Accents (country, punk, American, French, irish)

jackhammer · 01-27-2009, 05:03 AM

Crap thread but I'm bored. What accents do you like/ dislike?

I am quite partial to a soft Irish lilt. French is sexy too. I fecking hate scouse and I'm not too enamoured with my part of the worlds accent- brummie! Thank christ I have lost it now I'm not there anymore

Britain:

Molecules · 01-27-2009, 05:39 AM

I'm not just saying this but as far as the British Isles go I am a Manc wannabe and the Brummie accent is more than tolerable... However I wouldn't want to live in Birmingham. My friend got shouted at by a random to 'show her fanny' there last week, lol.

I can be found in the outermost corner of Norfolk, and here you'll find the universal 'combine 'arvester' country bumpkin accent. If you have a generic, middle-class southern accent like me you're fucked really, I hate the way I sound. It's not ultra-posh, but my mum is a repatriated working class Londoner who met my dad and probably had aspirations as a social climber. All that side of my family are essentially cockney.

jackhammer · 01-27-2009, 05:51 AM

Apparently my accent is'nt anything although if I get angry, a little Brummie burr comes out but when I go back to see the old man he tells me stop talking posh!

Molecules · 01-27-2009, 06:00 AM

hahaha. If I had a regional accent i'd be parading it everywhere, you need to be proud of your roots, unless you were born in Hampshire. John Peel was Liverpudlian but you'd barely know it. Mind you he was from the posh side...

does anyone know where right-track and urban are from exactly or would they get all weird about disclosing? I got lost in Moss Side once

right-track · 01-27-2009, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Molecules

...does anyone know where right-track and urban are from exactly or would they get all weird about disclosing? I got lost in Moss Side once

Gorton...gorton - Google Maps
Zoom out a bit and Moss Side is around where Platt Fields Park is on the map, just south of the University.
What the hell were you doing there? And I'm not surprised you got lost. I am surprised you got out in one piece though.

Molecules · 01-28-2009, 10:18 AM

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Originally Posted by right-track

Gorton...gorton - Google Maps
Zoom out a bit and Moss Side is around where Platt Fields Park is on the map, just south of the University.
What the hell were you doing there? And I'm not surprised you got lost. I am surprised you got out in one piece though.

We were trying to find the Apollo in a Fiat Cinquecento with no power steering and stopped there to read the map. The centre is a f*cking open-plan labyrinth. I knew where we were and it slapped us out of the 'ooh I've just had Wimpy on the M6 near where Joy Division lived' cultural tourist daydream.

But seriously after one night I got home and was already making provisional plans to move there which of course never came to fruition... it was just good vibes and disarmingly friendly people (I wasn't hammered).

gunnels · 01-28-2009, 02:08 PM

I was born and raised in San Francisco, and moved to TN about 3 years ago.
I never realized there was such thing as a California accent. ._.
Luckily I still haven't picked up the twang. I praise god.

Anyways I hate southern accents. Oddly enough, I love Bronx accents.

**Janszoon** · 01-28-2009, 02:11 PM

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I never realized there was such thing as a California accent. ._.

Heh. You are not the first Californian I've run into that's thought that.

jackhammer · 01-27-2009, 06:06 AM

Urban was from Swindon but lives in St Peter Port guernsey. RT is a Manc through and through.

I am immensely proud of my roots but the accent is damn bad! I have'nt lost it on purpose, I have been living in Cheltenham for 18 years so I guess that has a bearing on it.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 01-27-2009, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by jackhammer

Urban was from Swindon but lives in St Peter Port guernsey. RT is a Manc through and through.

Not quite.

Spent some time in Swindon my early 20s but that was all.

If you want to know what a Guernsey accent sounds like just imagine a Frenchman talking in a Cornish accent. Thankfully I take after my mother and wasn't cursed with this accent like my Dad is.

01-27-2009, 05:03 AM	#1 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	Accents Crap thread but I'm bored. What accents do you like/ dislike? I am quite partial to a soft Irish lilt. French is sexy too. I fecking hate scouse and I'm not too enamoured with my part of the worlds accent- brummie! Thank christ I have lost it now I'm not there anymore Britain: __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

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Molecules daddy don't Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: the Wastes Posts: 2,577	I'm not just saying this but as far as the British Isles go I am a Manc wannabe and the Brummie accent is more than tolerable... However I wouldn't want to live in Birmingham. My friend got shouted at by a random to 'show her fanny' there last week, lol. I can be found in the outermost corner of Norfolk, and here you'll find the universal 'combine 'arvester' country bumpkin accent. If you have a generic, middle-class southern accent like me you're fucked really, I hate the way I sound. It's not ultra-posh, but my mum is a repatriated working class Londoner who met my dad and probably had aspirations as a social climber. All that side of my family are essentially cockney. __________________ [SIZE="1"]Eff em tumble her

01-27-2009, 05:51 AM	#3 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	Apparently my accent is'nt anything although if I get angry, a little Brummie burr comes out but when I go back to see the old man he tells me stop talking posh! __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

01-27-2009, 06:00 AM	#4 (permalink)
Molecules daddy don't Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: the Wastes Posts: 2,577	hahaha. If I had a regional accent i'd be parading it everywhere, you need to be proud of your roots, unless you were born in Hampshire. John Peel was Liverpudlian but you'd barely know it. Mind you he was from the posh side... does anyone know where right-track and urban are from exactly or would they get all weird about disclosing? I got lost in Moss Side once __________________ [SIZE="1"]Eff em tumble her

01-27-2009, 06:06 AM	#9 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	Urban was from Swindon but lives in St Peter Port guernsey. RT is a Manc through and through. I am immensely proud of my roots but the accent is damn bad! I have'nt lost it on purpose, I have been living in Cheltenham for 18 years so I guess that has a bearing on it. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”