24-07-2003 05:16									#1
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What are the funniest accents?

Here's one:

New Zealand male (educated). Doesn't sound much like me, but I learned to speak in the UK and have a hybrid accent.

New Zealand accent


And here's my all time favourite, the Geordie (NE England).

Geordie

This sounds just like my aunt.


Post yours, or those you find amusing

	24-07-2003 05:19									#2
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Some accents are funny but several give me a hard on when a girl speaks with an accent.

	24-07-2003 05:21									#3
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What's so funny about those?

Indian accents make me laugh the most.

	24-07-2003 05:23									#4
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quote: Originally posted by Oerdin Some accents are funny but several give me a hard on when a girl speaks with an accent.

One of the hottest guys I ever knew (*ahem* in ye olde Biblical sense) was Australian. The accent has triggered in me some sort of automatic response, kind of like Pavlov's dog. BOING!

	24-07-2003 05:24									#5
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quote: Originally posted by Boris Godunov What's so funny about those? Indian accents make me laugh the most.

Yes, but English isn't their first language.

I've been trying to get an audio clip of Jimmy Nail, but I can't find one.

	24-07-2003 05:24									#6
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quote: Originally posted by Oerdin Some accents are funny but several give me a hard on when a girl speaks with an accent.

Well go to IDEA and find a clip, then we can all join in the fun.

	24-07-2003 05:39									#7
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Cockney!!!

	24-07-2003 05:42									#8
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I love that "a superb pwivate pwactice"

	24-07-2003 05:49									#9
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The beautiful and noble Welsh accent.

	24-07-2003 06:08									#10
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The two from Quebec are both by native French speakers. Neither sounds at all like me. The Ontarian doesn't sound at all like an Anglo Quebecer either. The New Brunswick accent isn't far off.

http://www.ku.edu/~idea/files/sound/newbrunswick1.mp3

	24-07-2003 06:28									#11
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Hee hee.

Sent the prof in charge of the database an email saying he should have included an anglo quebecer.

	24-07-2003 09:50									#12
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Pepperidge Farm guy's accent - right up there with Mel Blanc!

Hey, out of curiosity, who's Ann Coulter? Is she a gamer?

	24-07-2003 10:29									#13
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New Zullund!

What's funny is that the educated ones that go overseas and sound funny don't speak nearly as funny as those New Zullunders who don't!

There's a famous bit of graffiti coming out the tunnel on Sydney's eastern suburbs train line that says:

"AUSTRALIA SUX!"

Underneath a clever aussie wrote:

"NEW ZEALAND NIL"

	24-07-2003 10:49									#14
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Ah, here's how English was meant to be spoken -- flat and emotionless. Huzzah!

I'm amazed they don't have a sample of the South Side accent, though. "Der are tree tings you godda know before you get on da bus." "Da Bears." Etc.

	24-07-2003 10:51									#15
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Flat?

"Raindraps"

"Paht of gold"

Blech.

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southern US accents can be sweet when a female has it, but upsetting when a male does.

Nothin makes me more at home than a southern gal who says "Hi" with her sweet voice and smile (and daisy duke jean shorts )

	24-07-2003 11:17									#17
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bah cockney isn't a funny accent, the rest of you just don't speak proper (like what we do)

	24-07-2003 12:33									#18
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quote: Originally posted by Agathon Yes, but English isn't their first language.

Actually, it often is.

	24-07-2003 12:35									#19
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I think I'm still in love the with girl who did the recordings for the streetcars in Augsburg Germany when I was there is the eighties. After a lifetime of only hearing German spoken by concentration camp guards and soldiers it was nice to hear the softer side of it.

As for funny accents, the best place in the U.S. to find them is Louisianna, which has quite a variety.

	24-07-2003 12:43									#20
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OH MY GOD!! WHERE DID MY H'S GO?!? I'VE DROPPED MY H'S!

	24-07-2003 12:50									#21
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I think the funnies accent is americans speaking finnish

	24-07-2003 12:52									#22
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The habit mid-westerners have of inserting "R" sounds into words which don't have Rs in them is quite funny. Nothing like hearing someone say they are going to warsh their car.

	24-07-2003 12:54									#23
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quote: Originally posted by st_swithin OH MY GOD!! WHERE DID MY H'S GO?!? I'VE DROPPED MY H'S!

Those is called "Aitches".

	24-07-2003 13:15									#24
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I stand corrected.



I was once in a restaurant in Glebe, Aus. I was told by an English gent at the next table (ok, I wasn't TOLD, so much as he raised his voice enough so that the ENTIRE RESTAURANT COULD HEAR HIM) that I had a HORRIBLE AMERICAN ACCENT.

Hee hee hee! Oh yes, truly horrible!

	24-07-2003 13:37									#25
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I'm from the south of England so luckily I don't have an accent.

	24-07-2003 13:40									#26
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Nice one, ye silly wee bastard

	24-07-2003 14:11									#27
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Nice one? It's as if you thought that was some kind of joke rather than a statement of fact.

	24-07-2003 15:00									#28
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My bad. I must have been listening with an East London accent again.

	24-07-2003 15:23									#30
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quote: Originally posted by MikeH I'm from the south of England so luckily I don't have an accent.

My g/f actually said this to me once in total seriousness. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. I'm still not sure she understands what an absurd statement it is.