Do you like my accent?
 

You know, it's funny that most American's are so intrigued by European (mainly British) accents. I've always wondered if Europeans are wowed by our American accents....anyone? Anyone across the pond just dying to hear a good ole' Texas southern drawl?

How about Canadian? We're just annoying eh?

Some of my American female friends are always on at me to phone them.

No idea why :D

you know, its funny that you say this,....while in europe, i found that people wanted to hear me talk,....and just talk about texas in general,...i got all kinds of crazy questions and free drinks because i've my texas southern drawl,.....

yeh i live in south texas and i dont have a drawl it sounds stupid and put on, and i refuse to say "y'all"

yea,...well,.....YOUR stupid and put on,....lol

sorry i couldnt pass that up,....

you know, i've tried to rid myself of my accent,......and i just cant

We're not talking "Strange Brew" eh-ness are we?

Hmmm...I wonder. :rolleyes: Of course I'm curious... ;)

There's nothing wrong with the accent, and I still maintain that there is NOTHING wrong with the word y'all. I think everyone should use it. It's a perfectly good word. Y'ALL...

here's the true texan test,....

whats the plural of y'all?

Y'all!!!!

lol,.....no,.....

all y'all,....as in, what are all y'all doin?

haha no not to the extreme as "Strange Brew" but yes I do have an accent. That is kind of what sn was sayin' in a nutshell too. I mean sn you have an accent you just don't think you do (and just because others accents are stronger than yours doesn't mean there put on, just different exposure).
EDIT : I also want to add I have never and never will say aboot (about). This American girl giggled at me one time and said I said it man I was pissed cuz I know I NEVER say it.

you all
really? how do some of us have an accent and others dont

LOL...tis true. Does this mean I fail as a Texan? :confused:

Whenever I go to visit relatives in Ohio or Alaska, they constantly make fun of my accent. And I seriously don't even think it's that strong.

i think alot of it has to do with how we were raised,...how we learned to talk,....

my mother has a very texas accent, my daddy is from south georiga and growing up i spent alot of time there,......so, sometimes i sound texan, and sometimes i sound southern,....


wifey,......your still a texan,...now you'll just know the answer for next tiem

well honestly i hate it

Why?

I tend to agree with this. I don't think I have a strong accent (except for the whole y'all thing of course), but when I talk to someone from up north they make me feel like a toothless hillbilly.

A Texan drawl doesnt do much for me at all I'm afraid. Now if it's French or a soft Irish lilt then I'm knocked bandy (Swooning). I have a Slovakian friend who loves my accent and is constantly amazed by the sheer number of different accents we have in Britain.

I have to say though that certain phrases sound great in whatever accent they are spoken in ;)

Heh I would have to agree. Almost all accents are sexy (to me). Heh French is one of my favs....man.... French babes.

i'm with ya on the irish thing,.......i'm a complete sucker for it,......you could read me the phone book for all i care, just do it in an irish accent,.....

also,....even though i'm from the 'south',.....i love a southern drawl,.....LOVE it,......tennesee, georiga, the carolinas,......i just love that sound,...its very,.....comforting

My favourite female singer , it's quite funny too:

Love it...a beautiful lady with a beautiful voice. And it was really funny.

I was told i had a strong canadian accent when I was away travelling quite a few times. before I left home I could never really pick out a "canadian" accent. it wasn't until I went for months without hearing other canadians that I realized we really do have a distinctive accent. not the newfies (lets face it, they may as well be a different species) or other maritimers with the "Let's go the berrr eh? it's not that ferrr, we'll take my cerr." But just regular canadian accents. I came home from nz and standing in the airport at home waiting in line for customs, it was the first time that i ever really heard our accents. I heard it again really strongly when i was in asia, hadn't met another canadian in about 3 months, and suddlenly fell in with about 10 of them.

and for the record, i don't say aboot.

I'm from New York City....And apparently we have a very strong accent. I haven't noticed it at all, perhaps because i've lived here so long and everyone talks like that haha...When i went to Georgia for the summer last year EVERYONE knew I was from New York because of the way I say "water"...I don't know, it's weird.

I have a pretty strong Welsh accent, I didn't really realise how strong it was until I went to England last weekend. It's probably one of the uncoolest accents ever.

I love just about any English accent, apart from the southern U.S.A. one...I think it's the slowness of it that gets annoying after a while...:|

I don't blame'em. I absolutely ADORE Greenlandic accents. I met a bunch of them when I was on holiday in Copenhagen last summer.

in short no ones likes a southern accent the people with them are usally seen as uneducated inbred rednecks, plus i think most of them are put on

Doesn't George Bush speak with a southern accent?

I've got an Irish accent(surprisingly enough since I'm irish!) and I like the irish accent on women. Especially the northern Ireland accent! Nothing beats the scottish one though.

This thread is hilarious. Now when I read comments I know what accent to read them in hahah.

As I understand, he went to school in Massachusetts, so his accent would have been affected by that part of his upbringing. He doesn't speak with a particularly identifiable southern accent.

Texas accents aren't true southern accents. I'm not saying they aren't fun to listen to, but they just aren't real southern accents.

George Bush went to school... Jesus you learn something new everyday. I thought he was 'reared' in a cow shed!

Yeah, maybe people who talk like the toothless redneck guy from the Simpsons seem like that. But I think people who have a normal Southern accent aren't seen that way. At least they shouldn't be, because that's just prejudiced and stupid.

George Bush does indeed have a slight southern accent. But I don't think he should be representative of the way most Texans are.

He doesn't strike me as particularly bright, and it has nothing to do with this accent.

What the hell does that mean? Texas is a southern state, so their variety of speech is one of the southern accents. There's no getting around that. It is simply one of the southern regional varieties.

yeh and isn't it weird that he's the only one in his family that does?
Well most of them are toothless rednecks, dont you live in Houston? Maybe if you'd leave the city you would see.

If I'm honest, no. I tend to find most American accents to be quite a turn off. I do quite like the New Zealand one though. But there's something about the broad pronunciation of As and other letters that tends to grate my wick. That said I could listen to Patricia Arquette in True Romance until the cows come home ...

****. All my friends make fun of how I say water too. Interesting.

Sorry for double posting, but I just saw this, have you ever listened to someone from Tyler, Texas? Those accents are wack.

lol yes, i dont think Americans have sexy accents at all. Up north around Boston they have a very strange accents i think its funny. In fact i know a guy from Boston and at first i thought he was possibly retarded because of the way he talked, turned out just to be an accent. The way the say 'car' is really funny