well you've got 3 main American accents. I imagaine the Mid West accent( the "standard", blank accent to us) sounds a bit sharp with the a and ah's, oo and ohs if you know what I mean
well you've got 3 main American accents. I imagaine the Mid West accent( the "standard", blank accent to us) sounds a bit sharp with the a and ah's, oo and ohs if you know what I meanDivergeUnify
i think we actually have 5 or six.. there is the southern accent, nothern accent, da hood, western and cajun and then normal which is a mix of southern and northern
[QUOTE="DivergeUnify"]well you've got 3 main American accents. I imagaine the Mid West accent( the "standard", blank accent to us) sounds a bit sharp with the a and ah's, oo and ohs if you know what I meanishoturface
i think we actually have 5 or six.. there is the southern accent, nothern accent, da hood, western and cajun and then normal which is a mix of southern and northern I believe normal is actually a North Western dialect. "da hood" accent is just a cultural following. It's not really linked to any specific region. I read about all this stuff in a book for school.
Pretty much, I doubt that your accent sounds any more different to me than it does to a person who lives on the other side of the States... If you're asking what American sounds like to a person that can't speak English... I can't answer that, it was too long ago. But americans who try to speak Swedish have a very funny accent that's hard to describe, it's kinda robotic and all the vowels are lengthened in a way that makes it sound like they're talking in a room with an echo... but it's not unpleasant to listen to it.
It depends on the specific accent and who's saying it. Record your voice on a web cam and i'll tell you. Most don't sound that bad but some are very whiney (usually found in young girls) which just makes me hate them instantly. It more matters how you act than how you sound, from what i've seen of Americans they seem to have a tendancy to state the obvious, get over exited and act over drramatic but then i am British who are well know for being restrained.
I agree with the teenage American girl accent hatred, it's just so.....lazy and arrogant sounding. You know, the ones where everything's a question? And their voices always raise at the end of a sentence? Even if it's a statement? It like totally really annoys me and stuff? As for the "normal" American accent, it sounds slightly like the person speaking has taken a tranquiliser. It sounds like they're constantly half-asleep. I mean no offense by this by the way, it just sounds relaxed...too relaxed. I refuse to believe that anyone actually talks in a southern accent though, it just sounds like they have a speech impediment. To anyone with this accent: Y'ALL TAKE NO OFFENSE FROM THIS NOW, YUH HEAR? I c-oit-enly love the New Yoik accent though.
[QUOTE="karriston"]I agree with the teenage American girl accent hatred, it's just so.....lazy and arrogant sounding. You know, the ones where everything's a question? And their voices always raise at the end of a sentence? Even if it's a statement? It like totally really annoys me and stuff? As for the "normal" American accent, it sounds slightly like the person speaking has taken a tranquiliser. It sounds like they're constantly half-asleep. I mean no offense by this by the way, it just sounds relaxed...too relaxed. I refuse to believe that anyone actually talks in a southern accent though, it just sounds like they have a speech impediment. To anyone with this accent: Y'ALL TAKE NO OFFENSE FROM THIS NOW, YUH HEAR? I c-oit-enly love the New Yoik accent though. Pretty much this. New York accent is closest to British.
[QUOTE="LeePearce"][QUOTE="karriston"]I agree with the teenage American girl accent hatred, it's just so.....lazy and arrogant sounding. You know, the ones where everything's a question? And their voices always raise at the end of a sentence? Even if it's a statement? It like totally really annoys me and stuff? As for the "normal" American accent, it sounds slightly like the person speaking has taken a tranquiliser. It sounds like they're constantly half-asleep. I mean no offense by this by the way, it just sounds relaxed...too relaxed. I refuse to believe that anyone actually talks in a southern accent though, it just sounds like they have a speech impediment. To anyone with this accent: Y'ALL TAKE NO OFFENSE FROM THIS NOW, YUH HEAR? I c-oit-enly love the New Yoik accent though. Pretty much this. New York accent is closest to British. .... i wouldn't say so, atleast not a strong new york accent.... If you want to hear a real neutral accent or which is clossest to british just watch an American TV show that's also aired in the UK something like Friends has quite mild accents.
[QUOTE="markop2003"][QUOTE="LeePearce"][QUOTE="karriston"]I agree with the teenage American girl accent hatred, it's just so.....lazy and arrogant sounding. You know, the ones where everything's a question? And their voices always raise at the end of a sentence? Even if it's a statement? It like totally really annoys me and stuff? As for the "normal" American accent, it sounds slightly like the person speaking has taken a tranquiliser. It sounds like they're constantly half-asleep. I mean no offense by this by the way, it just sounds relaxed...too relaxed. I refuse to believe that anyone actually talks in a southern accent though, it just sounds like they have a speech impediment. To anyone with this accent: Y'ALL TAKE NO OFFENSE FROM THIS NOW, YUH HEAR? I c-oit-enly love the New Yoik accent though. Pretty much this. New York accent is closest to British. .... i wouldn't say so, atleast not a strong new york accent.... If you want to hear a real neutral accent or which is clossest to british just watch an American TV show that's also aired in the UK something like Friends has quite mild accents. And the friends characters are from New York..........
[QUOTE="LeePearce"][QUOTE="markop2003"][QUOTE="LeePearce"] Pretty much this. New York accent is closest to British. .... i wouldn't say so, atleast not a strong new york accent.... If you want to hear a real neutral accent or which is clossest to british just watch an American TV show that's also aired in the UK something like Friends has quite mild accents. And the friends characters are from New York.......... But they don't have strong New York accents
Dang, now I'm curious about my accent. What does an Irish accent sound like to the rest of the world? Any mention of alcohol = death by exploding kamikaze flaming ninja-pirates.
Well I never said that ALL New Yorkers have an accent similar to British. I said that it is the area where you will most likely find someone who has a accent similar to a British person.
I don't notice it as much as I used to, because I've worked with a couple of people with American accents. Its still outside the norm to hear it, but not as much as it used to be for me.
[QUOTE="LeePearce"]And the friends characters are from New York..........Jandurin
The Friends accent is not like the general NY accent. I call it the "TV" accent. It's what I sound like, mostly. True, the accent seems to be the same across alot of American TV but they, don't sound like any particular area like a neutral american accent
[QUOTE="Jandurin"][QUOTE="LeePearce"]And the friends characters are from New York..........markop2003
The Friends accent is not like the general NY accent. I call it the "TV" accent. It's what I sound like, mostly. True, the accent seems to be the same across alot of American TV but they, don't sound like any particular area like a neutral american accent Yep. It's weird, but it's how a lot of the East and West coasts sound.
[QUOTE="ishoturface"][QUOTE="DivergeUnify"]well you've got 3 main American accents. I imagaine the Mid West accent( the "standard", blank accent to us) sounds a bit sharp with the a and ah's, oo and ohs if you know what I meanDivergeUnify
i think we actually have 5 or six.. there is the southern accent, nothern accent, da hood, western and cajun and then normal which is a mix of southern and northern I believe normal is actually a North Western dialect. "da hood" accent is just a cultural following. It's not really linked to any specific region. I read about all this stuff in a book for school. Well also aren't there New York, New Jersey, Massachusets and Rhode Island accents- they main characteristic of these is their omission of the "r", ie. give me the keys to the cah, I have to drive because it's too fa to walk. Also I think "da hood" is properly termed ebonics or black english vernacular, and I think there are urban (more slangy and "gangsta"ish) and rural (with more vowelic stretching, ie. Kids pronounced as Keedz, skill as skeel, and drawn out U as in Run), also nowadays white folk do speak ebonics (although most of them are emulating blacks and buy into "black culture"- usually hip-hop urban black culture as opposed to raisin in the sun rural black culture.
Dang, now I'm curious about my accent. What does an Irish accent sound like to the rest of the world? Any mention of alcohol = death by exploding kamikaze flaming ninja-pirates.karriston
In Ireland what is the official language and what is most common- English or Gaelic? Do you say "my car" or "me car". I like the Irish accent, but it's hard to describe. It sounds funny and somewhat rustic.
We have so many different accents in America. We have Southern, Eastern, Western, Northern, New York, Texan, Cajun, Gansta, broken Asian/English, Spanglish, Lower Class, Middle Class, Higher Class and some more that I'm leaving out.
Dang, now I'm curious about my accent. What does an Irish accent sound like to the rest of the world? Any mention of alcohol = death by exploding kamikaze flaming ninja-pirates.karriston
Im form Belfast so I have my own accent but the Irish one to anyone outside this Island is extreamly hard to understand (Especially those from Mayo ,Donegal etc.) but I mean instead of thirty three and a third you say "tirty tree and a turd"
Also American accents are very nasaly and they speak very slowly (I've spent about 8 weeks of my life in New York and New Hampshire ) I mean the Northern eastern seaboard isn't anywhere near as bad as some of the southern Americans I was talking too (They had the most annoying accent I have ever encountered) it was niether a very good sounding accent (like say New Zeland) or one that offended my ears.
[QUOTE="DivergeUnify"]well you've got 3 main American accents. I imagaine the Mid West accent( the "standard", blank accent to us) sounds a bit sharp with the a and ah's, oo and ohs if you know what I meanishoturface
i think we actually have 5 or six.. there is the southern accent, nothern accent, da hood, western and cajun and then normal which is a mix of southern and northern there are potentially thousands of different accents, but the differences are subtle. America is a huge place.
If southern, then annoyinh in my opinion, because genererally they don't pronounce words properly. If like new yorker or something, then pretty funny, but I would probably get annoyed after awhile.
[QUOTE="ishoturface"][QUOTE="DivergeUnify"]well you've got 3 main American accents. I imagaine the Mid West accent( the "standard", blank accent to us) sounds a bit sharp with the a and ah's, oo and ohs if you know what I meanquiglythegreat
i think we actually have 5 or six.. there is the southern accent, nothern accent, da hood, western and cajun and then normal which is a mix of southern and northern there are potentially thousands of different accents, but the differences are subtle. America is a huge place. talking about the main regional ones
[QUOTE="quiglythegreat"][QUOTE="ishoturface"]i think we actually have 5 or six.. there is the southern accent, nothern accent, da hood, western and cajun and then normal which is a mix of southern and northernDivergeUnify
there are potentially thousands of different accents, but the differences are subtle. America is a huge place. talking about the main regional ones you couldn't show me a 'southern accent'. They vary by goddamn county, if not town. a person from Tennessee talks totally differently than a person in northern Georgia, say.
American? I don't find anything significant in it, though some southern dialects can be funny, though that's mainly when people are making fun of them, haha.
[QUOTE="DivergeUnify"][QUOTE="quiglythegreat"] there are potentially thousands of different accents, but the differences are subtle. America is a huge place.quiglythegreat
talking about the main regional ones you couldn't show me a 'southern accent'. They vary by goddamn county, if not town. a person from Tennessee talks totally differently than a person in northern Georgia, say. no you're just trying to argue your point when you know I'm right. there are general, regional accents which is why a "southern" accent is referred to as such and is spread across many states and counties. Of course each accent may vary by county- that's the way it is all across the world. My point still stands
I've always like the sound of the standard American accent, I've always thought it was kinda cool like I saw in the movies-Shooter-
Give an example of an actor because there's really not a standard American accent.
I have this interest in a good British accent for some reason, so it must be a foreign thing. Some British accents though can annoy me to know end, such as Russel Brand, but most of the time I find them very cool.
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