Which accents do you dislike?

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Really we sound that bad, well I personally often hate the accents of attempted Australian accents in certain movies or overly done ones, like in the Crocodile Dundee films. Also their is this type of accent that Australians who have gone over to America and their accent kind of gets morphed, and it kind of sounds more like the sterotypical version.

Also I have had a bunch of University lectures with different accents, well I wont realy say that I hate it, but I find it really hard to understand what I think is a chinese accent, where I just have a hard time decyphering what they are saying.

New York/New Jersey
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Ebonics

Can't stand this stuff. Hurts my brain to hear it.

think about it. the clicks are just another consonant.

P, T, K are all "clicking" sounds, they hit once and then they stop. one could say we got the easy few click sounds, african languages simply got more of them.

When I was a kid, we did cling. But that was just for fun.
A reminding thing of how to drive horses and mulets and oxes I guess

But the way they do it while speaking got me hilarious when I first saw the movie. I found it great!
Almost like a polyphony thing.

but we do it while speaking too, its a matter of "seeing it from the correct angle"

corre+C+T <---two quick "western clicks"

I don't like most Eastern US accents like Bostonian or New York. They sound so harsh.

I also really hate 'ghetto' ebonics accents.

TBH I don't know the difference between the different kinds of British but I don't care for some British accents. .. Or French.. I guess I'm just not a big fan of most accents in general lol.

Scottish, I don't know what it is but I just get annoyed at scottish accents.
Russian, don't like them, they're a bit rough sounding.
Those rough soudning manchester type accents, it sounds really chavvy.
South US, makes people sound stupid.

I don't dislike any accents.

Despite being at least a 5th generation Texan, I talk more like I'm from the Rust Belt--despite never having even visited that part of the country.

oh i LOVE slavic languages and accents they sound so laid-back and baddass, especially the ones closer to europe, serbian and polish, russian is a bit more harsh i think, but still awesome

slavic accents in english = kickass!

my absolute FAVORITE english is west african, that of ghana and sierra leone

I thought central Texas was the rust belt Buckle, just by looking at the well water

I guess you would label it "Yank Texas Ebonic", as used by people of colour from that part of the USA. They sound like they just woke up, and slur things together horribly.

Otherwise I think Yank accents are quite amusing. One Southern Yank once said to me "wot you got here is two ticks and no dawg." Thought that was hilarious ....

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Accents never really bothered me that much. In fact, I like doing them from time to time...
Many a southerner has made their fortune playing up the 'stupid' sound, while we guile-fully take their money...

None in particular.

I dislike accents so thick they make the speaker hard to understand: thick Indian accent, or Vietnamese. Why are Vietnamese and Cambodians so much harder to understand than some other Asian language speakers? I get like every 3rd word and have to extrapolate the rest. I have many Japanese and Chinese friends and I understand them perfectly.

East Europeans and Middle Easterners sometimes have very thick accents, but I can still understand them perfectly. Strange that, eh?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upspeak

I think what you are talking about is upspeak. When I was in high school, in the early 80's in Northern California, most of my classmates did not talk like that. It was more limited to wealthy, Southern California girls (There's a big break geographical break between Northern and Southern CA, so it's like to two different states, basically---I don't remember if you're from the US, but I'm assuming not.)

Nowadays, I hear all kinds of people talking like that, including scientists and other very educated people. My son's first grade teacher talked like that, too. I mean--you know like my son's teacher? Well she like totally talked like that? And like now she's working on her Master's Degree? Because she's like, totally smart, and all that?

A really broad Mancunian accent (I'm Mancunian but my accent isn't all that broad at all) as it sounds chavvy, the Brummie accent as it just sounds eternally miserable, and the Geordie accent as they annoyingly replace some letters like the letter 'k' with an empty gap and some of their words sound the same - I can't tell the difference between 'token' and 'talking' in the broad Geordie accent!! ! I feel bad saying this because I know many lovely scouse people, but I find the scouse accents annoying too.