Favorite Accent

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What's your favorite accent?

English/Australian/Kiwi	39%	[ 23 ]
German/Western European	3%	[ 2 ]
Slavic (Russian/Polish/Yugoslav)	10%	[ 6 ]
Celtic	15%	[ 9 ]
Middle Eastern	0%	[ 0 ]
American/Canadian	5%	[ 3 ]
Spanish/South American/Mexican	2%	[ 1 ]
African/Carribean	2%	[ 1 ]
Chinese	0%	[ 0 ]
French	8%	[ 5 ]
Greek/Italian	2%	[ 1 ]
Nordic	3%	[ 2 ]
Indian	3%	[ 2 ]
Japanese/SE Asian	2%	[ 1 ]
Other	5%	[ 3 ]

Total votes : 59

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08 Apr 2007, 2:14 am

maldoror wrote:

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What the heck is wrong with you? I was just stating the truth.

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08 Apr 2007, 2:22 am

It's weird to ever see "Australian" described as an accent.

Although in my experience everyone from overseas thinks we all talk like Steve Irwin or Crocodile Dundee and that we ride Kangaroos, hahaha.

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08 Apr 2007, 2:27 am

Let's put a shrimp on the barbie, cobber!

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08 Apr 2007, 2:29 am

Yeah I never understood that ad, haha.

For starters we call them Prawns, not Shrimp and we rarely (if ever) put them on the BBQ.

:lol:

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08 Apr 2007, 2:30 am

Putting prawns on the barbie... Yuck. Gimme pork. :lol:

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08 Apr 2007, 2:35 am

hahaha!

Yeah we'll throw pretty much anything on the BBQ: Emu, Kangaroo, Crocodile etc..... but Prawns?

Where the hell did that come from?

lol.

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08 Apr 2007, 2:38 am

Don't forget goanna!

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08 Apr 2007, 2:39 am

Okay, look. There's no such thing as not having an accent, if you speak a language. In America most people don't consider themselves to be speaking with an accent, because they're surrounded by people with the same accent. But I'm sure, to you, when you watch American television, it sounds like we have an accent. It's the same thing to anyone outside of Australia who listens to an Australian speak. Here's a link to explain.

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The first generation of children will draw on the accents of the adults around them, and will create something new. If people move to a new place in groups (as English speakers did to America, Australia and New Zealand) that group usually brings several different accents with them. The children will draw on the mixture of accents they hear and create their own accent out of what they hear. The modern accents of Australia are more similar to London accents of English than to any other accent from England -- this is probably because the founder generation (in the eighteenth century) had a large component drawn from the poor of London, who were transported to Australia as convicts. The accents of New Zealand are similar to Australian accents because a large proportion of the early English-speaking settlers of New Zealand came from Australia.

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08 Apr 2007, 2:42 am

I know, I know. I was just in a bad mood before.

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08 Apr 2007, 2:48 am

Yeah and I wasn't really implying that we don't have an accent.

It's just weird to hear the way I speak referred to as one is all.

But then sometimes I even have Australians ask me where my accent is from, which I don't understand 'cause I'm Aussie born and bred, so go figure, lol.

:lol:

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08 Apr 2007, 6:01 am

I love the English accent.

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08 Apr 2007, 6:19 am

English people on TV have an awesome accent.

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08 Apr 2007, 6:39 am

My own.
"lawn GUY land!! !" (Long Island)
Anything is better than "Da Bwonx". :lol: :lol: :lol:

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08 Apr 2007, 6:54 am

My uncle has one of those 'Lon-Guy-Lan' accents, and typically I find it pretty much normal, except when he gets mad, then he's completely unintelligible.
Personally, I prefer the Canadian/Irish Brogue thing that people in Nova Scotia have.

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08 Apr 2007, 8:02 am

American accents. Or more specifically, New Jersey accents:

"Oh My Gooorward"

I like southern accents too!

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08 Apr 2007, 10:12 am

English. They can say something naughty, and it's still funny. I also like accents from the American South. Comedians from both areas can say stuff that sounds crass coming from other areas of the world.

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