Do you think an Accent makes a person superior?

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<Finds Tyneside on google.maps>

Ah, yeah, geographical confusion, not a mix. Also, when I say she had a geordie accent, I'm not meaning dialect as well, just the accent. She was very well spoken, with a nice touch to her speech and a somewhat soft, quiet voice.

Geordie/Durham accents on lasses drive me nuts... *pants for a second, then regains control of himself*

Thought that must be what you meant. I really don't like the Scouse accent - it sounds like someone trying to cough something up to me. Sorry to any Scousers here....

I like most accents...

I've noticed since I was really young that Australians find it very hard to keep their accents for long if they go overseas. Yet if people come to Australia from their countries, they'll always keep their accent.
There are also variations in the Australian accent.
We don't all sound like Steve Irwin!

We don't all sound like Steve Irwin? Crikey! That's HUGE!

My accent is actually unusual. A few people say I sound American, but the furtherest I've been from the mainland is Tasmania. Must be all those Hollywood movies I keep watching.

But I think my accent is pretty neutral. I don't seem to over annouciate (if thats the right word) any particular sounds. I'm generically Australian...

Sounds like David Hughes' Le Tan ad from a few years ago... ('Ironically Australian')

You can tell that Steve Irwin is really Aussie but obviously laying it on thick for the part: 'Croikey!'

CockneyRebel, did somebody professional like a doctor or a speech therapist have to tell your parents that your speech was naturally different and that you weren't faking it?

Part of me would still like to hire some backstreet Henry Higgins to teach me how to talk propah.

But I know that the same thing that makes me want to do it - the AS - is probably part of the same reason I could never pull it off convincingly.

With AS and NT people alike there are changes in the brain with puberty so after that basically you're stuck with the accent you grew up with, with very few exceptions. (The same part of your brain that does your accent handles language in general - it's easier to learn multiple languages before puberty too.) You can change a couple of things and maybe pick up some local colour from your new home but you'll never sound like a local.

Glenn Gould is one of those dead famous people who's thought to have been on the spectrum and I read once that he put on a German accent when he was a teenager because he read Nietzsche and really liked it.

British girls are so damn hot, with their accents. I wanna move to England and pick a girl up there!

Hi everyone,
I do not think accents make anyone superior, however, it's nice to hear how someone else sounds. I like the english accent, most of them anyway. The accent may be nice, however, if you don't like the person, then it's no good!! !
Mellow

I think the correct orthodoxy is to say that there is no such thing as a 'superior' accent and that all accents are 'equal'.