accents

recently I was told by someone that they liked my accent. said person can come forward if he/she wants to.

what accent either regional, national or international do you like?

I quite like the way up north Scottish accents.

Your accent is charming like it's owner. I also love a good southern drawl. But there is a soft spoken lady down the street from somewhere in China that makes everything she says sound like a sweet sweet song. I could listen to her for hours!

blushing!

I also like the Westen Highland accent, which is, as you say Mark, those of Northern Scotland, also your Northern Irish accent I find quite pleasant to the ear.

The Glasgow accent is quite hard, but the dialect is good fun. 'Giesapunnaburrafurramurra', or the old bus conductress' favourite, "Cummoan yous, get aff!!"

I don't like the accents from the entire East coast of Scotland, whether Aberdeen, Fife, or Edinburgh.

*nae borra*

Wintermoor

I like the New York accent. The Bostonian accent too. I like the Southern drawls!! If I had to choose a local accent then it would have to be yours Barry!! Heh-heh!!

Aye!! Me and Billy Connolly, eh? ;-)

I must admit I quite like the Noo Yoik accent, but not so much Baastin, and as you say the Southern Drawl, from whichever state can be quite interesting.


*Och Aye!!*

Wintermoor

Apart from yours Mark, a geordie (NE England) accent does it for me, and perhaps Greek.

hey Winter

you have lost me on "Giesapunnaburrafurramurra"

does it read, in the best Queens English -
give one a pound, no bother, for ones mother?

in my best Norn Iron accent someone could say

oil nak yer pawn in wee mawn

Nearly Mark,
it's 'give me a pound of butter, for my Mother'.

Dead eazy, so it is... lol

Wintermoor (fae ra Soo Side)

I kinda like the Savon Murre -Finnish :) And I most of all hate Finnswedish. Just don't like it. It is much easier to understand than "Swedish-swedish". tho..

Gee,I thought we all sounded alike here on DG. I hear no difference in anyone.All equal to me.
Serious note tho....All are tops in my book. I enjoy listening to different people of different nationalities.But I must say,my favorite is the 'English' and then I think the Swedish, and then; I don't know what.

good one CoCo

I like your accent mark. takes me a bit to get used to it, where i can understand what you're saying. I love a southern drawl myself, and the Aussies that I've heard on tv and movies sounds wonderful.

You should put a voice sample online Mark ;) Maybe I should too, you should hear how good I am speaking

I like southern drawls, and it doesnt tkae me long to fall into speaking with one. I do a lot of business in the south, and after a mill trip down there, I come back with with a funny version of a southern drawl.
Just last night someone said to me, youhave an accent where are you from? and I was floored, it has been years since I had an accent, I have a bastardized accent, as most of youknow I was raised in Turkey, we spoke english at home, italian at school and turkish in between. Then we went to a high school where the classes were taught in English, somewhat of an immersion....anyway, the teachers were from all over the english speaking world, U.K., Australia, South Africa, Zaire, New Zealand, and believe it or not, we also had some Turksih teachers teaching English - if that wasnt a hoot. So, we came away from our schooling with the funniest accent imaginable.

My husband has a very heavy Turkish accent, they cant say the "TH" sound, ey say "D" instead...

I enjoy all accents, but the far eastern ones are the hardest to understand, I prefer doing business with them on paper, cause face to face, I can rarely understand what they are yapping about, and I end up asking them to write things down...It just doesnt pay to miss things when you are negotiating big orders...

Danish! It is really pleasant to listen too:)

Accent? Ya'll mean to say I could be talkin' diffrent than the rest of ya?
Nawwwwww.....

I talk to myself all the time and can't detect whether I have an accent or not.

LOL SHoe! I don't talk funny other folks do! I love Louisia's accent. It sounds so prim and formal.

Danish sounds funny, somehow "soft". Some people here say that Danes speak with tongue in their throut. (not my opinion, sorry Deblynn =))

We have a friend who recently moved up here from Oklahoma. He has such a drawl that I tell him to spell things for me. I keep telling him to speak English!

It's funny even in the midwest, you will occaisionally pick up a "ancestry" accent. My brother-in-law has a slight German type of accent and he's at least 4th generation in the US.

I love a good AUTHENTIC Virginia accent as demonstrated by NASCAR drivers Ward Burton or Elliot Sadler.

Martin Sheen did a perfect Virginia accent when he played Robert E. Lee in "Gettysburg."

I could also listen to Mel Gibson in "Braveheart" all day. Love a Scottish brogue, but I find them very hard to imitate.

well if you phoned my cell phone after midnight UK time you would hear me on my voice mail.

no more liking my accent purleese.

Mark

Heehehöö :]

Mark, I was wondering how DG members had heard your voice....
I bet you have a sexy accent...is that right????

I wouldnt have a clue.

what |I will do later today just before I go to bed is post my number when I get up i'll delete it.

lol mark....

okay, he leaves me in charge of this!!!! he wants me to post his cell phone number. I'm going to delete it at 10pm tonight, so if you want it, write it down now. remember, he's probably asleep now, so don't call now. he is great to listen too and loves to talk, so call at your own risk!!!

took it out mark, hope you get a call or two!!

This message was edited Thursday, Oct 3rd 10:07 PM

I was sleeping...

what have I let myself in for LOL

Trouble ;-)

I know it's real corny , but I just adore the french accent !! When you hear a deep voice crooning in those tones oooohhhhh !!!1 only problem is though, when you try to speak french to them, as soon as they hear their own language they're off at 500 words per second !and you have to keep saying'pardon?'
Pitch of voice is another thing that does it for me, I love deep resonating voices, or husky voices, one voice that drives me to despair, is Ashley on Corrie aaaggghh!!!!Sorry to any Corrie fans out there.

EHAW EHAW EHAW

Mark, your voice wasn't as special as I though, ROFL x)
If I wanted to leave a message, should I have pressed "1"?

hehehe!!! you left that door open mark!

Of course, the people in Wisconsin and Minnesota have no accent (according to all my relatives up there). Ya right!! Yer darn tutin' ! [Trying to talk a little like the people in the FARGO movie.]

You know, Grannylois, as I was reading this thread, it occurred to me that no one has mentioned that sexy midwest nasal twang. When I was a younster in Indiana, I would have been shocked to think I had an accent, but now that I live in Alaska, I can really hear it! And those Wisconsoners, by golly, hey they sure do talk funny, eh?

I stayed at a bed and breakfast just south of Victoria Station a few years ago. The owner would follow me around wanting to talk. And then go back to his wife and they would start to chuckle. Finally I confronted him as to what he thought was so funny. He said nothing was funny, but they got the biggest kick out of my accent and the words I would put together in a discussion. I took it as a complement.

One of my statistics professors was from Jamaica by way of Canada (or maybe the other way around.) But he had the neatest, melodic accent. The only trouble was, it was easy to be lulled by the cadence of his speech patterns, and too late, I'd realize I had missed several (important) statements he had made!