Do you like speaking in accents?

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I seem to have the knack of doing accents. My colleagues at work tell me I'm good at it when I imitate people who phone in.

I speak in different accents a lot. Apparently I'm quite good at mimicking accents.

I have what one would call a "Peterian" accent.

It's a mixture of Boston and New York.

In the body I currently inhabit, he talks in a southern new england accent.

I'm not Vietnamese, but I like to speak in a slightly exaggerated Vietnamese accent. My sister is Vietnamese and has the accent, so I imitate her to mess with her. It evolved past that and into something I do to entertain friends. I no longer bother Aimee(my sister). Instead, I use the accent when talking to friends to make them laugh. I also use it to troll xbox live players. I even gave my self a fake persona that I use over xbox live. I call myself Quoc Tran(pronounced Kwok Chen) and troll people by subjecting them to aural torture via headset. I either annoy them with the accent until they snap or mute me, or I fire up the laptop and play Khmer and Vietnamese pop music through the headset. Understand, I actually love the country of Vietnam and and it;s culture. Vietnam is like my fourth favorite country in the world. I only do this for my entertainment, and I don't aim to offend

I imitate my brother as well. He is Taiwanese, and although he doesn't speak Chinese anymore and he left Taiwan as a toddler, he still has a thick Chinese accent. I talk in the accent when I talk to me to mess with him. I actually do speak Mandarin. Again, I actually hold Taiwan and China in high regard. China is my favorite country in the world, etc., etc.

I also like speaking in a Puerto Rican accent while taking to Latinos because I was raised speaking Spanish(I'm multiracial. Mother is Puerto Rican, father is Scottish/Irish/Canadian. My mother raised me to speak Spanish).

I also imitate the accent of people I'm talking to on occassions, like Britons, and I often do so beyond my own accord. I'll slip into an accent at least similar to the speakers if I don't manage to control myself. I'm fascinated by accents and linguistics.

Oh yes. I love talking with ever imaginable accent or imitation. James Bond (Sean Connery), Russian, Irish, Scottish, Italian (mob boss), heavy southern (I already have light southern to me), etc. You name it, I have fun with it.

Since the majority of my favorite movie characters speak with English accents, I like to use an English accent when I'm alone and talking to myself. Once I start talking that way, I find it difficult to switch back to my usual American accent.

Oh yes, I love talking with an accent... which is great since I seem to be hardwired to talk like Slim Pickens.
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I have a Southern alter ego. I fall into it when I'm feeling in an especially good mood. It's such a friendly sounding accent.

I end up with a French accent when I hear someone else speak with one. I do the same sometimes for other accents, but French gets me every time. Also, when I'm reading to my hubby, I'll go into a French accent a lot. I get a better flow going with it.

Once I was in Montreal and a native came up to me and spoke to me in French. I said "je ne parle pas francais" and got the accent so dead on, the guy looked confused and said "...what language do you speak?" He asked in English because it's the next most likely language one would speak in the area. I was very proud to have fooled him because it's said that the English often butcher the French accent.

My polisci professor from Texas:

"I Do not have a funny accent, YOU ALL have funny accents."

Back in school, people used to tell me I sounded German, doubtlessly because a lot of people in my family spoke with German accents, despite living in America for generations. If anything, I just wanted to sound plain old American - which I struggled to do. So you can say, I imitated an American accent, till it just became natural for me.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Oh hell yes.

I've tried some of the different dialects and accents in british. If I wasn't so sensitive to the critics and had a web cam, I'd give you some samples. Use to do some acting on stages that required it.

I also love to play around the Irish and Scottish accents. It's funny but some of the Irish accents almost sound similar to the accents I hear in the northern eastern parts of the U.S.

oh hell yes

i like doing Arnold Swcharznegger impersonations (not too bad at it either ),
also exaggerated southern accents,
exaggerated austrailian accents,
& british, irish, scottish, german, & russian ones too