Calling all Brits...

[mgargan1]

In fact I think glaswegian accents are totally hot. I could listen to the likes of Billy Connolly reading me the phone book. RAWR!

Hmm.. So, iBlue, using the same logic, do you find people with other accents sexy?

In the states, a girl becomes quite a bit more attractive to me if she has a foreign accent.

To be fair though, not all accents are created equally... I find the stereotypical British accent > Boston accent...

I'd imagine that the typical American accent isn't as exotic as other accents would be to you.

 

[Unspoken Demise]

I'd imagine that the typical American accent isn't as exotic as other accents would be to you.

Its funny, I hardly ever consider my dialect to be an accent, yet I consider British or Auatralian or Irish to be one. Not trying to be ignorant, its just because I hear those accents so infrequently, my dialect seems normal. Then again, British is normal to British people, and I am the one with an accent.

Just saying.

 

[djellison]

It's a cockney accent, i.e. London.

Dead giveaway is that he plays a typical Londoner in a soap-opera called Eastenders. That's pretty much his normal voice.

 

[AAPLaday]

London/Slough methinks

 

[iBlue]

Hmm.. So, iBlue, using the same logic, do you find people with other accents sexy?

In the states, a girl becomes quite a bit more attractive to me if she has a foreign accent.

To be fair though, not all accents are created equally... I find the stereotypical British accent > Boston accent...

I'd imagine that the typical American accent isn't as exotic as other accents would be to you.

I think some accents are sexy. Some are totally UNsexy and some others vary depending on the person speaking it.

When I first moved here I would occasionally just sit and listen to people speaking around me and I found it an oddly entertaining novelty. Now I've become pretty used to hearing the various accents, but I still find accents rather interesting.

It's nice to hear something a little different to what you're used to. A few people have said they like hearing me speak because, well, it's not what they're typically used to. Of course I become entirely embarrassed and don't understand why they would think that. I have learned not to really like the sound of my own voice (it sounds so oafish and unpolished compared to what I typically hear day to day here). I don't really like standing out either. For useful purposes, usually on the phone, I've learned to fake an accent pretty effectively in short bursts - such as when I am giving out my name, address and phone number. If I say it in my own accent I am sometimes misunderstood and have to repeat myself. I hate having to repeat myself. Repeating yourself is bunk.

Crap, I lost my train of thought in the midst of this rambling.

As for american accents, I think the Long Island, NY accent is pretty damn cool. And hey, its cool factor may go up since I don't hear it nearly as often now.

 

[Keniff]

It's a cockney accent, i.e. London.

Dead giveaway is that he plays a typical Londoner in a soap-opera called Eastenders. That's pretty much his normal voice.

But he could be from anywhere in the south east of england, anyone from sussex, kent or essex can talk like that.

He's an actor, so we can all agree that he's playing a character?

But to call him a cockney, would imply that he was "born within the sound of bow bells", and not all Londoners are cockneys....

 

[arkitect]

I find the stereotypical British accent > Boston accent...

I'd imagine that the typical American accent isn't as exotic as other accents would be to you.

Boston accent? The Lloyd Grossman one? Eeeeeew.

 

[weckart]

And yeah, Austrian German can be weird. The first German I learned was a Bavarian German, so it wasn't so bad, but street signs and ordering food can get confusing even if Gruss Gott is a natural greeting for you.

Agreed. When I moved to Austria to work alongside a friend of mine from South Germany the first thing we did was to buy an Austrian-German dictionary just so that we could order food in restaurants or go shopping and some idea about what we could expect to get. Virtually nothing is the same in both Austro-German and Standard German for all the basic foodstuffs. Even ordering coffee had us staring at the coffee menu.

If I say it in my own accent I am sometimes misunderstood and have to repeat myself. I hate having to repeat myself. Repeating yourself is bunk.

Tell me about it. That was my experience every time I travelled to New York and it's not as if I have a strong accent of any description.

 

[iBlue]

Tell me about it. That was my experience every time I travelled to New York and it's not as if I have a strong accent of any description.

When my (now) husband and I met in florida, he found he kept having to repeat himself to people all the time. We would look at each other when they were out of earshot and say "English, motherf***er, do you speak it?"
I told him either I would have to translate or he had to start thinking of water as "wodder" and pronounce the R or his british ass would die of thirst!

 

[mgargan1]

When my (now) husband and I met in florida, he found he kept having to repeat himself to people all the time. We would look at each other when they were out of earshot and say "English, motherf***er, do you speak it?"
I told him either I would have to translate or he had to start thinking of water as "wodder" and pronounce the R or his british ass would die of thirst!

I have to do that with my girl now... but that just cause she mumbles.

 

[ddiogyn]

London/Slough methinks

Agree. Definitely not a Cockney accent (East London), more West/SW London.

 

[dmr727]

I have learned not to really like the sound of my own voice (it sounds so oafish and unpolished compared to what I typically hear day to day here).

I hate the way my voice sounds as it is - I can't even imagine how much more I'd hate it after living in the UK for awhile.