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Title: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Deicide on June 25, 2009, 07:05:05 AM
Discuss...
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: spinnis on June 25, 2009, 07:07:27 AM
No swedish english accent sounds sooooooooooooooooo retarded.

Russians sounds cool.


But indians beats sweeds in retarded english accent by a country mile  ;D
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Sir Humphrey on June 25, 2009, 07:07:45 AM
This is perhaps your first thread in many months not whining about your lousy genetics or room-clearing bouts of wind. Bravo, I say!  :P
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: CalvinH on June 25, 2009, 07:08:14 AM
Yes.
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: spinnis on June 25, 2009, 07:09:21 AM
JAG ER MANNEN
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Deicide on June 25, 2009, 07:11:28 AM
This is perhaps your first thread in many months not whining about your lousy genetics or room-clearing bouts of wind. Bravo, I say!  :P

Well, actually I am whining about my native English accent so... :-*
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Deicide on June 25, 2009, 07:16:05 AM
Yes.

Are you American?
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: the_steevo_uk on June 25, 2009, 07:16:36 AM
Discuss...

Team RP is the only way to go
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: spinnis on June 25, 2009, 07:16:50 AM
I managed to completly miss the entire point of this thread lol.
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Deicide on June 25, 2009, 07:20:57 AM
Team RP is the only way to go

It's nice but a mild S.African accent is fantastic as well. Unfortunately I can no neither very well. But I can pass myself off as a Kiwi or Aussie pretty well.
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: CalvinH on June 25, 2009, 07:27:22 AM
Are you American?


Yes,my accent is a New Yoooorker to someone from not around me but not as bad a typical person from NYC.
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: jon cole on June 25, 2009, 07:28:43 AM
i'm from north of France, i've got a heavy north accent.

only a french can understand.

maybe deicide now what i'm talking about.
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: jon cole on June 25, 2009, 07:29:17 AM
This is perhaps your first thread in many months not whining about your lousy genetics or room-clearing bouts of wind. Bravo, I say!  :P

false, accent is all genetic.
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: dr.chimps on June 25, 2009, 07:29:29 AM
It's nice but a mild S.African accent is fantastic as well. Unfortunately I can no neither very well. But I can pass myself off as a Kiwi or Aussie pretty well.
Uh, why would you do such a thing?
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Deicide on June 25, 2009, 07:31:59 AM
Uh, why would you do such a thing?

Pour cacher mes origines...mon ami... ;)

Generellement tous les accents d'Amerique du Nord sont chiants...
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Deicide on June 25, 2009, 07:35:16 AM
Team RP is the only way to go

BTW, I still have hope to one day join TRP because unlike genetics it is possible to change...
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: local hero on June 25, 2009, 07:44:29 AM
accents are what makes us... im very broad geordie, have to talk slow to southerners and foreigners alike..
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Deicide on June 25, 2009, 07:45:55 AM
accents are what makes us... im very broad geordie, have to talk slow to southerners and foreigners alike..

At least it has more flavour than North American ones...
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: PJim on June 25, 2009, 07:46:55 AM
I have a Black Country accent, so something similar to Yates.
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: The Wizard of Truth on June 25, 2009, 07:53:30 AM
Mine isnt Dublin or typical Iorish thankfully
Dont sound like a norweigan either tho
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Griffith on June 25, 2009, 08:01:53 AM
I have an English speaking South African accent, but a mild one. I stay in the UK now so it's toned down quite a bit.

The main giveaway is that I still tend to say 'ja' instead of yes  ;D if I didn't it might be harder to notice.
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Deicide on June 25, 2009, 08:12:57 AM
I have an English speaking South African accent, but a mild one. I stay in the UK now so it's toned down quite a bit.

The main giveaway is that I still tend to say 'ja' instead of yes  ;D if I didn't it might be harder to notice.

I'm in love (with your accent).
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: tbombz on June 25, 2009, 08:20:29 AM
i sound kind of like matt damon doing and impression of mathew McConaughey......except a the bit of souther draw, i dont have that. but the pitch and tone and calm is exactly like mine.


59seconds - 1:13

Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Deicide on June 25, 2009, 08:23:10 AM
i sound kind of like matt damon doing and impression of mathew McConaughey......except a the bit of souther draw, i dont have that. but the pitch and tone and calm is exactly like mine.


59seconds - 1:13



California... :-\
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Spike on June 25, 2009, 08:38:37 AM
north carolina all the way!!

Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: tbombz on June 25, 2009, 08:58:06 AM
California... :-\
best place on earth my friend
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Tapeworm on June 25, 2009, 09:01:06 AM
Sure.  ;D

Btw, I did one of those online accent analyzers (do you pronounce x like it rhymes with y or z, etc) and it pegged me to within like 50 miles of where I grew up.  Freaky.
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Palpatine Q on June 25, 2009, 09:04:28 AM

Yes,my accent is a New Yoooorker to someone from not around me but not as bad a typical person from NYC.

I have a very New Yawk accent, now that I'm out west I am making an effort to slow it down a little. i never realized how fast we talk until i got here.
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: CalvinH on June 25, 2009, 09:10:14 AM
I have a very New Yawk accent, now that I'm out west I am making an effort to slow it down a little. i never realized how fast we talk until i got here.


It's not just talking fast.have you been to a place like McD's yet? your gonna wanna scream at the workers "ISN'T THIS SUPPOSE TO BE FAST FOOD SERVICE >:("
 ;D
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: leonp1981 on June 25, 2009, 09:12:25 AM
accents are what makes us... im very broad geordie, have to talk slow to southerners and foreigners alike..

Oh dear... this place has gone downhill...

 ;D
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Deicide on June 25, 2009, 10:13:34 AM
Sure.  ;D

Btw, I did one of those online accent analyzers (do you pronounce x like it rhymes with y or z, etc) and it pegged me to within like 50 miles of where I grew up.  Freaky.

You have been blessed to have developed an Aussie accent. You are very lucky.
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: dr.chimps on June 25, 2009, 10:18:55 AM
You have been blessed to have developed an Aussie accent. You are very lucky.
Why!? Is having an blessed accent part of your genetic lottery calculations?
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Deicide on June 25, 2009, 10:22:16 AM
Why!? Is having an blessed accent part of your genetic lottery calculations?

In his case, years of exposure to the Aussie accent have eroded the American in him.

Not so much genetics but luck? Yes. Watch 'Match Point'. All luck.

My supervisor's kid is growing up speaking 3 languages, all luck.

At the end of the day we have very little choice in life as most of the choices have already been made for us.
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: dr.chimps on June 25, 2009, 10:25:18 AM
In his case, years of exposure to the Aussie accent have eroded the American in him.

Not so much genetics but luck? Yes. Watch 'Match Point'. All luck.

My supervisor's kid is growing up speaking 3 languages, all luck.

At the end of the day we have very little choice in life as most of the choices have already been made for us.
LOL. Then what is the point in going on with things if they have already been pre-determined?
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Tapeworm on June 25, 2009, 10:26:28 AM
You have been blessed to have developed an Aussie accent. You are very lucky.

International working class accent.  I can get barred from anywhere without peanut shells on the floor in under 2 mins!


In his case, years of exposure to the Aussie accent have eroded the American in him.

Not so much genetics but luck? Yes. Watch 'Match Point'. All luck.

My supervisor's kid is growing up speaking 3 languages, all luck.

At the end of the day we have very little choice in life as most of the choices have already been made for us.

Darkest Allen ever.  Still, Scarlet.
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Tapeworm on June 25, 2009, 10:29:40 AM
LOL. Then what is the point in going on with things if they have already been pre-determined?

Dictates of OCD?

Oh boy, here we go with the free will-y-fate again.
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Deicide on June 25, 2009, 10:30:29 AM
LOL. Then what is the point in going on with things if they have already been pre-determined?

Camus often called it 'The Absurd'. Read 'The Myth of Sisyphus'. That's kind of life.

If there is choice, there is but one, do we pursue the Sisyphean or do we reject it? Not much choice, eh? :-\
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Tapeworm on June 25, 2009, 10:32:29 AM
It's not all rock 'n roll tho.
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Deicide on June 25, 2009, 10:35:22 AM
It's not all rock 'n roll tho.

Far from it. Good for you for getting rid of your American accent though (well, nearly)...
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: dr.chimps on June 25, 2009, 10:35:43 AM
Dictates of OCD?

Oh boy, here we go with the free will-y-fate again.
:D
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Tapeworm on June 25, 2009, 10:37:18 AM
:D

Preordained meltdown
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: dr.chimps on June 25, 2009, 10:39:20 AM
Camus often called it 'The Absurd'. Read 'The Myth of Sisyphus'. That's kind of life.

If there is choice, there is but one, do we pursue the Sisyphean or do we reject it? Not much choice, eh? :-\
My point to you, while we roll that rock,  has always been: have some fun and enjoy yourself -ie. stop wallowing in your own misery.
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Deicide on June 25, 2009, 10:44:49 AM
My point to you, while we roll that rock,  has always been: have some fun and enjoy yourself -ie. stop wallowing in your own misery.

I have my days. Do you never have a bad day? Do you dwell in realms so high and supernal as to not know such things?
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: dr.chimps on June 25, 2009, 10:50:05 AM
I have my days. Do you never have a bad day? Do you dwell in realms so high and supernal as to not know such things?
No, of course I do. I don't generally talk openly about them on the board, tho. Misery loves company, I suppose.
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Tapeworm on June 25, 2009, 10:51:05 AM
Far from it. Good for you for getting rid of your American accent though (well, nearly)...

Only to the North American ear, I think.  Besides, it's not as if I've managed to cultivate a particularly refined, erm, phonology.  You should 'ere me Souf Londun affe'tashun, gov.
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Deicide on June 25, 2009, 10:51:43 AM
No, of course I do. I don't generally talk openly about them on the board, tho. Misery loves company, I suppose.

Then best refrain from haughty, self-righteous speech, my strangely diphthongised friend... ;)
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Deicide on June 25, 2009, 10:52:35 AM
Only to the North American ear, I think.  Besides, it's not as if I've managed to cultivate a particularly refined, erm, phonology.  You should 'ere me Souf Londun affe'tashun, gov.

No, I hear the American too, just saying it is diminished and that is indisputable.
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: dr.chimps on June 25, 2009, 10:56:35 AM
Then best refrain from haughty, self-righteous speech, my strangely diphthongised friend... ;)
I absolutely promise, if you, in turn, will rein in all the negative self-examination.  :)
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Deicide on June 25, 2009, 10:57:36 AM
I absolutely promise, if you, in turn, will rein in all the negative self-examination.  :)

Just a bad day today...
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Tapeworm on June 25, 2009, 11:06:21 AM
No, I hear the American too, just saying it is diminished and that is indisputable.

Another kettle back in the farterland tho.  I had a trip to Hawaii and jeezus.  Anyone who doesn't sound American is AUTOMATICALLY English.  'Yes.  Yes I am.'  It's just easier after awhile.
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: CalvinH on June 25, 2009, 11:08:51 AM
tbombz t-bagged's accent actually sounds like,

mmmmmmeeewwwmmmmmaaaaaaa awwwwwww,

because his mouth is usually filled with cock :-X :-X :-X :-X
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: blackbillions on June 25, 2009, 12:10:15 PM
im black british and i HATE my accent. I plan on moving to America and when African American hear my accent that are going to straight out reject me.
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Pete Nice on June 25, 2009, 12:16:55 PM
Deicide, you need serious psychological help in getting over your constant, pessimistic approach towards life.  I think you give most of us a headache with your bellyaching :-\
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Deicide on June 25, 2009, 01:21:40 PM
Deicide, you need serious psychological help in getting over your constant, pessimistic approach towards life.  I think you give most of us a headache with your bellyaching :-\

You must be some sort of god.
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: liberalismo on June 25, 2009, 02:12:30 PM
Always wanted his accent:


Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: dr.chimps on June 25, 2009, 02:17:21 PM
Always wanted his accent:
My favourite Leone flick!  :)

Frank: 'People scare better when they're dying.'
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: sync pulse on June 25, 2009, 07:24:37 PM
I was born and have lived all my live in Houston Texas, but when I go to the Netherlands, I get mistaken for a Brit.  I took speech lessons as a kid.
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Eisenherz on June 25, 2009, 07:32:17 PM
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Deicide on June 26, 2009, 01:55:07 AM
I was born and have lived all my live in Houston Texas, but when I go to the Netherlands, I get mistaken for a Brit.  I took speech lessons as a kid.

Is this a joke?
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Immortal_Technique on June 26, 2009, 06:14:47 AM
I basically have a flawless English accent. You know England invented English?
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Deicide on June 26, 2009, 06:15:23 AM
I basically have a flawless English accent. You know England invented English?

Define flawless...
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: webcake on June 26, 2009, 06:16:48 AM
I like my accent.
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Deicide on June 26, 2009, 06:18:05 AM
I like my accent.

Not much variety in Oz but the accent sure as hell beats most American ones...
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: webcake on June 26, 2009, 06:20:16 AM
Not much variety in Oz but the accent sure as hell beats most American ones...

It's alright. There is a little bit of variety, but yeah, it's pretty subtle.

I have a cousin my age who was born in America but their family has come back to Aus, and her accent is fucking annoying.
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Deicide on June 26, 2009, 06:22:06 AM
It's alright. There is a little bit of variety, but yeah, it's pretty subtle.

I have a cousin my age who was born in America but their family has come back to Aus, and her accent is fucking annoying.

Doesn't your sister study Japanese?
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: webcake on June 26, 2009, 06:23:06 AM
Doesn't your sister study Japanese?

No, i don't have a sister. Just an older brother.
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Immortal_Technique on June 26, 2009, 06:23:19 AM
Define flawless...

English sounding, haha "queen's English" if you like, but without the posh accent. No regional imperfections.

I.E. I say "Aluminium" not "alloominum".
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: webcake on June 26, 2009, 06:25:16 AM
English sounding, haha "queen's English" if you like, but without the posh accent. No regional imperfections.

I.E. I say "Aluminium" not "alloominum".

Haha, same here. Im an Aussie though.
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Deicide on June 26, 2009, 06:25:28 AM
English sounding, haha "queen's English" if you like, but without the posh accent. No regional imperfections.

I.E. I say "Aluminium" not "alloominum".

So, RP in other words?
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Deicide on June 26, 2009, 06:28:30 AM
English sounding, haha "queen's English" if you like, but without the posh accent. No regional imperfections.

I.E. I say "Aluminium" not "alloominum".

Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: ManBearPig... on June 26, 2009, 06:33:25 AM
Why don't you fucking terrorists learn American?
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: the_steevo_uk on June 26, 2009, 10:39:05 AM
English sounding, haha "queen's English" if you like, but without the posh accent. No regional imperfections.


That would be my accent  ;D
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: sync pulse on June 28, 2009, 07:25:27 PM
Is this a joke?

Not at all, complete and total truth...people who needed to see my passport where shocked to see where I was from.
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: The Wizard of Truth on June 29, 2009, 06:08:29 AM
Why don't you fucking terrorists learn American?
Probably cos theres no such language as American
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Deicide on June 29, 2009, 06:09:14 AM
Not at all, complete and total truth...people who needed to see my passport where shocked to see where I was from.

Sounds like you are a genetic freak... ::)
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Dreadlifter on June 29, 2009, 12:42:18 PM
Can't say i mind my Scottish accent too much.

There are far worse ones top have, like the aforementioned south african accent for example. I find it brutal to the ears. Although i think it may just be due to Lethal Weapon 2!
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Deicide on June 29, 2009, 12:43:55 PM
Can't say i mind my Scottish accent too much.

There are far worse ones top have, like the aforementioned south african accent for example. I find it brutal to the ears. Although i think it may just be due to Lethal Weapon 2!

I think the S.African one is great.
Title: Re: (Aimed at English speakers) Do you like your accent?
Post by: Mongol on June 29, 2009, 01:00:22 PM
English sounding, haha "queen's English" if you like, but without the posh accent. No regional imperfections.

I.E. I say "Aluminium" not "alloominum".

Same here, perfect flawless English everytime......simply beautiful!!  :D