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2011-03-11, 01:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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All the Chicas Love An Accent!
I was just thinking, as I sit here bored at work;
Here in the United States, a huge portion of women find British-sounding accents very sexy and appealing. Putting aside the intricacies of each accent and the fact that when Americans think "British" they are really only thinking about one of many "British" accents...
I wonder, in the U.K., or any country really, do women find American "accents" sexy and appealing?Last edited by Crow; 2011-03-11 at 01:22 PM.
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2011-03-11, 01:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Well British accent are great in fantasy films. Does that mean all women really love fantasy films? My 10 year of geekdom are about to pay off. My Extended LotR DVD might as well be worth 10 times their weight in gold!
As for this idea, you could try it? Go to another country and report back on your progress.
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2011-03-11, 01:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Men and women of all cultures love foreign accents of all stripes. It really varies from person to person, accent to accent. Pretty much any accent is fair game to someone.
American accents (particularly Midwestern) have been described as "melodic" and "singsong", and are certainly attractive to some people.
Also, you'll probably notice that people will rarely call an accent attractive unless the speaker is also attractive. That's not a coincidence.
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2011-03-11, 02:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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I've had Australian females give positive reviews on my (New England-ish) accent.
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2011-03-11, 03:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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I've been told my accent is cute. I've also been told I sound like a pubescent boy.
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2011-03-11, 07:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'm a master of accents. I sometimes just slip into accents without noticing. Especially if my lisp is coming on, I instinctively go into an English accent of some sort to hide it. (Not being able to pronounce "r"s. I've been getting bettah, though! :smallamused)
Edit: I also do a killer highland Scot accent, but it's practically unintelligible.
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2011-03-11, 07:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-03-11, 07:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Here in Brazil.
Back when i was a teenager, i had a friendship with two twin brothers, who used to spend their vacations in the USA. After classes, sometimes our group would go to malls, and they used to play "i'm an american tourist" to catch girls. Of course, the fact that they were blond and too much pale worked well at their advantage. Heh, fun times.
But i mostly agree with the idea that people love foreign accents, specially if the person is atractive.
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2011-03-11, 08:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Jamaican girls love American accents. But the shopkeepers automatically double the price of everything once you don't speak Patois. So I guess it evens out.
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2011-03-11, 08:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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I don't know what it is, but I can't stand a british accent. I don't know the difference between the multitude that I'm told exist because I don't like to listen to it for more than it takes to watch Shaun of the Dead. Often not even that long. For whatever reason, that irrational hatred just goes away when it's a medieval movie. In fairness, though, I'm not a chica.
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2011-03-11, 08:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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While I do realize now that there are different types of the British accent, my ears are too untrained to tell Accents are sexy, but I hate it when people try to copy slang and inflections from another culture when they are obviously not native :small
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what does that really have to do with this thread? >.>Last edited by Dvandemon; 2011-03-11 at 08:36 PM.
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2011-03-12, 02:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Honestly, accents are almost universally seen as sexy. This is probably an evolutionary thing, because an accent means the person is less likely to have have a similar genotype to you, it will lead to more productive evolution in a population faster. At this point in society, it's just a nice perk for immigrants.
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2011-03-12, 04:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Same with me and American accents, been told there exist more than Midwestern and Southern but blimey if I can tell a Chicago bloke from a Minnesota one.
I love almost all incarnations of English, though, so I wouldn't mind learning. ^_^
Why?
I assume you don't mean voice actors when you say that but what could possibly cause you to hate people for changing the way they speak?
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2011-03-12, 05:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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This reminds me to ask, is there a different accent between American and Canadian? I'm Canadian, but everybody i met in Florida when I was visiting my grandmother spoke like the Canadians I've met. Admittedly I didn't meet many, but there it is
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2011-03-12, 05:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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That's cause everyone is Florida are Canadian and Jewish.
First of all, where are you from? Eastern Canadian accents are very similar to New England accents, Central Canadian accents are very similar to Mid-Western American accents, West Coast accents are very similar across the board. Maritime and Quebecois accents are very distinctive, however.
And a southern accent will have very little in common with any Canadian accents.
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2011-03-12, 06:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Depends on the accent. As an english sounding lady, I find when doing voice chat on games to have guys complimenting my accent. Me personally, I prefer European (Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish... Nordic accents are awesome.) accents to American accents.
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2011-03-12, 07:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-03-12, 07:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Can we swap? I love English accents but sadly I live amidst a lot of Danish ones. v_v
Or we could meet and hold a conversation entirely based on how awesome we think the other one's accent is!
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2011-03-12, 08:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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I have a pretty typical Midwestern accent, though I've been known to carry a hint of a Southern accent from time to time. I can slip into a Kentucky-Tennessee accent pretty easily (though not by accident), as my family is largely from that area and I used to visit every summer.
Supposedly my speech patterns are reminiscent of British speech patterns, enough so that I've had more than one (supposedly) English person tell me so. (I know that British does not equal English, but I'm quoting English people, here.)
Anyhoo, for the most part, Chicago and Minnesota accents are pretty much the same. However, if you've ever seen any parodies of "Souttside" Chicago, they tend to be pretty dead-on. No matter how elaborate and cartoonish they seem, they're dead-on. Watch those old SNL "Bob Swerski's Superfans" skits, (you know, "Da Bears" ) they're pretty accurate.
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2011-03-12, 08:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Heck, apparently even in the USA region to region this phenomenon happens. Two Kentucky girls recently told me they love my Floridian accent.
Admittedly, I LOVE theirs' as well. So feminine sounding for some reason.
Now, an Irish or Scottish accent.
However, Hispanic accents really, really annoy me. Being a Hispanic born in the US perhaps I have just had enough of them?
Basically, I figure it really is a person-by-person thing. Perhaps to a certain extent a regional thing as well to a certain extent, and it is definitely influenced by the media I think. Just like ideas of physical beauty are spread and enforced by the media, I feel ideals of beautiful accents are as well.
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2011-03-12, 08:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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People in central MN pretty much talk like Fargo. If you go down to the cities it pretty much completely disappears. Even up north where I grew up it isn't as pronounced and blends in with the Canadian accent.
I never cared for the UK variety of accents. Either too abrasive or I can't understand a single word (sorry Ireland). I go crazy for Aussie accents, though. Miranda from Mass Effect, Vanille from FFXIII, or Sierra from Dollhouse to name a few popular media example. Mannn....
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2011-03-12, 08:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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I can do a stereotypical Nazi accent, and I've noticed that I tend to pronounce words more in the English fashion, sort of upper-classy, as far as I can tell.
But yes, I do like me some accents, as long as the speaker stays intellegibleSi non confectus, non reficiat.
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2011-03-12, 08:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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American accents: a very short primer.
Lindworms not kidding. I don't sound like "Da Bears" guys because I've lived in multiple parts of the mid-west, but the differences are there. Media is slowly beating them out though.
Larry the Cable Guy? I have relatives in Missouri who sound just like that.
Minnesota accents sound like canadian-midwest or swedish accents, if they have one.
It's more a speech pattern thing that makes the difference inside the 4 main American accents.
New Englanders pahk the cah in the garahge.
Southerners tend to draawl out the words, ya'll.
Texans are hard to describe. It is a drawl as well but it doesn't sound like a south-eastern one.
Midwest/West Coast or "Western" is nearly without any major accent of its own. In those areas it's the way you say things that marks you out.
And then there are all the little ones in specific regions like:
Cajan/French/hispanic sound in "N'awlins" (New Orleans)
Boston accent which is the New England one turned up to 11.
The racially connected ones like the stereotypical:
Black accent
Hispanic accent and
Asian accent.
Of course most of these are from people who just learned the language recently or grew up bi-lingual. It tends to fade after a generation or two.
The "Black" accent is actually from having moved north from the deep south and settling in not-diverse neighborhoods. This caused linguistic shift away from both northern and southern accents. Poor education standards in low income areas that were unfortunately non-diverse have added to that as well. (Note: As the economic divides between the races have blurred, this accent becomes less about race and more about economic condition.)
Personally:
I'm a sucker for two accents.
The Southern Belle: southern USA accent associated with Virginia the Carolinas and Georgia. It's also specifically the way a "well-bred" southern girl is supposed to sound.
South African: I love listening to South Africans speak, its a bit of a softer accent than Australian, but similar.
I also like accents from the British Isles and Eastern Europe, but not to the same level.
I'm likely to butcher Irish or Scottish accents while voicing my characters in RPGs, but I blame that on one particular guy in my group who thinks he's got it down really well. (He's wrong.)
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Meh. After so much American TV and American film, American accents are just... common *shrug* I suppose there's some that can be enjoyable to listen to - like, say, "Southern belle" - but it's pretty much the default nowadays. Which is annoying for its own reasons
What I REALLY hate is when someone who speaks English as their second language has a really heavy American accent. I find myself wishing hard that they use English-teaching tools from England...The Iron Avatarist Hall of Fame!
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2011-03-13, 02:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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A lady once told me she felt safe with me because of my hard Brooklyn/Caribbean Accent.
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2011-03-13, 02:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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I've never met someone with a real Southern accent so can't say much about that. The NY or LA accent doesn't do that much to me. The posh English accent makes me go absolutely crazy in a good way.
We have different dialects every 10 kmr here ove (no joke) and there isn't a universal sexy one. I don't like dialects that are too pronounced because I
- Can't understand them
- Find them very low class
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