What accent do you have?

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I'll oftentimes slip into a Southern accent in basic conversation. My mom's side of the family is mostly from down south so I've picked it up over the years from them.

I don't know, probably some weird mixture of ebonics-redneck-upper midwest.

(British) English with nuances of French.

None in particular. Heavily slurred speech half the time. Some words come out in a kinda drunk Irish or Scottish accent, but I don't know why (I'm not even from that region).

to be honest, and im sure this is the case for other countries, having an "english" accent is a very broad term, for example i am british but i may speak in a completely different accent to you, yet we are both considered to have english accents.


so for example someone from london can be cockney but someone from the north can have accents like being a jordy, or a north yorkshire accent (the one im supposed to have, yet i sound much different from them, even though i grew up here) or even have a durham accent. one with a jordy accent and one with a sussex accent might not even be able to understand each other even though they both speak the same language simply because of rapidly different ways of pronouncing words and different colloquialisms. for example my mother (whose from durham) coins phrases like "click a hardy on end" (which means grab the other end). which make no sense to me because im from north yorkshire (or more specifically, the selby area) yet we are all british.



my answer to this properly (since i said i was a jumble earlier) is that im meant to have a north yorkshire accent, but mines more of a corrupted version that has dashes of the durham accent and the cockney accent in it (my father is cockney and my mother is from bishop auckland which is county durham). which results in me sounding quite foreign, some people guess that im american, others have no clue.

seriously, throughout highschool everyone in my class thought i was american the entire time, just none of them bothered to ask until the last year (year 11) when a guy directly asked me and revealed this information to me. despite the fact that i rarely talked.

Am I the only one here who can't distinguish accents?

I've always thought they all sound the same. O.o I mean, I know they don't, but unless I really took the time to analyze their speech, I wouldn't notice if someone had a foreign accent.

I am curious, would you say you have a better-than-average ability to decipher garbled speech?

People on my end of the US (Pacific Coast) tend to think we don't have accents because our way of speaking has for some reason been chosen as normative for nationwide TV broadcasts. Some people here ask me what my accent is, though I've lived in Seattle my whole life. I wonder if it's from years of echoing
my mother, who was born in Pennsylvania. My favorite accent to listen to is Welsh.

I have an Auslan accent.

I'm drawn to languages that have trilled Rs.

is that similar to Australian broadcast standard?

^

I grew up with the ABC.

then I would guess that you'd sound like a broadcaster then.

^ If only.

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