# I love that accent..... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 16, 1999, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-that-accent/8150 "1999-09-16T05:43:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![omniscientnot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a5b964/32.png) [@omniscientnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omniscientnot)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 1999, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-that-accent/8150/21 "1999-09-17T05:04:00Z")
Hey Gaudere: I may be not what you’d call cute, but I have more than an accent, being French Canadian. Any chances? P.S.: An acquaintance of mine also once said that I have a _sexy_ voice over the phone. Additional Brownie points? ---
**Author:** ![Globe-trotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@Globe-trotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Globe-trotter)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 1999, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-that-accent/8150/22 "1999-09-17T05:37:00Z")
Scottish and Irish do it for me…yummy. Don’t care much for the Canadian accent, though… 😉 * * * I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest. Alexandre Dumas the Younger (1824-1895) ---
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 1999, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-that-accent/8150/23 "1999-09-17T05:45:00Z")
Sounds good to me (a pun!), omniscientnot. I’ve never really gotten into the long-distance-internet-relationship thing, though. 🙂 * * * “Eppur, si muove!” - Galileo Galilei ---
**Author:** ![Strainger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strainger/32/244_2.png) [@Strainger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strainger)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 1999, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-that-accent/8150/24 "1999-09-17T05:50:00Z")
Well, the Southern accent (specifically that heard in Northern GA and the Carolinas) makes me feel at home. No offense to anyone, but the Brooklyn and Bronx accents sometimes grate on me. I dated a girl in high school that had moved from GA from NJ. She had sort of a bastardized Jersey/Southern accent that got ugly sometimes. Admitedly, I have somewhat of a bastardized Midwestern/Southern accent. Bluepony, that’s hilarious! Have you ever seen Henry Cho, the stand-up comedian from TN with full-blooded Korean heritage? “Y’all are givin’ me some _real_ funny looks out there!” What pisses me off - no matter what accent you have (as long as people can understand you) - is these courses designed to help you eliminate your accent. To me, an individual’s accent is a unique characteristic to be appreciated. (Despite what I said about Brooklyn and the Bronx!) ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 1999, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-that-accent/8150/25 "1999-09-16T18:03:00Z")
\*Bluepony: I’m Asian in descent, but a southern boy in every aspect, including a pronounced accent. People are really unnerved when they hear that southern twang coming out of an Asian face. Combine it with a badge, and it’s their worse Redneck Oriental nightmare. \* There is (or was) an Korean-heritage/Kentucky raised comedian a few years back (can’t remember his name). At the beginning of his act, he would come on stage grinning and bowing to everyone in the audience. He would approach the microphone shyly and tentatively take hold of it. Then in a booming voice he asked, “ **How y’all doin’!?** ” I laughed so hard, I couldn’t stop for 5 minutes! ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 1999, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-that-accent/8150/26 "1999-09-16T18:05:00Z")
Yeah, Henry Cho! That was him. (Excuse me for not reading all the posts first.) ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 1999, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-that-accent/8150/27 "1999-09-16T18:08:00Z")
AWB, That comidien was the above mentioned Henry Cho. Very funny guy 🙂 * * * Run for the hills, folks! Or you’ll be up to your armpits in martians! ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 1999, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-that-accent/8150/28 "1999-09-16T18:08:00Z")
Any highly nasal accent really grates on me. Wisconsin comes to mind as an example. An Irish brogue is music to my ears. ---
**Author:** ![kellibelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kellibelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellibelli)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 1999, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-that-accent/8150/29 "1999-09-16T18:25:00Z")
Yeah, irish & scottish…mmmmmmmm And the nasal wisconsin thing? well, I laughed so hard watching Fargo, I almost peed myself! ---
**Author:** ![ChrisCTP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@ChrisCTP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisCTP)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 1999, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-that-accent/8150/30 "1999-09-16T18:27:00Z")
I **love** English accents… and Irish, Scottish, Spanish, Australian, French… I’m not terribly into Mediterranean, German, or Russian accents. They all sound really forced and phlegmy. As far as the different North American accents go, I can imitate them all, and they’re mostly good for a giggle. * * * Veni, Vidi, Visa … I came, I saw, I bought. ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 1999, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-that-accent/8150/31 "1999-09-16T22:29:00Z")
\… Geez, I forgot I love Jamacain accents too. \ * * * You say “cheesy” like that’s a BAD thing. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 1999, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-that-accent/8150/32 "1999-09-16T23:17:00Z")
Love Australian, Scottish, and English accents. Bluepony–an Oriental Redneck! Wow! I didn’t think anyone could beat my odd combination of Japanese Jew! ---
**Author:** ![OfficeGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@OfficeGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OfficeGirl)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 1999, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-that-accent/8150/33 "1999-09-16T23:31:00Z")
I’ve always loved to hear the different ways different people talked. At the same time I’ve always tried not to take on too much of the midwestern accent which surrounds me in day to day life. Some people tell me I sound like I’m from either Canada or Minnesota, but that’s just mostly when I’m being shy or soft-spoken, because sometimes I’m known to lapse into a definite drawl. eeewww. One of my dear friends is from Chicago and I love his accent. Another is from Australia but was born in Taiwan so has quite an unusal sound which I think is very very sexy and love. Sometimes the voice itself is more important than the accent. The right voice can just do things to me… :o * * * [OfficeGirl’s Cubicle Farm](http://www.homestead.com/allusions/allusions.html) “Argue for your limitations; sure enough, they’re yours.” ---
**Author:** ![Boris\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@Boris\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boris_B)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 1999, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-that-accent/8150/34 "1999-09-16T23:34:00Z")
It’s funny, I just thought about this and I think I like different national accents by gender. That’s a pretty convoluted way to say it. An example: I think French accents sound great from women’s mouths, but they sound a little snooty coming from men. Norwegian and Swedish accents sound really cool from men, but Swedish women sometimes come off like a demented Nordic witch. I have a Swedish relative, I think she’s a 3rd cousin or something. She’s very sweet but, I gotta tell ya, I always think she’s about to offer me some cat stew she’s brewed up in her big iron cauldron. Imagine a very sing-songy stammer: “Voodn’t you like to try vun uff Tinkah’s paws? They’re just ass tasty ass heez tail, ya?” Anyway, foreign accents don’t usually bother me much, unless the person really can’t speak English, in which case it doesn’t matter their accent. The domestic accents which bother me most are Bostonian (I always think, in spite of myself, that they’re just trying to make fun of a Bostonian), and really laconic rural accents. Usually call these accents “Southern”, but I hear them a lot in rural Oregon, and not much in urban North Carolina. **Bluepony** You remind me of someone I know in grad school. He was 100% Korean by blood, first generation American, and all Tennessee. He used to talk about how he loved kimchee (spelling?) in an authentic Tennessee accent. “Ahh know it’s purty nasty, but ahh juss cain’t git enough of it. Mmm _mmm_!” ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_Next\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@Girl\_Next\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_Next_Door)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 1999, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-that-accent/8150/35 "1999-09-16T23:36:00Z")
Give me an English accent from a blue eyed guy any day. Makes me nuts. South African accents are pretty hot, too. I have an Australian friend of Malaysian heritage. Yeah, it took some getting used to: an Aussie accent coming out of an Asian face. Funny how closed our minds can be to this sort of thing, isn’t it? The brain just goes: BZZZT! BZZT! until it can process the perceived dichotomy. ---
**Author:** ![Cessandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 1999, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-that-accent/8150/36 "1999-09-17T00:21:00Z")
Phil said: > [@](#): > > Cessandra, many non-native English speakers have what appears to be “atrocious grammar” because they compose their English sentences with a syntax or grammar that would be correct in their native language but sounds wrong to us. Cut the guy some slack. Hey, I’m not saying he’s a bad guy or anything, but math is my worst subject and I can’t understand a word the man says. * * * I was educated long after the discontinuation flogging, and I have no problems with spelling or grammar. This is because I’m not a moron. – Stolen from AuraSeer 🙂 Sorry, I just thought it was too cute! My Homepage: [http://www.shsu.edu/~stdmed17/Home.html](http://www.shsu.edu/~stdmed17/Home.html) My RHPS page: [http://www.shsu.edu/~stdmed17/RockyHome.html](http://www.shsu.edu/~stdmed17/RockyHome.html) ---
**Author:** ![Pete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@Pete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pete)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 1999, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-that-accent/8150/37 "1999-09-17T01:22:00Z")
I personally LOVE asian women, so a Korean or Chinese accent is music to my ears. I don’t like Aussie, Irish, and the worst, Scottish accents. The men sound like fairies, and the women sound butch. Brits are annoying. The absolute worst is the redneck Tennesee drawl. Damn I can’t stand that shit! French is nice, from a woman. But the sexiest is German/Austrian (remember the hot blonde doctor from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade?) or Norweigan (I think that’s the region). * * * I don’t know who first said “everyone’s a critic,” but I think it’s a really stupid saying. ---
**Author:** ![Louie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 1999, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-that-accent/8150/38 "1999-09-17T01:34:00Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m not terribly into Mediterranean, German, or Russian accents. They all sound really forced and phlegmy. Hey, I have a Mediterranean accent and it isn’t really that forced and pleggg…ggg…_hooooccck_…_spit_…gmy * * * “The more beautiful the rose, the more thorns it hides underneath.” - Louie ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 1999, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-that-accent/8150/39 "1999-09-17T01:37:00Z")
Call me nutty (all: “You’re nutty!”) but I loke a Brooklyn accent. But not annoying like that Nanny chick. It just conveys… Attitude! * * * Yer pal, Satan ---
**Author:** ![timmar68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/97f17d/32.png) [@timmar68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/timmar68)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 1999, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-that-accent/8150/40 "1999-09-17T04:40:00Z")
FTR, guys, the setting in “Fargo” was Minnesota, not Wisconsin. I don’t know anybody here in WI that talks like that (I have lived in the northern and southern part of the state, BTW, so it wasn’t based on any part of the state). Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying it doesn’t exist. When I first moved here, I did hear an accent, but not nasally and twangy. What I heard was the fact that they use the short “a” sound and make it a long “a”. Example, “bag” is pronounced “bayg”. I had a hard time getting used to that. Now, my old accent is gone (it used to be southern) and I find myself doing the same thing. Now, I pledge alligience to the flayg while holding a bayg, and I try not nayg, and my dog waygs his tail. 🙂 * * * MaryAnn Sometimes life is so great you just gotta muss up your hair and quack like a duck! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-that-accent/8150.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-that-accent/8150.md?page=3)