Gah! People with accents!! !

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I think you mean you speak very quickly. Yes, I do know what 78rpm is. I have to really concentrate to understand someone who is speaking very quickly. Darn that auditory processing stuff.

HAHA! I know what you mean.

"THE INVASION OF THE FLYING SAUCERS!! !!"

Say that through your teeth really fast. That was a 50s formal tone on TV and in the movies. Plus their very poor audio recordings from that era, and presto you have the 50s "accent".

Every decade had it's own formal tone. The 60s and 70s were all about the solemn Walter Cronkite type voice. "Neil Armstrong is on the Moon!" The 80s was all about the Movie Phone voice. The 90s and up to today gave rise to the gravely commercials and movie previews voice: "In a world where lame lame lame lame plot rehashed a hundred times before".

I would love for some of you to come over here and sit on the top deck of a double decker bus for an hour.

Your brains would melt.

Yep!

I've got a REALLY STRONG Spanish accent. If you want an approximation, check any Penelope Cruz interview hahahaha. I'm very VERY fluent in English, though, yet my accent is very... erm... open? People say Spanish accents are sexy, though. I dunno. I personally wish I had a British accent when I spoke English, but it's really hard, and I think faking it would be disgraceful for British people. So I just stick to my Spanish accent and hope people understand me. I think it's understandable... well... I HOPE it is. Hahahaha

I have no problem understanding accents. The problem that I have is accepting that there are some people who I end up on the phone with aren't going to understand my accent.

If their accent is thick, yes.


Don't come out west, we all have accents and there are people in my area with tons of accents because we have Mexicans, Russians, Vietnamese, Chinese, and I am sure many others.

Are you as bad as Cartman's "Hennifeh Lope'" accent on [i]South Park[/i[?

I have a hard time understanding people with an accent, yesterday the cashier was asking me something and I just couldn't understand her it must be frustrating to them as well when people don't understand them.

I am believed to have some hearing loss but had terrible difficulty, transcribing a list of parts, when the narrator had a lisp and did not pronounce "R" sounds normally. This took me many patient hours of my own time, but my employer didn't understand the reason.

I am able to turn off the sound, and read lips, but this does not help their enunciation.

I'm Irish but I've only ever been told by americans how much of a dream my accent is

I have trouble understanding asians, indians, africans and thick slavic accents.

Spanish from where? I can understand Mexican accents just fine. Within about 10 minutes I'd have to explain that I'm not speaking with an accent to make fun of you.

I feel your pain on this one. I have alot of trouble with any accent, the more colloquial the harder it is for me - native language or not. With as much trouble as I have face to face with anyone speaking with a strong accent and/or too fast - just forget the trying to do it on the phone. I can't understand a word. Makes calling for take out and customer service calls near impossible.

Anyone trying to speak to me when I'm surrounded by background noise - forget it - accent or not. Mine is a combination of sound processing issues and tinnitus.

Sometimes I can make out one or two words. It's kind of like going through a tunnel, and all you hear on the phone is those few words. which are usually pointless words. " fsngpa is rgndsbj gvmofg dl;sd there?"

Oh, I hate tinnitus. But it only affects me a ton at night when I am trying to sleep. Outside of that, I am far too busy with everything else to notice it. but at night, it can turn deafening.