Unusual Accent Syndrome

I'd quite like to have a soft Irish accent but to be honest I'm quite comfortable with whatever it is I've got.

Readers may be interested to know that when I first heard Tom Ewing's voice my instant reaction was "Danny Kelly". I like it, though. Like him I'm happy with my voice, though if I could be reborn with any accent tomorrow, it would be West Wales.

She is Sylvie to me, Nathalie. She loves me, you see, and told me herself it wuz OK to call her that. Sadly I do not fancy her, but I cannot bring myself to shatter her illusions.

As someone who was born in the part of the Great Britain, which accent of West Wales ? Robin there are two very distinct parts

in Mid and South Pembrokeshire - has an english based accent that is remarkably different from a welsh accent, and many of the people don't associate themselves as Welsh, it is known as "little england beyond wales", as marked by the landsker line this dates back to the Norman and Flemish settlers, remarkably all these centuries later this cultural / linguistic divide has remained.

Pembrokeshire

Pembrokeshire has become synonymous with sun, sea and surf - the ideal place to escape and enjoy the peace, tranquility and beauty of the seashore. The county has two different identities and areas, divided (or rather joined) by the imaginary Landsker line. To the north lies the mainly Welsh-speaking district which is known as 'gwlad hud a lledrith' - land of magic and enchantment. To the south is what is often called 'little England beyond Wales' - a mainly English-speaking area in which Norman invaders have left their marks.

West Wales

North Pembrokeshire, Ceredigon (Cardiganshire up to Aberstywth) and much of Carmarthenshire is distinctly Welsh and indeed Welsh Speaking as a first language for many and when these locals do speak english the accent is very different from the english speaking and non welsh accent of pembrokeshire.

Robin, so which one?

(a-g plot = emmanuelle iv btw...)

Worst accents in the world: Pittsburgh accents, Philadelphia accents and Polish accents. No wonder my family annoys me so much.

I want to wake up one day with a nearly impenetrable Senegalese accent.

This should have been revived during the Ian R-M era.

I would kind of like to sound like JFK

in both accent and cadence

Fowa suppah I, er ah, would like a pahtee plattah!

Can I wake up with James Mason's voice?

Oi tonk dat wouid be moist inoisoial.

I would kind of like to sound like JFK

-- Curt1s Stephens, Friday, June 15, 2007 4:32 PM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Link

in both accent and cadence

-- Curt1s Stephens, Friday, June 15, 2007 4:33 PM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Link

also in "attracting hot bitchez"

i want to wake up with a 1930's radio voice

Oh, the humanity.

EXACTLY

Once my ex got drunk, and fell into this flawless neutral London accent. I dont know where it came from - he's not english. But he couldn't stop it. It was hilarious.

And Curt1s if you started talkng like JFK I'm afraid you'd just sound like the mayor from the gorram Simpsons.

I was in rural northern New Hampshire this weekend, and almost needed an interpreter. I could barely understand the guy who drove the shuttle from my hotel. It was Boston mixed with Quebecois. Inpenetrable.

Once my ex got drunk, and fell into this flawless neutral London accent. I dont know where it came from - he's not english. But he couldn't stop it. It was hilarious.

....and any Americans you met, Trayce, no doubt scratched their heads and said "what are you talking abt? He's speaking exactly the same as he did before!"

Actually in his case they might, hes nowhere near as ocker sounding as I am.

I thought this thread was relating to a phenomena I've previously discussed with my friends.

Being attracted to an accent. A French guy started work in my building, and while he was by no means conventionally attractive, one couldn't help 'fancying' his accent.

Same when out on the lash in Edinburgh, my friend and I started talking to a group of guys from Dublin and for some reason they seemed much more attractive because of their accents. (Or the vodka)

Anyone else get this?

In answer to the question I'd like a harsh Northern Irish accent.

I don't like these thread revivals: I discover how crap my memory is. I can't recall the Strokes gig let alone someone talking to me in English. hmmm

this boy that i'm desperately in love with has the most loveliest chicago accent ever... it just freakin' melts me. the other night, i made him read me stories from his favourite book as a kid, just so i could listen to him.

and i've always had a soft spot for irish and scottish accents - something incredibly sexy about those two. new zealish accents are so meh.

i've always had a soft spot for irish and scottish accents - something incredibly sexy about those two

There speaks someone who's never heard a Dundee accent

xpost yes yes YES scottish accents rool!

Another one!

Or an Ayrshire accent, yuk.

it's all the same accent. stop messing with our minds.

Hardly any Scottish accents are any good, when it comes down to it. I suppose people like "neutral" Scots accents - Ewan McGregor, stuff like that

oh no, i like the thick accents - the thicker and harder to comprehend, the better! have you not heard the blandness and nastiness of a new zealish accent?

Yeah, that's the problem. People hear sort of BBC radio announcer posh Edinburgh accents and think that's "Scots" and then you hear an actual Glaswegian and realise that they are as indecipherable as the Swedish Chef.

Then again, it might not be so bad, not knowing what they are *actually* saying.

i've met a variety of irish and scottish peoples, and never heard a regional accent i didn't like. afrikaaner would be my least favourite. and i'm not overly keen on the scandanavian accents.

I know someone who's new coworker lived in Georgia for THREE WEEKS and now intermittently uses a southern accent. :/ I've lived in Boston for three YEARS and I'm nowhere near pahking the cah in hahvahd yahd.

we are all-consuming.

Keanu Reeves accent from Dracula

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11280005

kinda lol though.

I do wonder. There are obviously lots of things I could do to make my 10 year plus partner leave me (I do not want this btw to any amateur psychologists) but the most annoying would be to get a hit on the head and wake up speaking like Liam Gallagher.

(we both from North of England, me just outside Liverpool, her from East Yorks, we both support different football teams that hate Manchester United)
It'd be a struggle. We may get through it.