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05 Aug 2009, 5:33 am

Which accents do you dislike? The ones you absolutely can't stand, that you just wish that the person would just shut up and go take elocution lessons?!

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05 Aug 2009, 5:55 am

None, as far as I know.

I actually like a lot some accents other people strongly dislike or make fun of.

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05 Aug 2009, 5:57 am

Ah! There's one that I hate!
But it's not really an accent, more a ton of voice: sarcastic.

And I don't like much the agressive ones either.

They can be cool in movies or books or music but in the real life, with real people, I hate them!

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05 Aug 2009, 6:22 am

cornish, brummie and that one with the rising inflection

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05 Aug 2009, 6:47 am

One accent that I loved the first time I heard it - but I don't know if it's a real one or if it has been created on purpose for the film (I'm not talking about the French one!)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4zufs6XZVg[/youtube]

We don't hear it much in that extract (?) but the others are too long; it starts at 1:01.

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05 Aug 2009, 7:14 am

Australian. I never notice how bad they sound around real people, but on tv and in movies they sound terrible.

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05 Aug 2009, 7:36 am

Crion87 wrote:

Which accents do you dislike? The ones you absolutely can't stand, that you just wish that the person would just shut up and go take elocution lessons?!

Feel free to vent here!

Israeli accent is terrible as it lacks elegance and when they speak English it sounds like a track unloading gravel

BTW
i have an Israeli accent

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05 Aug 2009, 8:24 am

zena4 wrote:

If you're referring to the clicking sound, then it's real. It's part of the San people who live in the Kalahari Desert.

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05 Aug 2009, 9:45 am

zena4, lots of african languages use clicking. that movie is famous for using real tribals (and hardly paying them jack s**t)

im fine w all languages and accents, altho one american accent seems to sliiightly bother me
the only thing i know is that
"they talk like this? everything sounds like a question? im not sure where it is from, but its often talked in connection w a city? maybe somewhere west coast."

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05 Aug 2009, 9:51 am

zena4 wrote:

Ah! There's one that I hate!
But it's not really an accent, more a ton of voice: sarcastic.

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05 Aug 2009, 10:07 am

ZEGH8578 wrote:

"they talk like this? everything sounds like a question? im not sure where it is from, but its often talked in connection w a city? maybe somewhere west coast."

Scots talk like that as well. I could never tell if I was supposed to reply or not lol

I've always found this working-class cockney kinda annoying:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2DsqfEtjUA[/youtube]

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05 Aug 2009, 10:13 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyKF2qd0-iQ[/youtube]

i used to be annoyed by lister's accent, but i kinda like it its fascinating. most "working british" accents are like that, i find them fascinating cus theyre different and strange. they become exotic and foreign again

the american question-mark accent still bugs me a bit tho

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05 Aug 2009, 10:54 am

DaWalker wrote:

zena4 wrote:

Ah! There's one that I hate!
But it's not really an accent, more a ton of voice: sarcastic.

Oh don't cry DaWalker. If you want to speak Monty Python, it's alright with me!
But speak slowly then - and with subtitles if you can.

And thank you i_wanna_blue, I wasn't sure!
And ZEGH8578: I didn't know that, thank you too

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05 Aug 2009, 11:04 am

There's an accent in English I didn't like, it was from India - but I don't know which part of India: they spoke so fast and with such an accent that I could never get a single word. Or, well, maybe one or two but that was not enough to understand the phone calls.
Luckily THEY could understand me and luckily again I wasn't the one in charge of the commercials!

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05 Aug 2009, 11:11 am

zena4 wrote:

DaWalker wrote:

zena4 wrote:

Ah! There's one that I hate!
But it's not really an accent, more a ton of voice: sarcastic.

Oh don't cry DaWalker. If you want to speak Monty Python, it's alright with me!
But speak slowly then - and with subtitles if you can.

I am a sub-title

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05 Aug 2009, 11:15 am

In French, the subtitles!
Or else, it's much too sophisticated for me :shrug:

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