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).

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

― ogmor, Monday, March 25, 2019 9:17 AM (two hours ago

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