# Accents you like and those you don't **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 24, 2015, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-like-and-those-you-dont/726035 "2015-07-24T07:37:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-like-and-those-you-dont/726035/41 "2015-07-27T18:45:53Z")
Accents I can’t stand to listen to: [ol] [li]NYC-Puerto Rican (Bronx?). [/li][li]Jersey Shore Italian[/li][li]Whatever accent Nicki Minaj speaks in[/li][li]Whatever that British lower class accent is that says things like “fink” for “think” and similar things. David Beckham is damned close to having that accent.[/li][/ol] Most foreign accents don’t bug me much for whatever reason, although sometimes foreign word choices are annoying because they’re technically correct, but overwhelmingly weird. (“Do the needful” for example). ---
**Author:** ![Doyle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doyle/32/439_2.png) [@Doyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doyle)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-like-and-those-you-dont/726035/42 "2015-07-27T20:20:04Z")
Until I was 10 years old, I lived off of St. Charles Ave. in New Orleans. My father hated the [Yat dialect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yat_dialect)in the area and didn’t want his kids sounding like that. So we moved to Metairie. There were other reasons for the move, but that’s the one he always gave. I wish we still owned the house, a block down from Commander’s Palace. ---
**Author:** ![Indus.1999](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a4c791/32.png) [@Indus.1999](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indus.1999)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2016, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-like-and-those-you-dont/726035/43 "2016-01-10T22:05:45Z")
I like the Russian accent, and I like the name for their currency. I guess I also like Hugh Dennis’ accent, Indian and that of Nova Scotia. I can’t stomach the Australian accent. I also got rupee and Rouble mixed up, I nearly posted Ruple. As in Ruple Murdoch :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2016, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-like-and-those-you-dont/726035/44 "2016-01-10T22:13:55Z")
Welcome to the message board, **Indus.1999.** You have revived an older thread, so be prepared for possible zombie jokes. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2016, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-like-and-those-you-dont/726035/45 "2016-01-10T22:14:41Z")
I don’t like that the Midwestern accent. I blame “Making of a Murderer” for reminding me of this. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-like-and-those-you-dont/726035/46 "2016-01-11T16:22:36Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > I don’t like that the Midwestern accent. I blame “Making of a Murderer” for reminding me of this. I didn’t want to bring this up in the M a M thread, but I was tempted to watch it on mute with the cc on. In fact I quit watching after about seven episodes as I couldn’t listen to any more. I know this is a flaw in my character, but I found myself so freaking irritated by everyone’s voice that I had to keep reminding myself it was about the injustice and to not lose sympathy just because I don’t like their accents. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-like-and-those-you-dont/726035/47 "2016-01-11T16:28:58Z")
> [@gallows\_fodder](#): > > Ultimately, as long as your voice itself is nice, I can deal with you just fine. If your accent AND your voice is terrible, then you and I can never be close. ☹ I’m so sorry, but this is one of my deal-breakers. > > Funnily enough, the accents I love seem to be ones on a lot of “hated” lists. I think the Boston-area accents are charming (no, really!), I love the Northern English and Northern Irish accents I’ve heard, I like hearing Russians speak English (and Russian). Southern accents in general are pleasant to me if they’re soft – I love the Virginia Tidewater accent, which is sadly on its decline. > > I LOVE listening to people from Spain speak Spanish or English (and I’m sure they sound beautiful speaking other languages as well!). Can’t get enough of those sibilant Ss. Antonio Banderas can try to sell me Nasonex all day long. > > The ones that drive me nuts are really nasal accents, like from Chicago and the upper Midwestern states. I live outside of Philadelphia, and unfortunately the Philly-area accents (which I myself have – my sincere apologies) and the Baltimore accents are dire, too. I don’t know what happened in history to bequeath to this little section of the country such heinous speech patterns, but I hope our forefathers deserved it. Don’t you warsh yer hands in the zink like the rest of us? And eat ersters from the wooder? Downy oshun? And it’s “Bawlmer,” thank you very much. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-like-and-those-you-dont/726035/48 "2016-01-11T18:22:01Z")
> [@NineToTheSky](#): > > I know that there is a large range of accents in the USA, but I’m not familiar with Canadian or Australian accents. ## Canadians don’t have accents\*. For some reason, it’s the residents of all other English-speaking countries in the world (with the exception of a few parts of the northern US) who have all kinds of accents. Strange but true. 😉 \*with the exception of Newfoundland, barely a part of Canada at all. And of course the French. > [@RobDog](#): > > Me, I like English spoken with a really heavy French accent. Several others have said the same. Sometimes it’s true. The other day I was on the phone to a young lady in Quebec who spoke with a charming accent that sounded Parisian and sophisticated and was really quite lovely. The fact that her English was flawless except for the accent made it all the more charming. Unfortunately to my ear heavy French accents often sound comical, which may be unfair but I blame movies and TV. It’s hard not to think of any of the following: - the French knights at the top of the castle in _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_ (possibly the most oft-quoted movie scene in history!), - the romantic cartoon skunk Pepe Le Pew, a direct riff on Maurice Chevalier, and - the scene in revolutionary France from Mel Brooks’ _History of the World Part I_: “We are so poor we do not even have our own language. All we have is this _ **outrageous** _ accent!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lowdown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Lowdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lowdown)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-like-and-those-you-dont/726035/49 "2016-01-11T21:22:50Z")
I _really_ like the Canadian accent on women. Take me to bed! Don’t think anything about it on dudes other than “You’re from Canada.” Other than that…I guess I like the Asian Indian accent a bit on women. On dudes I think “This is an unattractive sound that you’re making.” although since I’m straight as straight can be it really makes no difference at all. (Like most of my opinions.) ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-like-and-those-you-dont/726035/50 "2016-01-11T23:11:59Z")
> [@Lowdown](#): > > I _really_ like the Canadian accent on women. Take me to bed! Don’t think anything about it on dudes other than “You’re from Canada.” Other than that…I guess I like the Asian Indian accent a bit on women. On dudes I think “This is an unattractive sound that you’re making.” although since I’m straight as straight can be it really makes no difference at all. (Like most of my opinions.) I dislike the flat-ness of my voice (that would be flat central Canadian), but generally love most other accents and pick them up like a sponge. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2016, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-like-and-those-you-dont/726035/51 "2016-01-11T23:33:59Z")
Yinzers make my ass itch. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/accents-you-like-and-those-you-dont/726035.md?page=2)