Inspired by the Best Accent thread. What accents just make you want to SCREAM? I’m talking fingernails on a chalkboard accents here. TV’s The Nanny comes to mind. (Is that Queens?) shudder
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Yeah, I think it’s been proven that Fran causes impotence in many men.
I hate most southern US accents. Texas drawwwwwl just makes me want to shoot… a Texan. And, at the risk of sounding racist, I hate the accent that usually accompanies ebonics. Just makes me cringe.
I think the worst accent is from Toronto Canada, or, as they say, Tront toe. " do you have change of a Doolar." Give me a break!
“Come over to my hoose” barf
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Not that it’s a bad accent per se, but watch “The Hunt for Red October” again and wonder why the captain of a Russian sub has a Scottish accent.
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Because most Americans probably don’t want to read subtitles, and Sean Connery probably didn’t want to rehears all of that Russian. 
I completely agree. I heard that Bob Dole’s wife was considering running for office. If she was ever elected to high office I think that I would have to move to Canada, the accent of which I don’t mind as much.
As for ebonics, I probably like that about as much as a rectal exam. I hear that nasty accent come from the drive through window at Taco Bell and immediately think “high school drop out.” Especially when improper English is used. I just don’t say that very much, though, because you can’t even sneeze at someone of a different race these days without being considered a racist.
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Whatever accent my Anthropology 3 professor had. It was kind of like a Boston accent, but worse (if that’s even possible). She was a terrible teacher, too, and going to her class was kind of like torture.
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I agree with MatthewDR about the ebonics. That drives me nuts. I also don’t like when telemarketers call and they’re foreign. I can’t stand it when they have an Iranian or Asian accent and you can’t understand what the fuck they’re saying.
That John Denver’s full of shit man!
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Cool! I didn’t know I had an accent! I’ll have to be more careful though, I wouldn’t want to insult your sensibilities. 
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i agree with that ebonic accent. i have trouble understanding it too. but i think the harshest sounding accent comes from The Bronx in New York City. a friend of mine calls everyone with that accent “Guido”.
that Fran Dresher"Nanny" queens accent is awful too.
if i had to live in new york city and listen to those accents all day, it would only be a matter of time before i stripped naked and climbed a bell tower with a high powered rifle
Oh man, just think of all the lives ruined! All the damage caused! All the trauma!
And the part about you and the rifle is kind of disurbing, too.
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The worst accent is any accent that my husband attempts to imitate. It’s truly sad. I think his Irish brogue could make you WANT to listen to the Nanny.
Fake English accents!! I hate people who think that if they have spent any amount of time in England or have lived with anyone who has, that that entitles them to adopt an english (british) sounding accent.
I had class with a girl we called “fake english chick” because this is how she spoke. She had apparently spent a small amount of time in england, and I guess she thought it made her sound smart to have the accent. (It did not, it only made her sound annoying).
Never thought I would run across this again, but lo and behold, my writing professor is the same way. Her husband is British, so not only does she speak quietly but apparently she is attempting to pick up his accent. (those two things weren’t supposed to seem related).
Another great example?? MADONNA!!! Urgh, you are from NY for christ’s sake woman!!!
I have no problem with British people and their accents however, I think it is enjoyable to listen to. But knockoffs are never comparable to originals.
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No, she’s from Bay City, MI. She moved to NY when she was already an adult.
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I like just about all regional accents, because they represent diversity, and the whole country seems to be moving toward a white bread sameness. The accent I do hate is the Valley Girl accent I hear a lot of people in their twenties using. I heard it in the medical school library yesterday: I’m like all, you know? Yah! (yeah)
Ick.
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I grew up in the Valley in question, and I think that’s really more a set of speech tics than a true accent. The girls who admired it (I can’t imagine why) picked it up. Often along with the habit of ending every sentence with a question mark: “My name is Amber? I’m from Encino?” That habit really drives me bats. I think the male equivalent was Surferspeak, wherein the voice is forced down an octave and one’s contemporaries are addressed as “Dude!”
Catrandom, who, like, doesn’t sound like comes from the Valley (gag me!) at all?
Let me try to extemporaneously remember the quote from Emperor Charles V: “I speak French to men, Italian to women, German to my horse and Spanish to my God.” If I were Charles V, I would add “and when I want to sound like a yammering idiot, I use Chinese.”
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That’s called uptalking, and as much as I wish it were, it’s not indiginous to the San Fernando Valley. I never really noticed it until my speech teacher in high school made a big deal out of it. Ever since then it just drives me bonkers.
I know it’s just me, but when I’m on the phones (I do tech support), Chinese and Japanese accents drive me up the wall. I think it’s mostly that I can barely make out every third word that’s spoken, and the speaker is usually frantic about some problem that I’m supposed to solve.
Give me about any accent other than a thick Chinese dialect or Japanese, and I’m pretty happy.