Accented

[fable]

I admit, a nice BBCish female voice can sound very sexy to me, but I suspect it has to do with watching some of the more risable films Julie Andrews made before Mary Poppins deadended that. I was a young teen at the time, and expect I was thinking about sexing her up.

I can do a very passable curry-flavored New Delhi accent, which is fun, given the stereotype of Indian subcontinent folk as assertive but extremely courteous. Another of my many accomplishments is a decent Russian accent, and two or three German ones.

I once had a drama professor who taught a course accents (which I, fool that I was, never took). He could do 13 different UK accents with great success, and point to every idiomatic tick and linguistic inflection that made it work.

[Yshania]

Personally I find the C0ckney, Essex, Black Country and Yorkshire/Lancashire (Female) accents common. No I am not stuck up I happen to speak with a Yorkshire accent! The problem with the Yorkshire accent is it is so monotone...

I like Geordie, Welsh (male!), Aberdeen (Billy Connelly!) - these to me are quite musical accents. (MY UK Choice)

Worldwide, I struggle to understand South African, the Dutch have very little accent in my experience when speaking English, I like the French accent, and also what I have experienced of Eastern European and Scandinavian.

I am not keen on the drawl of some US accents, and find the Rap style (New York?) accents tiring - I keep wanting to correct the pronunciation (and THAT coming from a northern lass who habitually misses out words in a sentence and is consistently corrected by my d/h who is a born Londoner! )

Incidentally my kids speak with half northen/half southern accent.

[Minerva]

Ulster for me.

[Rob-hin]

Originally posted by Yshania:
[QB]the Dutch have very little accent in my experience when speaking EnglishQB]

This is very tru, English is second nature in The Netherlands. At a young age kids start to speak English (mostly four letter words like fvck and the s word)

We get a lot of lessons in "stange" languages(is this correctly written? well whatever)
I know a girl who speaks Dutch(duh), German, Frensch, English and Spanish very good.

Nobody knows Dutch so we always have to learn an other language.

[Yshania]

Posted by Rob-hin -

This is very tru, English is second nature in The Netherlands. At a young age kids start to speak English (mostly four letter words like fvck and the s word)

We get a lot of lessons in "stange" languages(is this correctly written? well whatever)
I know a girl who speaks Dutch(duh), German, Frensch, English and Spanish very good.

Nobody knows Dutch so we always have to learn an other language.

Unfortunatelly - call it arrogance call it Government control over Syllabus - but foreign languages in the UK are rarely taught to infants. I did not have any exposure at all until the age of 11 (but then I am old! ). Nowadays it may be a little earlier but not much. As a young northerner even the BBC accent was a foreign language to me!

[Rob-hin]

Originally posted by Yshania:
<STRONG>Unfortunatelly - call it arrogance call it Government control over Syllabus - but foreign languages in the UK are rarely taught to infants. I did not have any exposure at all until the age of 11 (but then I am old! ). Nowadays it may be a little earlier but not much. As a young northerner even the BBC accent was a foreign language to me! </STRONG>

Well, if I was boss over the UK, I probably woudn't make kids learn differend languages, not out of arrogans but it's just tru that almost everybody speaks English.
They should be given an chance to see if they are iterrested in it though.

And Yshania, don't forget your as young as you feel you are.

[Yshania]

Posted by Rob-hin -

And Yshania, don't forget your as young as you feel you are.

That makes me 16!

[Mr Sleep]

What if you feel old?

@Ysh so you like the Welsh accent then? I try to do accents, i am actually quite good, but i try stereotypical Indian and i sound really really Welsh Guess there is a connection, somewhere?

[Rob-hin]

Originally posted by Yshania:
<STRONG>That makes me 16! </STRONG>

Let's not get over exited now shall we!

[Yshania]

@Mr Sleep - LMAO!

You are about as good as me then? I absolutely cannot do accents. I am still to clipped (you know a northern accent? flat a's as in a for apple?)

In London they say Plarnt - I say Plant (flat 'a')
they say gararge I say garrij (a place to keep your step ladders and stuff but not big enough to keep your car!)
they say Barth I say Bath
they say dor I say dewer (a vertical piece of wood that opens between two rooms)
they say school - I say scoyl
they say - bayby - I say babby (small infant)

The funny thing is, I have spent nearly 14 years in the South, I am still a northerner, I go home and I am a southerner.

I have never tried to keep or lose my accent, I have just become diluted.

The really funny thing, to me, about what you said about doing an Indian accent is when my (southern) hubby thinks he is doing a great Indian accent - he sounds Welsh - It really makes me giggle...

[Yshania]

@Rob-hin - why not? You did invite it!

<<Ysh searches through her drawers for that old pair of maternity dungarees whilst listening to Eminem! >>

[ 08-29-2001: Message edited by: Yshania ]

[Sailor Saturn]

Originally posted by Mr Sleep:
<STRONG>I try to do accents, i am actually quite good, but i try stereotypical Indian and i sound really really Welsh Guess there is a connection, somewhere? </STRONG>

Indian? India Indian or Native American Indian?

I'm relatively good at mimicking accents. I can do Irish, Scottish, Southern Belle, Australian, C0ckney, "Proper English"(I haven't the floggiest idea what you call it), and New Orleans accents.

[fable]

Originally posted by Mr Sleep:
<STRONG>I try to do accents, i am actually quite good, but i try stereotypical Indian and i sound really really Welsh Guess there is a connection, somewhere? </STRONG>

Llewellyn-Bannerjee? Now, there's a thought.

[josh]

I like the normal everyday plain Australian accent, not the one thats used in the movies.
I also like the Irish accent.

[ThorinOakensfield]

Well i like goldmoon's accent in the dragonlance books.
I also like Thorinish.

[ThorinOakensfield]

And i also like women and grapes.

[nael]

nothign like a deep southern draw for a woman.
but all in all, i would have to vote for spanish, i wish i could be more specific about regions however. i know a couple people from different areas of Spain, and their accents seem to be substantially off from another. ould just be that one has started to develop more of a texan draw than the others.

least favorite...Boston.

[scully1]

Here's my favorite excerpt from The Rhode Island Dictionary:

Dock: Comes earlia in winna. "I was in Newpawt talkin' to the new hobba-masta they just hiyud from outtastate. I said, 'I'm leavin', I don't like the dock.' He said, 'What's wrong wittit?' I said, 'What ah you talkin' about -- I said I'm goin' home because I don't like the dock.' He said, 'It's the best dock in Roe Dyelin.' Fine-lee, I figyid it out and tole 'em, 'Not the boat dock -- the dusk.' The problem wit Roe Dyelin is we nevva give outtastaytas enough trainin'."

[Azeroth]

Irish and Icelandic, mainly because that is part of my heritage.

I also like the Cajun accents, especially in Louisiana.

[Georgi]

Originally posted by josh:
<STRONG>I like the normal everyday plain Australian accent, not the one thats used in the movies.</STRONG>

Don't get me started on English accents in movies... Curse you, Independence Day!!!