparently a lot of the accents sound 'harsh' and 'rude' and 'crass' to foreign ears, whereas British sounds dignified and appealing, even if they don't understand what you are saying. That's just how it goes.
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European accents of English, Spanish and French sound crisper... whether they sound better or not it's something I won't comment... that may be the quality so sought after that you were referring to.
When I started learning English, British was my ideal for the reasons you exposed, and because I made the parallel with the situation of European and American Spanish. Now I can appreciate better the American Spanish, but I still prefer my own accent :mrgreen: although the Spanish is NOWHERE as crazy as English on that matter. As for the English... well... now it's clear to me that my nature and my phonatory organs were born to speak something closer to American than British E.

I loathe Maggie's bf's accent... disgusting. That and the typical rwrwrwrwrwrwrw American accent (think Dubya Bush) were the sort of thing that made me hate American English...
... whereas this represented my ideal:



Somehow it still does... :cool:

Although this poshy American accent doesn't sound that bad to me... :rolleyes:

 
JohannBessler said:
I don't think this is true anymore, Bearboi.

I personally know a person who gave up his job here in order to teach in China. He was the second American I'd met who'd done that....
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The Chinese take everything they can from America because America is the model to overtake (rather than just "follow), so it's not actually about their particular appreciation of American English but about taking up their own weapons to eventually defeat them.

However, it always seemed to me that most people who end up actually learning, and not just stuying, English, prefer to speak with an American accent... by personal choice, not by nature like me :mrgreen: :rolleyes: Relating to what I commented above, that would piss me in the past, because even today I consider, for all the Monchasta Manc, Geordie, Brizzle and whatever, that British English is overall not as repelling as American.
 
Actually one silly thing about the brits which comes across in their accents is people still paying attention to "class," which by the magic of group-think turns into "mustn't try to sound too posh!"

I don't think there's anything wrong with a British accent that comes to someone naturally, even a posh one! But when people change their own accent because it is naturally a little too close to the gentry, it makes my eyes roll. And apparently that's been the trend of the last 30 years. The proletariat can stuff it up their arses.
 
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