What is your accent?

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Affecting people's accents is part of my latent echolalia; I have a habit of slipping into random ones I've acquired. My paternal side of the family hail from the Ohio River Valley, so they 'warsh' their hair and sleep when they are 'tarred'. Strangely though I've never got into that around them. I was born and raised in California and people often mistake me for Texan. There is definitely an East LA accent.

Have you never received a punch in the mouth when people realise you're copying them and think you're taking the piss?

Also, my accent: Central-East Lancashire. A "Northern monkey" accent, to you foreigners.

well I don't know how to spell what I want to say, but there's know way they'd be able to imitate that

Someone I knew online said she could defiantly tell I was from Louisiana when I talked

I got a southern accent. Hell no.

I also found this, which I find ironic considering where I live.

http://www.gotoquiz.com/how_oregon_are_you

Oh! I didn't realize the bolded text in the OP was a link. According to the quiz I have a Western accent.

Your Result: The West

true. my daughter noticed i have a bit of a drawl though... i say "god" like "gawd", for example. i think i picked it up from watching american television.

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Midland

"You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.

I try to mirror with it, and you may be right, they could be thinking I'm making a show of them and I'm oblivious

For those that were oblivious, the bold part of my OP is a link to a test.

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Inland North
You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop."
-Not surprised by my result as my mother and my entire family on that side comes from Michigan-
I was always told growing up that I did not have a southern accent even though I grew up in Virginia, but I think helped that I was raised outside of the Nations capitol.

The way it works is: if you are American, then you tend to think that people with a "Standard American" accent don't have an accent. If you are not American, then you tend to think that people with a "Standard American" accent have an "American" accent, as opposed to a more specific accent.

Anyway, I have a New Zealand accent. I guess you could call it "Standard Pakeha", since it isn't a Maori-influenced accent and it isn't one of those weird Southland accents.

EDIT: I sound pretty much like this guy:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7t2f-L6Z04[/youtube]

Obviously, he's intentionally using lots of words which "show off" the accent's unusual features, but the accent itself is not exaggerated.

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That's a pity. Dutch accents are so cute. I'm going to slightly move away from the topic of North American accents here and post this.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=937C23Wb1vw[/youtube]

Even to me, this sounds confusing. Mark Rutte is not the most intelligent or charming premier we've had in a while, but I would never have guessed that this man's English might be worse than his predecessor's. That's mainly because of the hilarious accent, but also because he's saying absolutely nothing and trying to disguise that with fancy words.

Am more that happy with that
My own accent is Scouse. Well both New York and my home town of Liverpool has lots of connections between each other. My city has been called in the past the New York of Europe, so am cool with that result.

I have a Northern California accent. I say dude a lot, as well as totally, like, and hella. However, I do use a lot of internet terminology in real life, so I guess you can say its a cross between Internet and NorCal. However, I do wish I had Tommy Wiseau's accent.

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