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05 Aug 2009, 5:31 pm

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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?

HAHAHA! So Cal yo!

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05 Aug 2009, 6:23 pm

I won’t say what accent I hate because I used to have it and took me a lot of work to get rid of it thank God. I do LOVE a Celtic accent though. I could listen to Scottish or Irish all day and not get tired.

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06 Aug 2009, 12:28 am

This video functions like a buffet of bad New Jersey metro area accents:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5weU2olAl-E[/youtube]

Two of the worst offenders are:

the girl at 1:04
the girl at 4:24

Ugh.

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06 Aug 2009, 12:46 am

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This video functions like a buffet of bad New Jersey metro area accents:

This video interposes a totally new and esoteric meaning to the concept of accent

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06 Aug 2009, 1:15 am

French. :roll:

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06 Aug 2009, 2:08 am

Indian accents--too deep, especially over the phone. I had an Indian friend from Chennai with whom I have had communication issues, simply because I can't comprehend him well. Also, I feel the Australian accent is British accent on steroids. (No offense to Aussies, though.)

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06 Aug 2009, 2:09 am

Boston and Brooklyn accents both sound a bit harsh. I can't stand ebonics (which is how a big chunk of America talks...) And middle eastern accents are annoying.

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06 Aug 2009, 2:49 am

Fidget wrote:

And middle eastern accents are annoying.

I call those the two-stroke engine accents. They sound like a de-tuned moped or something. Still, they are perfectly comprehensible to native english speakers so they don't bother me. But it does make me smile when I hear Zahi Hawass speak. I feel as if Seinfeld is going to pop up and tell a joke about it.

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06 Aug 2009, 11:17 am

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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.

Agree with this.I can't understand them much :evil:

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06 Aug 2009, 11:38 am

it depends on who is speaking.
i have tried to think of an accent i dislike, but i can imagine someone speaking it beautifully and so i do not think i dislike any accent.

but i suppose if i must answer, i dislike the almost indecipherable accents in parts of england.

i do not know the actual areas these people are from, but they sound extremely uneducated. i hear these accents on TV where they interview some people in england.
often, they have to put subtitles in the clip so that people can follow what is being said.

it is not as if these people are speakers of welsh or some other dialect. they are speakers of english, and their society around them speaks clear english.

i can not understand why they pay so little attention to their pronunciation. they seem to babble in some "basal utterance" manner, and i find it very annoying when i am reading the subtitles because i think "if only you could speak better, i would be able to look at the scenery rather than be tied up reading the subtitles ! !".

i do not like australian aboriginal accents. i can rarely understand aborigines who talk.
they have a "yanganna yanganna" style of speech which i can not follow.

i do not really like mexican accents.

whatever...

a nice mind will seem beautiful with whatever accent it speaks with.

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06 Aug 2009, 12:05 pm

elderwanda wrote:

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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."

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?

Yes yes yes!! !!

:D:D
i was suspecting california, but so far ive only asked NT's about this, and they get emotional, and claim that i am delusional and such an accent never ever existed

THANK YOU FOR CONFIRMING!

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06 Aug 2009, 1:24 pm

I dislike the American accent[s]
I can never understand a word they're saying

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06 Aug 2009, 1:44 pm

Jersey. I know someone with a strong Jersey accent (though she's not from there, she's more from down Philly way, but she regards herself as sort of honorary Jersey because she spends so much time there), and she is VERY LOUD as well, and I'm like, OMG, puhlease, can you turn the volume down a little?

I don't exactly dislike Ulster and Geordie accents, but I have immense trouble understanding them.

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06 Aug 2009, 2:56 pm

Swedish, Trøndersk sounds like bull.

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06 Aug 2009, 9:53 pm

I'm not fond of the British accent, just because I've had quite a few bad experiences with the Brits at my school. I know that's a dumb reason not to like an accent, sorry :oops:

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07 Aug 2009, 10:01 am

bdhkhsfgk wrote:

Swedish, Trøndersk sounds like bull.

easy there :I

btw, you DO know that trønder is one of the "purest" norwegian dialects?
it contains virtually no danish, compared to southern dialects which are very different from how they sounded before denmark came over and messed up.
trøndersk is probably the closest to old viking norwegian ;]

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