What is the most sexy/least sexy accent?

but seriously... profanities in screeching cockney accents are the worst. there was this woman down the road where i used to live who was constantly screeching "waaayne! get'chor fackin' arse in 'ere NOW!!" or somesuch. shudder.

nice accents - soft scottish, soft southern US.

American accents, by and large, are *not* attractive, especially not Southerners. Whenever I hear anyone with a Southern US accent, I cannot take them seriously, they just sound like Disney cartoon characters.

The *ugliest* accent, however, has got to be the Seth Efrikan. I don't know if this is because helf my femily is from Seth Efrika, or because it's even more nasal and sundrenched than New Zealand and Australian eccents put together, but yeara men, it just makes me blerry cringe.

But for sheer comedy value, nothing beats persuading an inhabitant of Gloucester to say "Five Alive".

ace accents = mackem (I used to melt every time I spoke to my mates mum!), rickie lee jones' (if that's her on little fluffy clouds)

John Lennon would have been a more appropriate answer Dave, but I dig where you're coming from.

SEARCH: Welsh, Irish, North West England, flat vowels. Damn it. Some Yorkshire accents. Basically, "classs" instead of "clarse". Although, very posh accents can be quite sexy. Especially when they say things like "One shall call ones limo and take our party to the Ivy. Champers on me!". However, the bwahahaha laugh? IT DOES EXIST AND IT MUST DIE.

I love the Lawn-Guy-Land accent. It makes me larf it do. Have found that a British accent gets you very far with Americans. Maybe I should date an American. Ethan, come on over! My accent - um, soft Northern. Would you say that's right?

For which read 'bonkers Northern'

Nick, the only stone bonker here is YOU.

(Heehee I should call more people a stone bonker heehee)

I would probably search the MOLESWORTH accent, too, hem hem.

Ethan, post your number! I'm sure someone will call you! I am interested to hear Josh's voice.

The Arsemonkey sounds VVV British may I add. She has the oddest way of saying "toothpaste".

Sarah - the dominant character of yr voice is not any kind of regional thing but its constant sarcasm and contempt. This is a good thing.

My Mad Grandpa wanted my parents to send me to elocution classes before I had university interviews. He has clearly not heard how most Southern kids speak and doesn't appreciate how refined I am. Also he is from Birmingham so is a fine one to talk (in a daft accent).

that's the best I can do on a phonetic Boycott

and with that, goodnight.

HURRAYYYY! Though, having been brought up in the West Midlands I don't really have the accent, curiously.
Most very strong accents can be awful. It depends on the individual. Worst accent, for me as I live there, is Worcester. It's a cross between the more countryfied Bristol accent (y'know, trad rural/farmer voice) and dumb Brummie. Onion is pronounced 'uny-yun', happy Christmas is pronounced 'a-py crizz-muzzz' and 'where have you been' comes out as 'where yum bin?'
Save me.

I likey: Geordie girl (thinking: Lauren Lavern), Swedish English... in fact I like most European accents speaking English. It is quite charming.

Not very likey: South East, South West. Noo Joi-Zeee.

The Minnesota accent (as portrayed in "Fargo") is about as sexy as a sandpaper condom.

DavidM: funnily enough I'd always defined the Bristol accent as being close to the hybrid you describe, because it sounds to me like a sped- up (urbanised?) version of the more rural West Country accent.

A good trick answer to this question would be the Southampton area, because I don't think it *has* an accent: I suppose there are traces of standard South East speak and vague hints of the West Country but it's pretty unspecific, yet it's very common round 'ere (and everywhere on the old LSWR mainline from maybe Basingstoke to Weymouth). I think this is broadly how I speak: hovering over the south of England, centre ground the Poole Arndale.

As for Nick's question, I'm not so sure that I don't just think every foreign accent I've heard coming from an attractive woman falls under my 'sexy' column. Probably the best are 'posh' (? 'good' pronunciation at least, I don't know if that's considered posh) English accents. And any Scottish ones. Some Russian ones too though I really think I just like hearing Russian spoken by a nice female voice (because I like hearing Russian, anyway).

Also, you British people are crazy mad with the accent differentiation.

I really think I've finally lost it. ;-)

Well she wouldn't thank you for saying so, for the divine Ms.Laverne is in fact Mackem. Oh yes indeedy.

Southern England - now that's a different matter..

Welcome! And there are a couple of Germans around here, I think.

What about the opposite phenom, Starry? Like The Coral (from bloody Hoylake). Though that could be just automatic IPC caricaturing (I think they have a software package that does this) of all NW accents in the NME ("fookin' 'ell!"). Do I have a Scouse accent?

I used to love Scottish accents, until I was in Glasgow for Hogmanay. Then I was scared off.

I like Aussie accents, but more in a aww-they-make-me-giggle kind of way.

What I like about accents in the UK in general is that there are so many - and they can all be exaggerated to amuse. You don't get that as much in Canada!

p.s. Mike, I would say you have a soft Scouse accent, throaty and rich, just like the rolling of waves on the Mersey.

At the risk of being predictable, Mariella Frostrup's voice usually causes consternation in my trousers. I used to quite like Laurie Pike on "Manhattan Cable". Whatever happened to...?

Accents...certain Eastern European ones. Spanish. Canadian, of course. Least sexy...Cockney.

N.B. This probably doesn't explain the 12 million viewers.

Cor!

So we were sitting there drinking and next thing his mum came in pretty hammered, and she was like asking all of us for a cigarette. And so she asks all of us and none of us do so she says to her son "go and get one of your dads cigars from upstairs". So he comes down and the cigar is lit and it gets passed around, so we're all taking a bit and it gets to his mum and she takes a drag and she blows it out and coughs and then says "lads, it's just like suckin' a dick isn't it".

You can imagine our silence. I've never had to stifle so much laughter in my life. ugh, i'd hate to be her son, i mean that's the mouth that kisses you goodnight. disgusting.

But he sings in a fake American accent. Don't you guys get the joke?

least sexy = walford

BTW it is BATH - A as in APPLE not BARTH, right??!!

(Also, sorry about delays on this end with yer request, Chris is out of town. I will ensure something is done shortly.)

With my Terry Scott impersonation? Is she June Whitfield?

Don't talk to me about that thing. I have just spent three days playing it almost solid and am only still at work now because I am looking for advice on rampages on Google. Over the weekend the following two thoughts occurred to me:

1) I can probably snipe those people waiting at the bus stop over there
2) Walking down this hill is like controlling a Rumpo on the hill down St Marks when on the 'Big n' Veiny' mission.

i find that the women i've spokedn to, and/or have listened to have a exquisite soft sensual accent (well, to my ear anyway). at times it might be a bit resonant with the obligatory 'yeah', but that 'yeah' almost always conveys a sense of empathy and/or enthusiasm.

with regard to these women anyway, for me it must surely be one of the most exciting accents, Period. maybe it's just them (they all seem to be exceptional people). i think (similarly to sean;sept 13, 2001) that people can influenceto what you find exciting. for mye it's these really exciting exquisite cool fun caring sensual and exciting women from bristol area.

other examples i find fascinating (althoigh sometimes i'm tempted to jump in and 'correct' it) are things like the 'K' sound on the end of words ending in 'ing', therefore 'sleeping' becomes 'sleepingk'.

it's not just the accent. there are also quaint little terms of phrase (i'm struggling to think of one now, although 'chaps' as in people, came up yesterday).

it just kills me. i love it so much. i tink especailly because of these women whom i find to be so very attractive.

LeassSexy: Any fake accent. The very unsexyist worst is a fake British accent. (e.g., Madonna)

ausies generally pronounce it like 'feeesh eand cheeeps'(how many 'e's does it have?), although some ausse accents are a little softer, as are many nz accents. there are the bad nz accents - wanky dorklanders trying to sound like posh brits - but they are few and far between, thankfully.

btw, great group. realkly intersting and amusing

p.s. plead my ignorace, but wgat does IPC mean?

The only accent I have a big problem with is the 'American' accent done by Brits in Radio 4 plays.

I like: soft Scots, hard Scots (get a guy from Gallowgate to say 'turd burglar') posh-but-not-trying too-hard English, Yorkshire various, soft US southern.

We're also teaching my friend's Japanese wife Tomoko to speak Mockney: 'London? It's my manor, innit?' Much more attractive than when Demon Allbran does it.

Are there any particular countries who's woman fancy the male kiwi accent? I'm keen to find out. I think Russell Crowe gives a good example of the kiwi male accent (as a fairly high profile example).

Cheers.

Last night I heard her northernness for the first time, but I'm still convinced Sarah sounds AMERICONG. Am I an interweb mentalist?

least:

i'd have to say south african and umm...german

if you want to hear a kiwi accent, listen to the faux australian accents on the simpsons... pure nzness.

combine in equal parts: a population descended from the dregs of irish and french immigrants (too lazy to make it to boston or montreal, respectively), a provincewide solvent-huffing problem (to which apparently no one is immune) and a complete disregard for education after the age of eight or ten, and we have the causal factors of the dreaded newfie accent. for those not lucky enough to be blessed by hearing it, it sounds like chief wiggum from the simpsons being impersonated by an irishman who has spent most of the day sniffing glue in a shed that's ordinarily used to dry fish.

most: american (princess superstar etc.), soft scouse, lancs, irish or scottish

least: not sure about german (miss kittin? hmmmm...), whiny australian/new zealand, seth afriken, really deep thick cockney, irish, scottish and of course welsh

dang! my bad...shouldve realised of course

I don't like contemporary NYC outer-borough accents -- esp. the really pronounced Long Island ones. Really harsh and ugly.

I also don't like the Binghamton (southern-central New York state) accent, although I fear it's creeped into my speech patterns a little from three years of living there -- that blue-collar Pennsylvania Polish/Italian dialect.

New York accents are all right. It's endearing the way northerners have to make such a big deal of enunciating their "t" sounds. Like "Atlanta," that always strikes a southerner as quite amusing when a northerner insists on spitting out those t sounds. Somewhere between Alanna and aT-lanT-AA will do nicely, thanks.

Different southern accents, too. The east Tenn. kind of Methodist accent sounds pinched to me. Memphis/Mississippi accents are cool, though. Generally the accents get better as you move west and south. New Orleans accents are fascinating mix of this weird Brooklynese and southern, quite cool.

yup.

I like Irish accent.

-- Jody Beth Rosen

Yeah, I just got thru reading A. J. Liebling's little book on Earl Long, "Earl of Louisiana," great take on NOLA.

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I find Boston area accents very endearing generally. Much better than the stronger midwestern ones, esp. Wiscahnsin or Minnesohta.

Do some musicians have a sensitivity to the sound of accents? My sister was playing a gig in NYC, and a fellow musician she'd just met was intrigued by her accent, guessing correctly about the main places we'd lived growing up (we've lived all over the country). I found that curious.

At first I wondered if it wasn't a class bias on my part, and then a woman obviously from NY took the stand with a full-on working class Brooklyn accent and I was loving it. I even felt nostalgic for New York.

Perhaps it's a "close to home" issue.

and the both = at the both

. . . and "precious"?

(Melissa, I'm really sorry a/b where this is headed....)

As I said, any natural accent sounds sexy to me. Anything fake or forced is a dud.

I'm proud to be ashamed of my roots! Er, yes.

Thanks Mookie.

hey, i was there too! most of the girls were american or russian though, i think. did you see skinny drunk asian running around? that was me.

but yes, viktor novorsky's krakozian's accent was SO DREAMY.

minnesota

sooo otm

"I'm geoing heome this weekehhhnd."

also i agreed to go on a date with someone once specifically because i loved his dublin accent. we ended up together for five years living in both ireland and australia. i guess i'm a bit of a sucker for accents.

there was a rilly funny bit that ran on the kq morning show (which is otherwise complete racist trash) (well so is this i guess) which was just re-recordings of this one outstate guy answering a "cash call" from a radio station out of, i dunno, duluth or something, completely unable to process the idea that he'd won money from a radio station. "oah? i hear da phone, and i run. yer what now?" goes on for a while.

the brit-indian accent kills me.

xpost oh come on! cahhnie and raymond mahhrble, yeew have been convicted of eaahsholism! the pihnalty is dehth!

i have generic middle america accent as well. though once i called my friend in richland center, wisconsin and asked for her to her mother (whom i had ever spoken to before) and she told my friend that it was some asian guy on the phone. i had no idea i sound asian

Steve Irwin vs Olivia Newton-John FITE.

hey, i was there too! most of the girls were american or russian though, i think. did you see skinny drunk asian running around? that was me.

HAHAHA I was a skinny drunk asian too! All the ones I was with were french.

Oooh! The woman who played Devi, Max's next door neighbour in the film Pi? She has a hot accent. I love it when she says "ah, science! The pursuit of knowledge..." and smiles. She's hot.

hahahaha! I'm from Mrrrlund but I don't have the Bawlmer accent, there's a regional accent back home that's somewhere between Pittsburgh and West Virginia, heavy use of "youse" & nasal tones & not at all pretty like some West Virginia accents from further south. I am positive my old roommate from B-more did, in fact, have good friends named Drrick and Drrll.

Men with Russian/Czech/Polish accents sound stupid

... don't know why that should be

I like men with Russian/Czech/Polish accents. Yes, I think they're sexy.

"I think women with Russian/Czech/Polish accents sound like they're much less clever or worldly-wise than they think they are."

2. Black South African but not White South African (well, they can be OK provided they're not too Dutch). In fact, African accents are generally lovely.

3. A big no to New Zealand. I blow hot and cold with Australian.

4. A proper Canadian accent is a wonderful thing.

5. Scandinavian is kind of cute.

6. Indian/Pakistani is nice too.

7. Chinese and Japanese - nope.

8. Most Irish, but not really Dublin.

8. Ditto Ulster is lovely but Belfast/Derry can be a bit harsh on the earholes.

9. Most Scottish accents are crap but the Western Isles wins brownie points for sheer weirdness. Orkney/Shetlands is too weird. Falkirk and the Central Belt - unspeakable! If only it were!

10. Welsh is nice, especially proper Welsh speakers.

11. Jamaican is GREBT!

12. Bristol YES. Norfolk NO.

13. Yorkshire is generally good.

14. North East/Geordie is fine as long as it divven't get too mannered.... actually, nah, I'm not a big fan.

15. I like BBC English, plus I like proper posh voices from genuine toffs and not jumped upstarts who buy their own furniture.

16. Cockney and the South East of England in general is a disaster area.

Most sexy: New York, French, Scottish.
Least sexy: my bland English non-accent. I hate how I talk.

This thread needs sound files.

See We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids

Alba, your accent is all Londony and a bit posh and not even slightly nasal. Maybe you are not hearing it properly.

Yee-uh, accents in Roe Dylin ahh wicked awrful.

I don't mind my voice if I take it slowly, but when I'm drunk and I'm trying to make myself heard over a crowd, it goes shit, I think.

Alba, the clip of you talking about plans for going to London is wonderful! Where is that?

I've always assumed it's because the way you hear your own voice in your ears is always very different to the way other people hear it; so when you hear your voice the way other people do, it sounds horrible and alien.

1. dutch
2. english. i dont care what part of england. that accent is horrifying.
3. new zealand
4. australian

sexiest accents:

1. southern USA
2. irish
3. northern italian

I've said this before, but I've picked up a British accent from watching to too much British television and cinema and from listening to even more Anglophilic grooviness. I've never even left the country and I fool native Brits!

unsexiest: whiny suburban long island henpecked jewish bar-mitzvah boy (e.g. jerry seinfeld)

my friend from arizona makes fun of the way i say "water" constantly. i'd retaliate but i do kind of like his drawl.

basically the philly accent.

That said, he has a very pointy nose.

Did I close all my parentheses? (I would hate to be criticised by ILX grammar nazis but I think they're all still haggling on the no one/no-one thread.)

Probably not.

Aussies and East Londoners can sometimes be hard. (And I mean Hackney, not South Africa - you can only tell Seth Efrikans from the Antipodeans by the particular fletness of their vowels.)

spanish people are so good at mexican accents.

Their vaals, I think you mean.

Also, I know you're just being facetious, but Mexican Spanish and Castillian Spanish also have quite different pronounciations/accents - perhaps as pronounced as American and English accents - or Quebequois and Parisian French.

They would say "If it isnae Scotttish" not "If it's NAE scottish it's crap." . Well they might say the latter out in the sticks somewhere.

"If it's no' Scottish, it's crap"

... and I'd be right!

I rest my case.

my friend pam was friends with an "english" guy for years, except he would never mention where he was from, and he liked american football, and then it turned out he was actually from kentucky

(My family are from Inverness so I suspect the accent I'm used to might be slightly different.)

x-post Ah!

Not even other Scots understand them! (Kind of like Newfies, actually. Maybe Weejans and Newfies might be able to communicate.)

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I dunno, some London accents have that 'ello princess' quality, which is rather sexy. I still stand by Canada and the wst country.

Well "Glaswegian" isn't really that different anymore from what people speak in Renfrewshire or Lanarkshire or even Ayrshire these days

About five minutes ago it suddenly occurred to me that Trayce must have some sort of Australian accent.

Haha yes, I do. A reasonably broad one as well.

I feel almost betrayed. I've known you for how many years and yet... I mean I realize you have given clues, especially the whole "I live in Australia" bit, but still. This is not the sort of thing you see coming. Not that there's anything wrong with an Australian accent either. But it's still hard to imagine you have one!

I hesitate to try to figure out what Tuomas's voice is actually like!

Aw no, I'm sorry! ;_;

I dont sound like steve irwin or anything!

I've always imagined Trayce to have an Australian accent; where have YOU been?

she sounds like BINDIE Irwin

Wah.

Don't worry, Trayce, I'm sure you sound uh fully grouse or whatever you people say down there.

Australian accents sound so much more like American ones than Brit accents, so it hardly seems a big deal to me.

Australian = Strine
Northern Ireland = Norn Iron

Bimble, British accents are more varied and disparate, but some of them (esp. Cockney) are closer to Australian, some closer to American. It's very confusing.

I love accents. Almost all of them.

Anyone ever seen The Tribe? They sound just like American accents except they pronounce 'been' like 'bean' and use the word 'fancy'

and sort of say 'nyew' for 'knew'

I daresay I'm a bit more familiar with British accents than you give me credit for, Lost & Found, but I'll let it slide this time.

Bimble, it wasn't a slam. Like I said, it can (understandably) be confusing.

Well, yes it can. :) When I was in England, a bus driver could have sworn I came from Ireland. Go figure.

I'm Australian. While I was in LA in January I got a lot of 'Are you from the south?' and 'Are you from England?'. What really took the cake, though, was one guy who said 'Australia? Is that in America?'. Sobering, even for someone perpetually drunk.

Trayce, I'm sure it's perfectly nice, it's just a failure of my imagination.

Reviving this to praise the Surrey (England) accent to the nth degree, because the friend I've been pining for, for awhile is from Surrey and I could listen to him read the telephone book. I've also grown really into the Lancashire accent because of John Foxx, Lee Mack, and this one ASMRtist I subscribe to who has a Lancastrian accent, though it's only John Foxx who "excites" me if you know what I'm saying (although Lee Mack's also pretty cute IMO). I also grew really fond of the general New England-y accent my last ex had; he was raised in Maine and Massachusetts and his accent was influenced by his dad's broad Pittsburgh-ian accent so it was a delightful mix of all three and I loved listening to it. I'm not keen at all about having my inelegant Texan twang but what can you do, it's an accident of my upbringing and I'm stuck with it so.

Love hearing teh Britishes English being spoken by a woman. As well as French. But the French Canadian accent is awful and makes everyone sound marblemouthed.

xp although I was born in neighbouring Sussex, I grew up in Surrey. What kind of Surrey accent do you mean? An almost London accent like Paul Weller, or a semi-posh accent like Peter Gabriel, or a more rural Surrey accent complete with glottal stop?

xp although I was born in neighbouring Sussex, I grew up in Surrey. What kind of Surrey accent do you mean? An almost London accent like Paul Weller, or a semi-posh accent like Peter Gabriel, or a more rural Surrey accent complete with glottal stop?

Uh, whatever kind of accent someone from the Reigate/Redhill area would have? IDK which one of the three that would befit.

It's really hard, albeit not impossible, to divorce your perception of a given accent from what its accompanying culture brings to mind. In my experience, the underlying assumptions that govern such value judgments are often quite ugly (this isn't necessarily true when it comes to music or art, though).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXl6qFh7HWA
This guy has the kind of accent I've most often heard in people from Redhill.

This is an interview my friend did with Ethan McKinley (fuck it, was going to try to be obtuse about his identity but whatever) (and yes, he's a genuine friend right now) (also, cue a lot of swooning from me):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nsQV9oLJik

Anyway, my parents raised me on the notion that Québécois French is wrong, even though their own French is rife with Romanian consonants. So I picked up a bizarrely neutral accent – trans-Atlantic French, as it were – until I moved to France, at which point I shed whatever was left of my Québécois inflections. It's only when I moved back to Montreal several years later that I began to ponder the sociolinguistic power dynamics behind the shift and while I'm no longer really able to speak with a Québécois accent these days (unless I've had enough to drink), I do get mildly irritated whenever I read/hear stuff like 'the French accent is lovely, but the Québécois one is gross', as it's about as stereotypical as 'Indian English is unsexy' (totally not racist, right?) and 'German/Arab/Russian/[insert baddie ethnicity] accents sound threatening'.

pomenitul, let me tell you something; whenever I speak Spanish it's obviously a very Mexican Spanish due to my family originally coming from there and my studying the language in Texas, which used to be a part of Mexico. So I know that whenever I speak Spanish it's going to sound to the Spaniards what the French spoken in Quebec is going to sound like to the French. It's total New World LOLs and one shouldn't take that as a reason to change the way one speaks the language if that's where one comes from. Like, I've been a hardcore Anglophile since I was a little girl but know that everyone hates the Madonna route of putting on an accent for show, so even though my accent(s) mark(s) me as a rube I've fully embraced it/them because that's just who I am. I am a Texan from a Mexican family so I'm going to sound like that.

Also, snoball, upon listening to the accent from that guy in the video I suppose that's fairly spot on re: my friend's type of Surrey accent.

French isn't my mother tongue, so perhaps it was easier for me to embrace a doubly foreign variant. But yeah, the whole 'New World LOLs' thing can be quite infuriating for North American French speakers. It's always 'say that funny phrase again', 'I love your accent, it's hi-la-ri-ous!' or some totally mangled approximation of an expression that barely anyone uses to begin with. I guess my wholesome message here is that all accents are beautiful and sexy.

xp I work in the Guildford area so at least half the people I work with speak like the gentleman in the video you posted!

I love montreal french

Kind of reminds me of glaswegian english in certain ways

Destroy: West Flemish , Boston and South of France accent. BLERGH!

Hold on, it's not sexy at all but just endearing.

Q.French is vomit inducing. 🤷🏼‍♀️

xp, ok, westvlams is horribly cringeworthy when I hear it on the telly but understanding is kinda cool when nobody else here does (I'm from Poperinge but I now live in Mechelen) :-)

Best: the women of Liverpool and Glasgow and selected New Zealanders and Indians and Sri Lankans (never grasped regional variations with these.)

Worst: some Australian accents are pretty much unbearable, though I have one myself.

XpostI know it's silly to generalize cause Brugs differs so much from Ostend dialect. Still, yuck.

https://youtu.be/ZJ0g6BH0iQY

Oh yeah, I have soft spot for Singlish too. Though Singaporeans are seemingly encouraged to think it vulgar.

This thread is vomit-inducing.

I've got to admit that listening to all those New Zealand accents recently, with their apparently arbritrary vowel sounds, was something.

good to see Hudds getting a mention in the first 17 yr old post, but fuck no!

upper achill/lower achill

xp I work in the Guildford area so at least half the people I work with speak like the gentleman in the video you posted!

Do any of them look like Tim, are artistic, have a similar temperament, love animals, and are single?! HOOK A (DESPERATE) GIRL UP, PLEASE!

Anyway, pomenitul, I love that you're repping for all accents. My point was that while I can't help but have my accents (Texan English and Mexican Spanish) and wouldn't want to change either of them at the risk of coming across as inauthentic, it doesn't mean I particularly like either of those accents and would rather have one (at least for my English-speaking accent) that was easier on the ears. I just don't like being thought of as some kind of idiot for having either accent.

Wtf was I thinking. I love the Boston accent. West Flemish is still horrendous.

OMG HEY NATHS! Shush, your speaking voice is BEAUTIFUL. Mine sounds like it should be calling the actions at a swing dance, ew.

I thought indian english with its resonant o sounds, lilt, and those ts and ds with the tip of the tongue pulled high/back was widely regarded as dreamy

the only times I've heard europeans/iberians mention latin american spanish they've said they've preferred it for being less harsh (usual disclaimer about argentina)

xpost yeah, I am into indian/south asian english. I think it's really charming.

I am a Texan from a Mexican family so I'm going to sound like that.

Mexican Spanish can sound super sexy ... I'm a white girl from a half-anglo/half-mexican/latin-american town, so I grew up hearing a lot of mexican-spanish.

I thought indian english with its resonant o sounds, lilt, and those ts and ds with the tip of the tongue pulled high/back was widely regarded as dreamy

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i generally regard it as the voice of tech support for large corporations ... unfortunately.

Sexy: heavy Quebecois French accent because you know the dude always has a semi and has a big butt made out of bagels

Oh and he probably got really good at magic tricks as a teenager and can impress your family with them in an instant if things get tense

People with various accents often manage to have sex and reproduce regardless of whether their accent is regarded as unsexy.

I don't really want to say what accents I find "not sexy", but certain accents make me feel as the person would say "I love you" on the second date and then try and murder me if I ever tried to say "no" to them.

Catalonian accents are really great because of the lisp and the fact that the guy's name is Jamie but he pronounces it "Hi-Muh" and you know that he will be very upfront with you about any sexual desire he has for you (even if he will not turn out to be an especially considerate lover)

Geordie accents are great because you know that he'll be self-conscious but sweet and then he'll suggest something horrifying for breakfast the next day but it will ultimately be highly satisfying once eaten

stop posting these for free immediately fgti, get to a publisher in the morning this is a bestseller waitin to happen

Most sexy: aigu

Least sexy: grave

Wildcard: circonflexe

xps. the catalan for Jaime is Jaume pronounced Zhau-ma (talking ethnically catalan catalans mind you)

French; French

Ye Mad Puffin otm

Promiscuous: cédille

im afraid to ask about the fada tbh

Sexy: heavy Quebecois French accent because you know the dude always has a semi and has a big butt made out of bagels

― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, March 25, 2019 6:51 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Very much from Toronto

I’m glad we were entertaining during college years!

indian english is lovely, def one of my fave accents

i also love a welsh accent

least sexy: maybe Essex

Incoming pedantry: the cédille isn't an accent, it's a diacritic.

Does Catalan actually have the Spanish lisp thing?

Not to my knowledge.

To wit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN4fDhAcGTM

Really cool channel btw.

Didn't think so, but I've only ever heard the only Catalan person I know speaking Spanish.

Ha, just the other day they recorded a video of me speaking my ~dialect~

xp

Yes, love that channel too.

Cool! (xp)

That's awesome, LBI!

They're a good bunch doing great work. Will post when it's up!

OMG HEY NATHS! Shush, your speaking voice is BEAUTIFUL. Mine sounds like it should be calling the actions at a swing dance, ew.

Can confirm Catalan doesn’t have the th “lisp” sound, soft c’s and z’s are /s/ and /z/ respectively. Catalans do, however, speak Spanish with the c/z/s distinction- not actually a lisp - just like most of the rest of Spain