accents and languages : annoying/sexy

[маразм1]

French:
In france, even an alcoholic will sound sophisticated , but without being annoying (see below).  French accents are always sexy (when chicks have them)

British English:
London English is very difficult to understand to me.  Additionally, any other "British" accent is annoying to me.  Sounds fake.  I dunno, how, but it just does.  It sounds like they just put on this pompous act, like they're so classy, etc; but at the same time can say complete b.s.
I can't stand British movie dialogue, unless it's Mr. Bean.  I tried watching Full Monty and couldnt take more than 1/2 hour of it. 

Italian:
It is a great language--well-suited for opera.  Very musical and lyrical.  Italian accents when speaking English remind me of Brooklyn.

Indian language/accent sounds like Apu.  Hate it. 

Chinese:
I hate it too.  Why the hell are they always so loud?

German:
The language is ugly, but ideal for military commands.  But the accent, when speaking English, is kinda cool. 

Hebrew: sounds like hairball

Russian: Heavy Russian accent is really really annoying.  Even I cringe.  Russian language is beautiful if you hear the "pure" language, as spoken by great theater actors, not Babushkas from Brighton Beach.  Nothing worse than those Jewish grandmas who turn this beautiful language into sh*t. 


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[locrian]

What's your own accent?

[маразм1]

What's your own accent?

I have a slight Russian/generic European accent.

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[locrian]

I'm in the midwestern United States and when Monty Python came on back in the '70s, I had no idea about half of what they were saying. But I kept watching and soon picked up on it. Now, I have no problem with most British accents. I even became a bit of an anglophile back then.

But I got better. 

[locrian]

Kind of a side topic here, but whenever I visit somewhere with a distinct local accent different from my own, I begin picking up and imitating the accent.

[маразм1]

Kind of a side topic here, but whenever I visit somewhere with a distinct local accent different than my own, I begin picking up and imitating the accent.

everybody does.  I hate brooklyn accent but I notice myself saying " 10 dollaz " ($10) haha

[locrian]

everybody does.  I hate brooklyn accent but I notice myself saying " 10 dollaz " ($10) haha

Oh good. I thought it was only me.

[sidoze]

British English:
London English is very difficult to understand to me.  Additionally, any other "British" accent is annoying to me.  Sounds fake.  I dunno, how, but it just does.  It sounds like they just put on this pompous act, like they're so classy, etc; but at the same time can say complete b.s.
I can't stand British movie dialogue, unless it's Mr. Bean.  I tried watching Full Monty and couldnt take more than 1/2 hour of it. 

this is ridiculously reductive. there's an old English joke that English accents change by postcode (if you don't know, pretty much every block in England has a different postcode). so what you're saying doesn't really make sense.

russian is beautiful

[greg]

hm, accents are different from languages.

the Japanese language is my favorite, of course, but when they speak English in a thick accent, it's just really goofy! 
on the other hand, the French accent sounds nice, but i don't care for language....

i kinda like British accents, they're not bad

[Daidalos]

English with a Swedish accent is the most painful thing imaginable.

[маразм1]

this is ridiculously reductive. there's an old English joke that English accents change by postcode (if you don't know, pretty much every block in England has a different postcode). so what you're saying doesn't really make sense.

russian is beautiful

can you tell whether a person is from the USA vs. UK? 

that's what I mean.

[Kullervo]

Like: the Richard Burton/Peter O'Toole/Lawrence Olivier/John Gielgud English accent (even though Burton is Welsh)

Hate: The 'innit' Southern British accent. I actually like most Northern UK accents.

[маразм1]

haha, Japanese people in my company who speak English are funny:

here's how they talk:

hmmmmm  MAYBE  .................    IT WILL ..................GENERATE...AN .........................................................................................ERROR  AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! 


They take so long to phrase one sentense, that even if they say the most retarded thing, you are relieved.  It's better than watching their painful struggle to spit something out. 

[Lethevich]

I'm pretty happy to not be too interested or swayed by "exotic" accents. I'm happy with the choices available in my quarter of the country (Somerset, Devon, Cornish and Welsh), and due to familiarity, find them infinitely easier to understand than ones from most other regions of the UK. I basically can't understand what many people from Greater London, Newcastle, Manchester and Glasgow are saying. I have noticed that a restrained southern US accent slightly resembles a similarly restrained Somerset one, and a New York one can sound more caustic sort of like London ones can also do. If an accent is sexy to me, it's due to the way the person uses their voice, not the language itself.

English with a Swedish accent is the most painful thing imaginable.

...I've heard English spoken in (many) Dutch accents via team speak in video games and... I really must contest your finding

Edit: That's about five edits. Goodness.

[sidoze]

can you tell whether a person is from the USA vs. UK? 

that's what I mean.

sure, i can, but it's not that simple and often depends on where you come from. to take myself as an example, british people usually think i'm american or canadian; americans think i'm british or perhaps canadian; canadians, well, who really cares?    what you wrote is senseless nonetheless.

[hornteacher]

A real British accent = very sexy

Someone TRYING to do a British accent = very annoying

[Gurn Blanston]

I love all sorts of accents. As long as I can eventually work out the meaning, it's fine with me. Particularly fine to my ear is a strong Scottish burr, and a North Country farmer's accent. As for American accents (yes, there are dozens of them here), most of them are really quite pleasant. I can tell if you are from the Carolinas or Georgia or Florida, for example, although it isn't just the accent, it is the choice of words. Apparently I am blessed with an ear for them, colorful phrases from years ago stay in my memory forever. Which brings me to your other point: yes, within a day or two of arrival at a new place, I am subconsciously working over to speaking like the natives. Seems it can't be helped.



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[Novi]

I love the Orcadian accent - it's very beautiful and melodious, as is a Northern Irish accent. I was talking to a native French speaker just yesterday and her accented (but very proficient) English was very lovely indeed too 0:).

[Bonehelm]

Japanese is probably the most erotic spoken language on earth. When spoken by girls only, obviously.

[carlos]

OK, But please, north-americans or europeans you are,
don't try to speak in spanish. Is very painful to hear you.