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As I mention in the 'Watcha Sound Like' thread, I am rather shocked to find I prefer the American voices recored to the British ones (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=473500&page=76).

What would be the preference of most NSers?

British! I cant get enough of them.

I'm even with both, really. I don't have a preference...

...Well, so long as it's not a dipshit Southern accent. No, I don't mean all Southern accents. I mean the ones that uneducated hicks have. My dad happens to have one of the worst (though he's quite educated), and it's annoying as hell.

Depends on where you're from, I suppose. I found the British accents on that thread a little boring to be honest because, well, I hear a British accent everytime I open my mouth or go outside. The ones we don't hear that often are more exotic, and thus more interesting.

Which American accient, southern, midwestern, Bostonian, New Yorker, North Eastern, Michigander, midweastern, ect?

I love the brits. Every time I talk to one, I feel like having tea.

Being American (and an Ohioan at that so we have the General American accent), I'd have to say I prefer my accent to that of the British.

When it comes to any other, I'd take the British over them especially that horrid Southern drawl.

I'd prefer British even though I'm American. Or perhaps because I'm American? :p

Which British accent? Cornish, Plymothian, Devonian, Bristolian, Home Counties, Cockney, Brummy, Scouse, Mancunian, Geordie, Yorkshire, Durham, etc (and that's just England!)

I'd prefer British even though I'm American. Or perhaps because I'm American? :p

That seems to be the way.

Neither. I tend to think that most English women's accents sound too manly and/or not attractive and I think the American accent is rather dull and boring.

I'm even with both, really. I don't have a preference...

...Well, so long as it's not a dipshit Southern accent. No, I don't mean all Southern accents. I mean the ones that uneducated hicks have. My dad happens to have one of the worst (though he's quite educated), and it's annoying as hell.

As an educated man of a working class background I am in a similar position to your Dad. I imagine it might embarass my children in future (http://media.putfile.com/Article-One---Oxfordland-Lancashire-Northern-England).

To Americans it does not seem it sounds particuarly uneducated, though to English ears it is very much so.

I doubt the average Brit would find your Dad's voice objectionable in the least.

As an educated man of a working class background I am in a similar position to your Dad. I imagine it might embarass my children in future (http://media.putfile.com/Article-One...rthern-England).

To Americans it does not seem it sounds particuarly uneducated, though to English ears it is very much so.

I doubt the average Brit would find your Dad's voice objectionable in the least.


Its not working for me

Which British accent? Cornish, Plymothian, Devonian, Bristolian, Home Counties, Cockney, Brummy, Scouse, Mancunian, Geordie, Yorkshire, Durham, etc (and that's just England!)

In a pub in London my accent was placed not just to St Helens (a town of little over 100,000), but to an area of the town of just a few thousand. I am aware of the gross generalisation, but that will also apply to covering the entire USA in a single option.

In a pub in London my accent was placed not just to St Helens (a town of little over 100,000), but to an area of the town of just a few thousand. I am aware of the gross generalisation, but that will also apply to covering the entire USA in a single option.
I know, it was done in jest to copy:

Which American accient, southern, midwestern, Bostonian, New Yorker, North Eastern, Michigander, midweastern, ect?

Its not working for me

Sorry, its edited.

I know, it was done in jest to copy:

Oh yes, sorry I had not noticed that thread.

I beg your pardon.

i think american has the potential to sound sexier especially if its one of those slow drawling accents. having said that, irish tops both of them and so does the french accent. english accents are just boring or comical (bristolian anyone?:p).

Oh yes, sorry I had not noticed that thread.

I beg your pardon.
S'alright! ;)

As an educated man of a working class background I am in a similar position to your Dad. I imagine it might embarass my children in future (http://media.putfile.com/Article-One---Oxfordland-Lancashire-Northern-England).

To Americans it does not seem it sounds particuarly uneducated, though to English ears it is very much so.

I doubt the average Brit would find your Dad's voice objectionable in the least.

Probably not, but it's really embarrassing for us (his children). He has no shame about it, and that's the problem. He talks with an air of obnoxious arrogance, as if his accent makes him more intelligent than everyone else. He's also quite the loudmouth, what with being able to hear his telephone conversations when you're in the backyard and he's in the livingroom.

Along with that, he bawls me out almost every time I open my mouth, all because I sound like I'm from the Northern states.

He's the reason I can't stand most of the Southern accents. :p

Edit: He actually came from a pretty wealthy family. He's a bit of a bum, though, as he didn't move out of his parents' house until he was almost 30.

Oh.

OK then.

i think american has the potential to sound sexier especially if its one of those slow drawling accents. having said that, irish tops both of them and so does the french accent. english accents are just boring or comical (bristolian anyone?:p).

Spot the Scot!

I know, it was done in jest to copy:
Hay, I would have done the same for British accents, but than I realized I can only really recognize the diference between more northern scotish style accent and than the really educated version you hear in documentaries, so since I know there are more than just that I figured what the hell maybe a brit will make this point for them, namely that accents vary a lot even with in those places.

Spot the Scot!

actually i have a fairly flat southern english accent. was brought up in jersey

my accent (http://media.putfile.com/infinite-revolution-reads-article-one)

I was in a thread just like this yesterday. But ti got off track and I had to get some South Korean guy to stop calling me a satanist by telling him I was a general in the U.S Army protecting his sorry ass and that I could call off my boys at the 38th Parrelel and tell the North Koreans to "Go Postal." It worked...he left!lol
No offense to my SK friends out there.

actually i have a fairly flat southern english accent. was brought up in jersey

my accent (http://media.putfile.com/infinite-revolution-reads-article-one)

Fair 'nuff.

I am afraid I agree, we both sound dull and flat. :(

I used to sound Scouse, I think it sounded better than what I have now.

I say Brittish, but my favorite accent of all time isn't really an accent, it's more ebonics. Any guy who's hot and can speak gangsta is amazing. But Orlando Bloom's accent is so HOT!

actually i have a fairly flat southern english accent. was brought up in jersey

my accent (http://media.putfile.com/infinite-revolution-reads-article-one)
I can't listen, my speakers are broken:(

I can't listen, my speakers are broken:(

You're not missing owt, he sounds a bit like me, which is not worth much effort either.

Fortunately we are both more handsome that Adonis and the very personifiction of urbane easy charm. So, it evens out.

Spoken, I think I might actually prefer the American accent. It is their spelling I cannot stand. Americans who speak with British words: super.

There are, of course, different accents for different regions of North America as well as the United Kingdom. Some U.K. accents are nice, others not. The same is true of N.A. in my opinion.


It does not really matter to me, though, since I prefer the accents of ESL speakers anyway. We have to face the facts that Middle Easterners are the best looking and the best sounding folks on the planet. That noted, there are dozens of other accents that I love, too.

OOOOIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!

Leave Bristolian alone! (Please...) Now, if you'd said Brummy or Scouse...

I myself don't have strong Bristolian accent, as I'm frequently told, but it does get to you, specially when I go back there.

I looooove Irish. Especially Ulster when it's sort of soft, not all hard on all the vowel sounds; but something from County Mayo way is also great.

EDIT: Voted British, cos I don't know American accents well enough to judge, really. I can just about say "South" "North East" "Mid West" "West Coast" but beyond that I'm stuffed. Whereas telling a Glaswegian from any other Scot, or someone from Chester from a Mancunian, is eeeaaaasy.

OOOOIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!

Leave Bristolian alone! (Please...) Now, if you'd said Brummy or Scouse...


hehe :D my flatmate is from bristol and her accent's pretty strong. i love it when she sings werzel's songs :p . Brummy and scouse are also very funny you'r right and so is an really posh public school accent (which i am pretty good at since i went to a private primary school and have a mother who was determined to bring me up posh).

Heh, I admit I can have trouble keeping a straight face when I hear "Alroite moi luvver?!?":confused:
Still think Brum is the most amusing accent going.:cool:

Its not working for me
Since it has Lancashire in the title, assume it's like mine. I can't hear it either, btw, even with the edit.

Since it has Lancashire in the title, assume it's like mine. I can't hear it either, btw, even with the edit.


In that case, I should begin wiping drool from the keyboard.

I prefer British accents to American accents. Probably because the Australian accent is closer to the British ones.

Accents: German > English > American.

British! I cant get enough of them.
Oh really? I must find out how to upload voice recording.:D

*shrug*

The British accent is lost on a person who rambles off like crazy.
The American accent is lost on...well...everyone from the South.

It depends on the situation.

Normally, I like fellow American accents. Calm, relaxed, and not at all intimidating to my intelligence. >_>...

It really all depends on how a person presents themself.

You gotta be kidding me. A sophisticated (read: educated) Southern drawl beats almost every other accent. Especially from a girl.

You gotta be kidding me. A sophisticated (read: educated) Southern drawl beats almost every other accent. Especially from a girl.
Isn't that an oxymoron;)
Just kidding don't hurt me.:(

British! I cant get enough of them.

No such thing! In the UK there's the Ulster accent, Scottish accent, Welsh accent and many, many different English accents.

But there's summat cool about the German accent, no?

I've got to say, I prefer thick accents. Northern ones in the UK, or Southern ones in the US. Generally I myself use BBC English.

i have to admit that northern (british... all variations within) accents tend to irritate me... strong accents of any kind do. they can have a lot of character, but be very hard to understand, and i do find myself dismissing the intelligence of what's said with a broad accent.
probably because i've been brought up and still live in the middle of the south... pretty much 'no accent'

so on that basis of half the country being of accents i don't like, i'd go for american accents for being sexier. they often just sound more suave or nicely rounded... more flowing than a southern british gabble.


i think the short answer is i don't *like* any accents, but i dislike american ones less :p

Spoken, I think I might actually prefer the American accent. It is their spelling I cannot stand. Americans who speak with British words: super.


That would be me. And I use British spelling as well. :D

i have to admit that northern (british... all variations within) accents tend to irritate me... strong accents of any kind do. they can have a lot of character, but be very hard to understand, and i do find myself dismissing the intelligence of what's said with a broad accent.
probably because i've been brought up and still live in the middle of the south... pretty much 'no accent'

so on that basis of half the country being of accents i don't like, i'd go for american accents for being sexier. they often just sound more suave or nicely rounded... more flowing than a southern british gabble.


i think the short answer is i don't *like* any accents, but i dislike american ones less :p

I hope you won't mind me writing this.

I am from the south as a small child and spoke with a Southern English accent. Even then I did not like the way many in the south would not tolorate a Northern accent.

You speak as if it is only others who have accents. I remember a chap with a strong Paisley accent, who living in Oxford would only be able to have conversations with Northerners and a handful of Southerners. The Northern accents were no more similar to a Paisley accent than the Southern ones were, but generally Northerners were used to making some effort, whereas many people from the south of England felt there was no reason why they should.

This is not a north south point, if the BBC had been based in Leeds and the private schools promoted a Yorkshire accent, then I am sure it would work the other way.

I write this as a man who has no difficulty at all in being understood by people who have English as a second language, but many Southerners or private school kids will claim I am unclear. It is insulting and rather pathetic.

Neither.

I much prefer a Frenchwoman speaking English with a heavy accent. :D

when I was in Germany this summer I said somthing to one of my host families friends and she said my american accent was really cute. :D

Neither.

I much prefer a Frenchwoman speaking English with a heavy accent. :D

mmmmmmmmmmm......

nothing beats a heavy french female accent...

Oxfordland, being a proud Southerner, I nonetheless recognise what you mean.
Fact is I find a fairly thick Tyneside easier than cut-glass BBC 'proper' pronunciation, but there are some people who seem to take a perverse pride in not understanding, in shaking their heads and then muttering <Northern> to themselves.

I can't make out my own accent, and am generally told that I don't have a strong accent from anywhere, but that's probably cos I'm messed up :D

Which American accient, southern, midwestern, Bostonian, New Yorker, North Eastern, Michigander, midweastern, ect?
You forgot the Beltway accent. :p

Actually, I'd never heard of that until Pacitalia called my accent that. ;)