If you could have any accent in the world, what would it be?

[BurtWorm]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UgpfSp2t6k

[HopeHoops]

1. Klingon.

[BurtWorm]

2. Isn't that in another world?

[HopeHoops]

3. Well you didn't specify WHICH world!

:evilgrin:

[Jamastiene]

4. Brooklyn

I love that one better than anything.

[BurtWorm]

6. You're a rare person.

I also like that accent, but I know a lot of native New Yorkers who keeyunt steeyund it.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

5. British.

[BurtWorm]

7. Which kind of British?

There are a lot of them!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

9. Probably the standard stereotypical one.

The fancy-sounding one, though I wouldn't mind one of the more working-class dialects (think of a Guy Ritchie movie).

[BurtWorm]

11. The posh ones can sound rather ridiculous. Think of the upper class twits on Monty Python.

But then so can the working class ones, I suppose.

I loov British accents, mate. Almost indiscriminateleh.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

14. I have a very bland, man-from-nowhere accent.

So I guess I want to trade up. ;)

[BurtWorm]

15. Brilliant, old boy!

:thumbsup:

[jonnyblitz]

46. oh please, I knew you were a Texan the minute I met you!!

:rofl: JUST KIDDING!!111 yukyuk

[TrogL]

51. Manchester with a bit of Germanic overlay

[BurtWorm]

53. Monchister, mein brooder?

[raccoon]

8. Norwegian. nt

[lutefisk]

52. Yes, because that would mean that I had Norwegian citizenship, too...nt

[ceile]

10. Irish- Dublin or Co Claire

[driver8]

50. That's the one I would pick, too!

The Commitments is one of my all time favorite movies -- love the accents!!

[Dappleganger]

12. Scottish!

So I can say "fookity-fook-fook-fook" all day long and nobody will understand in FL wth I'm saying.

:rofl:

[Call Me Wesley]

13. This one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxfvOPEjWn0&feature=related

[dimbear]

16. Presently prefer acute. Plenty of time later for the grave. n/t

[hippywife]

17. Italian. n/t

[elleng]

24. DITTO!!! WITH YOU, hw!!!

:toast:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

18. mine. its pretty.

[applegrove]

19. Scottish. I love a scottish accent. I think there is some sort of genetic memory involved.

[rrneck]

20. French

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaU3bE7M2UA

[YellowRubberDuckie]

21. Probably just that general English Accent.

I also dig a northern Minnesotan/Canadian accent, don'tcha know? We watched FARGO last night. LOL
Duckie

[frogmarch]

22. Oh yah,me too, you betcha. :-)

[rug]

23. The circumflex.

Just to raise a few eyebrows.

^.^

[realisticphish]

25. Australian's pretty awesome

Russian after that

[Skittles]

37. yup

I consider Aussie accents a cross between British and American

[vixengrl]

26. Regrettably, I *have* any accent I want, entirely inadvertantly.

I have a disorder of the tongue when I hear any accent, or even read books that seem to have been written with an accent, that makes me copy that accent. If I talk to someone from Lakewood, I might use Yiddish. If I speak too long with a Southerner, they will ask where I am from assuming it's down south, and "Philadelphia" is a really odd answer once I've lapsed into a drawl. I wish I did not do this. I am freaking Zelig.

What makes this suck most for me is that I am a telephonic customer service representative. I talk to people from all over. I hear all kinds of accents, and I'm a born mimic. I've learned that one of way of getting people to understand you is to speak their language, so I do. This means I do this thing unconsciously. But I've had my drawling, brogueing, overtly East-coasting-it up _PA,NY,NJ generic urban white ethnic__self played back during quality reviews. I've been told I have an accent. It's just by no means a stable one, and when I write, I think I have inherited a ton of Britishisms. I say things like "Rubbish tip" and "to hospital" and "different than" when any natural American speaker knows it's "different from". Give me a minute, and I'll give you the accent. It's pretty much a curse.

[meow2u3]

59. Something similar happens to me, but only around certain persons

My accent changes to something like a Northeastern Portuguese-American's when I'm speaking English to Portuguese immigrants and/or Portuguese-Americans. One friend of mine is the latter (3rd generation 1/4 Portuguese, speaks English only), a native of Rhode Island, and she notices that with me. It's nothing I try to do; it just happens to me naturally. She calls me a "sardine can." She swears the hospital switched babies on my mom. :) I just want to know why everybody I know thinks I'm Luso.

BTW, I am a Lusophile who needs to shake the rust off the Portuguese I learned both from immigrants on the streets of Mineola, NY (where I worked) and in college, when I was friends with a number of Portuguese students--who actually took me for a Portuguese!! 20 years of disuse did that to me, and I ended up depressed.

This phenomenon doesn't happen to me around other English speakers, except when I'm speaking to Americans with advanced degrees (my native New York accent had become far less pronounced) or with Spanish speakers. In the latter case, my English pronunciation is that of a middle-class New Yorker, without any Spanish influence whatsoever.

[HoneychildMooseMoss]

27. I would like one of those suave British accents

like on The Avengers, if anyone remembers that show

[BurtWorm]

30. But of course!

[HoneychildMooseMoss]

33. Emma Peel

-- and John Steed

Two of my all-time favorite TV characters!

[BurtWorm]

49. Mine too.

Especially Emma. :loveya:

Welcome to DU, by the way! :toast:

[Seedersandleechers]

28. Here is another accent video and IMHO it is better

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dABo_DCIdpM

[BurtWorm]

29. The other one is more interesting for me to look at.

But that bloke's well facile, inne?

[Odin2005]

31. I like my Fargo accent just fine.

[GoneOffShore]

32. I've had four and can do another 10

Northeast corridor American - Including Wilmington, DE, Philadelphia, Joisey and Ballamore.

Southern from Virginia to Carolina

English - lived there 10 years - East End, Nottingham, Berkshire,

And I speak French as well as English and American (Yes, Virginia, they are 2 separate languages.)

Can also do Ottawa Valley Canadian and Quebecois.

[Throd]

Half bright/half sober Hoosier

Oh wait, I already have that one.

[Throd]

34. Half bright/half sober Hoosier

Oh wait, I already have that one.

[Book Lover]

35. I'm quite happy with my Queens Italian-American accent, thank you

Why improve on perfection?

[Skittles]

36. Aussie

[krispos42]

38. Scottish or Russian

Which is unusual for a German/Italian/English/Cherokee guy. My German ancestors spent a couple of decades in Russia in the mid-19th Century; maybe that has something to do with it.


Women with Scottish, Irish, or Australian accents turn me on.

[LeftinOH]

39. Old New York Yiddish (and I'm not even Jewish).

[Richardo]

40. Yinzer

N'at.

[Bunny]

41. Ha!

Here. Touch my snuggie so we can fly n'at. :rofl:

[Richardo]

44. !!

Go getta rill big turkey dahn Jyne Iggle - keep da change! :rofl: :hi: Bunny! :loveya:

[Bunny]

45. It's a penny, Greg.

:D :hi: Richardo! :loveya: :pals:

[Richardo]

58. I'm playin dat Farmtahn...

:rofl:

[bigwillq]

42. Spanish (nt)

[HappyMe]

43. Russian, and I would

also like music from Dr. Zhivago playing very softly in the background. :D

[Phoonzang]

47. This one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkB9OT2XVvA

[mcollins]

48. Welsh.

I can never get it right when I try to do it.

[Old Troop]

54. Probably old Vermont so when I say Ayuh, it doesn't sound phony.

[WinkyDink]

55. Italian. Capisce?

[northoftheborder]

56. British or Scottish

Not the My Fair Lady cockney accent, but not the "royal" nasal, either. Just the ordinary British way of talking. My Texas accent is terrible; I hate to hear myself recorded; and don't think people in the north don't think less of your intelligence when they hear any kind of Southern drawl; Texas accent is not Southern, but sort of nasal, and slow. We pronounce our "r"s in contrast with "Southern talk". I wish I had gone to accent modulation school long ago. I also like the British accent of South Africans, and other colonists of the British Empire.

[wickerwoman]

57. 1.) Geordie

2.) South African
3.) Kiwi
4.) Northern Irish
5.) Russian

[Zorra]

60. Ze light French accent, but of course, non?

[Luciferous]

61. French or British