which english accent sounds the best?
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Topic: which english accent sounds the best?
Posted By: coolstorm
Subject: which english accent sounds the best?
Date Posted: 02-Dec-2004 at 09:59
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i know there's a variety of accents within all the above countries but it's hard to be too specific. and no singlish doesn't count. |
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Posted By: Cywr
Date Posted: 02-Dec-2004 at 10:31
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Lack of choice forces me towards New Zealand. But idealy i'd go for a Northern England, or some Scotish accents. Basicly any English accent where people actualy bother to pronounce the 'r' is in. -------------  Arrrgh!!"
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Posted By: Gubook Janggoon
Date Posted: 02-Dec-2004 at 18:51
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Indian ------------- |
Posted By: Cywr
Date Posted: 03-Dec-2004 at 04:28
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What type of Indian? Those smooth and sexy Punjabi ones, or the more sing-song and occasionaly annoying stereotyped one? ------------- Arrrgh!!"
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Posted By: JanusRook
Date Posted: 03-Dec-2004 at 13:40
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I voted for northern US because I love the Lake accent used by girls from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Chicago.......actually not so much Chicago but definetally the other two. Also I like the smooth Punjabi accent. And for humour you have to go with the Jamaican accent. ------------- Economic Communist, Political Progressive, Social Conservative. Unless otherwise noted source is wiki. |
Posted By: Gubook Janggoon
Date Posted: 03-Dec-2004 at 17:48
The stereotype ones. They're music to my ears. ------------- |
Posted By: Tobodai
Date Posted: 06-Dec-2004 at 01:32
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lol I voted for Koooo-noooo-dooooo because no one else did, although to me Candians have the least accent of anyone on the planet! ------------- "the people are nothing but a great beast... I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value." -Alexander Hamilton |
Posted By: Serge L
Date Posted: 07-Dec-2004 at 20:04
| Unfortunately, the one I like the most, Irish, is lacking among the poll's choices. |
Posted By: cattus
Date Posted: 08-Dec-2004 at 20:59
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scottish at times is the hardest to understand, they jumble their words together. A translator would be nice when listening to Colin McRae.
I voted for southern because i have to support but honestly, the english speak their stuff the best. evidently the ladies in London fancy New York accents,no? |
Posted By: azimuth
Date Posted: 16-Dec-2004 at 09:06
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southern US just sounds sexy
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Posted By: Infidel
Date Posted: 19-Dec-2004 at 08:45
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The scottish accent is the best, despite being hard to figure out what they're actually saying at times. It's the coolest! No doubt about it. But for basic standard communication, I'd say BBC english or CNN english are perfectly ok and understandable for everyone. ------------- An nescite quantilla sapientia mundus regatur? |
Posted By: Murph
Date Posted: 19-Dec-2004 at 19:20
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heyyyyyz, wats bout da jersey accent, dats defintly da best ------------- |
Posted By: Infidel
Date Posted: 20-Dec-2004 at 11:54
And of course, I could add the german accent of the mythical TV humour series "Allo Allo"! Superb! "Herr Flick..." ------------- An nescite quantilla sapientia mundus regatur? |
Posted By: Christscrusader
Date Posted: 20-Dec-2004 at 12:39
Southern accent sounds like a bunch of hill folks if i might say. I think the British accent sounds professional, but i'm going with the good ol' northern accent.------------- Heaven helps those, who help themselves. -Jc |
Posted By: PADDYBOY
Date Posted: 12-Jul-2011 at 11:50
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Usually when they have one of those polls...'Which Europeans have the sexiest accent'? The Scots and Irish seem to either win or do pretty well for some reason that escapes me... Maybe people find it sexy when they can't understand what the other person is saying but know the other person can understand them...or something ?  My vote goes to the Geordies (Newcastle, England) based on the irrational logic just given ????
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Posted By: Centrix Vigilis
Date Posted: 12-Jul-2011 at 16:34
Ya well then i am a traditionalist..Scots women. ------------- "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" S. T. Friedman Pilger's law: 'If it's been officially denied, then it's probably true' |
Posted By: Nick1986
Date Posted: 12-Jul-2011 at 17:04
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England alone has a wide range of accents including the London Cockney, stuck-up Queen's English, Manc, Brummie, Scouser, Farmer Giles West Country, and musical-sounding Welsh accent ------------- Me Grimlock not nice Dino! Me bash brains! |
Posted By: TheAlaniDragonRising
Date Posted: 12-Jul-2011 at 22:09
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My suggestion is those from Dundee in Scotland, the home town of Brian Cox the Scottish actor. ------------- What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture. |
Posted By: Toltec
Date Posted: 13-Jul-2011 at 04:20
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Has to be Saaf London, to add that touch of class to any conversation. ------------- Stupidity got us into this mess, why can't it get us out? http://historyplanet.wordpress.com - History Planet Website <br / |
Posted By: PADDYBOY
Date Posted: 13-Jul-2011 at 07:41
| I'll add 'Shelta' to the list. A mixture of the Gaelic and English languages used by travelling people...Pure class... |
Posted By: opuslola
Date Posted: 29-Jul-2011 at 20:16
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Well, I finally cast my vote for Southern American English, which made it a tie!
Of course what most of you do not realize is there exists numerous Southern American dialects, but a lot of them are now very localized, and few. But in general Southern American English is probably the most varied and historical of all N. American accents! Vestiges of it contain 17th century English gentry accents, and N. Ireland accents, and Irish accents, and any number of relatively seperate variations of the English accents found in England or Scotland or Wales during the 17th thru the 19th centuries CE! Variations of all of the above also exist or did exist! Plus we have the various old Spanish and French English accents, as well as a splattering of Germanic English, etc.! And I did not even mention above the also prevalent African forms of English! Nor the Native American forms! Before the mass emigrations of the late 19th and early 20th century, I would suggest that the Southern United States had the greatest variety of "older" English forms than any other place in America. And, for the most part, they exist until today! Regards, ------------- http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/history/ |
Posted By: Nick1986
Date Posted: 29-Jul-2011 at 20:48
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The only South American country i can think of that speaks English is the Falklands. Most other places speak Spanish ------------- Me Grimlock not nice Dino! Me bash brains! |
Posted By: opuslola
Date Posted: 31-Jul-2011 at 21:08
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Nick!, are you sick? I am a poet and I don't even know it! LOL
I was not referring to S. America a almost seperate continet locacted hundreds of miles South of my home, but the Souther part of the USA! How do you become so distracted sometimes? chuckle! regards, ------------- http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/history/ |
Posted By: red clay
Date Posted: 01-Aug-2011 at 09:57
Belize is the only English speaking country in SA. ------------- "Arguing with someone who hates you or your ideas, is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter what move you make, your opponent will walk all over the board and scramble the pieces". Unknown. |
Posted By: red clay
Date Posted: 01-Aug-2011 at 10:03
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Nick what Ron is speaking of is the isolation of certain areas of the Southern US caused the retention of old forms of English. Up until the 60's there were places "back in the hills" that still spoke "Elisabethan" English". ------------- "Arguing with someone who hates you or your ideas, is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter what move you make, your opponent will walk all over the board and scramble the pieces". Unknown. |
Posted By: TITAN_
Date Posted: 21-Jun-2012 at 12:17
| Irish accent for the win! |
Posted By: Toltec
Date Posted: 21-Jun-2012 at 15:41
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Saaf Lundun
------------- Stupidity got us into this mess, why can't it get us out? http://historyplanet.wordpress.com - History Planet Website <br / |
Posted By: ralfy
Date Posted: 23-Jun-2012 at 06:24
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NSFW/Not Safe for Kids due to some profanity: "The English Language In 24 Accents" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dABo_DCIdpM&feature=related - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dABo_DCIdpM |
Posted By: Toltec
Date Posted: 23-Jun-2012 at 07:18
That kid is a genius ------------- Stupidity got us into this mess, why can't it get us out? http://historyplanet.wordpress.com - History Planet Website <br / |
Posted By: Toltec
Date Posted: 23-Jun-2012 at 07:21
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Saaf Lundun Accent Can you understand it? [TUBE]KrvHfBO0mKo[/TUBE] ------------- Stupidity got us into this mess, why can't it get us out? http://historyplanet.wordpress.com - History Planet Website <br / |
Posted By: TITAN_
Date Posted: 07-Mar-2013 at 14:01
I understand some of it only....
Bloody hell! |
Posted By: LeopoldPhilippe
Date Posted: 30-May-2015 at 20:25
| I like the British accent. The accents of Yorkshire are distinctive. There are variations between North Riding of Yorkshire, West Riding of Yorkshire, and East Riding of Yorkshire. |
Posted By: J.A.W.
Date Posted: 14-Jun-2015 at 18:04
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I thought it curious that when the South African born Charlize Theron
picked up her best actress Oscar, she spoke in an assumed/affected 'American' accent, rather than in her native S-A English variant.. Is this due to that natural S-A English accent - being perceived as ugly? ------------- Be Modest In Thyself.. |